Dan’s mom, Diane, drove down from San Francisco this week to help us paint the back porch! And it looks AAAAmazing!!!! The walls are pink to match the rest of the outside of the house. The doors are super bright white. And the floor is a beautiful turquoise. It was a lot of hard work, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'our house'
New Muffin Addiction
January 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, our house
I’m hooked! I love baking muffins. Who’da thunk! I made bran muffins on Saturday.
On Sunday, I did a little experimenting. I started with a plain muffin recipe and then in each muffin i added different special ingredients or a combination of them.
The special ingredients were dried cranberries, cherries, bananas, chocolate chips. I think [...]
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She’s ALIVE!
January 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, our house
We finally got our new stove up and running! Isn’t she a beaut! I love old stoves. They look great and work even better. On the left is a Grillerator! And a storage drawer. On the right is a (now) working oven!! What am I going to make for dinner tonight?! All the possibilities. It’s [...]
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bits and pieces
November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Crafts, Food, our cats, our house
so made this edamame guacamole last night! yum yum yum. tasty and good for you. just edamame, avocado, lemon juice and garlic.
i got larry sue a new bed. i think meowski is jealous…
i’m in sf for the weekend. going to hopefully do some embroidery! can’t decide between the jelly fish or the giraffe or [...]
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wiggly swiggly
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments · DIY Projects, our garden, our house, things i like
for over a year now, i’ve been seriously thinking about honestly considering maybe starting to compost. it seems like the socially conscious thing to do. we do a lot of cooking here and tons of gardening. it’s almost a no brainer… right? at first it seemed like too much dirty smelly work. you have to [...]
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life around every corner
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · our house
i just read this lovely article on people’s kitchen plants in apartment therapy los angeles, Kitchen Gallery: Living Plants in the Kitchen. two things i love looking at other people’s kitchens and plants! the photos are lovely to look at and more than a little inspiring. i really would love to change a few things [...]
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different shades of grape.
August 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, our house
it’s grape time! we finally gave in and picked all the grapes last night! we have SO many. it’s retard. the bucket is full, the large bucket is full and a large milk crate is full.
we made the BEST grape juice with the grapes we got last year. so this year, we wanted to [...]
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it’s spreading
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · our house
oh my god! i’m out of control. now i’ve rearranged my office! i can’t stop. but, in my defense, i’ve been thinking of doing this for a long time. i just couldn’t figure out the right configuration. today, i just dove in. i didn’t know what i was going to do, i just started [...]
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the best cat in the world
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · our cats, our house
mr. meowgi hopped up and settled in the kitchen window this afternoon to keep me company as i did the dishes. what a cutie pie!
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juicy baby
August 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Family, friends, our house
abbe and shay stopped by today. i snap this quick photo of my favorite juicy baby. he’s walking now!! he wobbly walked over to me today with the proudest grin on his juicy little face. adorable.
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passion fruit in a jar?
August 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, our house
last night we canned our first passionfruit!!! first we cut the fruits in half. then we scooped out the saucey insides into a bowl.
we are saving the shells. evidently, there’s pectin in the rinds and if you soak the shells over night in water, you can peel the skin off easily and use the rinds [...]
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oops. i did it again.
August 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · our house
i rearranged the living room again. some might be embarrassed by the uncontrollable instinct for rearrangement. but not me! i bask in the glory of a newly rearranged room. i love surprising dan and shannon with the limitless combinations i can put our furniture into! some times, it seems like i’m getting better at it. [...]
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wish list
August 18th, 2009 · No Comments · our house, things i like
i’ve been looking for a new desk. the one i have right now has a broken leg. i have it propped up with a cd box, an address book and a stack of stolen post it note pads. and, being the thoughtful girlfriend that i am, i want to carve out a nitch for dan [...]
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our search for jars
August 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, our garden, our house
the passion fruit are starting to drop off the vine by the dozens. it’s literally sprinkling passionfruits over here! it’s great but we need to start canning them before they go bad. we started our long and arduous task of looking for mason jars. and we finally found them! who’d thunk that it would be [...]
passiflora edulis
August 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Food, our garden, our house
it’s the beginning of passionfruit season! this is the first year that we’ve gotten any fruit. with the last weeks’ heat, tons of them have ripened and are now falling off the vine. soon we’re going to have to break out our canning gear!
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make your place sustainable
July 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Inspiring Design, our house, things i like
i got my new favorite book in the mail the other day. it’s called Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs. i brought my little book with me on my trip to seattle and have been reading it every chance i get! i haven’t gotten through the whole book yet. but so [...]
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the heat is on
July 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · our cats, our house
it’s starting to get hot around here. for some (the cats), salvation comes by being under or half under something.
here goes something…
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · our house, things i like
hi! so, i’ve decided to start a blog! i’m want to share with whoever wants to know what i’m doing and what other people are doing that i like.
so, i guess i’ll just jump right in!
this last saturday, july 11th, some friends of mine and i went to the renegade craft fair in [...]
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