Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
We have a tiny laundry room — well, it’s literally a “laundry closet.” It’s those two doors to the right on the way to the kitchen.
Sure, I’d love to have a laundry room, but for some code reason we were not allowed to have the washer and dryer in the utility room — so a laundry closet it is.
Gosh, so much going on. I really need this year to slow the heck down.
We knew a snow storm was coming, so I had to change plans yesterday and drive to my booth at the Newburgh Vintage Emporium to drop off more vintage treasures.
I raced back to make a conference call that then didn’t happen, and it goes from there.
I have spent hours on the phone with our darn health insurance again this week, school was canceled, L is playing Titanic in the bathtub, the living room is full of Christmas decor for a tablescape I want to style and photograph, and I have about five other posts to write.
I ate left-over cheese cake for breakfast this morning. That’s how crazy things are.
BUT…
We finally, finally have a proper driveway! [Read more…]
What comes to mind when you think about Thanksgiving? Turkey. Not the vegetable dishes. But more and more people are realizing that there are many benefits to a plant-based diet, including nuts and grains.
The Bleasdale clan has definitely gone through a transition the last few years — while dinner included meat most of the time, many in our family have changed to eating a mostly vegetarian diet.
This year is going to be the first year we are buying an organic turkey.
As a vegetarian, I won’t be eating the turkey, but I don’t ever feel deprived. There are so many yummy vegetable dishes on the table every year, and I’m already looking forward to my favorite one: Grandma’s creamed onions.
I called her today and asked her for her recipe so I can share it with you.
Grandma Faith’s Creamed Onions
Ingredients:
Instructions:
If you are going to use Silk almond milk, add a little extra salt to the dish.
Makes about 4 portions.
No matter the dish or dessert, if a recipe calls for milk, you can substitute it with Silk milk if you want to avoid dairy or add benefits of Silk milk, like additional calcium.
Silk is part of the Non-GMO Project — the ingredients in Silk milks have not been gene manipulated.
Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving, with or without turkey or ham!
What is your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
After I wrote about Landon’s turquoise room, our kitchen and our powder room, it’s time to show you our living room.
You’ve seen parts of it in several posts, but I’ve never written a post about the whole room.
We have a little powder room next to our kitchen, and I wanted to share what it looks like right now. I don’t think I’ve ever shown you the whole room before!
Don added wainscoting to it per my request, and I painted it a super-light pink.
The whole room is decorated with inexpensive items. The sink cabinet and vintage-inspired faucet are from Lowes, and I just exchanged the knobs to vintage glass knobs. I also bought the floor tiles at Lowes, and Don put them down in both bathrooms.
The mirror is an antique store find, and I bought that little white shelf three years ago for $3 at a tag sale. I want to repaint it with white chalk paint eventually — the off-white doesn’t really work in this room.
