A Fashion Trend for fall that you might love! Socks with loafers. We wore them back in the 1980s thinking we were bringing them back from the 50s and now we are wearing them again! Wearing loafers with no socks (at any time of year) has sort of been the trend, but socks with loafers are so much more comfortable and practical, so I'll be embracing it happily! Will you? I'm so happy to be joining my ...
A Fashion Trend for fall that you might love!
Tips on Painting your front door + our new Pink Door
Tips on Painting your front door + our new Pink Door - Would you paint your door pink for fall? I have been thinking about this all summer and as soon as mums started showing up at Home Depot, we started looking at paint samples. We used Behr Paint, Sunset Pink. Finding the right color, (but remember it's just paint)! Trying to find the right color can be tricky, but it's just paint! So we ...
My first apple recipe of the season is here!
My first apple recipe of the season is here! Back again with another round of Sunday Favorites with my dear friends Cindy and Mary Ann and this apple cider doughnut recipe is top on the list! Let's start our Sunday with these delicious baked apple cider doughnuts dunked in a cinnamon espresso maple glaze. This recipe is from Half-Baked Harvest and it's a good one! The only change I made was to use ...
How to make the best cheeseburger
How to make the best cheeseburger just in time for National Cheeseburger Day on September 18th this year. I happened to grow up eating hamburgers that looked like hockey pucks, only much, much thinner. The only way they even resembled a burger was because they were in between a bun. And not even a good bun, more like a dinner roll, only thinner. I still have a saved article in an old binder ...
Do You Love Getting Happy Mail?
Do you love getting Happy Mail? What do you think of when you think of happy mail? Maybe You've Got Mail, the charming 1998 movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? I'm back with my friends Mary Ann and Cindy with Sunday Favorites and this week I had the chance to talk with Lori Christensen about her beautiful envelopes and her art. I've been following Lori for almost 10 years! She has an online ...
How to make the most of a studio apartment
In June, Madeline moved into a studio apartment in a beautiful part of Brooklyn with gracious brownstones and tree-lined streets. She settled in very quickly and then this weekend we painted one wall in an alcove dressing area and now it feels like it's hers. It's amazing how paint in a rental space can make it feel so personal. The apartment building was built in 1900. It is basically one ...
