Since this is the week of pink and red desserts, I thought I’d share my crepe cake from the baby shower I hosted back in June. I couldn’t throw a French party and not pay homage to the crepe. Crepes are woven through my happy memories of Paris (as gelato is through my memories of …
When my wife decided to throw a baby shower for my sister-in-law, she asked me to make boats out of paper napkins. What do you mean, boats out of napkins!? Ummm, napkins (especially paper ones) definitely do not float. However, it turns out that for hundreds of years, people in Japan have been successfully turning …
I was never a Boy Scout, and as a consequence, I can tie exactly one kind of knot—a granny knot! When I need to make sure something is especially secure, I just tie a bunch of additional granny knots. Somehow I’ve managed to survive this long without losing any furniture on the freeway… Anyway, while …
January Bird Seed Snowman February The Luckiest March Shamrock Favor Boxes April Banana, Butterscotch and Nutella Crepe Cake May The Gift of Coffee June Panda Pop-Up Card July Celebrating August Constellation Shower Invitations September Pizza Barbeque October Polka Dot Pumpkins November Caramel Apple Cheesecake Tart December Christmas 2012!
There’s this hilarious Friends episode where Rachel is making Thanksgiving dessert and mistakenly […]
I have to say that I love all things pumpkin, a penchant that I am unfortunately not allowed to indulge for the first nine months of every year. Now that it’s fall — well, as close to fall as it gets in these parts — I can finally break out the gallon of pumpkin purée …
What’s Halloween without pumpkin carving? Just an excuse to wear a costume during your Saturday morning surfing session. (No, seriously that’s a real thing.) While I love the idea of pumpkin carving, when it comes down to it I always struggle coming up with a design that is sufficiently cool to merit disemboweling that poor, …
There comes a time in every man’s life when he must replace the as-is Ikea dining chairs he bought secondhand on Craigslist with something a little more, I don’t know, stylish? Sophisticated? Less self-assembled? That day has finally come courtesy of a set of six bentwood chairs Jennifer found on Craigslist. Ever since our epic …
There’s something about the weathered texture and classic muted red that I love in salvaged brick. Growing up, we always had plenty of it around due to the stockpile my dad accumulated from the neighborhood chimneys toppled by the Northridge earthquake. This Valentine’s Day I stole a brick from the remnants of that stockpile to …
This year for Jennifer’s cumpleaños, we consumed cupcakes and cocktails with a few of our comrades! But all alliteration aside, what better way to celebrate a birthday than with baked goodies and rum? Rather than bake, frost and decorate all the cupcakes myself, I thought it would be fun to make a few different kinds …