tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88089863164114423692024-03-18T03:18:33.572-04:00Julie Ann EventsCreating your reason to get together...Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.comBlogger374125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-5350228684553458852019-11-21T06:00:00.000-05:002019-11-22T19:50:20.411-05:00Pretty Pumpkins.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanksgiving is later than normal this year, and while we still have a pumpkin sitting out on our porch, we're also excited about the next holiday. There seem to be two types of people in this world... ones who decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving and ones who wait until after Thanksgiving to get ready for Christmas. In our house we definitely are ones who decorate before Thanksgiving but wait until after Thanksgiving to decorate our live tree. </div>
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As we think about Thanksgiving, we make lists of all the good things in our life. We're thankful for each one of you who support our small business and encourage us along the way, whether it's simply following us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/julie_ann_events/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, liking our pictures, sharing our work, and reaching out to us through messages, each interaction with you is greatly appreciated. We're thankful for the growth our family has made over the past year and a half since we've moved back to the Myrtle Beach area. Thankful for all the people we've met and the positive impact they have had on our lives. We're very thankful for friends we knew before we left and the strong support system they continue to give us even after the years we were gone from the area, they are the reminder of why we chose to move back to this area. And finally, we look ahead with excitement to what's in store for us in the coming year. We're so grateful for new doors that are opening for us and we step out in faith and boldness. </div>
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Happy Thanksgiving to each one of you! We hope you get to eat a slice of your favorite pie. </div>
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<br />Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-14937087319969081552019-10-28T06:00:00.000-04:002019-10-28T06:00:09.835-04:00Pampas Grass & Pink Pumpkins.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year our fall centerpiece contains a mix of pink and white pumpkins, pink carnations, baby's breath, and pampas grass. We love the fullness that pampas grass provides. We started off by laying down the pampas grass for our base. Then we started layering the baby's breath at random intervals among the pampas grass. </div>
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We took the mini pumpkins that we had painted pink and the white pumpkins and placed them in the center of our arrangement. Painting orange pumpkins pink was a simple procedure of applying just a couple coats. We kept the white pumpkins their original color and I love their natural stem adding color to the centerpiece. </div>
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Pink carnations finished off the look of our centerpiece, which we tucked into the arrangement in random places. The flowers were the perfect filler for any holes to help make the arrangement fuller.</div>
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-36699271684641862242019-10-21T06:00:00.000-04:002019-10-21T06:00:01.725-04:00Pampas Grass Trend.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here in South Carolina, we are surrounded by pampas grass. It's commonly used in landscaping for homes and businesses around our area. Mandy Moore seemed to have kicked off the pampas grass trend when she used it to decorate for her dreamy wedding. And we're finally finding ways to embrace it in our events as well. Some of the wonderful things about pampas grass are that it provides so much fullness which can be used in arches at the end of an aisle, used to line the aisle that the bride walks down to meet her groom, and used to add fullness to any table centerpiece. The stalks are so long as well, which makes it easy to cut them down to the size that you need them for. </div>
Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-6374173614017056342019-10-14T06:00:00.000-04:002019-10-14T06:00:00.621-04:00It's Getting Batty In Here.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks to our friend, Jenny, for coming up with that creative title on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/julie_ann_events/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>! To add some holiday decor to our home, we hand cut a couple dozen bats out of black construction paper and added a big impact to our wall. We've found that a pack of construction paper can go a long way in adding decorations to any party. For our bats, we used two different sizes. We placed the larger size closer to the floor and the smaller bats further up on the wall as they are flying off!<br />
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We purchased some skulls from Target and spray painted them white to help them blend in with the other decor of our home. Placing them around white and pink pumpkins, add the perfect holiday spook to our home. We took mini orange pumpkins and painted with a couple coats of pink paint that we had in our supply closet.<br />
