Yesterday, we hustled this beast of a piano into a rental truck for a short trip across town to one half of The Owl Sisters, two Huntsville ladies who refinish old furniture. After they remove its incredibly heavy harp, one Owl Sister will move the piano (which will really be a former piano at that [...]
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As Pictured Below: Saying goodbye to a family relic
Posted in Photographs, Home, Huntsville, tagged father, grandmother, Huntsville, decluttering, As Pictured Below, heirlooms, piano, Owl Sisters, player pianos, refinishing player pianos, refinishing furniture on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Simply irresistible: Improved goat cheese balls get rave reviews
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged apppetizers, bacon, basil, cheese, cheese ball pecan coating, cooking, cream cheese, food, goat cheese, goat cheese ball bacon, goat cheese balls, goat cheese pops on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Late last week, I realized that I had never posted about my improvements to the recipe for Goat Cheese Pops with Herbs, Pecans and Bacon after I began experimenting with it last fall. The worst part of this realization? The knowledge that the only record I had of said improvements was a marked-up piece of paper residing [...]
As Pictured Below: Cat jacket
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged cat bed, cat furniture, cats, cats sleeping, cats toys, Yang on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Yang deftly took ownership of my green jacket in December after I left it on the bed after boot camp early one morning. It’s an actual cat place now, as in “Yang’s been on green jacket since lunch.” (And it’s not even the green jacket. It’s simply green jacket, like Atlanta or Birmingham.) He likes [...]
Finally, I put a bird on it
Posted in Crafts, Home, Photographs, tagged bird silhouette, canvas, canvas crafts, canvas silhouette, crafts, painting, Pinterest, Pinterest crafts, Pinterest silhouettes, Portlandia, Portlandia bird, put a bird on it, silhouette painting on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had several canvas art projects pinned to my Pinterest craft board for MONTHS. My favorites involved silhouettes, but the instructions invariably called for purchasing vinyl cutouts. I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just PAINT a silhouette onto the canvas, because, you know, paint is cheap. And in my garage. Finally, I painted a clearance-rack canvas with a [...]
As Pictured Below: Little Treasures in My House
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Family, Home, Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged Amazing Otters, animal books, Animals of the High Mountains, Animals that Build their Homes, As Pictured Below, books, Books for Young Explorers, brother, cat books, Cats: Little Tigers in Your House, childhood, children's books, kitten books, Paddy Paws, sibling rivalry, Toddly on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, I posted this photo to Facebook, noting that I had owned this book since I was 2 1/2 years old. It took a friend approximately three minutes to name two of the kittens (Paddy Paws and Toddly) featured in the tale. He also quickly found a link to the series, titled Books for [...]
My hope chest is apparently a toolbox
Posted in Family, Home, Photographs, tagged Christmas, Craftsman, Craftsman tools, DIY, gifts, grandmother, husband, organization, organizing tools, Robo-Grip, robogrip, Rocket City Bloggers, screwdrivers, Show-Vac, tools on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This month’s Rocket City Bloggers’ shared carnival topic — “your favorite tool” — was a gimme. It’s the set of screwdrivers that my grandmother gave me for Christmas the year after I got married. One of the first realizations I had after moving in with the husband was that our organizational styles differed. He could [...]
Zenni eyewear: functional, fashionable and affordable
Posted in Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged affordable glasses, contact lens, fashion glasses, glasses from China, ordering glasses online, prescription glasses, Zenni glasses, Zenni Optical on March 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Zenni Optical may be the most important company I’ve discovered in a long time. The three pairs of prescription glasses pictured above? They cost me a total of $28.75, including shipping. Utterly ridiculous, right? The prescriptions must be wrong, or the frames must be ready to fall apart, or the lenses must be overly susceptible [...]
Cinnamon sugar bread gets a well-deserved second chance
Posted in Eats, Family, Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged baking, cinnamon bread, cinnamon sugar, cinnamon sugar bread, Pinterest, Pinterest recipes, Tupperware on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This loaf of cinnamon sugar bread almost never came to be, which would have been quite unfortunate, because it was a thing of perfection, with a crunchy top and soft interior laced with more than a mere hint of cinnamon sugar. The first time I tried the recipe, the top wasn’t crunchy, and the interior [...]
Simply open a jar to impress guests — or just treat yourself
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged appetizers, artichoke appetizer, artichoke hearts, artichoke marinade, artichokes, cooking, easy appetizers, marinated artichoke hearts, marinated artichokes, Vigo's on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll forever be thankful to my mother-in-law for introducing me to the easiest appetizer I’ve ever served: marinated artichoke hearts. You’re probably thinking, wow, isn’t it kind of tricky to trim artichokes? And wouldn’t you have to marinate them for a few hours before serving? Wait a minute, wouldn’t you have to cook them, too? [...]
Roasted chickpeas are worth multiple attempts
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged baked chickpeas, baked garbanzo beans, baked garbanzos, Chachere's, chickpeas, cooking, creole seasoning, Greek seasoning, oven, parchment paper, Pinterest recipe, roasted chickpeas, roasted garbanzo beans, roasted garbanzos, Tony Chachere on February 7, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Rarely do I give a failed Internet-based recipe a second chance. There are simply too many other recipes to try, and unless I can point to something I know I did wrong (it happens), I’ll usually just write off such failures as lessons learned. Roasted chickpeas, though? I WANTED the roasted chickpeas to work. So [...]
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