Boo!: Halloween Fun

halloween craft ideas

Happy Halloween! Our post today is dedicated to a bit of Halloween fun. I thought it might be nice to put up a few fun facts to get you in a spooky mood. But first, check out is this adorable little mummy cupcake.  Decorating it is simple, and it gets rave reviews. Halloween week in hectic for our family (and many others, I imagine). For that […]

Wallet Watch: Holiday Budgeting and Saving

holiday budgeting

If you are like so many other people, every year sometime in December you say something like, “Next year I am going to be better prepared for the holidays.”This is a common statement that is difficult, at best, to manage. Planning can seem like a waste of time, but the truth is that it is […]

After Easter: Deviled Eggs 3 Ways

deviled egg recipes

Peter Cottontail has come and gone and you have more boiled eggs than you can handle. Enter the deviled egg. An American classic – the deviled egg, in one form or another, has been around for hundreds of years. Today we offer up 3 varieties of the picnic staple. We have taken inspiration from a […]

Easter Week: Mixed Basket

easter facts and fun

I am sorry to say there is no project today… just information. There was so much to share this week that I couldn’t fit it all. I decided instead to give you a mixed basket of stuff to consider. I love Veruca Salt from the original Willie Wonka movie. I cannot think of Easter without […]

Easter Fun: Cascarones

cascarones diy craft

It’s less than a week until Easter. I am kicking off the week with one of our Easter favorites… cascarones.This Easter tradition comes to us from Mexico. If you live in the southwestern United States you may have seen these before. We first saw cascarones while living in San Antonio several years ago. They have […]

Treat of the Week: Malted Milk Robin Eggs Cookies

robins egg cookies recipe

We finish out the first week of spring with a nod to Easter. We all have our favorite holiday candies. For my wife, that is chocolate-coated marshmallow eggs. Come to think of it, at Christmas time her favorite is chocolate-coated marshmallow Santa (I feel a marshmallow post coming up). For me Robin Eggs and Easter […]

Green Meal: Corned Beef Sandwich

corned beef sandwich recipe

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It is our first official holiday together. I am foregoing a “green” post to bring you my modern twist on traditional St. Paddy’s Day fare. With the first day of spring ever so near I am reluctant to launch into a steamy hot pot of corned beef and cabbage. I have […]

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