Giving up the gun.

It's Friday... put on your headphones at work and listen to this... it's a great tune to bring you into the weekend. Plus there are some pretty awesome cameos in it.

Stone and I are headed to shoot another wedding today in Estes Park... whew! Busy busy.

Enjoy it. xoxo.

Homemade granola bars. Mmmmm!

Recipe and photo found here.

Completely healthy and totally easy. A great breakfast or after-school snack too.

- 1 1/3 cups quick-cooking (not instant) rolled oats, divided

- a pinch each fine salt, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg and ground ginger

- 1/4 cup flax seeds

- 1 cup dried apricots, roughly chopped (or any combination of roughly chopped dried fruit and/or nuts)

- 1/2 cup of dark chocolate bits

- 1/4 cup canola oil

- 1/4 cup high quality maple syrup

- 2 tablespoons corn or rice syrup

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line a 8” square baking pan with parchment paper, letting a bit of excess paper hang over the sides.

Grind 1/3 cup of the oats in a food processor until powdery. Add them to a large mixing bowl with the remaining oats, the salt and spices, flax seeds, and apricots. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients and then stir them into the dry ingredients.

Put the mixture in the prepared pan, smoothing the top with a rubber spatula. Bake for 1/2 hour, or until evenly browned. Remove from oven and let cool for about 15 minutes. Remove to a cutting board (the parchment paper will act as a sort-of sling, making this very easy). Cut into individual granola bars.

Are you happy?

Stone and I just got home from shooting a wedding... a Thursday wedding, I know, kinda different. It was totally fun, with lots of dancing, which is always the best.

I found this print here and of course think it is so awesome. Reminds me of something my mom would have loved to put in my room growing up : )

Sneak Peek: Jaime's headshots

Check out more here.

Also, we hope you like our new website layout! All thanks to our amazing friend and web designer Keiran. We still have a few kinks to work out, but we hope you like it : )

Converting a garage into a home.

I saw this home here and thought it was just the cutest little house. So many great nooks. With only $35,000 this Seattle woman converted her garage into a home decorating with unique finds like a reclaimed ship's ladder, old United Airlines lockers and a claw foot tub found at salvage yard. Very cool.

Mr. Fox really is fantastic.

I am watching this movie as I write and it is so great... the details behind the making of this movie are even more awesome, so awesome that they made a book all about it. Wes Anderson (the director) uses stop-motion technique, meaning that the entire movie is a stream of photos taken to create motion. Kind of like when we used to make flip books in grade school of a person jumping into a swimming pool. Very cool.

Check out more here.

 

Photos found here.

I will never use Papyrus ever again.

I love the typography print in this photo... and the humor behind the statement. My husband is a graphic designer (as well as photographer of course... a man of many talents) and he always notices when people use the Papyrus font because I suppose in the graphic design world it is a. not cool and b. overused. 

I will have to find out where this print is and get it for Stone's office, he would be thrilled.

Photo found here.

Cake-pops!

Okay, so this is a pretty easy (make that extremely easy) recipe. You will need...

Lollipop sticks

Cream Cheese

CandiQuik baking chocolate

One box of vanilla, chocolate, or red velvet cake mix

And...

The ingredients that go with that cake mix, usually oil, eggs and water.

Bake the cake as directed on the box, if you are feeling super snazzy, you can even bake it from scratch :)

Then using a fork, crumble up the cake while it is still warm.

Add half of an 80z. package of cream cheese to the crumbled cake, then using your hands begin working the cream cheese in until you are able to make little cake balls that will stick together.

Roll all of the cake into small 1 inch balls. Melt the chocolate as directed on the package then begin dipping (this gets messy... BUT it is a delicious mess).

Lastly, using any method you see fit, cover every cake ball with chocolate and let sit. You can either have cake truffles (without lollipop sticks) or simply add the lollipop sticks before the chocolate has hardened and voila... cake-pops!

Enjoy!

A goodbye dessert party.

Stone and I had a little gathering last Sunday to bid farewell to our friend Syd. We definitely had an array of desserts from cake lollipops to twinkies. It was really fun and we cannot wait to visit Syd in San Diego or DC, which ever comes first : )

I made a couple of these delicious desserts and there will be recipes/photos to come!

I'm dreaming of pretty closets.

Well with this beautiful weather comes one unfortunate task... switching out my closet. Right now, in our just below 900 square foot apartment we are sharing a closet. And I will be the first to tell you my husband has a lot of clothes and a lot of shoes... I mean A LOT. So begins the process of taking the bins out from under my bed and switching from sweaters and boots to sundresses and sandals. What a pain. One day, one day I will have a beautiful closet all to myself, until then, I will just dream of the closets above that I saw here.

xo.

Celebrating mom.

Mother's day is right around the corner (May 9, if you did not know already :)  ), so I did a little browsing and found some really great gift ideas. To me, finding gifts for mom is never hard, I can pretty much think of too many things to get her, it is Father's Day that is always hard to buy for.

This day has always been fun for me because I was born on May 12, which some years it falls exactly on Mother's day, and is at least right around it. We would always celebrate together, and for mom we would get up a little early to make breakfast in bed which was always a fun treat. We thought we were so sneaky, but by the third year of us doing this I am sure she caught on : )

Anyway, here are some gift ideas for your mom or mother-in-law (now I have two mom's to celebrate this day!) on her day!

Row One: Anthropologie Upsy-Daisy Mug

Row Two: Stonehouse Olive Oil and Terrain Fruit Honey Flight 

Row Three: JCrew Silk-Cashmere Wrap

Row Four: Terrain Orange Sandalwood Bath Soak, Kate Spade Garden Grove Bath Case, and Terrain Poppy Soap Set

Row Five: Terrain Blackboard Garden Labels, Sagaform Herb Planter

Modern dollhouses.

I posted a link to these dollhouses on a weekend post a couple of weeks ago, but thought that their 'coolness' needed more attention.

The designers of these dollhouses get their cues from what is actually being designed in the modern world for homes (like IKEA furniture) and then they miniturize it. I would have LOVED all the detail of these houses when I was little. I had a dollhouse of course, but mine was so old fashioned even for the late 80s/early 90s when I was playing with it.

Okay, thats the last I will mention these, promise... I just hope one day I have a little girl I can buy one of these for and then I can play too : )