Month: December 2014

  • Gluten Free Cranberry Ham Wrap

    It’s the day after Christmas, or if you prefer, the start of the season of leftovers. Today my leftover-inspired lunch consisted of a toasted gluten free cranberry ham wrap livened up by a couple of spoonfuls of homemade (husband-made) cranberry sauce. The sweet cheese that you see oozing out of the edges is Giant Eagle […]

  • Red Riding Hood Votive

    Something Blue As I scooped the last bits of moisturizing cream out of the small blue glass jar, I heard a little voice in my head say “save me”. Yes, blue glass talks to me, it always has.  I gently placed a fingernail under the label, just wrapped around, not glued or or imprinted. Score! […]

  • Successful Cat Christmas Pictures

    My husband and I enjoy torturing our cats by posing them for Christmas portraits. Sometimes we use the festive photos for our Christmas cards, but mostly we just want to extend the torture to our friends on Facebook who have to look at them. It takes an incredible amount of patience to capture successful cat […]

  • Victorian Switch Plate Cover

    Decorative Victorian Switch Plate Cover When you design every detail of your dream kitchen, including a splurge on old-world scalloped back splash tiles, it seems wrong to finish things up with a plain plastic light switch plate cover. Over the years I’ve made more than 50 decorative switch plate covers for other people’s homes and […]