How to make a DIY pumpkin jack-o-lantern for your diffuser! Aside from my kids' first-grade salsa jar pumpkin votives, this jack-o-lantern diffuser is my favorite Halloween decoration. I wanted to share it right away in case you're like me and the moment the calendar flips to October, outcome the Halloween and fall decorations! Not a lot around here, but just enough to make it cozy! Would you ...
The best thing about fall…a warm chewy molasses cookie!
The best thing about fall…a warm chewy molasses cookie! I'm joining several bloggers today to share our favorite fall baking recipes. Our favorite cookie of all time was the large chewy molasses ginger cookies that we would get at City Bakery before it closed in 2019. Nothing comes close to the cookie that City Bakery was known for among other favorites like hot chocolate and apple cider, ...
A Late Summer Pasta dish with Cherry Tomatoes you’ll love!
A late summer pasta dish with cherry tomatoes you'll love and it's perfect if you had a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes in your garden. Store-bought cherry or grape tomatoes work great too! This recipe comes together quickly and you likely have almost everything you need in your pantry. What I love about this simple dish is that it's so delicious, easy to make, and tastes way more complicated ...
The Best Way to Easily Carve Pumpkins Using Power Tools
Here’s an easy way to carve Halloween pumpkins. We stopped carving pumpkins once the kids were too old and too busy. I still bought them as part of my front porch decor for fall, but I just stacked them up, filled planters, and that was it. Check out these posts to see our front doors decorated for fall! Here and here. Then I saw the Martha ...
A Fashion Trend for fall that you might love!
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 ...
Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts with a Maple Glaze
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 ...