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Cute little inexpensive ways to add holiday decor to your home!<br />
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-17846415119831063262019-10-07T06:00:00.000-04:002019-10-07T06:00:09.622-04:00Bat Cake.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This simple cake would add a strong impact to your Halloween party! The bats are cut out of black construction paper and applied with a little dot of buttercream icing to help them stick to the cake. We used three different sizes of bats to add depth to the blank white canvas. Another tip we have is to make sure you add an odd number of bats to your cake because we all know that odd numbers are better than even when it comes to design!</div>
Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-16231459778681504902019-10-04T13:13:00.000-04:002019-10-04T13:14:55.009-04:00Halloween Trick or Treat... Let's Focus On The Treat!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When October 1st hit us this year, it was time to start thinking about Halloween! While I've got one child who has planned out her costume throughout the year and then changed it just to change it again, we were ready to start baking ups some sweet treats. We started off with spooky cupcakes... using the Wilton buttercream icing recipe, we iced our homemade chocolate cupcakes into ghoulish piles and topped them with off with some candy eyes! Custom DIY cupcake wrappers were made with black construction paper. Let us know if you try these simple treats for your holiday party! </div>
Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-19348184172431000542019-04-08T06:00:00.000-04:002019-04-08T06:54:24.958-04:00Spring Picnic In The Park.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When the weather starts warming up and the thick yellow pollen disappears, it's the perfect time of the year to get out and have a spring picnic in the park. The weekend was made for family time together at our local park. We styled this shoot with a soft color pallet in mind... pastels and natural wood elements were our key ingredients. The morning of our shoot, we baked a simple boxed white cake and minimally iced it in the "naked" style with icing out of a container. Keeping everything as simple as possible allowed us to remain stress-free.</div>
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If you've been following my blog since we've moved back to South Carolina, you'll know that Trader Joe's is my favorite spot to pick up inexpensive, quality flowers and greenery. Now if only TJ's could open up in Myrtle Beach, my life would no longer have to consist of driving to Wilmington or Charleston to pick up my favorites. It's well worth the drive to purchase affordable cheese and other favorite TJ's products. Thankfully, Aldi is here in Myrtle Beach, and that is another favorite grocery store of ours to purchase affordable fresh fruit, drinks, and crackers. Is there any shoot complete without a trip into Target? We picked up these Cadbury Shimmer Mini Eggs for our picnic photo shoot to keep with the subtle spring/Easter theme.</div>
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My family is troopers to support my photo shoot whims. It can sometimes be challenging to get kids excited about sitting still for pictures, but having the food available for them to snack on during this shoot and to eat while we shot pictures kept them preoccupied and in good spirits. It was important to remain flexible for this entire photo shoot as the purpose behind it changed, 30 minutes prior to the shoot the actual location changed, and I seemed to have forgotten so many details in the rush of getting out the door. Like so many times in life, unexpected things come up and it's important to just go with the flow. </div>
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-2528962980555699512019-04-01T06:00:00.000-04:002019-04-09T19:33:04.082-04:00Is Fresh Pasta All It's Cracked Up To Be?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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A friend (hello again Jenny), mentioned that her dad had just given her a fresh pasta maker, to which I excitedly informed her that making fresh pasta was a bucket list item for me. And with that, I embarked on my first pasta making experience.</div>
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<i>2 Cups of All-Purpose Flour</i></div>
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<i>2 Whole Eggs</i></div>
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<i>6 Egg yolks</i></div>
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<i>1 Tablespoon of Olive Oil</i></div>
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<i>Sprinkling of Salt</i></div>
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Albeit, my well broke early in the process as I was trying to incorporate my eggs into the flour, but I refused to panic and continued making my dough. After kneading my dough for ten minutes, I allowed it to rest for a little over an hour at room temperature while I went and picked my son up from school.<br />
