During the holiday yesterday, I decided to remember how thankful I am, and make some thank you cards. My ma used to make us sit down and write thank you notes after every Christmas, but these ones are voluntary.
I got the idea for the triangle style heart off of pinterest, but now of course, I can’t seem to find it again. (Update: found it!) But I thought it was a cute idea for a little quilt-y looking heart. For a homemade heartfelt thank you.
(A pretty heart idea for Valentines too!)
Every weekend, I say that I am going to hem these 4 pairs of pants (because I am tiny). Yesterday, I finally sat down and did it. There is something very freeing about changing up clothes, probably because it feels like you shouldn’t be cutting or sewing them. I even hemmed some bright pink-orange pants with turquoise thread.
But wait for the best part! I found a pair of pants that the cut was a little out of style, but the top still fit great. So I cut them into jean shorts! Most gratifying project I have done in a long time, since it was 75 degrees and sunny yesterday, so I got to wear them while we ran a couple errands in the afternoon.
My 6-year-old self really wants to decorate them with puff paint, like the awesome shorts I had back in the day…
I don’t eat a lot of honey. Not that I don’t like it, but it is just very sticky.
I know about the peanut butter and honey combo, but it has never popped into my head to make peanut butter and honey cookies. It is a true revelation. I just replaced half the butter and sugar in the recipe with some honey, and it adds a little something magical. The dough did get progressively slimy, and the cookies got flatter and flatter as I made more batches, but look at those nooks and crannies. Try them!
Picking wedding colors seems very final. Once you pick them, you are committed, and you spend the rest of your life together.
I was at my sewing desk, and found these bits of color and pattern inspiration. I found out that my work will be closed on Monday (yeah 3-day weekend), so I am going to buckle down and do some hard core color picking.
I am a big dessert/baked treat fan (obvi). So I am looking forward to making a lot of treats for our wedding dessert table. My beautiful sister got me these amazing letterpress cookie cutters, and I tested them out the other day.
I was a little sad when I realized that I only have green and yellow food coloring. My wedding will not be Packers themed.
I think they turned out really fun! I love that each of the letters are different, so they look crazy cool when you group them together. Next time, I am going to try making them a bit thinner (even though I like a fat sugar cookie), and flood them with bright colored icing. A couple more tries, and I think these cookies have some definite potential.
I have been drawing up some new little faces for my shop, and I just can’t get over this one. Makes me smile.
Ta da! My first wedding book (but not my last…). The New-Fashioned Wedding. And for reals, the book is amazing. So beautiful.
I definitely can’t afford to pull off the weddings actually shown in the book, but it goes through the inspiration and ideas behind the details that make up the wedding. Their style of fun, crafty, and thoughtful weddings gets my creative juices flowing.
I have been a little stressed out about the wedding lately. This book reminded me of the art, beauty, and originality that go into a wedding. Each one is special and perfect because two people are in love.
We got the genius idea to make chicken and biscuits for breakfast last weekend. I made the biscuits and honey butter, and the guy took care of the chicken. Do you see the flaky layers of those biscuits? Its like they are welcoming the chicken home. We used this recipe here.
At our house, it is never too cold for ice cream. Especially the homemade kind. This is cinnamon ice cream from this book. I have never made legit ice cream before, and I was very pleased how it turned out. We put it on top of some warm, apple pie so we stayed nice and cozy.
We decided to make pizza entirely from scratch. We made the dough and tossed it around trying to make a circle. We simmered tomatoes and onions and spices on the stove to make sauce. We put the toppings on. And it tasted amazing because we made it with our own 4 hands, and love.
guy and his girl 