I love trying new fruits! These are called champagne grapes, so naturally I thought they would taste like champagne. They actually just taste like regular grapes. Delicious, but not as bubbly as I imagined.
I like to pretend I’m a giant when I’m eating them.
If I could rewind the past four years and redo my wedding I would want to carry one of these stunning brooch bouquet’s down the aisle. I bet I could even persuade Lionsgate Designs to include some of the brooches my grandma gave me from her jewelry collection.
Now where can I get a time machine?
Bekah shared these “healthy cookies” with me, and I loved them. The texture is a bit different than a normal cookie, but they taste great. To make them even healthier you could leave out the chocolate chips and throw in some dried fruit, but I would never do that because chocolate is the soul of any cookie.
3 ripe bananas (mashed)
2 1/2 cup oats
1/3 cup applesauce
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup dark chocolate chips (or more!)
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl, and let them sit for 15 minutes. Then spoon the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Easy, yummy, healthy.
I can’t believe they make jelly shoes for grown ups! I think I might order a pair… not that I’m admitting to be a grown up or anything.
1 Ruffle-Neck Chambray Dress from Old Navy
2 Jewel Petals Flower Ring from Forever21
3 Mom’s Attic Clutch from Anthropologie
4 Hey, Jell-ousy Flat from ModCloth
5 Little Larsen Posts from Anthropologie
While making dinner and spilling all over the stove top I noticed this happy little guy amidst my mess. It seems like he’s winking and wishing me a good weekend. Or, maybe that’s just my low blood sugar talking…
I started peeling the wallpaper off our guest bathroom walls as soon as we moved into our house. The wallpaper seemed to be original to the house (1971) and had been hung directly on bare unpainted drywall. Each piece of wallpaper that came down tore off a big chunk of dry wall with it. (That’s when I honed my spackling skills.)
Deciding on a paint color that wouldn’t look horrible next to the yellow 70s hex tile on the floor was tricky. After much photoshopping I discovered that brown walls magically make the yellow tiles seem more cream colored. Then I added new light fixtures, a new countertop, a new faucet, a new sink, a mirror from the flea market, and I updated the vanity. I’d say the bathroom looks a heck of a lot better!
Before:
After:
One can never have too many throw pillows, but Daniel (in his ignorance) thinks we reached that point a long time ago. He forbade me from getting any more pillows, but I found a loophole—pillow covers!
We have lots of red pillows because I like to rotate them on the couches in the living room. I wanted some funkier pillows in my basement studio, and covering the extra red pillows was the perfect solution. Now I have four new pillows (without technically buying any pillows), and I can revert back to my red pillows any time I feel the urge to shuffle them around.
Aren’t I a clever devil?
If I knew how to use my sewing machine I could’ve made these myself, but sometimes it’s nice to support small businesses and shop on etsy! My covers are from diypillows, this little home, and milk&cookies canada.
I recently stumbled across Stukenborg’s prints, and I think they are ingenious. I love the intricate designs they create by running rows of dice through a letterpress.
Whoa. I feel dizzy…
The pants I was wearing while replacing our ceiling fans didn’t have pockets, so I taped all the screws to my shirt so I could reach them while working. I won’t tell you where I had to put the screw driver. You know, I could really use a tool belt.
Sometimes pink is so cliché, but when you’re participating in a manly activity you might need a touch of pink. For example my Xbox 360 controller is pink, and you better watch out or amandaTR0N will snipe your face!
I’m not a big fan of ceiling fans. I especially don’t like them in our basement where the ceiling is already a bit low. A few months ago there was a post on Design Sponge about ceiling fans. I scrolled through the comments to see if I was alone in my ceiling fan dislike, and I was not. I was surprised to see people wondering how to cover up a ceiling fan, or paying an electrician $150 to remove it. That’s crazy. It’s really easy to take one down yourself.
First shut off the power at the breaker. Then remove the lightbulbs and shades. (That way if you drop the whole thing you won’t have broken glass to worry about! Don’t worry though, you probably won’t drop it.)
There should be a few screws near the ceiling that are holding the fan in place. Unscrew these. If possible have someone standing by to support the fan just in case the screws are the only things holding it up. The fan pictured had a hook to keep it up once the screws were removed. The fan I took down in our bedroom was only held up by the screws and would have crashed to the ground if I hadn’t caught it when the last screw came out. Be ready for either scenario!
Once the wires are exposed unscrew the orange things and disconnect the wires. There should be a black wire, a white wire, and possibly an extra ground wire (usually green). Screw the orange things back onto the single wires coming out of the ceiling, and lower the fan to the ground.
Now unscrew and remove the ceiling fan mounting plate, and your ceiling is ready for a nice new light fixture.
See? That wasn’t so bad, was it?