Thursday, July 07, 2016

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Sunset

Here I am once again with my weekly favorite links!

- Refrigerator Pickles : I recently found Wit & Vinegar through Jessica’s blog & I’m loving every.single.post!  These refrigerator pickles look so good…and so easy!

- 28 Pictures That Are True For No Reason At All : Why are these so true?!

- 21 Technicolor Treats That Will Make Your Mouth Water : I want to make all of these rainbow recipes!

- 18 Cocktails Guaranteed To Keep You Pleasantly Buzzed This Summer :  These recipes put my Watermelon Sangria to shame!  I need to seriously up my alcoholic drink game!

- c. 1830 Cabin – Russellville, AL : Ever since we bought our log home, I’ve been interested in seeing how log cabins are decorated and this home looks lovely! I love the rustic feel & the outbuildings are so awesome!

- No Churn Tutti Fruitti Ice Cream :  Confession time:  I have an ice cream maker that I’ve never used!  I figure after so many years of wanting to make ice cream & not wanting to mess with the maker, that I’m just a no churn girl!  This recipe is what I’ve been looking for!

- 11 Fruit Boats That Are *Almost* Too Pretty to Eat :  If I had the patience, fruit boats would totally be my jam, but for now, they’re just pretty to look at!

- Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix July 2016 :  All of the Back To The Future movies are on Netflix!  You have no idea how happy this makes me!

What’s on your radar lately?

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

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Back in March, I misplaced my memory card & hoped that I would find it in our move…well, I never did!  There were about 2 months worth of pictures gone forever!  I’m still not over it…

But!  I was going through some of my blog post drafts & came across a couple pictures that were on the memory card of our living room furniture when we first got it, so I’m sharing them with you today!

living room furniture

Living Room Furniture

I have to stop right here & take a trip down memory lane!  Those pictures were taken in what is now the kitchen of our house!  Because we’re all moved in now, I forget the many, many, many months of when our house was a complete disaster construction zone!

Anyway…

We picked this furniture up at the ReStore the same day we got our kitchen cabinets.  While the cabinets needed repairs & paint, all this furniture needed was a coat of polyurethane!  We chose this style of furniture for our living room because when we put in the grand staircase, our living room got really, really small and this furniture was small enough to fit in there.

I’m working on taking ‘after’ photos of our house, but our house is just so difficult to photograph!  Every time I go to take pictures, I feel like a total failure because our house is so cool, but I can’t capture it in photographs!

In the meantime, here’s some pictures of the furniture when it was in our loft area:

Living Room Furniture

Living Room Furniture

Also, when you’re fixing up a house, the dust game is real!  My house totally doesn’t have that much noticeable dust now!

Monday, July 04, 2016

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American Flag

Happy 4th!  I hope you have a safe & great day!

Friday, July 01, 2016

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strawberry pie

Happy 4th of July weekend!

What are your plans for the weekend?  I currently have zero plans except for working a couple days during the weekend.  I’m hoping to change my lack of plans situation, though!  I’m up for anything this weekend so bring it on!

Before I share this fabulous strawberry pie with you, I have to tell you a little behind the scenes story…

Our main porch is on the front of our house, which is awesome if we want to do all of our porch stuff (grilling, entertaining, eating, etc.) in full view of the road & our neighbors.  It’s also where I drag my photography stuff out & take food pics for the blog.  The pictures look great on my blog, but behind the camera, it looks kind of ridiculous.  I realized last night that I’m the weird neighbor with the tripod, pie & chair set up on my porch!

camera setup

Ok…now it’s about the pie!

I found this recipe for strawberry pie on Pinterest a while ago & finally decided to make it.  It didn’t disappoint!  I love it so much that I made another one 2 days later & I’m going to make another one this weekend.  Can’t stop…won’t stop!

strawberry pie

Also, I totally cheated making this.  I found a pie crust that was prebaked and just used that!  It was awesome because crimping the edges of a pie crust is totally not my thing, which I found out when I made my first pie.  It was delicious, but ugly!

Side note:  only I could make such a yummy pie look dreadful in photographs!

Head on over to Cincy Shopper for the recipe!

Now for the 4th of July links!

- 13 Flag Cakes To Celebrate July 4th In Style

- Rock These Independence Day Nails for 4th of July Weekend

24 of the Best Red, White + Blue Party Ideas for 4th of July

- FABulous Fourth!

- DIY Fourth of July Balloon Bikes

- Patriotic Terra Cotta Pot Wrappers

Whatever you do, I hope you have a great weekend!

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