Celebration Generation: Food, Life, Kitties!

Now that “engagement season” is over, I’d like to pause the food talk to bring you a little wedding inspiration. When our friend Lisa got married in late 2011, we were floored by her invitations. Wedding stationery can be so.. stationary. Some of the invite catalogs out there are hawking the same designs they sold [...]

When I recently got it in my head that carving a Caladium leaf Watermelon bowl would be cool, I had no idea that it would inspire me to do other watermelon designs. Here’s the 3rd in less than a month – I swear I’m done now! All watermeloned out! As I promised on my Canada [...]

Inspiration really can come from the weirdest of places. Remember the story of how my French Martini Upside Down Cake was conceived? Jann Arden, an auto-correct Fail, French Canadian culture, and talking pineapples… oh my! Sometimes the most simple thing can spark an idea… and that’s what happened with today’s post. About a week ago, [...]

About a week ago, we celebrated the one year anniversary of our tornado. Hrm. “Celebrated” seems like a weird thing to say about a natural disaster. Observed? Marked the occasion? Nah, we did celebrate it. On the Sunday afternoon immediately before the actual anniversary date, we have a very small party for those who helped [...]