Going through some old photos, hope you guys don’t mind. Here’s our memorial day picnic on Mt. Tam with Diana & Roman, April & Casey! Then we got ice cream in Stinson Beach! A great day! AAANNNDDDD an awesome Mt. Tam picnic photo that Jenny shared with me:
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A party isn’t really a party without FOOD! Luckily we have Venessa from Kernels & Seeds on board to show us how to make a two-fer-one-recipe of bread pudding! Split your dough between a sweet cherry almond and a savory feta/veggie sausage snackers to satisfy everyone. Check out the recipe here and start pre-heating your...
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the headlands center for the arts is hosting its annual winter cocktail party tonight to celebrate the announcement of the 2012 artists in residence! the center is one of the cornerstones of the bay area art community, fostering art and artists in the old military barracks on hillsides overlooking the ocean. the headlands and...
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there are so many things i love about my hometown of chicago- the cubs, the pizza, the bean, the el. but this homecoming is a little bit different- i’m not only here to visit family and friends, i’m also bringing the BIG THINGS SHOP to the midwest for the first time ever!!! with my...
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with two cars full of snacks, sleeping bags, and an extremely generic map of oregon, we headed eastward towards the deschutes national forest with no real plan, just camping and swimming on our minds. lots of driving and bags of chips later, we ended up in a post-forest-fire patch of dryness near the metolius...
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for some bizarre reason our calendar always fills up in solid blocks, giving us social famines one week and in the case of this weekend, a total social feast overload. we were invited over for dinner at various friends’ homes on thursday, friday, saturday, AND sunday! just wanted to offer a big thanks to...
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can’t wait to get my paws on heidi swanson’s brand new cookbook, super natural every day, which came out this month! i’ve been a fan of her blog, 101 cookbooks, for a few years now, and have thrown many a dinner party with hits from her arsenal of healthy recipes. some of my faves...
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on friday i threw a pizza party potluck for my birthday! i decorated the house with construction paper slices and pies (no two were the same!) and spent the day prepping the dough and toppings for the pizzas. i served up my stash of lou malnati’s deep dish pizzas, which i imported frozen in...
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where else can you have a bachelorette party but las vegas?! duh! two weeks ago we took a girls’ weekend in sin city to celebrate tracy’s birthday and last days as a free woman. i hadn’t been there since the one night two years ago, so i was ready to really explore and experience...
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it’s quite odd to be thinking about being in LA a few weeks ago when your front porch is completely buried in a snowdrift! i’m writing from chicago and figured if i’m snowed in, i might as well think of somewhere warm…so here goes part 2 of our trip to la. (don’t miss part...
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