Falling in Love with Autum Dessert!

With all this eating healthy I have been doing I was completely craving a little piece of something sweet. But with cookies, pastries & chocolate off limits I was having a hard time thinking of something that would keep my healthy habits unbroken. 

Luckily, my rules said nothing about adult beverages (which would not be considered healthy at all)...and we have had our martini glasses for months and they had yet to be used. So a martini it was, now I just had to find a fun recipe with the little alcohol we have in our apartment. Actually, we only have Gin. So that would be considered very limited in the martini world. 

This recipe for an Apple Cider & Ginger Martini caught my eye and it was utterly delicious!! Watch out tho, this recipe will sneak up on ya if your not careful.

With that I was thinking that a baked apple would be great. I just love apples in the fall. A crisp apple has to be my favorite all time snack and the fall opens the doors to a fresh crop of apples, yum!

I searched and search the internet and could not find just the right recipe. Nothing felt right with trying to eat a healthy dessert. Well you know what to do then, make one! 

I can up with...

 Spiced Pastry Cream Baked Apples

S'mores Brownies!!

Found this yummy dessert to take to a friends house one night :)

The recipe can be found here @ Recipe Girl

...since I did not have enough chocolate around I needed a brownie recipe that used cocoa powder so I used the one found HERE

Fun s'more bar toppings!!

Marshmallow,  Chocolate and Strawberry S'more!

For our 3 month anniversary we celebrated with a S'more night!! No we haven't been celebrating each month, but we figured having our apartment and really starting our little life deserved some celebrating!! So after a little research from the World Wide Web we picked some awesome flavors!

Wedding Bathroom Baskets

Since we decided to have our reception at the Cleveland Zoo that meant having our guests use the "public" bathrooms that are available to zoo guests during the day. While the zoo did have them cleaned before our guests arrived they were still not the nicest bathrooms you have ever set your eyes on. Thus, to help our guests forget that they did not have beautiful facilities I decided to make "Bathroom Baskets."

Holidays

Holly Leaf Place Cards

Martha and her posse have done it again! These pretty place cards are easy and cheap! It cost me about $2 for the silver pen and just 30 cents for the paper (I used a red card stock I found in the scrapbook area).

Holidays

Decking the Halls

Centerpiece Mock-Up

Alright! Now this is a fun thing to post! I have been collecting milk glass for months and vintage books for a few months as well. We also want to do burlap runners and some kind of fake flower. Our theme is Vintage Garden...and the reception is at the Cleveland Zoo! Cant wait!! Ok...with out further ado...

Initialed Glasses

A birthday craft!

So the picture above is what I was originally going for... but lets just say I went through alot of trouble for the etching paste that I was using not to work...So I decided to but some window paint that said it was dishwasher safe...again a fail...apparently you need some special sealant for that to work....I digress... Finally I found the right stuff for the job! I will post a pic of it soon. But it looks like a pen, I found it in the stained glass section of Jo-anns. Its called DecoArt glass paint marker. Its a beauty! paint it on. put it in the oven. All set! But ill still describe how the little beauty works!