This month’s food styling post is all about how I conceptualize and work through ideas. I’ve been making these Instagram banners for 3 months now. Like most ideas, this one…
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Home & Garden Category
Browse dozens of posts on how to keep your home and garden in tip top shape on BetsyLife.com. Cleaning and organizing tips. Garden planting and harvesting guides and tips, as well as garden friendly recipes and troubleshooting. Plus, ideas on how to style your home and great deals on home decor items. Find an answer to every home and garden question.
Crispy Spiralized Zucchini Nests
Spiralized zucchini, breadcrumbs, cheese and herbs come together simply to make these crispy nest fritters. The perfect vessel for a runny egg. A great light summer recipe, that comes fresh…
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Bacon Pasta with Grilled Zucchini & Roasted Tomatoes
Bacon, pasta and grilled vegetables make for a tasty and seasonal summer recipe. Take your garden harvest, throw it on the grill, and combine it with bacon (truly makes everything…
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Complete Guide to Spring Cleaning Success
What exactly is spring cleaning in relation to general housekeeping? At what point does regular cleaning turn into the seemingly more massive task that is “spring cleaning”? For me, spring…
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Welcome To My New Home
Welcome to my new home in the Longfellow neighborhood of Oakland, California I know Betsylife has been unusually quiet on the recipe front lately, but as you all know I’ve…
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Want to Make Amazing Coffee Drinks? Here’s How.
One of my mottos in life is “Coffee is always the answer”. If you know me well, you’ve probably heard me say this on more than one occasion. If you’re…
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Greatest Cleaning Tricks Ever!
Spring time is for fresh beginnings, which is why the idea of spring cleaning is so popular. What’s better than a fresh and super clean house? I’ll admit that I…
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Artisan Bread Baking Class with Urban Craft Camp
Recently I’ve begun teaching an occasional food craft class through Urban Craft Camp. In the summer it was a pickling and preserving class, and once fall rolled around they asked me…
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Easy Cucumber Salad
Easy Cucumber Salad. Vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, herbs and vegetables. There’s nothing fresher than that. Cucumbers are one of the top 5 quintessential summer vegetables am I right? They’re…
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How to Make Your T-Shirts Feel Vintage Soft
Want to know how to make a t-shirt soft? There was a time in my life where I wore only thrift store vintage t-shirts. You know the ones. They are…
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Obsessions, Lately
While my camera is still in the shop, I thought I’d share with you guys some things that I’ve been crazy about lately. Summer is right around the corner and…
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Foolproof Children’s Birthday Cake Decorating
Over the weekend a very happy little girl turned the big 0-2. It has really been a joy for me seeing Leila go from tiny little conehead in the hospital,…
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5 awesome things
I know I’ve been a little “Debbie Downer” lately with tax season sucking the life out of me and all, so I wanted to end the week on a high…
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The lemon dilemma
As you may know, its lemon month for Seasonal Potluck. Since Kelley lives in Chicago, and I live in San Diego, often our “seasons” are slightly off in terms of…
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Weekending
I’m in the midst of a lazy Sunday today. I’ve done very little this weekend and it has been great! I’m almost done with the book I’m reading, and finally…
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