{ Pearls & Pasta }

Thank you for popping over from the email I sent you regarding 'What I'm up to!' Cooking comfort food that is also healthy, especially during our mandatory stay at home, where we're all overindulging a bit is so important to me and I'm glad I can share it with you! Please enjoy my family 'un-recipe' as much as my family, friends & I do! I call it an 'un-recipe' because I grew up with my Nona & Mom just creating & cooking with whatever we had in the pantry or garden. This is hands down my most requested dish & the first...

How to clean your Protection Bracelets Add a drop or two of mild dish soap, my go to is @seventhgeneration, to a glass or bowl Add hot water, not scalding, just hot Place your Protection Bracelets on a clean dish towel & with a clean cotton cloth dip the cloth into your soapy water mix, ring the cloth out a bit, and gently wipe each bracelet down Re-dip & ring your cloth between each bracelets cleaning With another clean cotton cloth gently dry your bracelets Boom fresh & clean

Celebrate Spring with Random Acts of Beauty! Gather simple fragrant flowers from your garden or a purchased bunch of roses, daffodils or tulips, and wrap them in parchment paper or some other rumply type paper. Tie them with raffia or butchers twine and gift them to someone you adore Open every window in the house & let the fresh air blow through Go for a walk paying special attention to the sweet smell of the damp spring earth Stand under a tree that’s blizzarding petals Pop a new accessory on to remind you to resolve to be happy, like one...

I started a blog. I forgot I had a blog. I'd freak out because my blog was months, sometime close to a year behind. Then, I'd think of something ever so fabulous to write about only to sit down at my computer & come up with every other excuse not to be sitting and sweating in front of this empty screen. The word blog became such a bad word to me that I didn't even want to read other blogs, because it only screamed how inadequate I was at this blog thing! I'm not a blogger, baker, nor candlestick maker;...