Use a permanent marker to turn one of your ice trays into a herb freezer so you never waste your harvest! After you pluck and wash each herb, just pop them into the wells of the tray and freeze. I add a little water to each full segment because I love the perfect little block that comes out, but you really don’t need to. Next time you make a sauce, soup or dip, just pop one out and stir it in!
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Herb Saver
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Puerto Rico Roundup
Raices Fountain
Jeff and I just got back from our vacation in Puerto Rico, and besides a few minor mishaps due to weather and sunburn, we had an incredible time. Visually, it’s an inspiring place, with the juxtaposition of old and new everywhere. The colorful Spanish colonial architecture peeking out above the crumbling stone fortress surrounding Old San Juan never fails to stop you in your tracks. The people are warm and helpful and the food was dream worthy. To top it all off, it is very, very cheap. Here are few of our favorites things from the trip and a recipe for a mojito that I’ll be drinking all summer (or until our many bottles of rum are gone). Continue reading
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Modern Quilting
I’ve been working hard this summer on two quilts for my store, and I’m so pleased with how they turned out. The process completely re-energized me and now I can’t wait to design the next one. It was my goal to come up with something that was truly fit for a modern home but also had some elements of tradition attached. After a visit to a quilt museum, I settled on a spare map of the United States and a spin on an Amish quilt I had fallen in love with. 
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Comfort Food: Monkey Bread
Every proper southern sleepover I attended as a child ended with orange juice and fresh, gooey monkey bread in the morning. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized it goes much better with coffee and that there was, indeed, a huge difference between the made-from-scratch kind and the biscuit-in-a-can kind. When you’re a kid, sweet and cinnamon-y is always the bees knees, but later on, you just know what’s real and what’s not. Continue reading
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Homemade Insecticide
After unsuccessfully trying to maintain a garden on our roof (how many times would you climb a ladder with buckets of water in your hands?), Jeff and I decided to grow veggies and herbs inside this year. Within a few days, our herbs were being taken over by these teeny tiny flies that apparently LOVE thyme more than anything else on earth. After a little research, I developed a natural insecticide that the bugs absolutely hate. You have to spray the whole plant and soil every few days to once a week, but the benefit is that you can still eat your harvest after a little washing! Continue reading
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Community Baby Quilt
Here’s a quick post to show you how the community baby quilts turned out from the April baby showers. Giving 30 people a block regardless of artistic ability could spiral into something pretty ugly, but if you carefully control what people are allowed to use to make their block, it will turn out adorable no matter what. (And as the putter-together of it all, you could also tweak things a bit to make it look a little better too! ;-)) 
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Rust Stain Demolisher
I use a lot of vintage and antique textiles in my housewares, so I’ve removed thousands of those rust and yellow colored stains from doilies, linens, and lace. Personally, I think the three best stain fighters for delicates are cream of tartar, lemon juice and Oxiclean. Continue reading
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Comfort Food: Southern Pimento Cheese
Jeff and I have had a rough few weeks, and when times get tough, we turn to comfort food to make it all go away. I’ve heard that pimento cheese is an acquired taste, but I have absolutely no idea why since it’s ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. On everything. After we’ve spread it on crackers, apple slices, bread and hotdogs, we take it to the next level and use it in our grilled cheese sandwiches, producing the tastiest, gooey-est ones ever. My recipe uses ONLY the key ingredients from every pimento cheese recipe because I really believe less is more when it comes to this southern staple.
Southern Pimento Cheese
- Medium sized block of sharp cheddar, grated
- Small jar or can of pimentos, drained
- Mayonnaise (preferably Duke’s, but I also like the Trader Joe’s Brand)
- (sometimes I add a few cloves of minced garlic too)
Mix the grated cheese, pimentos, garlic (if using) and a heaping spoonful of mayo in a bowl. Mix in more mayo, a spoonful at a time until the mixture is spreadable, but not runny. Pop in the fridge for at least 30 minutes before using or noshing!
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Milagro Heart Wedding Cake Topper
My dear friend, Kalimba, is getting married on Cinco de Mayo and she asked me to make her a sacred heart cake topper. I love this little topper and I wish I had thought of it for my own wedding! I used red velvet, vintage lace, rust silk charmeuse, stuffed it with bamboo filling and poked a wooden skewer in it….done and done!
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Baby Showerstravaganza!
I’ve been away in California throwing two baby showers (which is why my blog has been inactive for a bit)! One was a casual co-ed shower for a boy and the other was a more traditional shower for a girl. I admit that I’m far from traditional, so when I realized that I would have to come up with games for the second shower in San Francisco, I freaked out a little! I stuck with sentimental and old-fashioned ideas instead of the cheesy stuff I found online and everything went over brilliantly. Here’s the breakdown of each shower’s theme, menu, and activities so you can steal, borrow and re-purpose! Continue reading
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