Occasionally, I do write more than 2,200 characters (thanks for the limit, Instagram), and when I do, you will find those words here. I also love participating in Calling It Home’s One Room Challenge, which happens every spring and fall. You can find past rooms I’ve worked on here. Want some help with your own One Room Challenge? Let me know so that we can get planning for the next round!
On Tuesday, we talked about the amazing frozen banana cake. Today, we move on to the frozen banana cake’s much simpler sibling, the banana sheet cake. We are not talking Texas sheet cake here. The recipe calls for a 9”x13” pan. I used an 8” square and 8” round for mine with the intention of freezing one for later before frosting. More on how well that went later.
Read MoreWhen I was a little girl, I spent a good portion of the summer at my grandparents’ house. Most of my memories from that time center around food in some way. There was always so much food to choose from and my grandmother was a firm believer is spoiling her oldest granddaughter. Add to the well-stocked pantry that someone was always dropping by with fresh beans or tomatoes or shrimp or cake, and it is a wonder that I wasn’t a total blimp of a kid.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I had the amazing experience of viewing a video of someone using my website for the first time via PEEK. If you are the user that reviewed my site, thank you. That was so helpful to see and you were so encouraging as to my content and style. You literally made my day.
Anyway, one of the things that I learned while watching this video is that my website does not really explain what “lagniappe” means. You can definitely look it up, but the Merriam-Webster definition is not exactly what it means to people from South Louisiana. It’s simple, really. Lagniappe means “a little something extra”.
Read MoreWhen we first bought this house, we loved how light it was in the living room and kitchen. I mean, windows all along the south and west walls? You are shaking your head, right? Yep. Once I started taking photos in my house with a real (or at least somewhat real) camera, I realized just how dark my house is. I have been taking just a few more photographs than usual in my kitchen over the last few months and one thing that I know for sure is that my kitchen might be the darkest place on earth.
Read MoreRemember almost a month ago when I last posted about Project Life? Yep. I’m still working on it. I'm even still caught up. But I am also still limiting myself to one page per week just so I get it done.
Read MoreLooking for a dinner review today? Yep, not going to happen. Started the soup at 3:30 and realized by 5:30 that we were at least two hours from done. Take out.
Instead of a recipe review, let’s talk a little more about Instagram. I was talking to someone yesterday about Instagram and her impression was that Instagram is a place where people post pictures of themselves. She said she didn't get the attraction. I totally agree. I don’t follow any of those people. I do follow people that take pictures of their kids and their food and their coffee (at an alarming rate, I might add, and I'm still trying to understand why). Sometimes these pictures are just beautiful and sometimes not so much. But in between the kids and the coffee is the awesome.
Read MoreI think I have a problem. Maybe several. But let's only get into the simple ones here. The first problem is that I spend too much time on Instagram. The second is that I can’t pin things from Instagram. Is there an app for that? Someone please tell me what it is. For now, my totally inefficient solution is the screen shot. This means I end up with a bunch of screen shots every week that I put into a folder on my hard drive for later and then forget about. Very effective.
I’ve decided to start clearing my folder out and you get to see what I think is cool on Instagram. Sound good? Excellent. Let’s get started.
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