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cookie party
I have the craziest friends with the best stories. It was too much fun to have them together at my cookie party. I love this kind of stuff. I love that both mom and dad were there. We trimmed the tree, we decorated, and of course we gossiped. 1)Kar...
homemade christmas (part 3: cards)
For the past few years I have always made my own cards. I think I got the idea my first cold winter in college... I was living in an old apt and needing something to do (I didn't work too much back then). Here are a few of my cards of Christmas p...
homemade christmas (part 2: portraits)
My wonderful friend Karen made me the most amazing Christmas gift. I was so incredibly touched when I opened this up- a hand painted portrait of the two of us: Be still my heart! It's us, we're painted. I love it. I cannot wait to find ...
homemade christmas (part 1: body scrub)
When I was a kid we got a lot of catalogs. There was one particular one that featured send-away-kits for all kinds of things to make: kites, dolls, tiny looms for rugs, and the best of all... make your own beauty products. I was transfixed. But mom n...
it was cold.
I knew because I had to run outside for .5 seconds from work to my car and then from the gym to my car. My iphone told me, too. So I baked chocolate molten cake with homemade whipped cream. It was warm inside, and the chocolate cake went down oh so w...
lighten my mood.
My girlfriends and I held our final dinner party night of the year. Alicia and Karen are heading off to study abroad again, so I expected the night to be bittersweet. It was only sweet, but I'm thinking that their leaving will start to sin...

