Easter Weekend Recap (aka my birthday weekend...Easter post first)

Bring on the the eggs...

Using tape to be a little creative...

Should have used some glitter.

A secret message egg.

Probably fighting over the colors.

My mom's gorgeous table set up.

I LOVE Pinterest

Since this week is crazy with work I figured I'd leave everyone with my new favorite thing on the internet... PINTEREST!

Pinterest is an online pinboard where individuals can create boards of different things they find on the internet... I can't tell you how many recipes and outfit Pinterest has helped me find!   

About Pinterest

Lots of fun post next week...AFTER MY BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!!!!

No Bake Cookie Dough

I realized I never posted the "no bake cookie dough" recipe when I made the cookie cake and cupcakes.  So here it is...


Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 6 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 7 ounce sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Mix it all together...roll into balls and you're ready to eat them or use it a a cake/cupcake filling

Bond Girl

I have a new favorite book...Bond Girl.  I know I didn't count down to its release like I did for White Girl Problems but I promise this book is worth reading. 


Alex Garrett has wanted to work on Wall Street her as long as she could remember. While other girls dreamed of being ballerinas or veterinarians, Alex was determined to become a part of the world of high finance. Her dad was a banker on Wall Street and she always enjoyed going with him to work when he had a slow day. When she gets a job at Cromwell Pierce, one of Wall Street's most esteemed brokerage firms, she is expecting that it will take a while for the men to get used to her. She is expecting to dodge the odd sexist joke or wayward football but she is not expecting to be made to sit in a metal folding chair with the name "Girlie" scrawled across the back for six months, having to pick up pizzas for one hundred people while wearing high heels or having to pay over $1000 for a 50 pound wheel of Parmesan cheese for her boss.

Despite the many setbacks that Alex encounters at Cromwell Pierce, she is determined not to quit. She perseveres, gets to know her boss better as well as the guys that she works with, and suddenly her co-workers refer to her by her given name instead of her nickname, and she has her own desk. When the financial world begins to fall apart and when Alex comes up against a foe that she's not sure that she will be able to defeat on her own, Alex must decide if staying at Cromwell Pierce is worth it anymore or if she should retire her designer shoes for a different sort of life.

Most people would think her crazy stories of practical jokes, inter company dating, and being screamed at/belittled are exaggerated but after working in finance for the past four years I know every word is true.  Once I started I couldn't put this book down...I finished it in two days.

My two favorite things about my apartment...

Now that I no longer have a roommate I have finally made my apartment completely my own and I love it. The second bedroom is now a walk in closet (post to come later once its nicely organized) and everything feels like home but there are 2 things I really love about my apartment. One came with the apartment and the other is a custom paint job done by myself and my mother.

My brick wall...

My striped wall...

It's the little things that make a place feel homey...

Instagram St Patrick's Day...

After a few weekends of celebrating St Patrick's Day with parades and drinking fest the real day made its way around and was a little more low keyed...

Beer Garden Pretzel with cheese dip and mustard and giant beers

Loving the 70 degree weather and cold beers

Mmmm...

SILK MAKING...Cambodia (picture heavy)

While in Cambodia we went to a silk farm to and saw the crazy silk making process (and perhaps buy some scarves/headbands)... who knew it could take seven days to make one scarf.

Silk worms ready to make their cocoons 

Worms making their cocoons

Empty Cocoons

Boiling to collect the two types of silk

Coloring and spinning

Silks ready to go

Scarf making.