In between smoothing down the walls (we’re working on the living room & dining room already!), we’ve been hanging some wedding-related stuff around our apartment, which has prompted a mini-makeover of sorts. See, we’ve had the closet area of our master bedroom completely empty since we moved in three years ago. My idea has always… CONTINUE READING →
Today’s recipe is what Andoni cooked for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and it’s delicious! It’s one of those recipes that we save for especial occasions. I hope you like it! Duck magret in Porto wine sauce Duck magret 1 1/4 cup Porto wine 1 Tbsp brown sugar 1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar Salt… CONTINUE READING →
Since we were self catering the wedding, we mostly wanted to keep the decor simple. However, we ended up having quite a few things, at least more than I expected. Today I’ll be sharing how we did/dealed with/set up a few of these things. 1. Streamers (25€, but I really overbought this, we still have… CONTINUE READING →
Two weeks ago, Andoni started skim-coating the popcorn-textured walls in my parents’ house. It’s a three bedroom two story house and we’ve done two bedrooms so far (we’re at a rate of a week per room, more or less). We still have to do the master bedroom & closet, the living room/dining room, and the… CONTINUE READING →
Another one of the desserts we had a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our birthdays was this awesome chocolate pecan pie. If you’ve ever been to Rick Bayless’ restaurant in Chicago, you probably know what I’m talking about – their chocolate pecan pie is their most popular dessert, and with good reason. I modified… CONTINUE READING →
We weren’t sure we wanted to have wedding favors at first, but then we decided we could have them if we found something that would be fun & useful but also in our budget. One of our initial ideas were wooden cutting boards made by ourselves, which would’ve been great and very cost effective since… CONTINUE READING →
When I left off our storage room organization project, things were looking like this: And the floor plan: We still haven’t added those two shelve units (more on that later), but we have used as much wall space as we can to store less-used stuff and keep it out of the way. First, we added… CONTINUE READING →
Remember while we were in Seattle, I mentioned that we had tasted the world’s best ice cream? It was the Salted Caramel ice cream from Molly Moon, and it was absolutely delicious. Well, since it was the best ice cream ever, we had to buy their cookbook, of course. The cookbook was a bit more… CONTINUE READING →
I’ve had lots of questions regarding the window-pane menus we had at the wedding, so I thought I’d share how they came to be. It all started with one of my wedding inspiration images from Pinterest: Image from BeyondWhite on Etsy, via Pinterest I had been obsessed with window panes for quite some time now, and… CONTINUE READING →
Our patio is slanted towards the middle, so that when it rains the water goes in that direction (where there are a couple of drains). Of course, that’s totally necessary given how much rain we have here, but that means that whatever furniture we have out there is almost always slanted, too. It was especially… CONTINUE READING →