Cozy Tasty Home

Fall Back in Love with Your Home – 4 Easy Free Steps

November 30, 2018November 27, 2018

Have you fallen out of love with your house? It was lovely when you bought it, and you had such great plans for it. Now every little thing wrong with it just annoys you. The carpet is old. The walls need new paint. There’s no pantry or laundry room. The bathrooms are too small. (Hmm those complaints sound awfully familiar.) I know what you mean. I’ve spent years being frustrated with my tiny galley kitchen, lack of a pantry, and […]

Recipes and Tasty Eats

Gooey Butter Cookies: Christmas Edition, part 2 (Virtual Cookie Exchange)

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018

Today you can check out the second group of bloggers posting fabulous Christmas cookie recipes for our Virtual Cookie Exchange! If you haven’t yet, check my original post for the way I make Gooey Butter Cookies for Christmas. Tuesday, November 27 Posts: Brianne’s Best Sugar Cookies at Homemade on our Homestead Rachael’s 100 Cookies at Australian Working Mama Lyndsy’s Christmas Krumkake at Treasured Oak Springs Missy’s Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies at Rambling Rose Farmhouse Callie’s Checkerboard Cookies at This Corbett Life Misty’s […]

Recipes and Tasty Eats

Gooey Butter Cookies: Christmas Version (plus bonus Virtual Cookie Exchange!)

November 26, 2018April 24, 2019

This post contains affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission at no extra charge to you. I use these funds to feed my cats. Thanks for the cat food. See my full disclosure here. It’s hard to believe it’s already that time of year again: time to pull out the Christmas decor, shop for gifts, begin the holiday baking, and stress-eat cookie dough straight out of the stand mixer. Actually, I love holiday baking. Every year my […]

Living Well

Small Business Saturday Special: Interview with The Candy Drawer Confectionary

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018

Today I have a special weekend edition post to celebrate Small Business Saturday. I interviewed Maura McKnight, the owner and genius behind the candies and confections at “The Candy Drawer Confectionary”. Let me tell you: you NEED to try her candies. They are out of this world. My absolute favorites are the Black Salt Caramels and the Milk Chocolate Caramel Marshmallow Bon Bons. I’ve tried quite a lot of her candies and have never been disappointed. Check out her bon bons. […]

Living Well

My Favorite Things Fall 2018

November 19, 2018April 24, 2019

This post contains affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission at no extra charge to you. I use these funds to feed my cats. Thanks for the cat food. See my full disclosure here. In today’s post I thought I’d share with you some of the things I’ve been enjoying this fall! (Do you ever watch your YouTubers’ “favorites” videos? I love those. I’ve found lots of great new things from them.) Read on to find out […]

Recipes and Tasty Eats

Delicious Decadent Mashed Potatoes

November 17, 2018April 24, 2019

This post contains affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission at no extra charge to you. I use these funds to feed my cats. Thanks for the cat food. See my full disclosure here. Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, so I have a delicious side dish recipe for you. Mashed potatoes are a staple of most peoples’ Thanksgiving and Christmas tables. Usually they are just a vehicle for getting the gravy into your mouth. Today I’ll show […]

Cozy Home

How to Cook a Perfect Chicken in the Crock Pot

November 15, 2018April 24, 2019

This post contains affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission at no extra charge to you. I use these funds to feed my cats. Thanks for the cat food. See my full disclosure here. Cooking a whole chicken is a cheap and delicious way to feed your family, but it can seem intimidating if you’ve never done it before. I will walk you through the process step by step, so you can try cooking your own whole […]

Declutter

Not Ready for Konmari? Six Places to Declutter Right Now!

November 12, 2018August 22, 2019

This post contains affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission at no extra charge to you. I use these funds to feed my cats. Thanks for the cat food. See my full disclosure here. If you’ve been following the blog for the last few months, you know I’ve been working through Marie Kondo’s method (a.k.a. the Konmari Method) to declutter my home. I recently finished the first category, clothing. I still have four categories to go: books, […]

Living Well

November No-Buy to Reduce Spending 2018

November 5, 2018November 15, 2018

no-buy to reduce spending and save money

This post contains affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission at no extra charge to you. I use these funds to feed my cats. Thanks for the cat food. See my full disclosure here. October is almost always a very expensive month. My family loves fall, and October is the month of fall fun. We enjoy participating in many of our local fall festivals and activities. Hayrides! Pumpkin picking! Craft shows! (Sadly we didn’t go on a […]

The Konmari Method: Clothing, Part 5

October 29, 2018April 20, 2019

I have one last post on the clothing category, because there was just one more sub-category to go through. And it was a doozy. The Konmari Method: Clothing, Part 5 Bras Here be dragons. You’ll never guess how many I had… Yes, I had all of those in storage. So many. Thirty five bras, not counting the ones I actually wear. Those I didn’t even bother counting in this, because I’m limited to a very few pairs of nursing bras that […]