Cute Baby Blankets

I love this quilt! I need to learn how to sew so I can use Elly's machine for stuff. We are making my blanky replica right now haha. I'll post pics when done. Anyways, isn't this cute?!

[via lark crafts]

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Just a Nice Kitchen...

[via katie did]

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Work on My Mind

Tonight I was surfing the net, looking at my Google Reader and browsing my blogroll, when i realized my head is stuck in the office! Every time I go to a new site I find myself analyzing its marketing strategy! I like it!

Anyways, Michael S. Smith helped get work off my mind. When i browse this site i drift into my future dreamworld with a white spacious shabby chic farmhouse in Connecticut... or something like that.

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You like my blog? Ten you gotta check out these blogs!

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@Stephmodo

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Embracing a Dairy-Free Lifestyle

I am finally coming to terms with my extreme intolerance to lactose. It's really upsetting because I LOVE CHEESE SO MUCH! But I have come to find that even the slightest bit of dairy in my diet is detrimental.

So I have started bookmarking dairy-free diet blogs to help me embrace this new milk-free lifestyle. Today I plan to head over to the City Market in Burlington and stock up on dairy-free products, such as Tofutti brand treats. I'll be testing them out and to see which brand of fake cheese slices I should carry with me to the next BBQ.

This weekend I completely winter-proofed my garden at Mike's house. I had to rip out all the plants and weeds, before covering the soil with a large tarp. I took apart the fencing and lugged it into the woods. I also threw all the wasted fruits and veggies (mostly rotting tomatoes, weird carrots, yucky swiss chard and damaged apples) into the compost bin Mike and I managed to salvage from the overgrown briar patch in the side yard. Thanks for the help Mike!!

It was a lot of hard yard work, and I'm pretty banged up. Next year I plan to blog a lot more about my gardening, now that I sort of know what I'm doing.

Anyways, before tarping the garden, I pulled out AT LEAST 100 big orange carrots! So of course I got the brilliant idea to make carrot cupcakes for me, Elly and Heather (my roomies), and my lucky duck co-workers at Wyatt Research.

Heather is just starting the nutritionist grad program at UVM, and her program director is putting her and her classmates on a "gluten free" diet. So now I am taking the challenge of making a dairy-free, gluten free carrot cupcake that actually tastes yummy!

I've found a few recipes on the interwebs that I plan to test out tonight.

Gluten-Free Carrot Cupcakes with Caramelized Carrots

Carrot Cake Cupcakes - mostly like this one for its Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting

Vegan & Gluten-Free Carrot Muffins

Gluten Free Passover Carrot Cake Muffins

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Follow Friday

I just came across Gilles Vidal's 360 Photography... and it is really very captivating! I found @gillesvidal on Twitter. He doesn't have many followers and his tweets are protected, but at least his site gillesvidal.com is worth checking out!

And addicted2decorating is pretty cool too, but it unfortunately doesn't have a Twitter.

Upon first glance of her blog I knew I like this lady... I really liked her style...

She loves all the same things I love, and I love her design taste...

She is on Pinterest so check her out at pinterest.com/blueprintbliss

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Melty Crayons

Instructions: take a box of 64 crayons (grab another small box to double up on some of the mainstream colors) and hot glue them to the top of a canvas in a color gradient... then blowdry!

and PRESTO, a beautiful fun piece of crayon art! cool man.

[via megduerksen]

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Mini Victorian Getaway

I haven't blogged in so long but I just saw this and HAD to share it on here.

[via vintage girl1]

How cool is Sandra Foster's Victorian cottage? Apparently she renovated and decorated a former hunting cabin using only $3,000.

Love!

Go check out a bunch of photos from the dream cottage at Vintage Girl Blog! 

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