Living Our Good Old Days
This easy chicken noodle soup is a family favorite, perfect for a warm cozy meal on a chilly winter day. It’s the one soup in our house that ALL THE PEOPLE will eat. Serve it up with sourdough, crackers, or cheese toast and you’ve got a weekend winner– with leftovers. Let it simmer on the stove and the whole house…
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Have you ever made a vision board? After several years of this practice, it’s become a refreshing and welcome routine for me; one that’s really helped me set an intention and ground myself throughout the year. I used to have an exhaustive list of resolutions (think bullets with sub-bullets) and it was overwhelming and guilt-inducing. In the last few years,…
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Are you a brunch person? I love it for Christmas– the leisurely manner, the special food, the festive mimosas… it’s a time to celebrate, savor and enjoy. We host a small brunch once a year at our home for family. This year I created this recipe for a Christmas breakfast casserole with sausage and phyllo, a fancier take on my…
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I have been wanting to learn how to make these simple, clay Christmas ornaments for a while, and recently was inspired by a DIY video from my friends at 2BeesInaPod.com. And with a year like 2020, I decided to go with the ‘Let’s Stay Home’ theme, just like my cookies last week. I started this project with the goal of…
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I’m gonna start with two favorites: MASON JARS + THINGS THAT ARE MINI! I had no idea these even existed until my friend Jennifer told me about them (thanks Jenn!). I have been wanting to try this Mercury glass technique and had instant visions of DIY Mercury glass mini mason jar ornaments. What do you think? Let me show you…
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Decorating sugar cookies is one of my favorite holiday traditions. I took a class just over a year ago to learn how to decorate using royal icing and we’ve made these cookies about 10 times since then. They are so fun and festive for the holidays. It gives me such joy to bag these up with a pretty ribbon and…
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Back Porch Bliss is about the everyday simple— yet blissful— moments. In our home, we call it simblissity. It’s living our good old days and I’m finding there’s no better way of life. Pull up a chair!
