Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
Looking for a different way to celebrate Mother’s Day? Why not invite your mom — or your friends who are moms — over for a casual outdoor garden party? The whole idea is to give the moms in your life (and maybe that includes you) the gift of relaxation. In my live Google+ hangout last [...]
I have a bit of a split personality when it comes to accessorizing. I love traditional and fancy, but I also love touches of rustic and vintage. Who says you can’t showcase it all? For my Easter table, I’m serving up comfort and class, mixing blue Mason jars, a simple muslin table runner and casual [...]
If I don’t cool it with the nostalgia, Marty McFly might come knocking at my door. I was channeling my inner 5th grader last week with my 80s-inspired Valentine’s Day cootie catcher love notes. And now, I’m blasting even farther into the past to the 1970s and cooking up a family fondue feast. Instead of [...]
Are you ready for some football food? Today, I’m sharing with you some of my favorite all-time party foods, plus a brand new recipe. It’s a little amuse bouche, as the French would say. A bite-sized hors d’oeuvre that isn’t what it seems.But it will amuse your tastebuds just the same. Today’s recipe comes courtesy [...]
What do you do when the weather outside is frightful? When sleet and ice close schools early, but there’s not a single snowflake to be found? Well, you could stay inside and pout and complain about the weather. Or you could throw an impromptu hot chocolate party for the neighborhood. That’s exactly what we did last [...]
The recipe, entitled simply “Wontons,” is handwritten and affixed to a sheet of pale pink paper. It is written in my girlish hand — fat loopy letters spread out across the page. It is stained with soy sauce and flour and oil — and who knows what else — from being used and handled so [...]
Join me as I share my tips for stress-free holiday hosting live on Google+. The live broadcast starts at noon EST, and you can watch the replay anytime after that on my YouTube Channel.
So, I didn’t get my roots done. And it’s too hot to wear the sparkly red top I’d planned to wear on camera. (Plus it’s in the dirty clothes hamper.) But I’m going live on air today at noon EST for a Google+ Hangout on Air sharing my stress-free holiday hosting tips. You can tune [...]
I am excited — and maybe just a little bit nervous and camera shy — to be hosting a holiday how-to Hangout on Air this week on Google+ You can tune in live at noon EST Wednesday, Dec. 5, by clicking on the image above or by clicking here. If you can’t make the [...]
When it comes to turkey duty, I leave that to more experienced cooks than me. On Thanksgiving, we normally either go to my parents’ house or to my inlaws’ for the big feast. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving at home in our own special way. This year, I’m planning to serve [...]
