 I finally selected this absolutely weird and delightful calendar. I hope Zac doesn't object to its Marie Antoinette girliness. I get excited about buying my new calendar. Probably more excited than is decent and normal, but I do. A fresh, crisp calendar includes most of the things I love: pretty pictures, paper or graphics, orginization and record [...]  This is just a small bit of the hilarious Jarrett. I was reminded that I could record video with my camera and finally started. So, here we are after a delicious meal of prime rib with some incredible wines for our Christmas dinner; we were visiting around the table when this small man suddenly appeared to entertain [...]  When the hair just isn't working… I buzz it off. He is the third baby to have his head buzzed. While I like baby hair, scruffy greasy hair is not cute and neither is male pattern baldness. I am never so attached to their baby hair that I won’t buzz it off at the slightest [...] Zac's masterpiece. Here I stand, proven wrong once again by some some previously unknown skill of Zac’s. I never thought this gingerbread mansion would stand. After we under-baked the supporting right wall, nearly destroyed our friend’s counter-tops with pouring the melted sugar windows, almost caved in the roof, and then just wanted to give up– the structure came together [...] Place holders for the Christmas dinner I had Taite and Matthias gather up the church bulletins and cut the song page, rolled it and we will place one on each of the seventeen plates along with a name tag. This chalk definitely fulfills my need for color, and on black it's just amazing. I have always loved those kitchen chalkboards, messy though they are, and I finally made one for myself. Heaven only knows what I’ll find to write on it but it sure does look cool. That’s all that really matters, right? I finished [...] What young child would you allow to pick up a metal brush with sharp bristles and scrape the peewaddlin out of your brand new garage door? And then the next night you allow them to do it again. And if you were to make them go outside and play for awhile she would use that metal [...] The time Meghan and I got together for a big Christmas baking spree, we began with all kinds of great ingredients and family recipes… and then Meghan decided to go all healthy on me and leave out half the sugar.. out of a cookie!? I mean, isn’t that why you eat cookies because of the [...]  A couple weeks ago Tim had a job down in Miami Beach so I flew down there Thanksgiving day for about a week to hang out too. It was a relaxing, wonderful escape from the rain and cold of DC. With it’s backdrop of art-deco architecture, Miami has really fashioned itself as a design capitol and has a [...] Last week we had a cold snap in Seattle so I stocked up on warm layers for Freyja so we didn’t have to stay cooped up all day. I’m just crazy about these little fury boots I found at where else? Target.
And though I am a huge fan of the ”Baby Leg’s” brand, these [...] . . . make it be Martha Stewart’s Chocolate Thumbprint cookie with Vanillia Bean Ganache.
This little cookie will blow you away. The combination of dense chocolate cookie with coarse salt and the smooth vanilla and honey in the ganache will make you wonder where this recipe has been all your life . My friend Rachel [...] Here are some of the creations. I bring to you the humble snowflake. I forgot how fun these can be to make. The kids and I had a blast doing them. I discovered the key to making a good snowflake is in the fold. YouTube had some good and easy how-to videos. These are some of [...]
The lucky winners are: Marge Mystie Chesed Carol Cindy Congratulations, and enjoy!
Half Price Sale for Pinkpeppers readers! We have a nice little perk for those of you who didn’t win: Principia is offering a fantastic deal to all our Pinkpeppers readers all wrapped up in [...] This is a great chapter book for small children. It is about an old man who is carving a Jesse tree on the door of a church and a young annoying boy comes to see what he is doing. The boy eventually worms his way into the cranky man’s heart. A Jesse Tree is a [...] Long ago my mother was a home economics teacher. She hated teaching. When she got the opportunity, she bailed and became an export administrator for Hewlitt Packard. But first she was a student going back to school while we four children of hers were in elementary school. If we had a snow day and she [...]
I have so few magazine subscriptions, that I cherish the ones that do show up in my mail box. Then I save them for as long as I can before I tear into them. When Domino Magazine went belly up (I’m still sad about it!) Lucky Magazine started coming as a replacement, [...] 
I’d like to introduce our first ever guest blogger! She is a member of our extended family, my mother-in-law Becky, who has created a line of lovely, organic skin care called Principia. She lives the county life on her beautiful ranch in Wallowa County, Oregon with her attorney husband, a huge, white dog and a [...] So here are some of the kids' stockings. I got this one done so Fox would have a stocking for Christmas. Because I don’t knit but wish I did, I have to cheat. I had this lovely throw for the living room that finally got a hole in it. Not wanting to just throw it [...]
Shari! First name that came out of the cup! Thank you everyone who participated! We’ll keep this give-away going, so please check back frequently. (To those of you who are new to the site, we do random give-aways of items from time to time and everyone who posts a comment under the write-up of the give-away item is [...] |
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