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So what was our verdict? Making fresh pasta noodles was not as intimidating as I had built it up in my mind. I definitely want to make more pasta in the future. Would I ever use the box of dried pasta noodles that I can purchase from my local grocery store? Definitely. Is it worth taking the time to make fresh pasta noodles? Definitely. The taste is superior even when it's the next day and you're reheating your meal. We served our fettuccini with a simple butter, garlic, pasta water, and parmesan cheese. The pasta water creates a sauce and a nice coating on the noodles, leaving them the star of the dish.</div>
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Ten years ago, I was introduced to this recipe at a weekly toddler playgroup. The recipe comes from the book Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day. What I love about it, is how simple it is to make! I throw all the ingredients into a container and just keep it in my refrigerator for up to two weeks!</div>
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Throw all those ingredients into a container with a lid and it makes having fresh bread for a meal a quick addition. I also like to use this recipe to make my pizza crust with. </div>
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Brunch is the perfect menu for a baby shower as it keeps the menu simple and easy. Plus, don't you love throwing an earlier party to have the rest of your day to relax? We had the help of two other ladies that offered to make yogurt parfaits and a mimosa bar for the meal. The menu also included fresh fruit and mini muffins that were picked up from a grocery store on the morning of the party. </div>
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Quiche is the perfect main course dish to add elegance to the table, especially when baked in a tart pan... there's just something about those fluted edges that look so beautiful. We were able to make the quiches ahead of time and serve them at room temperature for the actual event. This eliminated the need to time serving food and the arrival of guests perfectly. We served three different quiche options, using the base recipe of <a href="https://entertainingwithbeth.com/" target="_blank">Entertaining With Beth</a>. You can click on her foolproof quiche recipe {<a href="https://entertainingwithbeth.com/beths-foolproof-quiche-recipe/" target="_blank">here</a>}. Her site and YouTube channel is a wonderful source for meal planning! Guests were invited to try a crab and brie quiche, an asparagus quiche, and also Beth's tomato tart {<a href="https://entertainingwithbeth.com/tomato-tart-provencal-3/" target="_blank">here</a>}.</div>
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I have this friend that has taught me all I know about sugar cookies. (Shout out to Jenny!) And when I threw a baby shower this past weekend, I enlisted her help in showing me how to dip each cookie in white icing instead of piping the royal icing onto each cookie. This new technique was game-changing for the way we decorate cookies in the future. Dipping the cookies into royal icing speeds up the process considerably and is easier on your hands. </div>
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The plain white background on each cookie provided the perfect backdrop to create whatever we wanted for the design of our baby shower. I added gold stars and then painted random gold stripes on half of the cookies. On the other half of the sugar cookies, I mimicked the invitation design in edible ink marker. </div>
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-69512735761019861972019-02-25T06:00:00.000-05:002019-03-31T14:48:10.936-04:00Baby Shower Invitations For Twins.<div style="text-align: center;">
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We threw an intimate baby shower for our dear friend who was pregnant with not just one baby, but two! Oh, baby baby! Twins are on the way. For our shower invitations, we immediately went to Etsy in search of the perfect invite that would capture the essence of our event. We purchased these cute invitations from {<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MyConfettiPrintables?ref=shop_sugg" target="_blank">My Confetti Printables</a>}. We loved that not only the invite was part of the package, but also two card inserts to encourage guests to bring books and diapers to the shower. A thank you card in the same design was included as well for the mother to be to use to thank all of the guests who gave gifts. Sound like a big package? It didn't stop there. There was also printables for envelopes as well. Just wanted to give My Confetti Printables a huge shout out for providing such a beautiful package. Be sure to check out their other designs as well. </div>
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-79404033804383340352019-02-19T06:00:00.000-05:002019-02-23T17:35:35.040-05:00My New Love Of Homemade Vegan Pizza.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The hardest thing about homemade pizza is finding the patience to wait while the dough rises for the crust. But making your own pizza from scratch is so satisfying, tasty, and easy on the budget. Plus, where are you going to find gourmet vegan pizza and know exactly what went into making it? We found ourselves at home on a Saturday afternoon and with the cooler temperatures, having a make your own pizza party was the perfect activity to warm us up and bring some laughter into our household. </div>
