haphazard musings and creations

first, a little background on my family.  my sister and i love to clothes shop, and i'm a big fan of thrift stores for over-enthusiast...

aka the best holiday of the year!

this weekend i hosted a roaring 20's [on a budget] birthday party for myself.  i made the requisite pinterest board , compiling the lo...

i can't pretend to remember all the history and processes of the new england distillery , but it was by far one of the more informativ...

probably one of the snobbiest/artsiest pics ive taken.  and i love it.  the blue and the patina on the truck with pv tech in the backgroun...

this year with my mom and sister out of town until turkey-day-morning, my dad and i were responsible for thanksgiving in all of its glory....

i feel this post really needs no explanations.  king arthur has a store/restaurant/school in vermont.  we went.  it was amaaazing

for mother's day my mom asked that i come home and do something about her garden.  little did i know, the mint that snuck in 3 years a...

thanksgiving in maine is being thankful for family, solar hot water making the living room 80 degrees in the beginning of winter, and the fa...

3rd year of a running family tradition -cooking with jim!  this year it was a dim sum extravaganza.  or as i explained to someone else... ch...

after inspiration from his favorite cooking magazine , my great uncle jim came up with a new idea for our holiday cooking project. kimchi! ...

family tradition dictates more homemade pies than people. unfortunatly since pies only came from once source we were lacking a bit. but we...

since i have earned the nickname "last minute liz" more than once in my life, it seems fitting that the sis and i flew to florida ...

george crumb's black angels is by far the weirdest most badass quartet ive heard. specifically written for electric string quartet with...