Gimme Some Oven

Category: Everyday Life

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Settling back into life in KC after back-to-back trips these past 5 weeks. They were all amazing (Beaver Lake with girlfriends –> Pittsburgh with DeLallo –> Wichita for my parents’ 60th birthday party –> Minneapolis with Chex –> Brooklyn for Click Retreat –> Smoky Mountains with Barclay –> Park City...

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Missing my Costa Rican host family already like crazy. I just got back last week from (finally) making it to Alajuela to see them again, after having spent the last 10 years apart. And my goodness, words can’t even come close to saying how much I love them. We...

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Snapchatting all the things. (Ok, mostly my dog.)  Come say hi at @gimmesomeoven! Still smiling after getting to play a concert with The Nightingale Orchestra this past weekend. Highlight of my month. Reading this book, which is claimed to rival Gone Girl (doubtful, but we’ll see). Followed soon by this book (followed by the movie...

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Feeling pretty jazzed about Kansas City after attending Middle Of The Map Fest this week. Cool, innovative, inspiring things are happening everywhere you turn in this city lately, thanks of course to all of the cool people who choose to call this place home. It’s an exciting time to be living here....

A Day In The Life

I’m a sucker for “day in the life” posts. I first became a fan of them way back in the early days of the blogosphere via Ali and Elise. Then a few years ago, Rachel started doing a similar series profiling food bloggers. And now occasionally when I’m bored, I’ll scroll through the...

10 Ways To Beat Those Winter Blues

Who else is so over winter? Ugh, it’s no secret that winter and I have never gotten along. My happy place involves sunshine, tank tops, sandals, big sunglasses, ponytails, ice-cold drinks, bright morning walks, warm evenings on the patio with friends, and warmth galore. But somehow the place that I call “home”...

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Dancing around just a tiny bit (ok a lot) after booking a sweet mid-century house for my month-long stay to Austin this February. My friend Kathryne (from Cookie & Kate) agrees that freezing Kansas City winters aren’t for us. So this year we’re actually doing something about it and packing up our laptops,...

How To Start A Book Club

5 tips on how to start a book club...that's awesome...and that lasts. :)

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Happy First Day of Autumn Eve, everyone! I’m getting ready to take off on a camping trip with my book club in a few hours, but thought I’d pop in a quick “Currently” post before I head out. This month has definitely been a great one, I think in...