To quote Kara DioGuardi, “so, here’s the thing….”  Doesn’t she always say that?  Anywho, I digress…
“So, here’s the thing,” we need some furniture and I need your help!  Please help me.  Please, please, please. 
We need furniture for our family room.  The key word in that sentence is “family”.  It is a place where our family [...]

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Welcome to my home. 
I love the changing of the seasons and I love my teal door. 
I love teal, it is “in my color palette.”  Teal coordinates with so many other colors and enhances them.  It [...]

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I decided to make try some of the recipes from our cousin’s cookbook, you know, the one that I gave away last week.  Now, I had eaten some of the recipes out of the [...]

Help me please!  I have no sense of aesthetic beauty.  In other words I am bad at choosing colors.

I need to choose curtain tie backs.  I have narrowed it to the two greens that were on sale…but I don’t know which one to choose.  So I decided to ask you wonderful readers, with all of [...]

My husband’s cousin (I just refer to her as my cousin) has created a fabulous cookbook The Gathering of Friends!  She and her friend are amazing, it’s true.  They both have such a gift for style and cooking that they have created this incredible cookbook!

Whenever I think of Alyse, I think of the parties at [...]

This is a great recipe and so easy!  Wouldn’t you know it, all of my recipes are easy!  I love this because I just pop it into the oven the evening before, set the time bake and !voila! it is done in the morning! 
It is the perfect recipe for fast mornings that you want something [...]

Hooray for breadsticks!  Who loves breadsticks?  I do, I do!  They just make and entre a meal, don’t they (when you add some vegetables and fruit)!
At my house we love breadsticks and we have a great trick to making “never-fail” breadsticks.  It’s called Rhodes Dough.  If your local grocery store does not stock it - [...]

In our church, it is the “Semi-annual General Conference.”  Here in Utah, General Conference is on television, so it is a bit of a challenge to not become distracted with the everyday things that can consume one in the home!  There are four session held, Saturday 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00 and Sunday 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00.  General Conference is held [...]

How many of you are constantly having the problem of the egg shell sticking to the egg when you try to peel the egg?  My mother-in-law has complained about his quite often.  Well, I remember back in 4-H (when I was about 10 years old) that there is a way to peel a hard boiled egg [...]

Yep, I’m from Utah.  Could you tell by the jell-o recipe?  We Utahns consume more jell-o per-capita than anywhere else in the nation (possibly even world).  But, we are most famous, or should I say infamous, for our green jell-o recipe with grated carrots (yuck).  And, yes, my mom did make that A LOT!  Anyway, I [...]