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Since my 40th birthday, I'm been making more of an effort to eat a vegan diet so my two pizza's consisted of vegan mozzarella cheese and vegan parmesan cheese. This was the first time trying my hand at vegan pizza, and working with these two cheeses. I wasn't completely sure how the cheese would melt and end up tasting, but I was so happy with the end result. I've linked the cheeses I used at the end of this post that you can purchase on my Amazon site. </div>
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The first pizza, I kept simple with an olive oil base with crushed garlic. I added both kinds of cheese, and during the last five minutes of baking, sprinkled fresh spinach leaves on top. The second pizza I added a fig jam spread for the base, caramelized onions that I made while the pizza dough was rising, both kinds of cheeses, and finished it off with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar after it came out of the oven. Both recipes were so simple and yet so flavorful.</div>
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-80073909813683675492019-02-08T06:00:00.000-05:002019-02-08T06:00:04.016-05:00Chinese New Year Fortune Cookies DIY.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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We laid out our unwrapped fortune cookies on parchment paper, melted a pack of white and pink Wilton Candy Melts in a double boiler on the stove, and had fun dipping the cookie into the chocolate. Immediately after the cookie came out the chocolate we added colored sprinkles in varying textures and set them out to dry on a clean sheet of parchment paper.<br />
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This was our first time tasting chocolate dipped fortune cookies, and like most things chocolate, you just can't go wrong with such a fun addition. This dish added such a fun pop of color to our table and helped to tie the colors of our party together. Let us know if the comment section if you decided to give this a try! We'd love to hear how it turns out!<br />
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Fireworks are a huge part of warding off the bad spirits and keeping away evil during the Chinese New Year holiday. You will hear them all over the city and will be able to see their beauty in the sky throughout the night. For our Chinese New Year Party, we wanted to incorporate some modern decorations into the theme. We created these yarn tassels as a nod to the fireworks that play such an important role in the celebration. Our party colors were pinks with a touch of red, and so we chose our yarn colors accordingly. </div>
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Dessert tables are one of our favorite to style for any party. This past week, our Chinese New Year dessert table was no exception. We tried to remain as authentic as possible with the theme of this event. Bamboo steamers were used to serve cupcakes and little candies from. We purchased almond cookies from World Market. Sweet rice crackers offered a gluten free option for those with special dietary needs. </div>
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Oranges are considered one of the lucky fruits to eat during the new year celebration. The round orange symbolize fullness and wealth. In Chinese, the sound of the word orange sounds very similar to the word success, and even has a symbol in the word orange that also has the word luck in it. These golden fruits are synonymous with the holiday. </div>
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It is very traditional to pass out red packets with money inside to children or to employees during this season. The red packet is to bring good luck and well wishes to the person it is being given to. For our dessert table, we added a bowl of chocolate coins in homage to the hongbao tradition. The final element to our dessert table was chocolate covered fortune cookies that we decorated with sprinkles. The fortune cookie is iconic in North America with Chinese food, but it is such a foreign concept in China. </div>
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Xīn Nián Kuà i Lè! Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the pig and we celebrated it with a small dumpling making party in our home for friends and family. After having learned several times from several different home cooks back in China, how to make dumplings from scratch, Mister Julie Ann Events and I tried to pass our knowledge on to our friends. We had a fun evening rolling out dough and pleating the little packets into dumplings that would taste good and hopefully stay together once we cooked them!</div>
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For our menu, we offered a variety of authentic Chinese dishes for our guests. After a successful trip to the Asian food market in Wilmington, North Carolina and the Hong Kong Supermarket in Myrtle Beach, we had fresh vegetables, herbs, snack food, and spices that are all authentic to China. We offered a variety of vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free menu item as well as food items for the meat eaters in our party. The one glaringly inauthentic menu item was in our appetizers of hummus and kalamata olives. We served tiny cherry tomatoes which is a food item that provides the lucky red color important in Chinese culture.</div>
