Five Green Moving Tips

Packing might be one of the least fun things I've ever done. I'm downright bad at packing to go on vacation, but when it comes to moving I'm out of this world bad.  I spend the majority of my time complaining that I can't believe I have so much junk and threatening to throw it all away and start over again. At this point we're less than halfway done, and this is one of the neater rooms in our apartment. For the most part, clothes and furniture are strewn pretty haphazardly across the house. For someone who hates packing so...

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I’m famous!

On Monday I was featured on my school's alumnae association's blog.  MFAeA, Mississippi's First Alumnae Association, is posting a series of profiles of recent graduates from the Mississippi University for Women.  This is totally unrelated to anything I talk about on here, but I've provided a link for those of you who may be interested (like my mom): New Graduate Profile: Danielle...

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I Think I Need This: “Vintage Lace” Print

Something I often say to Kyle when we're shopping or I'm dicking around on the internet is, "I think I need this." In reality, I know I don't need anything other than sleep, the occasional meal, and some ice water (in fact, I could stand to get rid of a lot of the junk I've accumulated over the past few years). For the most part I shop at thrift stores and make as much from scratch as I can; I can't remember the last time I bought brand new clothes, and I haven't ventured down the shampoo, deodorant,...

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Long Weekend

We had a long, fun, productive weekend out of town. Early Thursday morning Kyle, Kirby, Dawn, and I left for Lake Charles, LA to scope out our new city, look at our graduate school program, and house hunt (something I've kept somewhat mum about until now, because it's a Big Ass Deal).  Then we went on to Houma, LA where we visited with friends, ate too many donuts, and attended a really fun show: Then on Sunday we went to New Orleans and had lunch with my sister Erika.  For homebodies like Kyle and me, this weekend was...

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Homemade Fig Jam

Since we're moving, Kyle and I are making an effort to clean out our cabinets.  Moving food really sucks, but so does throwing it away, so we've cut out going out to eat for a while.  One of the things I decided to tackle was my large stash of frozen fruit.  My grandmother gave me a ton of figs last summer (I think?), and I didn't have time to use them all up so I stuck them in the freezer until I could decide what to do with them.  While I really, really love eating fresh figs as a snack,...

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I am a college graduate.

The past few days have been full of a visiting with friends and family, eating good food, attending practices, and standing around.  It has been both fun and really stressful.  I'm going to miss MUW so much, but I'm looking forward to moving on to new and exciting things. One of my favorite parts of this weekend was the Magnolia Chain ceremony.  All of the graduates partner up (Chuck was my partner!) and line up holding a very long chain of magnolia leaves and blossoms, then walk out onto the front lawn singing the Magnolia Chain song.  We make a circle...

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Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe

Since we're moving within the next month, we're currently trying to clean out our cabinets.  The only thing worse than moving food is throwing it away.  I recently came into a large quantity of eggs (two and a half dozen!) from my grandmother, so I've been trying to use them up before they go bad.  One of my favorite things to make that uses a ton of eggs is pound cake.  We don't have a variety of ingredients, so I picked out this simple Vanilla Pound Cake recipe from Buttered Up, and still ended up having to substitute...

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