There are certain desserts that I wholeheartedly believe are year-long delights to bake and enjoy. Their simplistic essence that only needs a handful of ingredients to naturally and wildly transform according to the season, the ingredients available at hand or whatever imagination is setting the mood. And yet these desserts are sought out and devoured…
Send Love From Afar :: 5 Printable Cards to Cheer Up Your Besties
This year hasn’t been an easy one. Between adapting to quarantine life and fighting against social injustice, your mental well-being has likely taken a toll. While it’s been difficult, 2020 has also opened our eyes to the many ways in which we can connect with each other and lift up the people we love from…
Autumn Florals :: A Foraged Peony Arrangement
I’ve always looked to the softness of Autumn. It’s how I cope with the changing of the season. A season, followed by another season well of which I hibernate. It’s true. There is no hiding that I really don’t like Autumn. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I get sad when it…
Autumn Mood :: Slow Comforts & Quiet Warm Color Palettes
Autumn…I welcome your slowness. I will approach this season, this year, with that same slowness. With more ease, rest. A reset of sorts. Diving deep within, appreciating the details right in front of me that I love and am inspired by. Cherishing those moments in time that are crafting a comforting new season… To savor the…
French Vanilla Coffee Ice Cream
If you follow me along on Instagram and saw my story last month, then you saw me using up the last of that darn gallon of milk used in this Salted Caramel Ice Cream and these Milk Tarts “Queijadas de Leite.” I was experimenting and testing my luck with a highly caffeinated ice cream, I…
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
I see your yummy comforting banana bread, and I challenge you with a classic Zucchini Bread, a chocolate chip one at that!! Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy a nice thick slice of banana bread, but there’s something a bit more subtle and simple about zucchini bread and cake that I savor just a…
Floral Inspiration :: A Bright + Colorful Arrangement Inspired by Dutch Floral Still-Life Paintings
It is quite unlike me to be madly in love with a bright and colorful floral arrangement, but there is something so magical, so ethereal about this piece that it has become one of those cherished and special creations. Every element and moment was perfection; from the perfectly bloomed Cherry Brandy Roses and delicately blush…
DIY Flower Crowns :: Using Real + Faux Blooms
She was a bit like Spring; wild as the wind and fickle as the weather, but her love ran deep as the tree roots. Spring is here! When Mother Nature is once again awaken from her slumber of rest and solace. Emerging from the quiet darkness, to shine and brighten the world with its colorful…
Chocolate – Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
Where most would say January felt long and dragged, I on the other hand felt it was long in every perfect way! The kind of slow and long that allowed time for work, free creative time, time for personal stuff and simple relaxing things like stitching, cooking, baking and reading. But February. Now, February has…
3 Homemade Pizza Recipes that are Better than Takeout
Everyone loves Pizza! I think I’m with 99% of the world when I say that this is an undeniable fact, Pizza is an universally cherished meal. Even if you don’t like cheese, you still like some sort of version of pizza. And I know this because even though I don’t have children of my own,…
