Leigh Anne Wilkes
Happy Weekend! We're spending the weekend having a garage sale with the neighbors. Trying to clear out! It was a pretty low key week around here - lots of work and lots of rain. Not sure what happened to our summer. We were able to enjoy eating outside in the garden on Monday with some friends. We have a group of "empty nester" friends we get together with once a month for dinner and family home evening. Ever since we had small children … [Continue reading...]
This has turned into sweet week on the blog! I usually don’t do so many sweets all in a row but I got started and I just couldn’t stop. Today I’ve got one more for you and I promise next week I’ll be back with a week full of savory – how’s that? As I’ve [...]
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I’ve got another amazing, delicious summer time cake for you over at I Heart Naptime today. Our strawberry patch is going crazy this year and I’ve found another fun way to use those strawberries! Come check it out.
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For the few months before the Wedding Cake Buffet I did a lot of experimenting with cake recipes. Believe me no one around here was complaining. I put a lot of time and effort into the cake menu and making sure the flavors were balanced and well represented. I knew that I wanted to have [...]
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One thing the Northwest does right is berries! You name it – we’ve got it. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, marionberries, tayberries and even loganberries. And I know there are more I haven’t even named. My oldest son’s name is Logan – I teased my husband I wanted to name him after my father Barrie – [...]
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We’re back with our talented group of 10 blogger besties to share June’s themed hop. Head on over to their blogs to see and save their projects after viewing ours. Last month’s hop theme was citrus , so many cute ideas! Pin this collage below, and make sure you come back on the 10th each [...]
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Today I’m back to talk about shoes. When you are traveling, especially in Europe or any place where you will be doing a lot of walking shoes are VERY important. When we travel we walk a lot. My mode of traveling might not be for everyone but I believe that if you are somewhere like [...]
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Happy Saturday! Has summer officially started at your house? It has at ours even though we no “end of school” festivities we are enjoying some summer weather here in the Northwest. Thanks to all the sun we are having our strawberry patch is going crazy and I am making lots of yummy things with strawberries. [...]
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Since I returned from our trip I have had requests from many of you to share what clothes I took on our trip. Now remember, I am not a fashion blogger but I have done my best with this post. Packing is hard for me. I am not a light packer by nature. Just ask [...]
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For our Wedding Cake Buffet we set up the food in our dining room. We took out the table and chairs and moved in my newly painted dresser for the cake buffet and used my yellow side bar for the fruit bar. The only problem is our dining room is basically a Wilkes Family gallery. [...]
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