This past week I went through my closet and purged a good chunk of clothes I never wear anymore. I love doing this a couple times a year to make room for new clothes and because I don't need to hoard every single item I've ever owned just in case I decide to start wearing it again- this never happens, don't kid yourself.

It's the end of July and I couldn't even tell you where me entire summer's gone. Anyone you talk to is trying to jam pack all the summer-y things into the few short weeks we've got left, before we're forced to pull out the parkas and boots- which, to be fair,  does comes with some top notch outfits... very small trade off. I know.

Bon Appetite is a beautifully curated magazine for the foodies of the world. The layout, the recipes, the pictures- they really do a fabulous job of capturing everything I could want from a magazine including this delicious carrot cake recipe Mikaela came across the other day while flipping through.

Often, Pam and I find these really neat ideas floating on the web, send them to each other and say "Oh wow, we need to do this for the blog!"  I'd say between the two of us, we're pretty darn crafty and really good at creating things... but that doesn't mean they always look as amazing as we expect them to. Fast forward to Wednesday, when we made something that actually looked exactly as we expected it to, which if you know anything about DIYs or internet crafts it's a very rare occurrence.

I'm not going to lie, I am really bad at keeping my veeeery long paper trail of receipts, invoices and well...just anything made of paper organized. It's mostly due to having an inadequate place to store things. I work in a very small space so if my papers aren't neatly tucked away in a drawer or sorted, everything ends up in a paper box and never to be seen again...until I desperately need it and I'm frantically sorting through a years worth of junk. It's a problem.

So instead of sorting (pun intended) my problems out head on, I came up with this cracking idea to DIY a pretty looking box to store all my papers in. This is all in the hopes that one day I will sift through everything - so far, it's working out pretty great.

In my Youtube subscription box this week from TeenVogue, popped up this amazing video for Lucky Charm ice-cream sandwiches....Lucky Charm treats are something that I make on a decent basis using this super simple recipe here! Think Rice crispy squares but substituting one childhood cereal for the next. Amazing. Now taking something so gooey, sugary and delicious to the next level was almost too much for me to handle, which meant I had to share it with you!

I remember being probably 6 or 7 and owning a tie-dyed orange red and yellow scrunchie that matched my bright orange and red beach sarong with outlines of geckos on it. Extremely fashionable, I know. When I was that young I had absolutely no reason for liking something unless it held a certain function, and this scrunchie, simply kept all my hair back(which, at that age, was just as a large of a task as it is now). There's not a defining moment I can think of when I stopped wearing it, I just remember it being something I loved and then totally forgot about.

Walking into our basement, you are welcomed by a shelving unit that is filled with 20 plus photo albums from our childhood. Last week my sister was flipping through them and sent me a picture of our old kitten wrapped.. or smothered in my blanket with my arms wrapped around the poor thing (I was potentially obsessed with the kitten). It's such a goofy picture but it reminded me how amazing film photography is and how I have been more inclined to reach for my Minolta XG1 and shoot with a roll of film rather than my DSLR.

The plan for this weeks post was to make super yummy fruit cubes you could put into your yogurt for breakfast, or defrost them into a jar for a quick smoothie, or to snack on them throughout the day... but to be perfectly honest the did not turn out. So, what follows is my super cute photos of fruit and even mushy-er fruit!

Monkey pull apart bread is a recipe I stumble across more times than I can count, yet I've never made it... mostly because it looks so complicated and I never take the time to actually read through the recipe. Good news all around though, it's extremely easy to make, 100% fool proof and it's pretty much a dream come true with bread, cinnamon, sugar and butter being the only ingredients. Need I say more?

If a stranger were to come into my house not knowing a single thing about myself or my family, they'd most likely walk out with three solid assumptions, which would be 100% accurate. First, we have an abundance of shoes. Second, we really really like food. Third, we could open a plant observatory with the amount of plants situated throughout the house.

Something everyone needs, loves and collects whether you'd like to admit that or not. My mug collection has slowly been growing over the past few years and to be honest, nothing makes me happier! There's something about opening up your cupboard and choosing a mug suiting your mood at that exact second, or picking the perfect mug for the evening company you over for causal chit-chat and desserts.

Anything falling under the category of dessert (and of course chips... lots of chips) is the key to our hearts. This is a chocolate chip cookie recipe I found while creeping Tanya Burr's blog! It is hands down the easiest recipe I have ever made, and to be honest, the most delicious. These cookies are so large that the entire recipe only makes about 10 cookies... and yes it's completely acceptable to eat an entire cookie, maybe even two!