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Just checking in...
The wedding is quickly approaching and I am in full planning mode. We have been collecting candlesticks and milk glass vases and mason jars and wine boxes....I scour Ebay and the local thrift stores constantly for anything vintage I can find. I rea...
How Does your Garden Grow...
At the moment, slowly. We have almost everything in the ground now. Our once prolific squash now seems to have some kind of disease on its leaves which I think I am controlling with a neem oil spray (organic of course). We have already suffered...
How Does your Garden Grow...
At the moment, slowly. We have almost everything in the ground now. Our once prolific squash now seems to have some kind of disease on its leaves which I think I am controlling with a neem oil spray (organic of course). We have already suffered...
A Perfect Saturday Morning...
How was your weekend? Mine was very relaxing. I spent time with family and caught up on my ever growing pile of magazines...Photo: Candice...
A Perfect Saturday Morning...
How was your weekend? Mine was very relaxing. I spent time with family and caught up on my ever growing pile of magazines...Photo: Candice...
Our seedlings
Here's the first round of seedlings. We started two varieties of tomatoes, chives, lettuce, spinach, cilantro, and basil. There are more seeds on the way: onions, winter squash, carrots, lavender, and leeks. We went to talk to a neighbor the other...
Gardening
Sorry it's been quiet around here for the past few weeks...we've been busy getting our new garden ready! In Florida the Fall season is the best time to grow. According to a book we bought specific to Florida gardening, you can grow year round her...
Our seedlings
Here's the first round of seedlings. We started two varieties of tomatoes, chives, lettuce, spinach, cilantro, and basil. There are more seeds on the way: onions, winter squash, carrots, lavender, and leeks. We went to talk to a neighbor the other...
Gardening
Sorry it's been quiet around here for the past few weeks...we've been busy getting our new garden ready! In Florida the Fall season is the best time to grow. According to a book we bought specific to Florida gardening, you can grow year round her...
Settling in...
Well the last of the boxes have been unpacked. I guess you could say we are officially moved in! It only took two + months to do it! There is still A LOT to be done. I honestly get really anxious when I think about all the things that have to be ...
Settling in...
Well the last of the boxes have been unpacked. I guess you could say we are officially moved in! It only took two + months to do it! There is still A LOT to be done. I honestly get really anxious when I think about all the things that have to be ...
Missing you
I've been missing my little blog lately...I've just been so crazy with other projects (i.e. wedding & honeymoon planning!) that I haven't really had the time or energy to post here and the day-to-day life of me has been rather uninspiring lately....
Content
This weekend was spent huddled up inside, watching the snow fall, catching up on reading, baking and eating, playing our new Wii, finishing the final book in the Twilight Series, drinking wine, eating cheese, having tea, being lazy, staying in our pa...
Post holiday blues...
My future in-laws left Saturday. I was sad to see them go...Mike and I are spending Christmas apart this year (I'm headed to North Carolina, he's going back home to Florida) so I won't see them until January when I head to down for my best friend's b...
Apple Cookies
The first hint of cold weather and I am already preparing for hibernation mode! This weekend Mike and I stayed in and did a lot of cooking and baking...which included these yummy apple cookies courtesy of bread and honey, one of my favorite cooking ...
3 days and counting...
There is so much anticipation of our trip on Friday but Mike and I still managed to have an amazing weekend. I planned a special day for him on Saturday to celebrate his birthday since we will be on a remote island with no tv, internet, phones, store...
Crafting
I made some cloth napkins for the house a few weeks ago...my stash of fabric is starting to take up greatly coveted space under my bed and I have a loooong list of things I want to sew and napkins were the first easy thing I could think of to make. I...
Things I'm loving right now...
Lemongrass tea...the perfect summertime accompanimentMy ever growing book collection...I can't seem to get through them fast enough. I'm looking forward to laying on a beach this weekend catching up on my readingMy best friend's pending addition to h...
A weekend of food...
Wow! Where do I start...Mike and I did so much cooking over the weekend. I made homemade bread and some delicious herb egg salad, homemade semolina pasta, honey ice cream, and bison burgers. We went to the farmers market in Union Square to pick up...
Food wise
Mike and I finally found a CSA to join for the season. We were lucky to get one with a pick up location in our neighborhood. Some of the other ones we found were on the Upper West Side (we're talking 125th St!) which is just way to far to trek to o...
Baking and famous people
I was hoping for a shop update today but unfortunately I wasn't able to get everything done this weekend, Saturday was so beautiful that Mike and I spent most of the day outside. We were given free tickets to Taste of Tribeca and while we were there ...
Baking
Mike got me this Kitchenaid Mixer for my birthday, isn't he the best?!?He gave it to me last week before we went out of town and I was too sick to use it so now I am gearing myself up for a weekend of baking! I am going to make oatmeal cookies that ...
Thank you Martha...
It is sort of a tradition for Mike and I, on the weekends, to make a brunch with all the things left over from the previous week's meals. Sometimes we will fry up left over pasta noodles with some egg and sausage and whatever veggies we have left ove...
The Binder(s)
Hello my name is Candice and I have a magazine addiction! I seriously can't stop! At last count I was up to 16 a month and since then I think I have added at least 5 more, not counting my new obsession with international design magazines that I grab ...
