tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10883072271303202952012-02-16T11:11:59.506-08:00Gourmet Cookies and Cake ToppersFlour Blossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15747220746115989638noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1088307227130320295.post-55960903109170973472012-01-12T09:38:00.000-08:002012-01-12T09:41:51.990-08:00

and help her come home to Texas! Josephine is a little girl with down syndrome living in an orphanage/asylum in the Ukraine. I have recently become aware of both the mission of Reece's rainbow and the deplorable conditions that special needs orphans live in across the world through my friend Stori, whose put a lot of effort into blogging about these things over on her blog, The Wannderers:

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I have actually made some cookies lately. I've done a lot more sewing than baking lately, but I managed to make several batches of sugar cookies in the last few weeks and months. And since I don't have kids to post pictures of, and the first thing I do when looking for inspiration to decorate is go to google or pinterest I thought I'd post a few pictures here. I actually made these in July and

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Happy New Year! We're only 3 days in* and so far 2012 has been pretty much perfect for me. It helps that it started as a three day weekend and I got quite a bit of stuff... including relaxing done, but I just generally feel very content right now and certainly happy with the way 2012 is shaping up! Last week sometime, as I was recovering from Christmas... We hosted Sean's family for Christmas at

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Ok, here's the tutorial on the checkered pumpkin. They are cell phone pics and not great cause its hard to take an action shot of your own hands. But you get the idea. Conveniently, I had a roll of one inch blue painters tape. So to start I folded a post it not to approximately one inch wide to use as my guide and marked off one inch squares all the way around the roll of tape. I know that

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I really LOVE fall. I love that we can finally open the house back up and let fresh air in (and the stinky 3 dog, summer air out)! I don't however really love halloween. I have no moral objections to halloween and like that people really enjoy it, but I am NOT a fan of creepy, gory, gross and frightening. I ALSO don't really love the country kitschy look of a lot of the mass produced fall decor.

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I got this "Cooking With Jazz" print several years ago when I moved into one of my first real apartments. Its not something I looked long and hard to pick out... it was a leftover piece at hobby lobby that someone had custom framed and matted and never picked up. My mom and I thought it was cute enough and picked it up... When we bought it it had a bright teal mat but somewhere along the way I

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I'm finally addressing the OTHER guest bedroom. Its had the same white walls, dated curtains and a lonely twin bed (sometimes some boxes and other unfinished projects) since we moved here in Jan 2010. A few weeks ago I painted the walls barely light blue (Behr Rain Water) to try and make sense of the very medium blue trim. The same night I was perusing craigslist and found a sleigh-trundle twin

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So you may have noticed my cookie background is gone. Really I'm feeling in a rut between my fun summer cookies which I was SO ready for a few months ago, but now I'm anxiously waiting for fall, but I think my standard pumpkin background is a bit premature. PLUS an all cookie background doesn't really fit with the personality of Flour Blossoms right now. I've been much more into furniture and

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I'm sitting in the San Diego airport waiting to take the red eye back to Philly before Irene stops all air travel. Sadly I was supposed to fly back in the morning and got upgraded on both legs of my flight, one of which has since been cancelled. So now I am stuck in a middle seat in coach on a five hour red eye. I think you know how I feel about Irene!! Anyway, the above circumstances coupled

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not really doing it, but I love standing in my laundry room! Last week my mom, Sassy, came up and we attacked the green trim downstairs. The upstairs isn't quite finished, or umm started, but downstairs the green is GONE. Well, before she arrived I had this crazy idea that I needed to paint stripes on the laundry room walls. I don't have a before picture of the laundry room but like everything

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If you recall, we painted our kitchen cabinets black last fall. Lets just recap where we started... There's not much to say except ORANGE, and HUGE HINGES. Picture taken during the inspection. Not my decor.  Now what I may not have admitted is that I like to get projects DONE, not necessarily done perfectly. So instead of spending the extra time to paint the front AND back of the cabinet

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All freshmen at Wake take a class called Freshman Seminar. I think the general idea is to get us used to critical thinking and writing and speaking in class etc. The subject matter of your Freshman Seminar generally has nothing to do with your major (we we couldn't even declare until after our sophomore year). I don't remember what I was going to take as my seminar BUT I do remember when I sat

