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Peppermint Dreams

Hello! Is all your holiday baking done, packaged up all pretty and ready to be delivered? We still owe some of the special people in our lives some sweet goodies so we’ll be cranking out more confections and delivering them until the eleventh hour, that’s for sure. Earlier this week I made some Peppermint Sugar [...]

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List Making, Etc.

Hello friends and Happy Wednesday! I don’t know about you, but I have several lists going on right now… 1. Next week’s grocery list 2. Thanksgiving Day grocery list 3. List of holiday goodies to bake 4. List of folks to deliver the holiday goodies to 5. List of gifts to buy and send Etc. [...]

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Off The Cuff

I feel terrible that I have been neglecting this here blog… I now have 6 free hours, five days a week and I can’t sit down to write a post or do any post-worthy projects! So, I am just going to throw some thoughts and stuff out there with what we’ve been up to over [...]

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Speading Sunshine ~ Teacher Gift Ideas

I’m always looking for unique teacher gifts. Something useful or handmade is what I tend to shoot for. I wanted to share these simple, yet thoughtful mini pots that are home to a pretty little bloom… {via} Melissa has provided the cute printables on the popsicle sticks so head on over to The Larson Lingo [...]

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Purple, Green & Gold

10 years ago around this time, in my Marketing days, I went to New Orleans for the NADA {National Automobile Dealers Association} trade show. It was right before the Superbowl and Mardi Gras, but the beads were already flying, the zydecos were playing and the Hurricanes were certainly flowing. If it was {that} crazy a [...]

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Visions Of Sugar Cookie Bars

I’ve had visions of these dancing in my head ever since they jumped out at me on {the big p}. I decided we needed to ring in the new year with these beauties ~ don’t they look like they’d go well with champagne? Light. Classy. Not overly sweet. I’ll be the first to tell you [...]

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The Train Is Back In The Station

Just returned from about 3 days in Vegas. This is the third year in a row that we’ve gone in early December. We love it and it’s great to see Sin City decked out in holiday bling, but I must admit that it’s a hard time of the year to be away from home even [...]

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Sweet September

I just registered for Blog Sugar. September 25th cannot come soon enough… I get to meet {in person!} some of my biggest blog idols…yay! I am SO excited! {“vintage sugar cubes” via flickr} It’s going to be 7 hours of pure amazingness! Who’s comin’ with? ***** Happy Tuesday!

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Exfoliate!

I whipped up some homemade Vanilla Brown Sugar Scrub for Elliott’s preschool teacher, Miss Linda, as part of her end-of-the-year thank you gift. It’s the easiest thing ever. 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup regular sugar 3/4 cup vegetable oil 6 drops vanilla extract That’s it! Pour oil into a clear glass container, then add [...]

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The Aliens Are Coming…

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