January 2, 2015 Searching for a place to use a long narrow basket, which I had been given, I hit upon an idea. It occurred to me…
How to Make Your Own Lifts and Levels for Tablescapes
December 28, 2014 Cardboard lifts and levels? Last summer, I was asked to create a dessert table for a wedding reception, and make more than three hundred individual…
The Results Of The Dessert Contest Revealed
December 27, 2014 Sophia came to Grammy’s house to make her winning vanilla bean sugar cookies! She won the dessert contest! This is a recipe from another Southern…
Mini Cheesecakes and Pecan Tassies
December 24, 2014 Mini Cheesecakes And Pecan Tassies One of my favorite dessert displays includes mini cheesecakes and pecan tassies. Usually, for Christmas, homemade fudge and vanilla bean…
Christmas Party Menu
December 20, 2014 Our family has grown and with the kids having extended families or needing to accomodate the boyfriend or girlfriend’s family, we have started a tradition of…
Ideas For A Family Christmas Annual Dessert Contest
December 17, 2014 The Theme For The Christmas Annual Dessert Contest This year, the theme for our annual dessert contest is ‘Santa’. The desserts have to…
Christmas Decorations
December 12, 2014 Christmas Decorations…2014… These are pictures of our two decorated trees this year. The first has the Christmas Story woven in and out of the branches and the…
The Santa Collection – How to Start Your Own
The Collection Begins December 9, 2014 Our Santa collection began the first year we were married. When Dave and I were in the U.S. Navy and stationed in Adak,…
Aunt Hen’s Persimmon Roll
November 30, 2014 Growing up in southern Indiana, I remember making my Great Aunt Henrietta’s persimmon roll recipe. We knew where persimmon trees grew along the edge of…
The Elf On The Shelf
November 28, 2014 The Elf on the Shelf book and doll caught my attention in a little shop, when Dave and I were vacationing in Beaufort, N.C. a few…
