spotlight: duckies, bunnies, and chickies, oh my!

This week's spotlight is featuring all those cute & cuddly animals we love to dote on this time of the year.

These wonderfully cute items are all handmade by artisans on Artfire and Etsy. You know they are all so cute that you can't help but click on them to learn more. This spotlight also got featured at ByHand Gallery along with other colorful & wonderful spotlights, so be sure to check over there to see a lot more lovely goodies.

I have also been featured on Ninja Jenn's blog! She has done a wonderful little feature of my items & I couldn't be happier. It looks great & Jenn is just such a great lady. Be sure to head over there and leave her a comment on her wonderful blog. 

I hope everyone has a great weekend. If you are celebrating Easter, I hope you have a great time with friends and loved ones. And whether you are or aren't celebrating the holiday I hope everyone is able to enjoy a lovely, warm, colorful spring weekend!

easter weekend.

This past Easter weekend I had Friday off from school, so I went up to College Station to spend my (well earned) three-day weekend with Andy.

I've slowly been collecting up easy, but yummy recipes to teach myself how to cook. And since I've started cooking for the two of us I've found I really love it. Before I knew I could bake decently, but it turns out, I can also cook pretty well and it's so much fun. So this week we splurged at the grocery store and picked up some New York Strip steaks, asparagus, and other very yummy things that I cooked up for dinner for the two of us.

On Thursday, I made seasoned NY Strip Steak with roasted asparagus and pomegranate vinegarette spinach salad.

And then on Saturday I made some pizza baked spaghetti and used up the left over spinach to make another salad.



Way too much fun. I'm trying to find some super fun recipes for this weekend, so if you know of any or a site that has great recipes, let me know!

Also this weekend our little guppy died, so we went ahead and got a dwarf puffer fish from Petsmart and brought the little guy home to his new home. He's so tiny and can swim awfully fast when he wants to, so I did my best to get a picture of the little guy.





I had another green spotted puffer who wasn't a dwarf that I had named Robby-Bobby, but my roommate killed him one weekend while I was way. So in honor of Robby-Bobby we named this new little guy Baby Bobby Pops. Silly, yes, but that's us, so it fits.

It was a great weekend and I can't wait for the next one.