We’re in the middle of a ton of projects right now – the bus roll, it’s done but still have to hang it; the barn door for the kitchen, we have to finish the track system and hang it as well; the LED lights for the patio are almost in place; I assembled the guest… CONTINUE READING →
A few weeks ago when I tried my hand at making croissants, I misread the recipe and thought it required the same dough as puff pastry — so when I realized I had made a mistake, I decided to go ahead and make puff pastry as well. The dough can be finicky, but if you… CONTINUE READING →
We’re slowly making progress on a couple of home projects – both the TV area and the bus roll sign are almost done – and we’re also inching along a bathroom redo we’re helping out a friend with. Now that the weather’s getting better and the days are longer we also have more plans during… CONTINUE READING →
Last week a friend of mine turned 25, so we threw a birthday party in her honor. She doesn’t like sweets (I know, unbelievable but true) except for croissants and palmiers, and even then she doesn’t like them if they have a lot of that syrup some of them have on top. Since I’ve wanted… CONTINUE READING →
We don’t buy Nutella around here, mostly because I end up eating it all with a spoon. Which is sort of what’s happening with this homemade version. It’s not as sweet as the store bought version and it’s definitely more sophisticated, hence the “for grown ups” title. I’m sure you’ll love it just as much… CONTINUE READING →
We went shopping yesterday and got supplies for three different projects – the passthrough doors, the bus roll sign and the new TV stand we’ll be building – so we can’t wait to start with everything as soon as we can. The lumber (especially the bus roll one) didn’t fit in our car so we… CONTINUE READING →
We had awesome spring weather last weekend, and since we knew it would be short-lived (we’re having almost freezing temperatures again this week) we took full advantage of it by having a picnic lunch outside on Saturday with a few friends. Each one brought something to eat and we had a great time, it was… CONTINUE READING →
It snowed this weekend! Which is cool because it never snows here, but a bummer because we didn’t get to work on the trim for the passthrough, since we needed to use the saw outdoors in the patio. So the weekend was spent relaxing and preparing for this crazy week ahead. Unfortunately crazy week means… CONTINUE READING →
Most schools have today and tomorrow off for Mardi Gras, which means that Andoni has a couple of extra free days to work on the pass through project. We worked on it over the weekend and I’m happy to say the rewiring is done, so he’ll we patching things up before we move on and… CONTINUE READING →
Thanks everyone for support on the Homies! I really appreciate it, it cheered me up on Monday. I feel like I should elaborate a little on why I was feeling a little down the other day – besides being winter and having horrible, horrible weather over here. Last week I was expecting to receive an… CONTINUE READING →