HANDMADE STATIONERY AND BESPOKE PRINT-ON-DEMAND SHOP
A Kitchen should be known as the heart of the home. The central area of your home where everyone is welcome. Where not only bodies get fed, but hearts and minds also.
So we’re offering our best in comfort recipes, organizing tips, or anything that might need a list or label or paper of any kind.
You know by now that food goes a long way to feeling well. Not only in the healthy ingredients for body benefits. There are many feel-good benefits from eating certain dishes you ate at special occasions. Or the happy childhood times around the kitchen table.
If you’re not looking for fancy gourmet, come sit by us. We love to fake it till we make it, and we’ll help you get there, too.
Enjoy reading!
Food wouldn’t be the same without some awesome sauces. Life isn’t as enjoyable without the sauce of finding community. Finding Community is “Awesome Sauce” We have some awesome “sauce” to share today. It’s a sauce that’s like adding gravy to mashed potatoes. It absolutely adds the finishing touch. Mashed potatoes are yummy all by themselves,…
Our Birdseed Bread Recipe that you bake from scratch is pure farmhouse comfort food. Artisan quality loaves with superior taste, texture and aroma. ⇓ CLICK TO JUMP TO RECIPE ⇓ Birdseed bread is NOT for your outdoor bird feeder. Your feathered friends would probably enjoy it, if you have a few…
Our Favorite Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe is just right: tangy, yet velvety smooth and creamy. Making pie is the best way to manage lemon drops. Life 101 tip: When life hands you lemons, make lemon pie. In spring we get lemon drops. Lemons fall from our tree, covering the ground with a carpet…
I love good food, but don’t love to cook; therefore, we eat gourmet the easy way. Then invented an Easy Gourmet DIY Cookbook. So you, too, can record your recipes made your way. My personal definition of a gourmet cook: someone whose idea of fun is perfecting the minutest detail of a recipe and…
Red Velvet Layered Cheesecake: our absolute favorite Holiday Dessert. We promise if you make this once you will want it every Christmas, and maybe in-between! A Christmas (and a Cheesecake) to Remember Did I tell you about the Christmas my sister and her family spent here in our valley, renting a large house together for…
7 of the Best Neighbor Christmas Gift Ideas that are easy and fun to make. And won’t shrink your wallet to nothing. More Christmas Gift Ideas: Monogram Christmas Tea-Towels DIY: Freezer-Paper Stencils Make a Macramé Christmas Angel and Feather Keychain Christmas Desk Candy DIY From Upcycled Old Books 7 of…
18 of the Best Holiday Dips for Sweet or Salty to add to your Holiday food planner. The hot, cheesy dips look especially appealing for cold weather snacking. So this Friday evening is our g’littles school Christmas Program. We’re all so excited! I’ll admit I’m not as excited as the g’littles, who get…
Make these Minimalist Christmas Gift Tags and/or Place Cards to continue the 2020 hygge, simpler Holiday theme we all grew to love. Let’s talk about Christmas table décor. This year we’re all about minimalism, which the Scandinavians do with flare. So we’re researching simple, hygge concepts for our Christmas table setting when…
Our Elegant Christmas Planners for 2023.Do all your Holiday organizing in one handy binder with our printable charts. Plus get the free Watercolor Holiday Menu Planning Printable now. ⇓ It’s time to get my Christmas menus planned, so I can make sure I have all the ingredients on hand that I’ll need. Plus factor in…
The Perfect Pie Pan for Baking Your Thanksgiving Pies. Ceramic, stone-ware, glass or aluminum foil. Guess which is the perfect pan! Way back in time, I chronicled my odyssey to The Perfect Pie Crust. If you’ve read the not-very-serious journal, you know I never reached pie crust heaven. No Julia Child here. I’m not…
This year, our Thanksgiving table will include these two Best Pumpkin Desserts Ever! Praline Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Pecan Cobbler.
For quick, easy and economical gifts, try this Monogram Christmas Tea-Towels DIY. Using freezer-paper to cut the stencils is absolutely brilliant. There’s a whole new way of stenciling fabric that you may not know about. I didn’t, anyway, till lately. Cut stencils out of freezer paper, because you can iron it onto the fabric…