Home Tour Tuesday---Kitchen and Recipe Share

First things first...

Whew! It's been a lot of work and countless late nights, but I'm finally ready to debut Persnickety Pages {& More}'s first-ever line of Holiday cards. While I'll continue adding to the inventory of cards throughout the week, I've got many designs ready for purchase in the form of a ready-to-send digital file or print and ship cards in two sizes, 5x7 and 4x8. For those extra picky gals that want help designing their own signature Holiday card, I'm happy to oblige with a Custom Holiday card order! And for a limited time, I'm offering all photo cards at a special, one time only, Holiday price with 10% of every order going to the Salvation Army's Angel Tree Program.

I hope you'll take a moment to swing by Persnickety and check them out, but of course, I can't mention my Holiday cards without giving you a mini preview here!

{This is Laura's custom Holiday card! Doesn't she have an adorable family?}

Now on to Home Tour Tuesday!

Welcome, y'all! It's time for the first ever Home Tour Tuesday, hosted by Flip Flops and Pearls  and yours truly! If you haven't been by Daphne's blog you should head over after linking up and show her some bloggy love! Not only is Daphne an Alabama girl like me (not to be mistaken for Alabama fan, you know I could never do that to my Gators), she's practically a neighbor, living only about half an hour away! Once again blogging proves what we all know to be true, it really is a small world!

I'm really excited to host a regular themed post and hope that many of you will decide to share in the fun and link up! Today's theme is: Kitchen Decor and Holiday Recipe Share. You'll have to forgive my pretty pitiful post. It's lacking a lot of the details I wanted to include but will just have to post at another time. As I'm sure you know, sometimes life gets nuts busy, and like Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton taught us, "Something's Gotta Give!"

If you're a first time Webbisodes visitor, welcome! I'm glad you dropped by! I hope that you'll become a regular around here because as many of you know, I do love my bloggy friends! Stay tuned for future Home Tour Tuesday posts. Daphne and I will try to get our acts together and post the next theme in plenty of time for everyone to snap their pictures!



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{Do, do, do, lookin' through my back door---This picture was taken from the back door looking into the kitchen.}

{From the breakfast nook}

{From the dining room}

{From the main cooking area}

And of course, the best kitchen accessory of them all... Sweet Bean!

Now for my Holiday Recipe Share. This recipe has become a staple around our home at Thanksgiving. Not only is it absolutely divine, but it fills the entire house with the delicious aroma of pumpkin spice that will surely leave you drooling and counting down along with the oven timer!

Delicious Pumpkin Crisp

Makes 8 to 10 servings
Prep: 15 min: Bake 1 hour 5 min: Stand 10 min

1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 package butter-flavored yellow cake mix (I use Betty Crocker Super Moist Butter Recipe Yellow Cake Mix)
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup butter melted
Whipped cream (optional)
Ground nutmeg (optional)

STIR together first 5 ingredients. Pour into a lightly greased 13 x 9 inch baking dish. Sprinkle cake mix evenly over pumpkin mixture; sprinkle evenly with pecans. Drizzle butter evenly over pecans

BAKE at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven, and let stand for 10 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature with Whipped Cream, if desired. Sprinkle with nutmeg if desired.

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Enjoy! Now it's your turn to link up! Can't wait to see what's cookin' in your kitchen!



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New Month---New Blog(s)

As I sit here just mere moments before the sun begins to rise, my sleep deprived eyes are having a difficult time focusing on the screen as the glow of the computer suddenly seems ten times brighter than it normally does. My hands are a bit shaky, either from the lack of sleep or the caffeine boost from the jumbo 32 ounce Diet Coke I nursed throughout the night as I worked feverishly,  like a college student cramming for mid-terms, to be prepared to make my "big announcement" come first thing Monday this morning.

And now as Sunday night has slowly tiptoed into Monday morning, I can honestly remember why I was never a fan of the all-nighter. Just losing one good night's sleep, I suddenly feel years older than my driver's license would indicate. But my goal was achieved, and for the most part everything is in place just as I had hoped. Today is a good day!

Beginning today, I am debuting my own design business, Persnickety Pages {& More}. Persnickety Pages {& More} has been a work in progress since May and though the blogging community needs another designer like Oprah needs a dollar, designing has given me an opportunity, and excuse, to exercise my creative side once again, something I haven't really done since I left the classroom. And while I'm excited to see where this new endeavor takes me, I know that I couldn't have made it this far without the support and encouragement of my husband and parents.

Persnickety Pages {& More} currently features blog design packages, and will soon include many varieties of stationery, including custom designs. And for everyone wanting to get a jump on the approaching Holiday season, I am very excited to share my first line of seasonal cards and stationery products in the upcoming weeks. I have big aspirations for my lil' design company! I'm not sure where it'll take me, but that's half the fun, at least that's what I'm telling myself.

Ummm, one guess as to who'll be napping today when Sweet Bean goes down---ME! But unlike Gillian Grace, I prefer to keep the blanket on my body, not over my head!






Images from GG's monitor hooked up to our tv.

Have a terrific day, y'all!

{Don't forget to check out and enter, my newest giveaway from Creme de la Gems!}