March 19, 2020 life

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread -A Trusted Favorite Recipe

So, I figured we can all use a little comfort food right now.

I made this chocolate chip banana bread the other night and put in on my Instagram stories.

Afterwards, a few people asked for the recipe, so here it is!

Old Fashioned Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

I first got the recipe for this old fashioned chocolate chip banana bread from another mom in my oldest child’s nursery school class.

She would make this for playdates.

It was SO good, I had to have the recipe.

All these years later, this great recipe is still my favorite.

I’ve seen other recipes which call for brown sugar and/or baking powder in the dry ingredients…

Those are good – but honestly, this one is GREAT!

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March 6, 2020 Weekend Wrap ups

Weekend Wrap Up
Beach House Renovation Weekend
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Beach House Renovation Weekend

I’m feeling a lot better this week.

Thanks so much for your sweet comments and emails!

Now I guess I just have to keep vigilant about handwashing and not watch too much of the never-ending news….

Planning on working on our beach house renovation this weekend. We sort of slacked off and there’s still SO much to do.

We ordered the wrong size glass shower doors, UGH.

So I need to deal with this headache before anything else…wish me luck!

 

Here’s this week’s round up of sales and links…

 

Athena Calderone (I’m a huge fan of her designs) has a new book coming out and it looks amazing.

 

LOVE the shape of this reversible tote.

 

Never thought I’d say this...but I think I need a pair of high rise culottes!

 

Pretty excited about this Judy Bloom movie news.

 

These sneakers are currently in my cart…hope I can pull them off!

 

 

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February 12, 2020 Beach Homes

Beach House Bathroom Wallpaper Ideas

beach house bathroom wallpaper ideas

beach house bathroom wallpaper ideas

Let’s talk about beach house bathroom wallpaper ideas today.

I need to quickly pick a wallpaper for the upstairs guest bathroom in our Rhode Island renovation.

So, I thought I’d bring you up to date on the progress happening with this project.

Especially because it’s time to make some design decisions in our new beach house renovation.

Back to the guest bathroom…

This large bathroom has SO much potential.

There’s an old fashioned claw foot tub, plenty of windows and a lot of interesting angles on the walls.

Above is a before photo with the old wallpaper on the walls. We’ve already removed this.

We’ve also gone ahead and had the old tiles replaced.

I’ve included a photo of the new dolomite white tiles below.

They look great and really help to brighten up the space!

We’re going to replace the dark counter tops with bright quartz ones.

Which leads to the wallpaper decision at hand.

I’ve narrowed down our choices to the ones listed below. However, I’m still also considering all these fabulous papers as well!

There’s been a lot of progress throughout the home. If you’re curious you can take a quick video tour of it here!

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