Today is Halloween, which also happens to be one of my favorite holidays to celebrate. I love decorating our house in early October. I love dressing up in costume with my kids. I love passing out candy and trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. I love every single part of it, most likely because as a child I… Read more »
One of you readers recently asked me if I had a recipe for Slow Cooker Chicken Soup and it reminded me of this recipe my mom used to make for us when we were little. I always thought of it as Cheaters Chicken Soup because she cheated the recipe by adding some Cream of Chicken… Read more »
I don’t know about you, but we always have a bunch of Halloween candy leftover, and then it’s just laying around the house waiting to be eaten. Why not turn it into a dessert? This leftover halloween candy apple salad is the perfect treat to take those mini chocolate bars and combine it with chopped… Read more »
I was flipping through a catalogue recently and they were selling these really cool leather monograms. I loved them on sight and thought to myself, Self we’re totally buying those monograms! And then I looked at the price… $150, PER LETTER. After I recovered from my small heart attack I had a thought, surely I could… Read more »
Thanksgiving is one of the most important meals of the year and if you’re like me you start preparing weeks in advance to ensure that it’s special for your family. This year I decided to make a DIY Thanksgiving Table Runner as a base for a pretty fall themed design. Recreate the whole idea or… Read more »
Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook or even comments on this website, there is one thing I get asked about more than any other… my bracelets. My bracelets are incredibly special to me and I never remove them (seriously, not for any reason). Basically, if I had the courage to get a tattoo I would have these… Read more »
We’re always thinking of using pumpkin for all of our baking, and dessert recipes but somehow we forget that pumpkins themselves aren’t actually sweet. You can also use this fall time gourd for savory dishes as well. Like this delicious Baked Pumpkin Mac and Cheese. We take a little help from the store using a… Read more »
This week I wanted to share one of the recipes that reminds me most of my Grandma Opal. Hamburger Stew is a lot like a traditional beef stew only less expensive. Growing up, Grandma would throw everything but the kitchen sink into her stew pot, simmer it for hours and then we ate on for… Read more »
Here’s a fun fact. For as long as I’ve been a mother I’ve been making my boys Halloween costumes. I started it the first year Jackson was old enough to trick or treat and I thought it would be cool to dress him up as Elmo. The Elmo costume online was $49 and I was… Read more »
It’s mid-October, do you know what that means? It means you’re going to blink your eyes and it’ll be after New Years! At least it feels that way to me every year once Halloween comes and goes. All of the sudden I’m planning for Thanksgiving, and then it’s Christmas shopping and holiday cards and before… Read more »
Back in 2004 when I was looking to name my events company, I stumbled across the word 'Chic' in an old dictionary. The definition was: “a fashionable lifestyle, ideology, or pursuit”. I fell in love with the word and the idea that chic is the pursuit of something better, prettier, or cooler than you are today. Chic isn’t a state of being or even a destination, chic is the journey you take on the way to something greater. ~Rachel
Question: From RJ in Los Angeles Hi Rachel! We had a gathering last night where quite a few kids (mostly toddlers) showed up with their parents. My husband and I are childless, but love kids and aren’t afraid of messes/things breaking, etc. But, one of the mothers made a comment about “another friend of hers… Read more »
