Ivy & Co.

Friday, October 12, 2012

ALOHA Friday Link Party #8

Aloha Kakahiaka! (Good Morning)

Welcome to Jed & Ivy's ALOHA Friday Link Party #8!

Thanks for partying here!
A special shout out to those of you who have been linking up for quite a few weeks now:

Violet Imperfection
Sweet Boutique
SarahSaturDIY
2 LittleSuperheroes

So glad to have "met" you these past 7 weeks and get a glimpse into your creative worlds. Go visit their blogs! They're some faithful followers, and I'm glad they party here each week :)

Feature #1 is Sweet Boutique's Fall Buffet:

Feature #2 is Mrs. White Twig & Tea's up cycled Storage Cabinet:

Go ahead and grab the featured button below!

Pau Hana!

(That means we're finished working for the week...)

Grab a lilikoi, link up, and leisurely look through the other fun posts!

1- Link up!

2- Grab the button and post it on your blog, if you have one.

3- Link up anything you want to share! I'm not picky. Got an Etsy store? Link up an awesome product in your store. Having a giveaway? Link it up! And I do love a good DIY project.

4- Follow this blog.

5- By linking up, you're allowing me to feature your photos on this blog.

6- Share the Aloha and visit each other's links!

Aloha,

Rebecca

Thursday, October 11, 2012

My Fall Non-Mantel... Is that even how it's spelled?

I don't have a fireplace, let alone a mantel. I don't even know if I'm spelling mantel correctly.

Mantle?
Mantel?
No clue. Google's not helping either.

But it is Fall and we did have a Cinderella party this weekend with pumpkin decor and Fall colored flowers.

Thus, now that the festivities are pau (finished), these items would look great on my mantel. Only I don't have one. So here I've arranged them on my non-mantel, a.k.a. The Dining Table.

So enjoy my Festive Fall Non-Mantel Decor, inspired by mainland mantels all over blog land. After all, we are in Hawaii. We might as well call it my Non-Fall Non-Mantel Decor.

Vase - Ikea

Pumpkins - Safeway ($.69 each)

Placemat - Urban Outfitters

Flowers - Safeway (they dye the water!)

Aloha, Rebecca

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Featured at Embracing Change!

My Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread post was featured over at Embracing Change's Creative Inspiration Linky Party #33! Click here to see the feature.

Even though I now have a few of these features under my belt, I still get a giddy, surprised feeling in my tummy when I discover the news. Who would have thought blogging would be so fun!

Thanks Stacey!

Aloha, Becca

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Featured at The REAL Housewives of Riverton!

Just discovered that I was featured at The REAL Housewives of Riverton weekly Round Up! Click here to see the feature.

They featured my "Pre Pre-School Prep" post about teaching Ivy her ABC's. (Today we did the letter 'M').

Stoked!

--Becca

Monday, October 8, 2012

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

I'm no Martha Stewart in the kitchen.

But I do think I hit jackpot with the Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread I made last week.

I left Ivy alone for 30 seconds while I took out the trash, and I came back in to her devouring the bread like a wild animal. No joke. So glad I took the photos before this happened.

So after going over a few recipes, and examining what I had, here's what I came up with:

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Grease and Flour a loaf pan.

Gather these ingredients:

1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup water
1 cup canned pumpkin puree (not the pumpkin pie puree, just the plain one)
1/2 cup chocolate chips... (maybe I squeezed a little more than that in there...)

Mix the ingredients together in a bowl. (Wet together, dry together, combine!)

Add chocolate chips last.
Fill your pan.
Bake for 45 minutes.

Once a knife can be stuck in, then pulled out clean, it's done baking.

Let it cool for 10 minutes.

Take it out of the pan.

I like to put it onto a decorative plate. Just cause.

There is also a glaze that can go on top after baking, which I used:

Almond Milk
Powdered Sugar
Lemon Juice

You start with the sugar, then add the other two ingredients until it's the consistency you like.

My husband doesn't even like pumpkin stuff (gasp!), and he ate a piece and said it was good.

So give it a try! What's Fall without Pumpkin recipes?

Or prize winning pumpkins?

Or sticking your legs up on prize winning pumpkins?

Aloha, Rebecca

Saturday, October 6, 2012

ALOHA Friday Link Party #7

Welcome to Jed & Ivy's ALOHA Friday Link Party #7!
I'm a day late, I know :(
My daughter turned 3 yesterday.
I spent the entire week with 25 young dancers.
I'm throwing Ivy a Cinderella party tomorrow.

I'm allowing my party to go up late.

Thanks to everyone who linked up last week! We hit exactly 15 posts (mostly, thanks to Ilda of I Love Doing All Things Crafty, who was the last to link up and threw in a few extra posts to hit the goal! Thanks, Ilda!) And good thing she did, because she linked up the coolest project: An Explosion Box. I've never seen one before, have you?

I also LOVE this dresser re-do by Courtney at Apprentice Extrovert:

I specifically asked her to link up to my party, because I was just crazy about this piece! This green is my absolute favorite color to use/decorate with/paint with. Aren't her pink wall stripes cute? Thanks for being so kind and linking up, Courtney!

Note to you all... I LOVE furniture projects... :)

Go ahead and grab the featured button below, ladies!

Pau Hana!

(That means we're finished working for the week...)

Grab a lilikoi, link up, and leisurely look through the other fun posts!

1- Link up!

2- Grab the button and post it on your blog, if you have one.

3- Link up anything you want to share! I'm not picky. Got an Etsy store? Link up an awesome product in your store. Having a giveaway? Link it up! And I do love a good DIY project. Especially furniture. But that's just me :)

4- Follow this blog.

5- By linking up, you're allowing me to feature your photos on this blog.

6- Share the Aloha and visit each other's links!

Aloha,

Rebecca