Happy New Year!

Hello blog land! Costa Rica was amazing and all the holiday travels post tropical vacation were fun too... now I'm relaxing and ringing in 2010 with close friends and my love. I received my dream camera (Canon Powershot G10) from Santa and I can't wait to post all my pics here, especially my food pics! I have two potlucks this week so prepare for some recipes! For now I will leave you with my favorite photo I took while in Costa Rica... with my old camera actually, a little Nikon. Oh the wonders of photo editing ;)

Yes, this will be blown up, matted and framed!

So Sorry

Okay, I know I promised Christmas decorations and all those goodies, but the reality is that people are leaving at Aol. and guess who is getting their work? ME! And I actually truly do welcome more work because I want a challenge, however that means you are going to have to deal with less updates and less cool, awesome Nikki stuff. So I apologize. Oh, and I'm going to Costa Rica, so you have to wait until after Christmas for another update. And by then my decorations will be old news. So instead of showing you decorations, because let's get real, everyone has those ole things up, I will show you the cupcakes Ben and I (okay, really all Ben b/c I was super busy with work) made for his sister's bday.

This is Sadie... she's a cutie pie poodle mix

And these are the AMAZING Sadie cupcakes!! I mean, come on!!! How awesome is that??

SO CUTE! My boyfriend rocks! :) And he totally should work at Charm City Cakes.


MERRY CHRISTMAS BITCHES!

Easy App

Kori gave me the idea for this appetizer b/c her bf has made it before and she's a goat cheese fanatic. So the night before my girls dinner I gave it a go. Warning, this takes A LOT longer to make than you would think. I grilled the asparagus in olive oil and salt. Then I let them cool a little bit because under the prosciutto (which you can't see) is goat cheese! And obviously, I didn't want the cheese to melt on the hot asparagus. Trying to get the cheese to stay put while you wrap prosciutto around it is quite the task, so best of luck :) I cut my prosciutto in long slices of three to wrap around, but you can do as little or as much as you like. Make sure you have a good show on while you prepare this because it is time consuming. Serve chilled. NOM!

SNOW

It snowed all day Saturday and it was beautiful! More to come this week about Christmas decorating and maybe a little something on the AOL spin off. I also have 2 potlucks to think about. Also, the cupcake-cake Ben and I are making for his sister's bday :) This month is sooo busy!

Scents of the Season

I greatly enjoy the scent of this Yankee Candle my mom was burning over the weekend. I told her it makes up for the fact that she has a fake tree. It really does smell Christmas-y and tree-like. I wanted to steal it because candles are like $16 at Harris Teeter. Really? Does scented wax and wick reallllly cost that much?? Rip off I tell ya. Candles make for good Christmas gifts though. Hint hint.

NOM

Nothing better than homemade chocolate chip cookie dough on Thanksgiving.

Happy December

Man-o-man it's already December? And I see I only had 7 posts in November?!?!?!? That is horrible. My New Year's resolution will be to blog more, but that won't be until January because I have a lot going on this month. It's the month of holiday parties and cheer and if you work at AOL, excuse me, Aol. you are trying to keep your job :) In the meantime, I will just try to keep you happy with pretty pictures and delicious food. Enjoy!

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Bunny Vase

Where can I get me some of these? <3