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Posts from ‘July, 2010’

Our office: Before and After.

It’s here! The day when I finally unveil our home office to you. I know I’ve been going on and on about it for months, but it’s really been quite the labor of love and a gradual acquiring of all the pieces we wanted in here. It started off as a storage room, really. As [...]

Grounded again.

So A is finally finally FINALLY back from his 11 day business trip to Italy and is currently snoozing peacefully beside me on the couch (jetlag can be a merciless force when she wants to be). Our first full day back together was spent sleeping in, eating banana cupcakes for breakfast, antique shopping, and having [...]

Happy weekend, ya’ll!

Hey everyone. I’m off to go play in NYC for the weekend. Hopefully I’ll be back next week with some fun stories. For now I leave you with this awesome firework collage called Explosions in the Sky by papa jesse on Flickr. Enjoy it. (The weekend I mean.) Shelley x

Flag cake.

Someone recently asked what happened to all the cake baking around here and the answer is: my waistline. My waistline happened. It can’t take it anymore. As much as I love all the cake, I had to put my baking on hold for awhile to slim up a little bit for the summer. But. There [...]

Up.

Today is good. So far, I like today. It started with a slow waking. Eyes fluttering, I lingered greedily in that luxurious state between sleep and wake and counted my blessings in that moment. The cozy cave of our bedroom, the den of our bed that I burrow into even more deeply when A’s away, pillows [...]

Scuffins.

When I was in San Francisco in May (jeez, that feels like forever ago), I discovered a delectable little treat called the scuffin. What is a scuffin, you may ask? Well it’s really quite simple. It is a scone, in the shape of a muffin. (Scone + muffin = scuffin, get it?) And at Frog [...]