Suzannah Hamlin Stanley's Blog, page 79

Veggie-dense chili recipe - weekday lunch lifesaver!

I'm totally excited to finally share this recipe with you since it's seriously been an important part of my weekday life for a couple months now!! A while back we discovered we could make it through work lunches the first part of the week by making a big batch of hearty chili on Sunday, full of veggies and simple ingredients. Having enough leftovers for weekday lunches is often on my mind, but

When you really want to use that plaid flannel you bought last year... (new DIY tunic top!)

So many DIY projects are born from a need. In this case, it was the needto make something flannel, and the needto use up the fabric I bought last year... Okay, they weren't really urgent needs. But I was frustrated. I bought this pretty, soft flannel check last winter and never made anything out of it. I loved the pattern, but cotton flannel DIYs aren't exactly easy to fit into a wardrobe. The

9 tips & inspirations for a clean & functional kitchen

As I shared earlier this month... we've been on a bit of a roller coaster ride with selling our house and buying another, and I've put a LOT of thought into homes since this summer! We toured tons of homes and looked at even more online, and I've thought a lot about what's important in a house. There are a lot of factors we have on our list for our next home, whenever we find it, but one thing

Double layer pumpkin brownie bars - grain-free, gluten-free, Paleo-friendly

It's fall and I'm in the mood for baking! Anything layered is fancier than something not layered, right??! I don't often bother with more than 2-part recipes because you have to dirty more than twice the equipment and read more than twice the recipes when you could just use a simple dessert recipe, like... regular brownies. But, my desire for something festive and pumpkin overrode my desire for

When you need a new graphic tee... remember how easy it is to DIY?? Silhouette lettering tee

I got the graphic tee bug over the weekend and was inspired to make a new one! I've done tee lettering projects before, but not in a while and not with mySilhouettemachine, which makes it SO easy to create designs and text in the size and style you want. (See all my Silhouette projects here.) So, I pulled out mySilhouette Cameomachine and a newer plain black tee, and made a tee with the

Butternut squash chips recipe!

This was a crazy experiment! I saw the idea for DIY dehydrated butternut squash chips somewhere in passing (a store recipe card? a magazine in a waiting room? I don't remember) and was kind of surprised that simply dehydrating a raw butternut squash could make it tasty and crunchy... so I had to try it. Especially because I've recently discovered those crunchy veggie chips they sell in bulk at

Seize this early fall weekend! 3 crafty & creative ideas

It's not cold, rainy fall yet. Another weekend of mild weather is probably coming your way like it is mine! I'm planning to take advantage of it with a few early fall ideas! I'm not one for putting up a bunch of seasonal decorations around our home, actually... I find other ways to celebrate the change in weather and foods, like picking apples last weekend (we might go again this weekend, it was

Apple picking and backyard boots

I reeeeally wanted to pick apples this year. Turns out I almost missed my window, and it was pretty hard to find a place that still had them available for u-pick! But, I did. I think I went to Duyck's Peachy Pig Farm on an elementary school field trip, so I didn't remember it at all, but turns out it's an old, hilly, bountiful farm-ey wonderland with $1/lb apples and everbearing strawberries.

House hunting and house selling, and here's where we are

It's hard to write this, since I usually try to stay pretty positive on this blog! But, for those of you who're interested in homes and buying and selling, here's our story. We’ve spend the past few months planning on selling our townhouse and moving into a fixer-upper—either a small ranch-type house or a split level with a basement we could rent out to my brother-in-law or someone else. (You

What kind of DIYer are you?

Writing this post brought to mind the saying - there are two kinds of people: those who put people into categories and those who don't. Not sure where that comes from, but in this post I'm the former! With all the house shopping and planning we've been doing, I've been thinking about DIY projects and talking to friends who've done them. And I heardthis podcastwhere Diane Sanfilippo explains