Here around the blog we’re going to start easing into fall with what I consider to be some more autumn-like dishes and ingredients. First up: Plum Week.
These Brown Sugar Plum Cakes look really, really easy to make and I’m betting the recipients would be ever so grateful and indebted to you. Who doesn’t love that?
Posted In recipesNaked, I dive in. Seaweed tendrils circle my legs, tickling the back of my knees, coaxing me down. I plunge again, lungs gulp-full of air. Little particles move like dust motes across my path. My arms break them into a swirling, eddying torment.
Now, I go deeper, my lungs starting to hurt, the water darker, cocooning all around me, stilling my senses. My head lightens. And I wonder if what’s left is the real me or the adrenalin talking. But I feel loose, meant to be underwater, happy to give it all up and let the undertow take me.
The water flecked now with glitter. Without deciding, I’m moving back towards the sun on the surface. And I’m there. Gasping and spluttering for breath through smiles, exhilarated and beat. I look back at the boat; yesterday’s bikini still drying in the sun. I flip and turn, kicking further out. I’m not ready to go back to all that yet.
Thanks to Jane of Ill Seen, Ill Said for this week’s edition of Word! You can check out guest posts from past weeks right here.
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Congratulations! Thanks to everyone for entering and a BIG thanks to The Honey and Pig Shop for offering such a funky hair piece to our winner!
Over my 4-day weekend I managed to:
• make a massive grocery store trip
• watch a TON of college football
• have a bunch of friends over Saturday for the OU/BYU game and made Hot Corn Dip, Honey-Lime Chicken, German Potato Salad, Apple Slaw and Orange Cream Pie (sooo yum!)
• visit a friend and see her new home
• check out Target’s Halloween goodies
• clean and do laundry
• get about a million (okay, 10) mosquito bites – including one on the bottom of my foot!
Hope you all had a lovely weekend of family, friends and BBQing!
Posted In monday goodnessWith this being Labor Day weekend and the unofficial end of summer, the seasons are about to start changing. And with that a few things are getting rearranged around here as well.
I asked and you answered – Mad Props will now be included in my end-of-week Happy Weekend post. That means weekly roundups of goodness instead of monthly! It also means that the This Weekend: section of the post will be relocating itself to the Monday Goodness post. Got all that? Good.
And don’t forget to enter The Honey and Pig Shop giveaway before Tuesday morning at 9:00 CST! You have a change to win an adorably frilly hair piece.
Postal Press has gone live! Check out Alyson’s pretties
Sweet and stylish animal printables. Love the giraffes!
Stunning collection of classy animal shaped hooks and knobs
Not one, but two printable September calendars for all of your appointments and notes
Check out Gourmet’s favorite cookies from decades past. Yup, recipes included.
The perfect DIY ice cream parlor and printables
Printable envelope seals to jazz up your every day boring envelopes
Even more boozy ice pops!
Step-by-step tutorial for ruffled headbands that will make your friend jealous
Ready for crazy fall tights?
Pantry door inspiration
Pretty DIY linen lunch bags – a great reason to make your lunch instead of eating out!
Posted In accessories, downloads, happy weekend, holidays, house and home, mad props, make it, recipes, wear itThinking I might make this Creamy Ricotta and Bell Pepper Crostini as an appetizer for the Oklahoma v. BYU game Saturday night! Are you making anything special to kick-off tailgating season?
1. Couscous and Feta Stuffed Peppers 2. Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper SauceI’m making a 4-day weekend out of Labor Day, so all of Friday’s usual suspects have been bumped forward to today…
A newbie on the the block
Beautiful food, beautiful photography, beautiful design
BFFs Julie and KathrynThe ultimate way to make sure no one ever steals your coffee cup again. Why? Well because your portrait is on it of course! House of Harriett handpaints them – cute or kooky, you decide.
