A Little Taste of Ireland

Well, I hope you all had a lovely St.Patrick's Day whether you're Irish or not!
I happen to be about three quarters Irish. My grandfather came straight through Ellis
Island from the "land of saints and scholars".
But I digress..this post is supposed to be about bread - soda bread in particular.
I'm not prone to cooking Irish "type" food but this year, found a simple recipe that
turned out great!

Doesn't it look pretty? And it was really simple..which makes it even better.
I served it up with a little beef stew cooked in the Crock Pot, add a little Irish music..and you'r set!

Here's the recipe....

white soda bread

Let me know if you try it and how you like it!

Looking Towards Spring

The weather is getting warmer and hopefully the last of the snow storms are behind us!

I don't know about you.. but I'm ready for spring and have been busy stocking my 
Etsy store  with fresh new finds for the new season!


Here's just a few....

(If they're not listed yet, they will be soon ..so please check back!)

Vintage Collection Series- Metal Photo Frames

I've been selling vintage metal photo frames in my store for a few years now and decided last week to use a few in my home. I have such a nice collection of black & white family photos and decide to turn the top of my "bar" (a wood cabinet ) into a place to display them.
These are all of my favorites of my parents (as kids), my grand parents, who are sadly all gone now, and a cute one of my brother and sister and I when I was only two!

Most of these frames come in the usual 5x7 and 8x10 sizes, but you can also find bi-fold and tri-folds which are nice to add to the mix.
Honestly, if you scour enough thrift stores and estate sales, you can find these for a few bucks a piece.
If you don't have time to scour, then you can always buy them from me!

Vintage Holiday Cards

I recently came across a lot of unused vintage Christmas cards at my local thrift store. I broke them up into groups and they have starting selling well in my Etsy store, much to my pleasure and somewhat surprise.
Some of them evoke memories of cards from Grandma & Grandpa- especially the ones that contained a crisp fresh ten dollar bill!
Here are some of the ones available in my store, plus a few great ones from other Etsy sellers.


  Remember these "fuzzy" flocked cards?

Available on Etsy at The Goose and the Hound

These have been sold!

.....and cards for kids?

from The Vintage Greeting on Etsy

Available at stuart road vintage

 The "money" cards......

Both still available in my store on Etsy

and some more traditional styles....

I hope I have inspired you all to scan your thrift stores and online favorites for cards like these to send to your loved ones this year.

Think of all the good memories you'll be stirring up!

New Etsy Venture

I've been thinking for months now about opening a vintage jewelry and accessory shop on Etsy and I finally did it this weekend!
After many name ideas (and searches for originality!), I decided to call it Like Bette in honor of my favorite movie actress of all time, Bette Davis.
She was full class and style and didn't everyone want to wear the fashion of the day as well as Bette did?
So, come visit me asap at www.likebette.etsy.com for some fabulous (hopefully..) stuff!

It's Time...

....time that I start posting here again. In case you were wondering, I'll tell you the reason I haven't in several months.

On April 16th of this year my DH (as he was known in this blog) Hugh, finally lost his battle with Pancreatic Cancer. He was so much of my life, in and out of this little house, that I would be remiss not to share this news with my readers.
Four and a half months later, I'm doing better than I expected thanks to the love of family and friends,
who all have such an important role in my life that I never realized until now.

So now that my mind is clearer and my Etsy store is having it's best month ever, it's time to get back to it.

I'm blessed to be able to stay in this little house on Stuart Road, at least for awhile, and bask in the memories of life with my husband, and make some new ones without him. I don't want this to be a widow's blog and probably will never be this personal again, but I hope you will keep following anyway.

White Pizza

The other night we decided to make pizza for dinner. My goal was to use up leftovers and we didn't have any sauce,but we did have the ingredients for a white pizza sauce-butter,garlic,milk,flour,parmesan and dried italian herbs.
My DH made a crust out of 50/50 baking flour and we topped it with chicken,red onion,tomatoes,asiago and mozzarella cheeses!
I must admit,I would prefer a regular crust next time but all in all it was a success.
It looks rustic,don't you think?