Neat Stuff Friday | 5

Baking
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Happy Friday, and happy December! It's been a long while, but I thought I'd do another neat things Friday with you all today.

Christmas is right around the corner, and I'm starting to feel festive! I still have to finish decorating my little trees but I spent most of my week trying to settle back into routine after being in Idaho for Thanksgiving. Does it take anyone else forever to get back into the swing of things after being out of town?

I've also been brainstorming some fun new projects for blog posts coming up too, and I'm pretty excited for them. There's just something about the Christmas season that gets me feeling all creative and wanting to make all the things!

Next week I'll start sharing those, and I'll also have a house update post too! But in the meantime, here's some neat stuff I'm thinking about this week :)

Neat Stuff

  1. I've been wanting a classic, neutral apron. I'm a mess when I'm in the kitchen, and it might make my clothes last longer if I start wearing one! I really like this half size and this full one. Both so classic, and definitely a kitchen staple I could use!
  2. We opted out of putting in a bathtub in our house, since neither of us are bath takers and we loved the idea of having a larger shower. After reading this article, it seems like we aren't alone in the idea. How about you? Is a bathtub a necessity?
  3. My grandma makes the best, most chewy and delicious ginger-molasses cookies, and not being able to eat much sugar means I can't really enjoy them any more. I tried a modification on this low carb version which turned out pretty good, but I also want to play around with a variation on my grandma's and see what I come up with. I tried one batch that was a fail haha, but I'm going to keep trying!
  4. We get together with Dane's family every year for an annual white elephant Christmas Eve, and this guide of gift ideas is just hilarious! It's giving me ideas for sure ;)
  5. I mentioned on instagram the other day that my parents got me Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden book, and I'm so excited to grow my flower garden for cutting bouquets next summer. I discovered them in a magazine last spring, and I love that they sell coordinating seed collections that you can grow together to make beautiful, cohesive bouquets. One thing that always kept me from trying was not knowing what kinds of flowers to grow, and they took all the guess work out of it! If you've been wanting to do the same, definitely check them out. I ordered the Dusty Rose collection, and I can't wait to get my seeds in the mail!
  6. Since I'm on more of a low sugar kick, I might also try to re-make this recipe from a couple years ago, but in a lower sugar version. It's Dane's favorite, and I really enjoy it too, and Christmas is my favorite time to make goodies so I think I'm going to have to give it a try.
There you have it, all my neat stuff for the week! I hope you all have a beautiful weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

P.S. - Did you hear I'm doing a giveaway and a sale? 30% off all printable, free shipping on orders over $10, and there's still time to enter to win a free Christmas printable design for  your cards this year! Check out more information here. 

Neat Stuff Friday | 4

Currently
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Happy first day of fall!

It's been perfectly fall-ish here this week, with some rain and cool weather, and today it's sunny and cool and a Friday, so win-win-win if you ask me :)

I'm hoping some good progress can be made this weekend on the house. Dane will be working on our front entry and my job for the weekend will be stripping the interior doors for the house. They are vintage five-panel doors from the early 1900s and luckily they only seem to have one layer of paint on them! But in the interest of having a better finished product, I'm going to strip them down and re-paint them.

I'm looking forward to enjoying some more outside time this weekend and soaking in the perfect weather. And maybe finalizing my exterior paint color as well! Now, onto that neat stuff I came across this week.

NEAT STUFF

  1. Did you catch our anniversary post this year? I found a very cool spot to have a romantic picnic for our date!
  2. Apparently there's a rumor that instagram is going to be changing it's layout from a three photo grid. Does that bother you, or are you like, meh?
  3. I have a growing pile of clothes that need some minor adjustments, including some jeans that need hemmed. I found this tutorial and I think it'll be just what I need!
  4. If you're not following my fall board on pinterest, you really should be ;) it just makes me so happy, and if you love fall as much as me, you might find some good inspiration there!
  5. This post is making me really want to do pine boards for our flooring. I have been tossing the idea around for a while, and that color is just so close to what I'm picturing for our house!
  6. I've been seeing this rug around being layered under a front entry rug. So cute! And pretty inexpensive too :)
Alright, I hope you all have a fantastic first weekend of fall! Thanks for stopping by!

Neat Stuff Friday | 2

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Well, it's been a few Fridays, but I'm back again with some neat stuff!

I also kept intending to share a house update with you all the last couple of weeks, but life's been busy! If you follow me on instagram you've probably been seeing my updates there, but the house looks so different from the last time I shared anything here on the blog.

Next week for sure I will have an update post for you all, and maybe a video too ;)

Neat Stuff

  1. I'm so ready for fall, it's not even funny. I've been wearing this perfect nail polish from the photo above, and it might be my favorite ever!
  2. Here's a super pretty screen saver/September calendar from Place of My Taste that is perfect for fall. It's available for your desktop or phone!
  3. This crazy huge fire is only about 30 miles away from us in the neighboring county. It's taken out some homes already, and it's creating a massive amount of smoke for southern Oregon and northern California. Just another reason for fall to come soon, for the rain!
  4. Simply Grove shared this beautiful bedroom refresh on her blog and I just love how it turned out. So pretty!
  5. Lastly, what a great way to mix summer and fall than with a no-churn apple pie ice cream recipe? Check it out over on Boxwood Ave :)
And that's all the neat stuff for this week. Have a safe and happy labor day weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Neat Stuff Friday | 1

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Today I thought I'd do something a little new. I have done different 'currently' and 'lately' type posts but I was thinking it might be nice to do something once in a while on Fridays to share some things I think are neat. 

It might be products I'm using, articles I've read, music I'm listening to. So basically it's just like previous 'currently' posts, but these will hopefully happen every Friday haha!

Neat Stuff

  1. To start, that photo above was inspired by this article. I really struggle with being in the here and now and not focusing on the future all the time, so it was a nice reminder to focus on the grass I have now. I've been practicing my brush lettering a lot and literally writing anything that catches my attention, and I was particularly happy with how that turned out.
  2. Chris Loves Julia had a great post the other day about tips on maintaining and cleaning your cookware. A lot of it I knew, but some things I didn't, so maybe some of you will find it helpful also!
  3. I just bought this new Whitelines sketchbook (I bought the gridded notebook) and so far I'm loving it. The idea is that you get the grids and lines you need to keep everything straight, but when you digitize, the white lines fade away into the background vs black lines that would take time to get rid of. I've used it for a couple of things and it works great! I can't wait to fill it up :)
  4. I also just bought a bunch of multi-colored foam beads for putting into homemade slime. You know, the stuff that all those kids are obsessed with, and you probably made for a science project when you were in middle school. I intended to make it with my nieces, but I had to make some practice batches first to make sure I knew what I was doing....Here's a slime recipe I used. 
  5. I can't stop pinning beautiful pictures of mountains and forests lately! And Pinterest won't stop recommending them to me, haha! They're so beautiful, I couldn't pick just one, so check out my board here. 

So that's it for the neat stuff this week! It's been a busy one, but this weekend we're headed out of town to the beach with my family for my dad's birthday. I'm kind of glad the Oregon coast tends to be a little cooler, because I get to bust out some sweaters and escape the triple digit weather that's hitting our area next week!

I hope you guys have a great weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

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