I fell in love with this doily canvas bag tutorial at first sight. I am always in the market for reusable bags to carry to the grocery store, especially ones that don't advertise a something.
I whipped up a few of these sweet bags for Christmas gifts. Ideally, they would be [...]
Earlier this month we had a wonderful little holiday party, complete with mulled cider, at which we put up our Christmas tree. It was a very normal used pre-lit tree, given to me by my parents, which we used last year as well. I decorated it in golds’ silvers, and reds and used some beautiful [...]
One of my dearest friends moved away recently, and she took her camera with her. She’d been letting me use this camera for months (what a good friend!), so naturally I’m missing them both terribly. Kyle is helping me to purchase a new one as a Christmas gift to me (any recommendations?!), but until that [...]
When I first heard of cookie mix in a jar, I thought it was the most brilliant idea ever. Admittedly, I am pretty idealistic when it comes to things like this, and I didn’t take into consideration a lot of things. First and foremost, I didn’t think about whether the recipes offered up in these [...]
I knocked out another Christmas gift yesterday, albeit a fairly easy one. The hardest part was deciding which animals in which colors to put on the shirts. Runners up are: a fat grizzly bear, a sweet kitten, and a flamingo. I was also debating about lime green on the teal shirt and pink on the [...]
The majority of my free time this week has been devoted to completing grad school applications. I have received a lot of help with the application process, without which I would be pretty clueless, and I’m immensely thankful for it. This help, combined with a thing that Kyle and I do as we are working [...]
I decided to use my pumpkin puree to make pumpkin bread! I’ve been working all day every day this week, and while I’d much rather be at home watching movies in my pajamas, my consolation prize has been pumpkin bread and hot coffee in the mornings. This recipe is very simple and almost [...]
This is another one of those things that, like making stock, I think everyone should know how to do. It’s ridiculously easy, much cheaper, and tastes a lot better. Of course I’m talking about making pumpkin puree.
Homemade pumpkin puree can be used in place of canned pumpkin with no trouble. It won’t keep very long [...]
You may or may not know that I graduate from college in May. This is what I have to show for myself: a 4.0 cumulative GPA, a decent portfolio, a slightly larger vocabulary, and a moderate (but dwindling) amount of money in a savings account. I have been scarce lately because I’m devoting the majority [...]
I feel very confident that this is the only banana bread recipe I will ever use or need to use. I’ve had it so long I don’t remember where I got it (my grandmother? my neighbor? my aunt?), and it really is a breeze to make. Maybe it’s not the best thing in [...]
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Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds (Pitt Poetry Series) by Angela Ball
Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic) by Sherwood Anderson