Color This Fun

What a cool little way to waste time. I saw this here at one of my favorite blogs a few days ago and have fiddle-farted around with it several times since. It’s addictive.

If you like to play with color, give it a whirl.

Caution: This tool has the potential to suck up several hours of your ever-so-valuable time.

Sugared Pecans

My mom returned for the winter last week. She lives just a couple of miles from our place while she’s here, which we love. Anyway, she swung into a roadside place in Georgia on her way down and bought me a mondo size bag of pecans.

If anyone ever buys you a mondo size bag of pecans, I recommend that you do what I did: sugar them.

Sweet appetizers typically don’t interest me, but these are unbefrigginglievable. Our guests couldn’t stop eating them.

In the interest of disclosure I must tell you that I made them on a Sunday, but to me they’re a perfect addition to any Friday Happy Hour.

1 egg white
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pound pecans
1 cup white sugar
¾ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Grease one cookie sheet.

Whip together the egg white, water and vanilla in a medium size bowl until frothy. In a separate medium size bowl, mix sugar, salt and cinnamon.

Add pecans to egg white mixture and stir to coat them. Remove them and toss them in the sugar mixture.

Spread them out on the cooking sheet. Bake for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes.

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Seeing Green

So, remember this project?

We’re almost done. The hanging baskets are up and the flowers in the yard have been planted. Perhaps best of all, we've had perfect weather to sit out and enjoy it all.

You’ll notice that Honey painted the baskets and chains to match the New Avocado patio doors. I’d have preferred to leave them black, myself. Call it a wild guess, but I’m thinking maybe that’s why he did it while I was at work.

I’ll just stash this in the old memory bank and pull it out to get my way the next time we have a difference of opinion on a project.

Our Decorating Faux Pas

I was ashamed to learn the other day that Honey and I have apparently neglected a critical element of home decorating.

Our house has no soundtrack.

According to this article in the New York Times, people are hiring music stylists these days to create a playlist that is in harmony with their home’s décor.

These stylists take the homeowner’s music preferences into account to some degree, but in the end it’s all about finding music that complements the house.

And to think we’ve been so ignorant as to play songs we enjoy all these years.

No wonder our place has never been featured in House Beautiful.