This past weekend I was lucky enough to have my brother come to Los Angeles for a brief visit after graduating from University of Oregon with his Bachelor’s degree. Words cannot express how proud I am of him, especially since, these past few years,...

While Jeremy was out of town a few weekends ago I went on a cherry-picking adventure with my friend Amanda (the author from the Buttered Rum Pirate Cupcakes post). We drove a little over an hour outside of the city to the quaint little...

Jeremy was out of town this past weekend, leaving me to kick around the apartment all alone. And after some thorough kicking took place, I decided to do something productive. And that productive thing was grilling. The last time I grilled was my first...

  I saw pie pops for the first time about a year ago on a wedding blog; someone had them out on their dessert table at their country-chic wedding and they were, simply put, adorable. My heart kind of melted just looking at them....

After a cloudy and relaxing nine day stretch in Oregon, I touched backed down in Los Angeles on Monday morning. While up north, I went to a wedding of a close friend for the first time, got a lot of my own wedding planning...

Being home this past week in Oregon has been absolutely lovely. Between spending lots of time with my newly retired parents, catching up on my own wedding planning, and taking part in fun wedding activities with my beautiful friend Jade (she got married yesterday!),...

Last weekend I hosted a dinner party for some friends at my new abode as a part of McCormick’s Dinner Party Chain. McCormick, the wonderful company most of my spice cabinet comes from, is giving away the chance to host your dream dinner party...

I’m hosting a big dinner party this weekend as a part of the McCormick Dinner Party Chain, and have been prepping my apartment non-stop all week. I know it seems kind of ridiculous that I am still unpacking after a month and a half,...

I am going home in about two weeks to visit my family and friends for the first time since Christmas, and just thinking about it made me start craving my parents’ home cooked Greek food again. I’ve already put in a  Pastichio request to...

The weather has been really nice these past few days, warm in the upper 70’s with a cool breeze, very spring-y. For some reason when the weather starts to turn warm again I always find myself craving berries, and I’d been wanting to make...

      I’ve been catching up on a lot of household chores this weekend, and our new place only has an AC unit in the living room so I’ve reallllly been feeling the heat wave we’ve had in Southern California. To combat this,...

This past week has been a whirlwind. We’re still unpacking from our move, and since the storage space in the kitchen is lacking we’re building our own little kitchen hutch from scratch, which means I’ve spent the majority of my weekend in and out...