Holiday Movies

Super excited to start watching my favorite holiday movies! I want to watch each one from now until Christmas preferably with hot chocolate, girl friends, gift making and cookie baking.

Bridget Jones’s Diary. I love the movie, I love the book and without fail I always want to start a diary after watching it.

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Holiday Mantel Decorating

What I call the “mantel” is actually a shelf in the dining room. I picked this up for free about three years ago in our apartment building in Brooklyn. So glad I did!

My theme this year is pretty eclectic as far as colors go. My goal is to find new ways to use what [...]

Elf Cat

Looking for ways to make your cat love you even more? Dress him/her up in an elf costume! It works every time.

Simon ♥

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Cookie Packaging

I love baking and giving away cookies for the holidays! Last year I created gift baskets filled with fruit, nuts and handmade goodies. This year, I’m shipping these mexican hot chocolate cookies out to a few distant friends for a holiday swap. There are so many ways that you can creatively package cookies, but my [...]

Chocolate Hazelnut Bites

I can hardly call this a recipe because they’re so easy to put together. These chocolate hazelnut bites can be assembled in less than 5 minutes and cost around $4 to make. Not only are the impressive looking, but they’re delicious.

Here’s what you need:

Yes, this is it. Honestly it’s hard to go [...]

How to Make the Most of Black Friday

This guest post is written by Miranda who found a way to turn an often dreaded day into a memorable holiday tradition with her Mom. Here are her tips for making Black Friday a success.

Chances are you’ve heard the horror stories about Black Friday and maybe you’ve seen news clips of stampeding [...]

Home for the Holidays-Begins Today!

I’m so excited to announce that today begins my Home for the Holidays series! Starting today and running right through Christmas my blog will turn into a holiday idea extravaganza. Everyday you will find posts with fresh decorating ideas, shopping guides, DIY gift ideas, holiday crafts, recipes and much more!

As I’ve gotten older [...]

Decorating the Mantel

I’ve always loved old fireplace mantels, but since we don’t have a fireplace in our house I decided to hang a shelf in the dining area for decorating. I picked this shelf up along with a lot of our furniture from the basement of our old apartment in Brooklyn. I pretty much stalked and [...]

Fall Porch and Edible Garden

So the studio is getting really close to being finished, I love it in here and it has quickly turned into my favorite room in the house.

I’m so excited about the time of year; fall is my favorite season. The crisp, cool air, pumpkins, spices, leaves, Halloween, apples…it’s all good to me. Next weekend [...]

Thanksgiving 2/3

This is a week late, but as it goes I just uploaded these photos today. The holidays are in threes around here, but I only took pictures of the second one. Cooking had something to do with that.

I didn’t realize how much I liked to cook until I moved to Brooklyn. This had [...]