Saltine Toffee aka "Christmas Crack" just got easier with this 10 minute microwave recipe! Last year I shared with you my family's famous 10 minute microwave toffee recipe. It's gone a bit viral on Pinterest since then, and has been super popular over the past few months. I think everyone appreciates a great quick gift or office treat this time of year. I've seen a few recipes for saltine ...
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Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? – A Sharing Traditions Guest Post at Novelties and Trinkets
Earlier this Month, Meagan over at Novelties and Trinkets asked me to write a guest post about one of my favorite holiday memories. So today over on her blog I'm introducing you all to Pat the snowman. Much like Frozen's Olaf, he brought our family a lot of joy during a very emotionally tough holiday season. Check out my guest post on her blog to find out why he's so special to me ...
Retro Re-pin Party #22 Featuring Homemade Vanilla Sugar
It's time to Retro Re-pin Party! This week has finally felt like Christmas around here. I went to my first holiday party - a book swap with my book club. We each brought a book we really love and exchanged them with a little poem. Whichever book we ended up with will be what we read for January's book club meeting. When I first joined the book club, I had no idea how much I'd come to enjoy ...
Sugared Cranberries – The Perfect Accent For Your Holiday Baking
Sugared Cranberries have a sugary crust on the outside, but pop open to reveal their tart insides when you bite them. They're easier to make than you think, and they're the perfect accent for all your holiday baking and cocktails. Our church had a Christmas concert on Sunday night and everyone was asked to bring their favorite Christmas treats to share. (If you follow me on ...
The Liebster Award
Most of you don't know this, but I really love getting awards. I'm fairly extrinsically motivated, and was always that kid who wanted the gold star, A+, compliment from the teacher, word of encouragement, or public recognition. (I can't tell you how often I was called Hermione after Harry Potter was released - total Teacher's Pet!) I'm still that kid in a lot of ways, only now it's likes, blog ...
The Color Swap 2014 aka, feeding my TARDIS addiction
Earlier this month, I signed up to participate in the Color Swap hosted by Melissa over at Two Miracles. If you've never done a swap before, the basic idea is that you get paired with a partner, send some emails back and forth to get to know them, and then you each send a package to the other of a few things you think they'll love. This one had the additional caveat that the ...
A Recipe Roundup: Holiday Drinks from Around the World
9 Holiday Drinks From Around The World: Glühwein, Uzvar Kompot, Sahlep, Cava, Cola de Mono, Sorrel Punch, Ponche Navideño, Wassail and Coquito. Most can be made with or without alcohol. I came across this list of holiday drinks from around the world on a friend's Facebook page earlier this week. Everything there looked so incredible, but they didn't include any recipes! Of course, ...
Retro Re-pin Party #21 featuring Sweet Potato Nachos
Get your Pinterest pins ready because it's time for the Retro Re-pin Party! I just got home from the most wonderful food eating trip to Portland. You can read all about it here in my post from this morning. It's been a bit crazy to be travelling so much. I've been ordering packages left and right for holiday gifts and trying to time them so they'd arrive when we were actually in town and ...
Microwave Mascarpone Apricot Cornbread and My Weekend Trip to Portland
Microwave Mascarpone Apricot Cornbread - apricot and cornbread were just made for each other and it's ready in 10 minutes. I had a blast this past weekend! Hubby had a trip to Portland for work and, for once, I got to tag along! He's usually off to fun places eating fancy dinners with suppliers and sending me photos of all the things he eats without me. (I know his work trips are ...
Red Hot Candy Cinnamon Baked Apples
Red Hot Candy Cinnamon Baked Apples - A quick baked apple side dish that can be served hot or cold. Since the combination of daylight savings time and winter is leaving me without much natural light to photograph in, I recently put a few tabletop light boxes on my birthday/Christmas wishlist. My hubby took one look at their design, and the $150 price tag, and decided we could DIY our own for ...