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Actually this is a totally copied craft but I loved it so much I had to have some for myself! My friend Angela over at Love Sweet Love has really bean up to some super cute stuff and I thought these decorative bean balls would be a perfect craft and summer addition to my table. (fyi: lighthouse salt and pepper $2 in the seasonal section at target) See they are really are beans! This is a really

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Its Friday afternoon, I've been both busy and sick for the last 2 weeks and I kinda want to indulge in some retail therapy at HomeGoods (my favorite store), but that obviously has potential negative side affects on my wallet. So instead I am considering a trade with myself and baking THESE, in fact ,I just put butter out on the counter to warm up. If you haven't made those guys yet, YOU SHOULD

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We lucked out (with the weather, its been raining pretty much constantly for a while now) this weekend and were able to get the furniture painted for the back porch. Actually the real luck was last weekend when I finally found a suitable dining set at a reasonable price on craigslist. Even my trusty salvation army had lackluster sets for no less than $300 and a lot of what I found on craigslist

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We bought our house in November, and moved in in January... so the awesome screened porch on the back of the house held little charm the first few months we were here. Eventually we pulled up all the shades and wiped a few years of dirt off the woodwork. Sean even re-screened the whole thing, but we never got around to putting furniture out there so we didn't really use it except to let fresh air

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Felt like blogging again today. I have quite honestly had a SERIOUS case of the blahs this year. Its our second year in Delaware and the slow start to spring started to really get me down. I LOVE winter and snow, but come late feb/early march I really expect to start feeling some warm weather. Its May 5th (my fourth wedding anniversary) and the high today is 62. Its an absolutely glorious day,

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Today I ran for 20 minutes straight! I casually mentioned a while ago that we bought a treadmill and I started the couch to 5k program.  I purposely didn't want to say much about it because I was afraid it would put too much pressure on me and I'd feel really guilty if I quit. Part of the app on the iphone allows you to update the status of your runs on fb or twitter, I was really just too

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When we moved last year, we went REALLY minimal with what we packed, which means my holiday wreaths didn't make the cut. I always struggle with finding wreaths because most of the ones I see premade at Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and JoAnns are either really cheesy and schmoopy, OR I love them and they are REALLY expensive, like $40-$50 dollars. This year I took advantage of a black Friday sale, and

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I love love love this time of year for so many reasons. One of which happens to be all the Christmas catalogs that come in the mail. Its a little bit ridiculous because I've never actually ordered anything from them (except maybe William Sonoma) and generally consider them over priced, but I just love to flip through all the pretty pages! This year I happened across something I absolutely LOVED

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Growing up my mom would make a pepermint cookie that looked like a candy cane. She'd tint half the dough red then make snakes and twist them together and shape them into candy canes. It was really cute. I wanted to do that, but I COULD NOT get the dough to roll into snakes and twist without crumbling. So out of sheer frustration I smashed it together and made red and white swirls that turned into

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In my search for holiday decorations I found a really cool homemade wreath I wanted to try. I think it was over at the 320 Sycamore blog, but I honestly don't remember and the directions were so easy i never had to go back and look. Anyway, I got my supplies at the dollar tree so these guys ended up being $3.50 a piece, plus spray paint and hot glue which I already had on had. Its actually

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A few weeks ago I got really in to reading crafting blogs for Christmas decorating ideas. Almost everything I saw had adorable table decorations purchased at the dollar store or goodwill and then spray painted and refurbed. So the week before thanksgiving i set out to scavenge my local thrift and dollar stores for potential Christmas decor. I didn't actually find any Christmas decorations, but at

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Not much going on here but I HAVE been decorating for Christmas and doing some fun Christmas crafts. I also bought some great furniture at the salvation army a few weeks ago that Sean helped me repaint with his trusty sprayer. I don't have my memory card on me (its in the kitchen and I'm like 15 feet away in the den) so no pictures today, but I do plan to start posting regularly again. It might

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Seriously, I haven't been here much... not sure why. Anyway, I painted the kitchen cabinets this weekend, and since I've been showing the progress here I thought I'd go ahead and post the pictures. So heres a reminder of the old cabinets And now... Aside from some day replacing the floors, and upgrading the counters from laminate to white quartz I think its pretty close to done. Painting

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