Halloween, the most wonderful holiday of all, might be over, but Christmas is right around the corner. And these cookies pay homage to one of the best holiday movies of all time — Nightmare Before Christmas! About a year ago, my best friend was soon to have a new baby, and his …
Someone on Facebook recently asked me what staples I keep in my pantry. My number one answer? Arborio rice! Arborio rice is a short grain rice that you use to make risotto. A number of my friends have told me that risotto was too intimidating for them to try at …
The final cut is finished! Truth be told, there are a lot of things I wish I’d done different when shooting this one, but trial is the best way to learn in my opinion. For this video, I got to play around with cutting scenes to music. I also tinkered …
Halloween is almost upon us! In case you missed my last post on the subject, Halloween is my absolute most favorite holiday. Chris’s too! So you can imagine how distraught I was to get tagged for a business trip to Colorado that had me flying out on October 31st. We …
I finally did it! I finally did it! I finally made soap! I started with the simplest soap kit that I bought — the Relaxing Lavender cold process soap kit from Brambleberry. This particular soap is all-natural. It uses a natural oxide pigment, ultramarine violet, for color, and it uses …
Happy Sunday, y’all! Sunday mornings mean one thing for me… bagels! I will never forget my first bagel. After moving to Nashville in my early 20’s, I was working at a bar downtown singing and slinging beers. On the weekends, we opened around lunch, and one Sunday, in a rush …
You guys. It finally got here. My Brambleberry order has arrived! You might remember from my welcome video on YouTube that I recently fell into a rabbit hole of videos about soapmaking. One eensy weensy little recommended video on my front page, and all of a sudden I’m subscribing to …
I recently shipped a set of cookies to a friend back home, Katie, that I grew up with. Her daughter, Izzy, just turned 10-years-old, and Katie wanted two dozen cookies for Izzy to share with her friends at her bunking party (or slumber party for those of you who didn’t …
At the beginning of the month, I had an order for my side business, Smart Cookie Sweets, for a dozen chocolate cupcakes with custom cupcake toppers. The woman who ordered them is actually a friend I met through my sister-in-law. Her daughter, Sophia, turned one-year-old on October 1st, and although …
Halloween is my absolute most favorite holiday of all time. And I’m not talking about the cutesy little witches and sexy nurse versions of Halloween. I’m talking about the supernatural, mysterious, terrifying version of Halloween. The Halloween that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. And …
