High five! Potato salad recipe season is here (aka SUMMER!) and I’m betting you’re as excited as I am to get the grill fired up and spend your evenings outdoors. One of the most popular summer BBQ side dishes is potato salad. This potato salad recipe isn’t one that’s been handed down from my grandma or Great-Aunt Martha or anything. It’s just a little something I’ve come up with that is full of goodies that just about everyone will love. …
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I’m really excited to share a guest post from a friend of mine, Alissa Circle from Rags to Stitches. I roomed with Alissa recently at a social media conference in California and realized pretty quickly girlfriend has got some great photography skills. Especially iPhone photography skills. Her Instagram feed is full of gorgeous, so I’m super stoked to share this post all about the best iPhone photo apps to make your photos all pizazz-y and fabulous. Enjoy! I don’t know…
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This master bathroom remodel project has officially become epic. Not epic as in: that wave was so epic! Let’s paddle out for another one! Epic like: this project is so epically dragged out somebody’s gonna get all face stabbed up in hurr. I’ve always been honest with you guys, and I’m feeling especially honest today. If this master bathroom doesn’t get all completo in the next 72 hours I’m going back to the French Riviera with my girl Rachael. If…
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It’s recipe time. Food editor Lindsey is here to share with us her amazing recipe for pulled teriyaki chicken sandwiches. Your mouth will water, I promise. – Allison Slow cookers. Do you have one? Do you use it? I use mine several times a week with almost any recipe, and it saves my bacon when it comes to getting dinner on the table. We can also talk about how using a slow cooker means that there are almost always leftovers. …
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Our master bathroom has, for the last 5 months, been a sea of insulation and drywall dust, host to a sea of random construction guys streaming in and out at all hours, ladders and buckets and 30 gallon garbage cans strewn about with an odd assortment of tools landing on my bedroom floor. It hasn’t been the most fun ever in MY! WHOLE! LIFE! but at the same time, it’s kind of awesome to finally be able to do a…
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How to screw up the laundry at home, a comprehensive guide. OK so maybe this isn’t an all-inclusive, super secret handbook on how to screw up the laundry system at your house, but it might be a good substitute until someone decides to write that book. It won’t be me though, I’m the girl still working on last month’s laundry pile-up. Ain’t nobody got time for that. So how does it go down in your house, the laundry? Does one…
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How to make best fruit smoothie of your life recipe. // While I’m away in Europe (hopefully not getting knifed on commuter trains) I’m running a series of Top 10 Favorite Posts on Petit Elefant for your reading pleasure. These 10 posts are some of the most popular posts on Petit Elefant, so enjoy! See you soon. // This smoothie will make your taste-buds explode with happy. It will make your mom happy (that you’re eating veggies), give you energy,…
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How to make a super yummy and super simple frog-eye salad recipe. // While I’m away in Europe (hopefully not getting knifed on commuter trains) I’m running a series of Top 10 Favorite Posts on Petit Elefant for your reading pleasure. These 10 posts are some of the most popular posts on Petit Elefant, so enjoy! See you soon. // Is frog eye salad a Utah thing? Did your grandmothers and aunties across the globe make this for every Summer…
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My master bathroom is in flux. Change. Deep into the no-turning-back-please-kill-me-now phase. Are you big into home renovation? Do you love to rip out floors in a do it yourself kitchen remodel, and then lay 250 square feet of tile all in the same day? You’re nuts. I’m nuts, you’re nuts, together, collectively we are all insane. DIY is awesome; until you have to start the actual DIY. Or you start the DIY and run into all sorts of problems,…
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