1. Walter the cat. This handsome dude is fifteen and a half years young! My husband adopted him from the New York Animal Care & Control when he was a wee eight weeks old. He is the biggest mush EVER. You look at him and he purrs. You touch him and he purrs. He simply cannot get enough of human hands on him. If you pull your hand away, he’ll reach out with a paw and pull your hand back toward him. Everyone loves him and he loves everyone. Walter likes to sit on my lap while I’m at my desk, typing away. He is the best furry assistant in the world! Look at those big kitty eyes:
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Cornflake Sweet Treats Galore
My friend had a birthday party yesterday evening, and I decided to attempt to make Momofuku Milk Bar‘s cornflake marshmallow cookies to bring along. A few years ago for her birthday I bought some of the very same cookies from the Carroll Gardens Milk Bar and brought them to her party; seeing as how my husband and I now own the Milk Bar Cookbook (a lovely wedding gift) I thought it’d be fun to try making these bad boys myself! For reference, this is the cookbook’s photo of the cookie:
Friday Five
1. Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, California. My husband and I were just out in the LA area visiting his parents, and we paid a visit to this 120-year-old bookstore (no joke—it’s older than dirt!). This place has everything! There are a ton of books, obviously, but strategically placed throughout the store are gift items related to the nearby book sections. Plus, there’s a large stationary section that Ted Mosby would drool over for its calligraphy supplies. Here’s to another 120+ years!
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HelloFresh + Groupon Sale
This morning, I woke up to a 25% off discount code for Groupon local deals in my inbox, so I started hunting around the website. I found a $20 Groupon for three HelloFresh veggie meals, meaning that with the discount the deal is only $15. That comes out to $2.50 per meal per person! Um, yes please! I ordered the deal right away and I’m looking forward to trying HelloFresh out. This dish is just one example of their veggie offerings:

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1. Easter Sweets! I don’t celebrate Easter (I was raised Jewish*), but I’m a sucker for Easter treats like Cadbury Creme Eggs and Robin Eggs. This year I found two new sugary Easter goodies: Peanut Butter M&M Eggs and Goldfish Vanilla Cupcake Grahams. Peanut butter M&Ms are my favorite candy (I always buy a bag at the airport!), and somehow they taste even better in pastel speckled robin egg form.
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My First Stitch Fix Review
A year or so ago, a friend told me about a website called Stitch Fix: a subscription service that assigns you a personal shopper who will select five pieces of clothing and accessories for you based on your style preferences. Because I’m admittedly not the most stylish person (when I shop I tend to buy the same types of clothing over and over again), I decided I had to try this service out—and I love it!
When you sign up at Stitch Fix, you’ll fill out a style profile by answering questions about your clothing sizes, what sort of styles you’re attracted to (preppy, bohemian, trendy, classic, etc), colors you love or hate (for example, I almost never wear pink and definitely don’t do animal prints), styles you never want to see in a fix, etc. You can even specify a price range you’re willing to spend per piece. The style profile is pretty comprehensive, and they encourage you to include a link to your Pinterest style board (here’s mine) for stylist inspiration. You can even request specific items via your Pinterest board or on the Stitch Fix website, though there’s no guarantee you’ll get them.
You can schedule a fix as often as you’d like: monthly, every other month, for an upcoming special occasion, etc. Then you get a box filled with five items picked just for you by your stylist, along with a note from your stylist and cards showing suggested outfits for each piece, like this:
Homemade Lip Balm: Grow and Make Kit
Recently I’ve been interested in DIY projects and wanted to try making my own lip balm. I’m a full-fledged, card-carrying lip balm addict and always have to have something on my lips. As you know, I have a ridiculous stash of lip products; there’s at least one balm within arm’s reach in each room of the apartment, and I usually have two or three options in my purse—at minimum.
Because I’m constantly re-applying lip balm, I decided it would be a good idea to make my own so that I have control over the ingredients that go into it—especially considering I probably ingest a full tube at least once a year (ew). I did some hunting on Amazon, and I found a Portland, Oregon-based company called Grow and Make that sells a variety of DIY kits including lip balm, candles, soap, and more. I selected their Exotic Flavors Lip Balm Making Kit with Tubes which cost $24.95 on Amazon (you can also order directly from G&M’s website, but I happened to be ordering some other stuff from Amazon at the time). The kit arrived in a nicely packaged little box:
Homemade Kombucha Update: Bottled!
We started tasting our kombucha the weekend before last and decided to let it continue to ferment for a few more days so it’d turn a little less sweet. But it has shaped up to be a very tasty treat! This past Saturday, we bottled our kombucha to allow it to go through secondary fermentation for a few days before we leave town later this week.
First, I removed the old + newly formed SCOBY and put it into a jar along with 1.5 cups of our very own homemade kombucha. This jar went into the fridge and will serve as the starter for our next batch! You can see the jar with the SCOBY on the left in this photo:
Quick + Easy Breakfast
Like last Saturday morning, I got up today and made breakfast for the two of us (this is not something I do regularly). I decided to keep it even more simple this time by making scrambled eggs and avocado toast. To make the toast, I mashed up one avocado with a fork and added some lemon juice to keep it from browning, then spread it on the toasted bread. I sprinkled the avocado with sea salt and drizzled it with Mike’s Hot Honey. So simple, so yummy!
(Sorry for the crap photo. I’m trying to figure out how to take better photos of food!)
If you can’t find Mike’s Hot Honey—which I bought at the Gowanus Whole Foods for $9.99—you can order the similar Bee’s Knees Spicy Honey online.
What’s your favorite quick + easy weekend breakfast to make at home?

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Friday Five
1. Credo, a new online natural and organic beauty store. I first read about it on Brit + Co and I got really excited. What’s extra cool about this beautifully designed site is that they have a page of healthy swaps: safe products that they recommend in place of popular products like Clinique’s Black Honey lipstick, Cetaphil facial cleanser, and Carmex. I haven’t ordered anything from Credo just yet, but they carry a lot of brands I’m interested in trying (Vapour, Ilia, W3LL People, and Fig + Yarrow, just for starters). I will definitely order some goodies from them when I find myself in need of beauty supplies!

















