Sisters Not Designers

I wanted to make cookies. Badly. Actually, I want to be cooking or baking all the time. I always make chocolate chip cookies because, well, they are the freakin’ BEST! But I saw a container of oats at our local Publix grocery store and thought how proud my Nonnie would be if I made her [...]

I’ve been really gun shy about hanging things up since moving into the new house.  Not so much because I was afraid of putting things in the wrong places but mostly because I’ve been nervous about effen up the walls.   I’ve had pictures on the floor leaning against the walls in pretty much the [...]

A few nights ago we made tacos. It was like any other night we made tacos before, except that on this particular night it finally hit me. As we swirled and dodged each other back and fourth between the stove top, the sink, the refrigerator and the trash can, knives in hand, I sighed. We [...]

Pasta is one of the cheapest things you can buy in the grocery store. With the price being close to a dollar a box and “buy one, get one free” sales always available on one brand or another, it’s no wonder that I have upwards of five varieties, half full, in my pantry. But I [...]

The predominant colors in my house are green and blue; a bright apple green and a teal/aqua blue.  It’s interesting because I never made a conscious decision to decorate with these colors, but as I’m setting up shop here and looking at things I’ve collected over the past 10 years, blue and green, for whatever [...]