12 Days of Cookies
Hey friends! My 12 Days of Cookies (and other goodies) Virtual Cookie Exchange 2019 is happening in my Facebook foodie group What’s Cookin’ Good Lookin’! Come join us! Xoxo,E
Happy Hallowinter & Cookies!
Hello again and Happy Halloween! We have been getting slammed with snow here in the Rockies this week. I think we got roughly 12″ of snow this week. Crazy for October, even at 6,300 ft! Ellie didn’t mind so much and the mister worked from home a couple of days. I baked and painted and spent a few days in my jammies. I love this spooky little haunted house scene! It took a couple of days to sketch out and…
Watercolor – A New Adventure… or Addiction
Oh goodness.. another post! Can you believe it? I’m trying.. hehe! I started watercolor painting this late spring/summer on a whim. It looked fun so I figured why not.. so I pulled out the cheap-o Artist Loft brand paints from Michael’s that I used to use when I was with CTMH and started coloring stamped images again for cards. (Please bear with me as I re-learn formatting Blogger posts. They seem to have changed the way they do photos since…
Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles
It’s no secret that I don’t like pumpkin… and since it is officially fall now we can talk about it! Ha! But I DO like pumpkin spice. You know why? Because there’s no actual pumpkin in it! It’s Pumpkin Spices (sometimes also called Pumpkin Pie Spice) – a blend of delicious spices, not pumpkin flavored spices. So many folks can be confused. Say it with me now, “pumpkin spice is not pumpkin.” Haha! The pumpkin (pie) spice blend is a…
New Beginnings, A Do-Over, Sadie & Ellie
I know it has been an eternity since I last wrote anything on this blog. It’s been a crazy couple of years. I took a needed break after we lost our Sadie. I stopped creating and stopped writing. It was a hard time. I don’t even know where to start back up again but I feel the draw to blog again… I don’t want to skim over important things, but at the same time I don’t want to take forever…
Orange Amaretto Biscotti
Because I loved the Lemon Biscotti so much I had to follow up with my favorite flavor, Orange Amaretto… Original post from my virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange in my facebook foodie group can be found here. I drizzled some in an Amaretto flavored glaze and dark chocolate to go to a few neighbors and dipped a few in plain chocolate for Brent and I. They will be so yummy dunked in hot cocoa. The next time I make these I…
Lemon Biscotti
I made biscotti this morning as part of a challenge for another group I am in. These are fantastic and super easy! This is my first time baking biscotti at home. I don’t usually love them from the store because they are SO HARD, like crack your teeth hard. But these were crisp, yet tender and sooo good. Even the hubs, who really doesn’t like biscotti, actually enjoyed them… and then asked if they were easy enough to make to…
Summer 2015
It has been a rough summer here at our house. Brent was unemployed for three months (the company who hired him last fall was somewhat not so great) but just started working again a little over two weeks ago. In July Sadie started having some health issues, which we treated and thought were resolved… until a week ago when we ended up in the vet ER and found out she had a broken right humerus. Last Tuesday she had surgery…
This is a test.
I just downloaded the Blogger app… hoping that this will help me want to blog again. Test test test
Ladder Scarf Tutorial
Hello again! This post is a follow up to yesterday’s Frozen Scarf post. I figured with all the photos it would be better to split it into two posts and keep the tutorial separate. This is the scarf I shared yesterday: Today I am going to give you a very basic tutorial to make this scarf. Disclaimer: I have never written a pattern/instructions for crocheted ANYTHING… but this is so ridiculously easy that I don’t think I can mess it…