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Hand Address Wedding Invitations?

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Our daughter will be ordering wedding invitations soon. Do we still have to ‘hand address’ wedding invitations? Can we use a great script font and pretty foil labels? Is that acceptable today? Thank you. What a great question. There are so many beautiful ways to address invitations now. It’s strictly a matter of your personal preference, budget, and what’s popular where you live. A wedding invitation is a once-in-a-lifetime (one hopes) opportunity to create a memorable document that reflects the […]

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Birthday Lemon Tarts

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Lewis Carroll’s Birthday Lemon Tarts The basic recipe for these tarts came from the Rose Bakery Cookbook. I saved time by making the tart dough the day before and freezing it. Makes: 20 tartlets Prep time: 90 minutes, plus 90 minutes for the dough to cool in the refrigerator For the tart dough: For the lemon filling: For the lemon curd: For the Filling:

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Travel to Scotland?

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I just discovered your blog. How uplifting! Thank you! I came across your blog from Ireland. I am of Irish/Scottish decent. Have you been to Scotland? If so, do share. I’ve visited Scotland and I love it more than almost anyplace I’ve ever been. The Highlands are magnificent, and while I don’t know exactly how much Scottish ancestry I possess, it felt like home.  There’s such strength of character in the Scottish soul, and the subtle and understated sense of […]

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Lewis Carroll’s Birthday Lemon Tarts

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We’ve reached the point in frozen January when even the smallest thing is cause for celebration. When I read that today was the birthday of Lewis Carroll, the author of “Alice in Wonderland,” it seemed like the perfect opportunity to make some old-fashioned Victorian tea party sweet – and what’s more Alice-ish than lemon tarts? I love everything to do with the folklore of Alice in Wonderland, the sideways manner of looking at the world, the whimsicality and gentle oddness […]

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