Nothing is better in summertime than a beautiful braided mane! The ones below are a wonderful mixture of styles and buns that I find undeniably gorgeous. Find your favorite and go experiment!
Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
This Week's Inspiration: Bathing Beauties!
Laying out in the bright summer sun is really the best part of summer, don't you think? What makes it even better is doing it in style. I look to these retro ladies below for inspiration on how to do it right - hopefully you'll be inspired too!
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
This Week's Inspiration: Watermelon!
Today's inspiration comes from that glorious summer treat...watermelon! It's such an amazing colour, and brings to mind so many good summer memories. What's not to love, really?
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
This Week's Inspiration: Garden Party
If you live in Toronto, you know summer is precious and so exciting! (this is a pretty accurate representation of our seasons) An outdoor dinner or garden party is the perfect thing to enjoy these long summer nights, and this week's inspiration comes from just that. Enjoy these days friends!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
My First Batch of Grape Jelly!
Here are a few pics of my first (and might i add... delicious) attempt at grape jelly. As for the recipe i used this one HERE on cooks.com... but i added 2 steps to the recipe. 1) after picking the grapes let them sit in a cool dark place for 4 days (Thanks for the tip Dave!)... and 2) i squeezed 3 tbsps of fresh lemon juice into the grape juice right before i started adding the sugar (i read that somewhere in another recipe and thought it sounded tasty).
Here's the first boil to extract the juice from the grapes. Jars in the background ready to be sterilized.
Dripping out the grape juice for 2-3 hours.
I have no patience, so by the end of the 2nd hour i squeezed out the rest.
Boiling the juice a second time and adding in the massive amounts of sugar.
It looks so glassy and pretty at this point!
Boiling the filled jars to seal them shut. This part blew my mind. I felt totally pro when i pulled out the jars and the lids were suctioned shut. Science is happening in my kitchen!
This is me sooooo stoked that i'm actually in the middle of making jelly!
I started with enough grapes to fill one of those black plastic trays that you get at the garden center. I got about 5 cups of juice out of them, which ended up making 8 jars of jelly.
The most delicious grape jelly i've ever tasted! YUM YUM!
*Lisa & Dave... I've got a jar with your names on it!
Friday, September 2, 2011
Remembering the Summer 2011... Hawaiian Honeymoon
Oh Hawaii... sigh. It was everything that i had imagined and more. Perfect weather, tasty food, unbelievable beaches, darling people... every time we would turn another corner on the most amazing coastal drives i would say out loud "Is this for real?! Are we really here!" 
I was definitely inspired by all the amazing colours I saw in nature
and in the developed parts of the islands.
and in the developed parts of the islands.
See what i mean by coastal drives. Had a hard time keeping my eyes on the road when i had crazy views like this all around me.
Sunnnnnnn Set!
Went on a horseback riding tour in Kualoa Ranch. This is the valley where they shot scenes from Lost. Most beautiful place on earth... then it started pouring rain. I felt like Kate. It was perfect!
Waimea Beach was THE BEST! Locals jumping off of cliffs into the ocean... sea turtles swimming directly underneath me... sand was soft and lumpy like polenta...
SHRIMP SCAMPI!
Fruit Hut on the side of the highway! Best most juiciest Pineapple I've ever had!
BLACK SAND! We called this beach Caviar Beach!
Oh gosh we ate so well on our trip! This tasty meal was at Café Pesto in Hilo, on The Big Island.
Even in paradise sometimes pets get lost.
JUMP! Here we're 9,000 ft above sea level and above the clouds atop Mauna Kea. Watched the sun set and then did a little star gazing!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Remembering the Summer 2011... Wedding Edition
I got married to my main guy Frank! we honeymooned in Hawaii (sigh!), i grew more tomatoes than ever in my garden, and busily worked on a couple of juicy orders for some Mustache Hankies (Wait 'til you see where you can find them this fall:)...
For the wedding we transformed our backyard into the best wedding garden party Ever and had our dear friends and family come celebrate with us. We ate... we drank... we drank some more... we danced... we hugged... we sparkled... we JUMPED! Lots of jumping come the time for dancing!
We had the whole wedding in our backyard! It was intimate and fun and full of love and fabulous shoes! My first pair of Kate Spade shoes were a dream come true. I was walking on rainbows all day!
Frank and I went for a walk around the neighbourhood for the first time as husband and wife. Eeeee!
Had to stop for our first soft serve ice cream of the season... YUM!
All the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies!
SPARKLERS!
CHICKEN DANCE!
Remembering the Summer... Hawaiian Honeymoon Edition next.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sprinklers and Popsicles!!
Just in time for the steamy summer days!
Set of 4 Outdoor Sprinkler Coasters
I've been trying to figure out some pieces with sprinklers for the past few months... It's been tricky trying to figure out a design that could convey that 100% childhood love for running through sprinklers on a steamy summer day.
My favourite part about these coasters is that I used the 3 classic popsicle colours: Pink, Orange, and Purple... Pink was always my favourite! Orange would be my second pick... .and purple was always the last left in the box!
I added a 4th colour, green, for grass... i don't know of any green popsicles... pistaschio flavour maybe?!
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