kitchen

kitchen updates on a budget

Happy Fourth of July!!

I hope you have a great holiday weekend! Here is a picture of the most spectacular fireworks I have ever seen in person.

fourth of july picnic

Most of these are tried and true (all but the sandwich but it looks good!) Have a good 4th of July! We are off to the East.

Fire Roasted Corn Salad

Ina's Flag Cake

Cherry Tomatoes with Goat Cheese

Turkey and Cranberry Sauce Sandwiches

P.S. There is going to be a sweet giveaway next week. Stay tuned.

grilled pizza

I will be trying my own variation of this pizza tonight as well as any other cheese/herb combinations I can think of.

travel tuesday: seychelles

The Seychelles are a string of islands off the coast of Africa, northeast of Madagascar, southwest of the Maldives.

The Seychelles have no indigenous population but are made up of people who have immigrated there. Their language is a creole based off of French.


With as clear water as the Seychelles seem to have I can only imagine that the snorkeling and scuba diving is amazing!

I thought it was interesting to learn that the Seychelles society is a matriarchal society rather than patriarchal.

Fairy Land on Mahe in the Seychelles

Deepam Cinema in Victoria, the capital city.

The Seychelles were first inhabited (at least the first recording) around 1609 by the British. They were used often as a post for pirates until the French took control around 1756.

how big is to big?

I was looking at a photographer's blog yesterday and they had some darling pictures of a baby but they baby had a massive flower headband on. I am not a fan of this trend of large flowers/bows on babies/little girls, no offense if you are.


For a visual take this flower and put it on a baby and you have perhaps a bit larger than most but the general idea (I did find some this big). This started a quest to see if I could find any headbands with small bows on them, true accessories rather than focal point. I gave up after about 200 pages of searching. Here is the best that I found.


These are actually ones my sister-in-law made for my niece. I think they are darling. Simple. Small.




newborn headbands, again small, simple, sweet.



This was my one exception to the rule (my own personal rule against flower clips) I like the 1920's flapper vibe.

This is my favorite kind of bow. Simple, small, sweet. No headband though thus not ideal for hairless babies. Not what I was looking for but closer.

Some people sell just the headbands. This is a little wide for my liking but at least you can put a bow that is proportionate to a baby on it.


this headband is close to what I had in mind. Still, perhaps the bow is to large?

I came to two conclusions after all of this.
1- It is a good thing I will likely only ever have boys, I am way to particular about this kind of stuff.
2- If you want the small bow headband mix you have to mix and match or make it yourself.

So this brings me to the question of the day. How big is to big for a baby/little girl bow?

swiss miss

I was blog hopping today and found a new blog swiss miss that had these fun things.



sky planter- grow things in your house upside down with little mess? Sounds ideal, but perhaps to good to be true?

I love this tulip USB port. awesome.

mirrors

built in mirrors, do or don't?