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-12459285016532882512019-01-29T06:00:00.000-05:002019-03-05T21:25:26.910-05:00Embracing 40 - Happy Birthday To Me! <div style="text-align: justify;">
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I approached this milestone birthday with trepidation and dread. Forty just sounded so old to me! However, as I celebrated my birth, I found myself walking around the historic downtown area of Charleston with my best friend of twenty-one years and I realized getting older wasn't so bad after all. Armed with Jon Gordon's book, The Energy Bus, I decided it was time to approach this new chapter in my life with all the positive energy I could in order to embrace each day with positive enthusiasm to change the way I looked at life. <br />
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With this milestone birthday comes the wisdom that the last forty years have brought. Life experiences that I have lived and learned from. Relationships loved and lost. My own personal emotional peaks and valleys that I have walked. And all this to bring me to where I am today. A little more solid in knowing who I am and what I want. Understanding where I want my life to go, but more importantly, knowing that there is the greater good of the life of our immediate family that I must take into consideration and knowing where that is headed. Picking up in suburbia again and plowing through the monotonous grind of each day. And through it all finding the joy in each moment. Being thankful that I am healthy enough to celebrate life each day with my family. Surrounding myself with the relationships that matter the most to me and intentionally keeping our circle small and intimate. Speaking my truth. For this I am thankful and I celebrate the past forty years of my life. </div>
Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-36315848820791989462019-01-23T19:46:00.001-05:002019-02-06T22:14:17.743-05:00Where To Find Quirky Coffee Table Books.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We all love a good coffee table book, and finding the right books that suit your personal style can be difficult. There's your traditional book stores like Barnes & Noble and Books A Million, where you're guaranteed to find something generic and will definitely fill up that blank space on your coffee table. But we personally love books that speak to who we are as individuals. </div>
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Many times finding the perfect book involves searching through bespoke, independently owned shops that don't specialize in books, yet carry unique titles. For example, our Wes Anderson book came from a little furniture shop on a side street in Sag Harbor. We picked it up 4th of July weekend one summer while we were meandering through the area, enjoying the holiday. We purchased a truly unique book featuring art made in North Korea from a pop up shop in Beijing. The images and the content of the book, Made In North Korea: Graphics From Everyday Life In The DPRK are special and not widely available to the public. </div>
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However, it's understandable that a specialty shop in the Hamptons or China may not be accessible to you, and that's where Urban Outfitters comes in. We love picking up unique coffee table books there! This post is not sponsored by them, we just love everything we find when we walk into the store and browse through their home goods section. I've linked their books at the bottom of this post.<br />
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Julie Ann Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900160801908177492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808986316411442369.post-43104556380026130772019-01-14T20:23:00.000-05:002019-01-23T20:24:33.892-05:00Challah French Toast... Finding Out What The Hype Is All About. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ina Garten sings praises to challah bread french toast and since the perfect loaf was staring me in the face at my local Publix grocery store, I placed it in my cart and took it home with me. Challah bread is eaten more frequently in Jewish households for ceremonial meals, such as the Sabbath. I'm not too familiar with the challah bread culture, since we did not grow up eating it in my house. However, with Ina's recommendation in the back of my head and my love for carbs, I was a happy girl as I checked out of the store. </div>
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Challah is an egg bread that does not contain dairy, and I found it to be deliciously soft to the touch. I sliced the bread into 3/4 inch thick slices and then proceeded to dip each slice into my regular french toast mixture of eggs, vanilla, sugar, and cinnamon beaten together. The end result was very tasty french toast, but was it the best french toast I've ever had? So many times the hype does not live up to the reality, so I was a tad bit disappointed. Don't go in to the experience with high expectations and I'm sure it would be a mind blowing meal. Would I make it again? Most definitely. </div>
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Have you ever celebrated Chinese New Year? After having spent the past 4 years in Hong Kong and Beijing, we have been introduced to this wonderful celebration that we plan to continue back here in the United States. </div>
