Happy 4th of July! Hope your Independence Day was as fun-filled as ours.
Started off the morning attending a local parade. I hadn’t been to a small-town parade in over a decade, so it was definitely fun to check this one out. Bubbles hadn’t been to a parade like this before, either, and she was very excited to see what it was all about. Continue reading »
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Austin has requested a cookie cake for his birthday for as long as I can remember. So when he returned home from paratrooper school just in time to celebrate his 20th, I knew I wanted to make my cookie cake recipe for him.
Birthdays aren’t the only time of year when a cookie cake is requested. Every once in awhile I’ll get a text that says, “Hey, if you’re not busy, could you make me…” And along with a savory dish of some kind (homemade chicken nuggets or white cheddar mac & cheese) will be a cookie cake. Continue reading »
I really enjoy crafting and DIY, especially when it centers around holidays. Now that Bubbles is on a better napping schedule, I sometimes find myself with 30 or so minutes in the afternoon where I can work on some of the projects I’ve had in mind for awhile. The Fourth of July is less than a week away now, and it happens to rank right up there as one of my favorite holidays, so I decided to make a little something to decorate with.
I had a new set of Elmer’s Paint Markers that I wanted to test out and came up with the idea for a Fourth of July-themed serving dish. It’s a really easy project and can be as rustic or as finished as you’d like it to be.
DIY Fourth of July Serving Plate Continue reading »
