A castle room renovation included an up-cycled door insert as a mercury glass mirror.
Don’t buy that stuff ! You can make you own at home and it’s super easy.
When your cousin marries a fabulous guy, you make her anything she needs for the Big Day! That includes 100 jars of tasty, low sugar blueberry jam with berries straight from the farm.
Get out there, it’s lovely out. (well, it was today)
Check the Local Haunts for some places to visit. Why did the chicken cross the road? Beacuse it’s a railroad CROSSING! And besides, it’s Ybor City…urban poultry.
I spend an inordinate amount of time in my favorite space, creating and changing recipes to fit a more healthy – and completely doable – lifestyle.
“to dance artlessly, without particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment” – That pretty much sums up what goes on in my head most of the time. Here’s a collection of miscellaneous fun favorites.
Get out there! Check out my adventures near and far.
Some time ago I put up a post about one of my favorite old nurseries. It used to be part of a one big operation of a combination florist shop and plant nursery,…and then the big-box stores and recession hit. The company had been split before, and one half did better than the other. This […] Read more…
Maybe a little more than just 15 minutes, since it’s in print. So, we’ll call it her ‘4 pages of fame’. As many of you know Rebecca, even though she’s recently taken a ‘day job’, has been a pig farmer for quite some time. Her little ‘hamlet’ is called Nature Delivered Farm. I think it’s […] Read more…
OK, I confess,….I have been busy. And for some reason, it seems, everything takes longer this year. I had my sister visit while she was ‘between residences’. It was supposed to only be a week or 2 tops. OK,…2 months later, we were all going nuts. Not that she’s not a good house guest, because […] Read more…
I have a confession to make – I love Ben & Jerry, no really. One thing I love about them most is that they make one of my all time favorite ice cream flavors – Chunky Monkey. Oh, yeah you know the one. Full fat banana flavored ice cream with chunks of chocolate and walnuts,… […] Read more…
This more fun in the kitchen. I was always fascinated by those ice cream cones that were dipped. I’d watch the ladies at the Dairy Queen fill my cone from the, equally fascinating, soft-serve machine, and then dip it into this small vat of chocolate wonderment. That covering would set hard by the time they […] Read more…
This is a fun one, maybe not that healthy though. Or, maybe it is. Ok, maybe it’s just not as UN-healthy as it could be. After all potatoes + sour cream = thickened waistlines! Nahhhh – this is food fun. There’s a million recipes for these sliced an baked potatoes. Thanks to a small Food […] Read more…
Today is the first day of Fall. No, you wouldn’t know it here – 90deg and raining. I recognize it by the weather reports handed out by my husband proclaiming how cold it is in ND, and that there’s “…snow out West,….”. Here’s, it’s still hot and probably will be past Halloween. That means a […] Read more…
Yesterday I went to visit my niece who works in Ybor, but lives by the Lowry Park Zoo. Those are both some very old neighborhoods in Tampa. I’ve always loved getting lost in some of the older corners of my favorite city. Ok, maybe not all the old corners, there are some places best left […] Read more…
I have a young friend who’s learning to cook. I thought I’d post one of my easiest man-friendly dishes, so she can maybe help out and cook something for her Dad. You know the kind, Meat + Potatoes = Thank You. Be patient, there are many un-necessarily documented steps. Not everyone rolls out of bed […] Read more…
Who remembers Coco Wheats? Yeah, me too. I think they still sell them, but not at my store. That’s ok, cause I’m not supposed to eat them anyway. It’s one of the first examples of overloading a perfectly healthy breakfast cereal with super sweetened chocolate. Like I ever needed help eating Cream of Wheat (which […] Read more…