Owl cupcakes to celebrate 1 year!

 

Craziness!  It’s already been a year! 

The official time I started my blog was actually back in August of 2010, but I wanted to get things just right on the design end before posting.  It’s kind-of a joke when I think of it now because it was FAR from nice and my posts were pretty sad-looking.  I knew they were not awesome, but you have to start somewhere, right?  I did like my first real banner above, though.  I kind-of miss it.

It’s been a great year for this little space.  I started my first month of viewers with just a few of my closest buddies and some obliging family members.  Now, I am astonished at grateful at having over 15,000 people visiting in just a single month!!  Wow, people!  There must be something just a teeny tiny bit likeable goin’ on here.

*blush*

In honor of this special day, I am sharing a cupcake with you all.  Yeah, I kinda thought you would like it too.  My sister actually made these back in April for my Miss F’s birthday I just totally forgot to post them.  I guess it was meant to be.  I saw them on Pinterest and asked my sister to make them and since she’s awesome, she said yes.

Cuties.

I used my neighbor’s freshly cut olive wood firewood for their little perching area.

Thanks for your support and for hanging out with me in this little space.

The community here means a LOT to me.

Thank You, friends!

Pickle this

“Pickles are cucumbers that sold out” Mitch Hedberg

I’m pretty sure that I’ve spent the last 7.5 years of my marriage trying to figure out how to feed my husband amazing, eye-popping baked goods. These very same baked goods I had pictured myself making to hand to him after a hard days work, with a nice refreshing glass of milk, and maybe a cute little 1950s apron.  Well, that never happened and I just gave up and focused my efforts on making less exciting awesome dinners. This bring us to the spring of 2010. I canned my first jar of pickles and changed my husband’s life forever. I gave him a pickle (a month after canning, naturally) and in return I got the same look I had dreamed about. Who cares if it was a pickle and not a cookie? Plus, I can make 25 jars at a time and sit back for a few months…good deal.

The recipe I used is adapted from a fabulous book called Canning for a New Generation, which I could not say enough good things about. You can find Liana Krissoff’s cute blog here and the actual recipe here. I changed up the pickling spices according my husbands taste (less sweet spice more mustard seeds and peppercorns) and switched to regular vinegar the 3rd go-around. The overnight soak she uses is VITAL for crispy pickles and I love the use of a grape leaf.

 



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