Who and what do you want to welcome into your home? Friends? Family? Peace? Happiness? Love? The entryway of a home is the first thing that guests see and sets the tone for their visit. Welcome the new year with a personalized welcome sign that is a great way to add personality and charm to your home’s entryway. Not only does it make a great first impression, but it is also a fun and easy project to customize and make…
Several years ago when I was on the web surfing, I fell down a rabbit hole and found the website The100DayProject and the idea immediately caught my attention. So what is The 100 Day Project? The 100 Day Project was started in 2006 by a Yale graphic design professor, Michael Bierut. He used this project as a teaching activity with his students. The requirement was each student had to repeat their chosen design operation in some form every day for…
Why do we always feel that Mondays are HARD? Is it because for most of us Monday is the beginning of a new work week? Or is it because we have a hard time switching from the freedom of the weekend to the confining constraints of a work week? But Monday doesn’t have to be a hard day! Approach your Monday with Passion and Intention and you will find Monday will become a light and easy day! Thank you for…
A weekend morning that starts out will this delish pastry will help you begin the day with a smile. These cherry cream cheese drop danishes are so quick and easy to make you won’t be spending hours in the kitchen. But your family will definitely think you did! Question is – will you tell them you didn’t? Today is National Pastry Day so why not celebrate by making these scrumptious and delish cherry cream cheese drop danishes. Cherry Cream Cheese…
This time of year and cranberries go hand in hand. So why not combine cranberries and white chocolate to make a scrumptious delight? Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies are a perfect treat! Especially today! It’s Cookie Day. Here’s some tasty background on cookies! The word “cookie” comes from the Dutch word “Koekje”. What does koekje mean? It means little cake. Dutch bakers used to test their oven temperatures on small amounts of batter to prevent wasting the entire cake mix…
Today is Lemon Cream Pie Day! Let’s celebrate by making Lemon Cream Pies in a Jar. Here’s the Scoop – Culinary historians believe we have been enjoying lemon flavored custards and desserts since the Middle Ages. Lemons were used to perfume water that was used for cooking. Chefs thought lemon water gave their dishes a refreshing flavor. The lemon cream pie we love today didn’t exist until the 16th century when whipped cream was discovered. It was the combination of…
Today is National Cake Day! The best way to celebrate is to well . . . have cake. Cherry chocolate dump cake to be precise. I enjoy rolling my sleeves up and tackling challenging recipes but sometimes, I just want a quick and easy bake. And this recipe meets that description. This Cherry Chocolate Dump Cake has only four ingredients, takes 10 minutes to prep and a quick 30 minutes to bake. What’s not to like? Plus cherry and chocolate…
Homemade Bread!! Let’s Talk About It!! How fragrant it is as it’s baking. How wonderful a slice of hot fresh baked bread slathered with butter tastes. How fresh baked bread takes us back to a time when life felt “simpler”. My Mommal made fresh bread. She would mix the ingredients, knead the dough, let the dough rise, knead and rise again then bake. It would take almost all day before that fresh baked bread was done. The first bite would…
I love decorating for Fall!! The vibrant harvest colors. The reds, yellows and oranges. The changing leaves, scarecrows, hay bales, Mums and pumpkins. Of course pumpkins!! No Fall decoration is complete without pumpkins!! This year I decided to add a bit of a non-traditional color in my decorations. Turquoise to provide contrast and “pop”. This easy Happy Harvest Pumpkin Wreath gave my Fall decorations a fun look! Materials – Steps – 2. Scrunch together the center of an 8” strip…
Today is Vanilla Cupcake Day. Let’s Celebrate with Cupcakes in a Jar! I love cake but baking a whole cake for just me ends up being a waste. I can’t eat a whole cake!! Especially before it goes bad. Which is one reason I love cupcakes. But I still can’t eat twelve cupcakes before they go bad. I’ve read that cakes can be frozen but freezing half a cake still seems wasteful. I know I won’t eat even a half…
