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Fail: Rustic Sourdough Bread 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Every once and awhile it's nice to have a good, solid cooking failure. These Rustic Sourdough Loaves from King Arthur Flour fit the bill nicely. So, not only do I have one hard-as-a-rock bread loaf, b...
Red Kitchen is RED 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Why not match your red-detailed linen dish towels to your red oven mitts to your red pots and pans to your red artwork to your red KitchenAid appliances to your red back splashes? In hindsight, it doe...
Chevron Pegboard Back Splash 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Grease on the wall behind the stove. Ugh. Backsplash. Need I say more? After acquiring a gigantic pegboard from an office trash pile, attaching it to the roof of our car (I have a bad habit of acquir...
Contact Paper Kitchen Counters 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Do the words "Contact Paper kitchen counters" sound like a bad idea to you? We may be insane, but we're not the only ones. I went a bit batty one day and pulled the stained and peeling dark green vin...
How To: Frame an Already Mounted Pegboard with Moulding 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Maybe you can see the difference? Maybe looking at the last post will help? Crafters like their craftroom pegboards framed and looking pretty. I just wanted our kitchen pegboard to look slightly more ...
Kitchen Pegboard Shadows 18 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
We're about to have a week of kitchen updates around here. Because. After updating the bedroom, the kitchen with its fluorescent lighting was next up. While our kitchen is rather large compared to ma...
Photowalk 14 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Every now and then, it's nice to go on a photo walk at Phipps Conservatory with some friends. 'Practice with a new lens, figure out someone else's DSLR, etc. It's nice to have access to such a scenic ...
Half-Chalkboard Plant Markers 11 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
I wanted to try out this staining paint stencil approach on something, and I needed plant markers. So an idea was born. It turns out, I didn't really like the effect of white paint, stained with Minw...
Semi-Success: Sourdough Waffles 7 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
These sourdough waffles from King Arthur Flour are delightful. Soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside, with the slightest bit of sourdough tang at the end. I'm not really a humongous fan of anythi...
Plant Inheritance 4 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
A close friend of mine is moving away this year, leaving me to be consoled solely by the "plant inheritance" I'm receiving. We've had a Christmas Cactus, Mass Cane/Corn Plant, Snake Plant, African Mil...
