And now for something a little less militaristic…  On Sunday some friends got together for the 2009 Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake-Off.  Jon and our friend Steph both think they have the best cookies, so we put them to the test.  We also used the Safeway tube cookie dough and the recipe from the back [...]

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This is not a particulary pretty soup… it isn’t even all that pretty to make.  However, I promise that if you’ll just trust me you’ll be very happy you tried.  I jazzed up the photos (in homage to Orangette) by running them through the Poladroid but it occurs to me that it didn’t do all [...]

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When it looks like this outside…

I put these on…

And make my favorite lunch…

Not so bad for a cloudy, wet, and cold Monday in November…

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Yeah, I crossed that line.  I’m making my own granola.  This is from a recipe I found over at Angry Chicken via her recipe cheat sheet.  I wish I was like 1/3 as self-sufficient as she is!  I felt pretty cool eating my own yogurt AND my own granola for breakfast today.  It is pretty [...]

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I have a thing for lunch boxes.  Some people love the aesthetic of tea pots, some people love vases or wine glasses.  Me, I love lunch boxes.  When I was a kid I’d spend weeks with my mom going to every store in the greater North Texas area to find the perfect lunch box.  I [...]

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Yesterday I got to leave the campaign a little early– luckily busy bosses don’t make their staff wait around all day.  I went by the coop to drop off a few fliers and pick up my week’s worth of groceries, including the fixings for bouchons.  As soon as I got home I started to work [...]

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I know that when I started this little blog at Bashfully Designed that I swore up and down I was going to be writing about my own creativity and crafting. Of course, I’ve also said that almost nothing in my life is really coherent so I’ll also be talking about my work with Planned [...]

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Making my own yogurt isn’t as hard as I thought. I should say, we don’t actually eat breakfasts like this every day… or even usually. The kiwi were on a ridiculous sale and the croissants are the Trader Joe’s frozen ones, which are actually really good for frozen baked goods. The yogurt [...]

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