Getting my bake on

I fell in l.o.v.e with these cards as soon as I saw them.

Have you heard of Rifle Paper Co?  Anna Bond is a genius.  Seriously.  There is not one of her designs that I don’t swoon over.

I like having recipe cards on hand so that if someone likes what we served for dinner I can just write-up a quick card before they go or pop it into the mail after they leave.  It is something about the way the card feels in my hand and then the well-loved look after you’ve used it a few times.

Nothing like it.

How do you catalog your recipes? Do you have a folder on your computer? Random slips of paper? Or are you a recipe card hog like me?!

image via Rifle Paper Co.

Looking for a roommate?

I am sure that most of you have seen this already however, in case you are behind the times like I am you can read about the best roommate ever here.

Sweet knits

If you know me you’ll be very aware of the fact that I always have something ‘on my needles’ so you can imagine that when I saw this pattern I pretty much died.

But wait, there is more…look at the sweet little bum! Ah!

I found Frontier Dreams through Ravelry when I was looking for a something new to knit and have spent the past few days clicking around.  Nicole is one sweet mama and man can she knit.  Bonus is that she is giving away a copy of the pattern for the little suit above (appropriately named the ‘Union Suit’).  Crossing my fingers that I am the lucky recipient – you should enter too!

Images via Frontier Dreams

Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene

We woke up this morning at about 7:30 with some pretty gusty winds but nothing too substantial and decided to go out to get coffee.  Since all seemed pretty calm (aside from the rain) we decided to take a ride down to the ocean.  That was a different story!  Video below – you might want to turn down the volume though since you can hear the winds and kiddos happily screaming from the ocean spray.

Please note my rain get up and goofy grin.

On the way back home (about a 30 min drive) things had seemingly taken a turn for the worse.  The winds were higher, rain steadier and there were more than a few downed trees.

So here we are safe, warm and sound at home praying that the power doesn’t go out.

rush hour goodness

mr. reed and i have been driving to work together lately.  we are so super lucky to literally work a mile from each other and most of the time have the same-ish schedule.

so yesterday the mr. picked me up and we started our trek home.  due to monsoon induced traffic, it looked like it was going to take forever to get home when all of a sudden a beautiful rainbow showed up.

i love when life throws happy surprises like this.  so much better than driving home with grey skies!

Vacation Tour

Mr. Reed surprised me with an amazing trip for our one year anniversary.  4 days in Kennebunkport, ME (affectionately known as k’port) at the The Cottages at Cabot Cove.

I teared up when we pulled in because it was that gorgeous.  We’re talking straight out of a travel magazine gorgeous.  Our whole time there was amazing.  One of the best parts was   every morning to a little canvas sack hung on the door that was filled with pastries, a huge fresh fruit cup and a carafe of orange juice. Perfection.  Did I mention we were a 10 minute walk to town? I loved walking in to get coffee in the morning.

A little video of where we stayed complete with commentary:

Things of note:

• How slooooow I talked!
• How many times can one person say gorgeous?!
• What a mess our cottage is!  I took the video on our second day there and we were like a whirlwind apparently!

I’ll do a full recap of what we did, where we stayed and what we ate while we were in k’port.  I highly recommend.

trending topic

trending topic in the reed household is ‘breakfast for dinner’ and we can’t get enough.

it is in weekly rotation here – first it was omelets (omeletas as we call them), then it was onto pancakes. tonight was a first though with the waffles and folks – i am in love.

a little butter, a little confectionary sugar and a good dose of whipped cream.

to. die. for.

i am so making these next week.