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Although we're familiar with the nomadic lifestyle, it is not our family that is moving this time, but another family who is relocating to Tanzania. We got asked to style the going away party for the family that was moving, and were more than happy to oblige. The venue was held after hours at a coffee shop and allowed friends of the family to drop in and say farewell before they fly out in a couple days.<br />
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We chose to incorporate globes and maps into the design scheme, since the family was moving to another country. Vintage suitcases were used to hold farewell cards for the family as well as to create height for framed photos on display. Throughout the picture table we placed authentic handcrafted knick knacks from Africa that the family has picked up over their years of travel to the continent. </div>
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Since we were back in the United States, we resumed our annual Christmas Cookie Exchange party and decided to combine it with an Ugly Sweater Party. These Candy Cane Kiss Crinkle Cookies were our contribution. It's probably a little risky to make a big batch of cookies for the first time that will be going to twenty different homes, yet here we were experimenting with how to make these cookies for the first time and have them turn out looking deliciously like cookies and not resembling candy striped nipples. Here is our recipe and tips on how we made them. The key was to keep the dough cold... and the kisses frozen.<br />
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<i>2 1/2 Cups Butter</i><br />
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<i>2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract</i><br />
<i>6 Cups All Purpose Flour</i><br />
<i>2 teaspoons Baking Powder</i><br />
<i>1 teaspoon Salt</i><br />
<i>4-6 Peppermint Candy Canes</i><br />
<i>Granulated White Sugar </i><br />
<i>60(+) Unwrapped Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses</i><br />
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I surprised myself and my immediate family members that know me so well, when a small part of me did not want to decorate for Christmas this year. We had just purchased our house 3 months earlier, and we were still working on the basic decor of the home, the thought of putting up a Christmas tree in every room exhausted me! But then our relatives that live far away decided this Christmas was the perfect time to come down from Canada to celebrate the season with us, so in true Julie Ann Events tradition, the Christmas trees went up the day after Halloween. We pulled out all of our trees and decorations that had been sitting in storage for the past four years and decked our halls.<br />
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In our formal living room, we went with a basic tree and trimmed it with neutral color palette, using primarily all white and silver decorations. The tree popped nicely off of our bright pink floor rug. After four years of not seeing our annual holiday decorations, it was fun to pull out what we have had and incorporate the Christmas decorations we purchased in Hong Kong and China. There was a fun mix of bespoke ornaments interspersed with Ikea ornaments!<br />
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How many Christmas trees is too many? I asked that question out on our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/julie_ann_events/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> feed. In our family room, I put up three trees around our television. I used colored ornaments that I had purchased on clearance from Target 4 years ago and never had an opportunity to use since we moved. Unconsciously I had also purchased a garland in a coordinating color scheme from a market in Hong Kong. It worked perfectly to tie all three trees together. White star tree toppers on each tree pulled the look together.<br />
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One room in our home held our family tree, which is hands down my favorite tree of the house. We wait till the day after (American) Thanksgiving to pick out a live tree and hang our family ornaments on it that hold sentimental meaning to us throughout the years. There's a heart ornament I made in the third grade, snowmen footprints that all three of our kids made that one year we had three kids living in our house, the yearly ornaments that we buy each of our kids which one day they will take with them to their own homes, and the ornaments from our first Christmas spent together. It's under this tree that the gifts we give out reside, and where we sit in front of on Christmas morning to open stockings and read Luke 2 as a family.<br />
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We managed to put up eight trees up this year, and next year we hope to add four more to that number. Christmas is the one holiday I go all out in decorating for, since it's such a significant holiday in the spiritual life of our personal family. We truly enjoy celebrating the birth of Jesus, and continuing the traditions we have established as a family. It's such a special time in the year to celebrate with those we love dearly.<br />
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