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February 16, 2018

Friday Faves Vol. 22

This new line of Soft Matte Metallic Lip Creams from NYX!

These glitter cactus earrings!

These anxiety and depression t-shirts from Neon Witch!

January 5, 2018

Friday Faves Vol. 19

This amazing sequin biker jacket!

This mouthwatering lemon feta dip!

These adorable nesting doll flats!

December 22, 2017

Friday Faves Vol. 18

These DIY ornament pillows!

This pull-apart Christmas tree bread!

These genius Elf on the Shelf ideas from Busy Phillips!

This article, "I Lived Like I Was in a Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie for a Week"

These suuuuper cozy-looking pink Muk Luks slippers!

This festive Christmas cookie phone wallpaper!

This fun Christmas light gift wrapping idea!

These DIY eye ornaments!

This gorgeous pink Christmas table decor!

These holiday-themed eye makeup ideas!

What fun stuff have you seen lately?

October 19, 2017

Creepy & Fun Food Ideas for Halloween

It's no secret - I love a theme. Around Halloween I can't help but look for fun food, decor and costume inspiration. It's my Christmas. Normally, overly fussy foods bore me, but make them creepy and I'll sit cutting eyeballs out of olives for hours. A few years back I made this Halloween spread, featuring mini mummy calzones, eyeball pizzas, graveyard layer dip with tortilla headstones and witch finger cookies:

Like I said, I love a theme. 😎 I've been poking around pinterest and google to find more new ideas for Halloween treats, and now I've got more options than I know what to do with! Here are my top 20 Halloween food inspirations:

Jalapeno Popper Mummies

Stranger Things Sheet Cake

Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Stuffed Peppers

Dracula's Dentures

Monster Eyeball Cookies

Snake Calzone

Mummy Pumpkin Cookies

Creepy Pizza Hands

Monster Strawberry Cupcakes

Eyeball Pasta

Shrunken Heads in Apple Cider

Black Lemonade

Bat Bite Cookies

Eyeball Brownies

Eyeball Caprese Salad

Snake Breadsticks

Spooky Spinach Dip in Bread Bowl Cauldron

Witch Finger Cookies

Zombie Brain Cupcakes

Witch Hat Brownie Pops

Are you making any fun Halloween treats this year?

October 12, 2017

Pumpkin Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

This time of year, I feel like I’m chained to my oven because all I want to do is bake autumnal sweets and stir great big pots of simmering soup all day. Can you blame me? Pumpkin may be considered basic these days, but whats wrong with basic? You know what else is basic? Worn jeans, bright sunlight and warm bread. Oh, and baking soda. (JK, just a lil’ junior high science joke for you!)

Those things are awesome! So is pumpkin. So are these cookies.

Ingredients

• 1/2 C butter, melted

• 3/4 C brown sugar

• 1/4 C white sugar

• 1 egg

• 1/3 C canned pumpkin

• 1 t vanilla extract

• 1/4 t salt

• 1 t cinnamon

• 1/8 t nutmeg

• 1/8 t cloves

• 1/4 t ginger

• 3/4 t baking soda

• 1.5 C flour

• 1 C chocolate chips

• 2/3 C chopped walnuts

Instructions

1. Mix melted butter with the brown sugar, white sugar and egg in a large bowl.

2. Stir in pumpkin and vanilla extract and mix together well.

3. Stir in salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and baking soda.

4. Pour in the flour in half cup increments, and stir to combine until all flour is added.

5. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

6. Cover the dough and refrigerate for at least one hour.

7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

8. Line a cookie sheet and place 1” dough balls about 2” apart.

9. Cook for 9-12 minutes until edges are golden brown.

10. Remove cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes (they’ll firm up a bit) before moving them to a wire rack to cool.