This past weekend, I attended a friend’s small wedding ceremony at Houston’s Japanese Garden in Hermann Park. The garden itself and two trees served as her casual altar. Her friend captured the moment beautifully.
January flew by and it’s already Lunar New Year!
I like sharing Tet with my Texan friends since my family is in California, but it can be time-consuming to prepare all the food by myself. My general policy for hosting is to make half/buy half and this year I focused on a smaller gathering with some new recipes I wanted to try. Continue reading
Personalized holiday cards–it’s like we’re a real family! Neither C-Man or I are great photographers so we googled images that would convey the cute/cheesy things I love and his love of all things gangsta. Continue reading
C-Man and I decided to host the second annual Princemas party with Prince music, Prince-themed food, guests dressed in purple, and Prince decorations.
For my Prince-themed food contribution, I thought I would make Prince symbol cookies. I had taken a cookie class at All In One Bakery and felt inspired. However, in class, the dough was premade and we just cut out and decorated the cookies. I naively thought I could easily make cookies from scratch even though I’ve never done it before. Continue reading
Wrapping up the auntie duties, I made a birthday hat for my niece and 14 tissue paper flowers for party decorations. Continue reading
