A plain white IKEA desk hacked into a Kate Spade inspired glamorous desk, with some gold spray paint and striped wrapping paper.  Read on to find out how...

So this is part of the ongoing story of me trying to make life happen a little bit better.  Everyone has this story, so hopefully you can relate.  My goal is always function before form.  In other words it’s more important for it to work well than to look beautiful.  But it kinda has to look beautiful too.  Here's how I came up with a functional IKEA desk made to look beautiful, inspired by Kate Spade.

3 Lessons for Making Your First Fall Wreath

Well here’s something new on the bloggy…a wreath!  I’ve known for a while that it was inevitable.  It’s kind of almost required to make wreaths when you blog.  I don’t know.  Apparently you guys love them a lot.  Look around Pinterest and you’ll find wreaths for every season, holiday, occasion and day of the week.  #exaggerating #notreally

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Caprese Salad Skewers with Balsamic Glaze

Simple Caprese Salad style appetizer skewers dressed up with balsamic glaze.

As I’m writing this it’s the very last day of summer vacation.  But I wanted to share this appetizer of caprese salad skewers with balsamic glaze while the farmer’s markets are still bursting with amazing tomatoes and our herb gardens are still going strong.