My favorite things this week… cupcakes from Sprinkles seeing the musical Kinky Boots Dylan’s Candy Bar in Chicago Giuliana’s Italian Salad from RPM Italian tassel necklace from Madewell (click here to purchase) stingray touch tank at Shedd Aquarium nutella bar at Eataly Claire’s water ballet show…Oscar theme this year one-on-one time with Grace Happy weekend!
Archives for July 2015
washi wednesday iv
Here’s an easy way to dress up cupcakes, pies, cookies…or in this case, muffins! All you need is WASHI TAPE and TOOTHPICKS (and scissors, of course). Choose some coordinating colors and various widths to make single and double point flags. Use your imagination…no two need to look the same! Then simply stick them into your […]
minions
Those little creatures, the MINIONS, are riding a tidal wave of popularity this summer. They have their own movie, the featured toy in Happy Meals at McDonald’s, a spot on the Chiquita banana stickers, and many toys to promote themselves. We saw the movie a few weeks ago, and I fell in love with these […]
prepping the produce
I like to keep my house organized so that we can function as a family. It does take time to be organized, but it is so worth it. One thing that I do at the beginning of each week is prep our produce for the week ahead. I found these food storage containers from IKEA […]
friday’s favorites
My favorite things this week… homemade raspberry jam from the farmers market Rod Stewart concert…still sexy at 70, he is “forever young” blood orange and praline macarons from Sweet Heather Anne receiving a picture of a PD&PF follower trying the shrimp stuffed mushroom recipe…made my day to know SOMEONE is reading my blog night out […]
washi wednesday iii
shrimp stuffed mushrooms
We’ve been eating out a lot lately…well, actually just eating at the pool. It’s SO easy to do when we are already there for swim team and water ballet practice. The girls order food from the snack bar and keep on swimming and playing. Well, I have started to miss cooking…so I knew exactly which […]
national ice cream day
friday’s favorites
My favorite things this week… fire roasted stuffed peppers fresh-cut flowers from the Perrysburg Farmers Market IKEA shopping trip with my hubby (no kiddos)…and yes, we can take our own selfies without our teenagers glass of prosecco minions paper towels…love those little critters whimsical number tags watermelon mojito Happy weekend!