If The Shoe Fits...

The other day as I was walking across the parking lot where I work to the Bakery ( to get my diet Coke fix) I spotted this little foot/shoe just like this laying there, all by itself. It just made me wonder who lost their foot? Was it part of a ballerina on a Birthday Cake, that no longer has a foot? Or just a child's toy missing it's foot? I suppose I will never know.

It Was a Beautiful Day

We took a little break from packing and moving today to take a road trip to one of my favorite places. On the way we usually see these planes taking off and landing from Travis Air Force Base, but today we got a really good picture of one going right over us.

First stop Napa Style in Yountville.

Grey Sea Salts.

Isn't this the cutest? I have always loved it in the larger size, but this little one would be perfect on a counter or buffet.

Last stop Bouchon Bakery for their fabulous bread and Macaroons. I seriously want to learn how to make them.

And our last stop in St. Helena, Fideaux, to get the girls some yummy treats too.

The weather was perfect. It was nice getting away from the heat for a little while.

Sierra's Dessert Table

A couple of weeks ago I made the dessert's for a birthday party. The colors were bright pink, and black. I'm really happy with the way everything turned out. Unfortunately, my pictures were some how lost, as were Tommy's (what luck???) Andrea, who made the beautiful flower arrangements and helped me with the desserts did get a few, and I wanted to share them.

There were strawberry cupcakes with strawberry buttercream frosting, as well as the small cake on the top pedestal. Cream puffs, sugar cookies, lemon mini cheesecakes with raspberries and raspberry sauce (you can barely see them to the left on the second picture). Not pictured were Bakerella's cake pops and coconut chocolate chip blondies. Hopefully the next party I do I'll get more pictures ;)

Lakeshore Home

LuLu's Cupcakes

I don't know if you noticed from my blog favorites, but I have been a little cupcake bakery/blog obsessed lately. Today while visiting my mom in Elk Grove, we discovered the cutest cupcake bakery in the old historic part of town. (ok, when I was growing up that was just the "town" part of Elk Grove, when did it become historic??? Talk about making you feel old ha ha!)

LuLu's Cupcakes is everything that you would expect a cupcake bakery to be and more. The pink walls, beautiful chandeliers and pink and brown table linens...Perfection!

How could you not want to take every cupcake in the case home???

LuLu was so sweet and took the time to chat with us about her bakery, and help us make a selection of cupcakes to take home.

An extensive menu, surely something for everyone... But if cupcakes are not your thing there is an array of other treats, ice cream, brownies, rice krispie treats, and the list goes on.

Strawberry Lemonade...YUM!

We decided on Berry Blast, Strawberry Lemonade, and couldn't leave without a Chocolate. All very delicious.

This is just the cutest cupcake bakery, the cupcakes are excellent, and it was so nice that LuLu took the time out of what I'm sure is a very busy day for her to visit with us. I'm looking forward to my next visit.

White Kitchen Inspiration

I needed a little break from organizing. I'm about ready to tackle the kitchen and could really use a little inspiration before I get started. So, I thought I'd share some pictures of kitchens that I have been enjoying.

all images BHG

I think the first kitchen is my favorite, although I would gladly take any of them ;)

Cleaning and Organizing

image: Martha Stewart

Sad to say I have been spending my vacation cleaning and organizing. Well, so far just organizing, hopefully I will be finished with the organizing/de-cluttering part soon, and I can move on to the cleaning phase. I do see a light at the end of the tunnel. I think it's amazing how much junk one family can accumulate... seems like I just did all of this.

Hopefully I will be finished soon and I can spend some time doing things that are a little more fun... like organizing all of my loose recipes and photos ha ha!