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All Things Alissa is my diary and a place to explore my desires, dreams, and interests. I love to spend time with my husband, knit, garden, bake, cook, raise my toddler, paint, decorate, and shop. I hope to discover more of myself and learn to bett

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• Cookie Snitching Fingers!

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 13:15 in baking, chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, new words

  Hugo loves cookies. He doesn't call them cookies though. Hugo calls cookies "coo keys".I put up a good fight to not let our Hugo know about the world of tasty baked goods and candy for quite some ti...

• Family of 3 Weekend

  Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 10:02 in airplane swing, baking, bug boots, clint eastwood, making memories, outlaw josie wales, sandra locke, weekend

  I am grateful for my family. My parents, my siblings, all of their children, my in-laws, my husbands vast extended family... Most of all I am grateful for my husband Cesar and our son Hugo. I lov...

• Small Miracles

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 08:10 in baking, charlotte ehinger-schwarz 1876, found objects, portuguese molotof, ring

  This photo is of Hugo and a certain tow truck. Hugo really likes to play with this tow truck at his Vovo's house. I believe I have even mentioned this tow truck before. It is kept in a basket full ...

• Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

  Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 22:41 in amish friendship bread start, baking, french cooking, julia child, my dishes

  Cesar got these fabulous Julia Child cookbooks for me on ebay. I love them. Love the jacket and box colors and the fleur de lies design. Love that they were written to teach the average cook how to...

• Rhubarb Coffee Cake

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 20:47 in baking, martha stewart, rhubarb

  I have been craving my Great Aunt Cilla's Rhubarb Coffee Cake ever since a wonderful friend gave me a bundle of rhubarb stalks a month ago. When I went in search of the recipe the other day I couldn'...

• I Baked!

  Posted on Thursday May 22nd, 2008 at 19:38 in baking, lemon balm butter cookies, talents, young women's

  I baked! And boy oh boy, did it make me happy! I needed cookies for my Young Women in Excellence program and decided to make these lovelies, Lemon Balm Butter Cookies. Our program was designed to h...

• Two Yummies

  Posted on Sunday April 13th, 2008 at 20:33 in baking, hoodie, knitting, raspberry streusel bars

  Two of my favorite things here for your viewing pleasure. First, I finished the baby gift for my friend Michelle's soon to arrive little boy. I do need to sew in the zipper. . . Tomorrow I shall ta...