Hanukkah Decorations

My MIL saved this Hanukkah banner from the 1960's. She gave it to me and I love the retro colors of orange, mustard, turquoise and white. I would have never guessed that when I sprayed the Goodwill lamps orange, I could find a million places to show them off! The menorahs on the table have been collected from my husbands family and some we have added along the way. It is really beautiful if you light one for every person in the family. Be careful by the end of the week that is a lot of flames! (8 nights)
Isn't it pretty close up? I love it taped up letters and all....

Happy Festival of Lights!

Hanukkah Decorations

A Season for Giving

Best...

Hanukkah....
Gift....

EVER!...

A Season for Giving

Hanukkah Tablescape

Hanukkah Tablescape

Cozy Dinner

Here's my recipe on how to make French onion soup the easy and non-stink up your hands beyond repair way.

The secret is frozen chopped onions! Hooray! I've chopped all of the onions by hand before, and I thought that the onion smell would never go away! Ick!

Saute the thawed onions in butter AND olive oil for about 30 mins. You want them all brown and caramelly. Sure it is a word, I made it up.

Browner....

Getting there...

Ahhh! Now glug some wine in there. No you don't need to measure...I used white, but red is good too!

I used 2 cartons of low sodium beef broth and a teaspoon of this Beef Base, yum.

Slice a baguette and top with Gruyere cheese...put under the broiler and enjoy! I know it looks like it needs more cheese.. I agree....but I couldn't get a good photo before the boys took them from me!

Cozy Dinner

My dream car....

Have you seen the Fall Tommy Hilfiger Campaign? Holy Moly.....The Jeep Wagoneer with the wood sides is my all time favorite car! I love the whole entire premise. Tailgating.....picnics.....skiing....plaid....the whole thing... Sooo I thought I would put together some Goodwill Finds to help you re-create you own little Hilfiger reality!






Do you love it?

My dream car....

Not Again!!

I came home from Cali (I hate it when people call it that) with a nasty cold. It came packaged with a sore throat, but after my son's ordeal I will never say that I have the worst sore throat ever because I saw what that looked like up close and personal. I just have a tiny sore throat.

Sooooo last night...

I was dreaming that I was chatting it up with Rachel Ray at her restaurant in NYC and I was telling her all about my Goodwill skills and what not. But every time I tried to take a deep breath this crazy noise would come out of my mouth...then I woke up realizing that the crazy noise was me snoring.

loud.

Which is weird because I am such a dainty little thing........

Not Again!!

I will volunteer!!

A quick shout out to DragoArt.com that will teach you

how to draw this trucker lady.

For all 'yall getting all worked up over the TSA seeing nakey-nakey images of you...I say strike a pose! Seriously, I haven't been posing in the mirror since I was three for nothing. Do you honestly think that those fine ladies and gentlemen enjoy the job of looking at truly mediocre (I mean that in the nicest way) bodies all day long? No they don't. Have you been to an airport lately? Look around.....I stand a pretty good chance of winning the top 35 percent least offensive, over 40, nekkid body of my flight at least. Bring it.

The pat down? As long as you don't mention that muffin top that I've been working on at Zumba 6 days a week pat away. Now on the way home from Thanksgiving I might be a little smuudgier....that's all right....It will give them something to talk about in the TSA break room. "Hey, it looks like Dee overdid that San Francisco Sourdough bread." Oh yes she did.

Yes you have civil liberties......and so do I.....please stop complaining and jump on in there and work it sister! And if you plan to make a fuss please do it in another line..I am travelling with two grouchy teenagers and I am trying to make this as pleasant as possible. You know even in pain and hunger the older one will flex it a little. (we're related)
The End.

I will volunteer!!