A snippet of our bathroom renovation. We found the slate tiles first, broke up the dark color with white wainscotting (I don't know why, I just really like beadboard!), and picked up some of the greenish/neutral color in the tile. My DH did most of it himself so we managed to save quite a bit ...
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Butterfly Cookies
Made these butterfly cookies for my friend Samantha's wedding this past fall.  She had incorporated butterflies in her decorating scheme and wanted them to be very brightly colored. They are gingerbread cookies decorated with the flood royal icing recipe from Peggy Porschen's book Romantic Cakes, ...
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Colorful Cupcake Liners
I had some time over the spring break to play around with some cupcake recipes and just couldn't resist using these colorful cupcake liners from Cupcake Kit: Recipes, Liners, and Decorating Tools for Making the Best Cupcakes! I guess I'm a sucker for packaging as well, because they just looked so ...
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Gingerbread Woodcutter’s Cabin
I made this gingerbread 'woodcutter's cabin' this past winter. (Hurray, I can actually refer to winter as a thing of the past now!) The design is completely from Teresa Layman's book, Gingerbread: Things to Make and Bake.
This isn't the first gingerbread house I've made, but Teresa was definitely ...
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Masquerade Mask Cookies
I made gingerbead cookies a few years ago for a masquerade theme party a friend of mine had.
The cookie is flooded with a cream colour royal icing and coated in disco dust. You can see a larger version of this photo here.
Thanks to Peggy Porschen and her book, Beautiful Cakes, for the idea! I ...
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"Seaside" Bedroom
I had wanted to renovate our master bedroom for 4 years before we finally got around to it. (Poor Dave, actually, he didn’t know what hit him. He came home one day and I was ripping the heart wallpaper of the walls =) No, he was glad to as well. (Will he read this? Hmmm... what would he say to ...
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