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Book Haul #1
Hello! 🙂 We recorded our first book haul video this week, and we’re excited to share it with you! We’re still working on our filming skills and getting used to talking in front of a camera, but we hope you enjoy! Thank you for watching! – Mattie Grace and Amelia
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DIY Bookmark Tutorial
Hello everyone! We both love having a variety of bookmarks, and we wanted to make a couple more and show you how we made them. We hope you enjoy! Teacup Bookmark – by Amelia Materials: A ruler A paint palette Scissors A piece of cardstock or thick watercolor paper Two colors of watercolor paint (I used red and blue) Water A smaller flat paintbrush A pencil A fine-liner or felt tip pen Washi tape (optional) Cut out a 2 1/4″ x 6 1/2″ piece of cardstock or watercolor paper. The bookmark can be customized to whatever size you would like. 2. Next draw the teacup about 3/4 of an inch from…
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Afternoon Tea
Hi everyone! Last week, we went to the European Delicatessen near our house for the first time. We wanted to buy some tea and to look around the store. They have a wide selection of tea, as well as food from many different European countries. Most of the packaging was in different languages, so deciding what we should buy was a challenge. Along with our tea, we also bought some cookies and chocolate. We purchased English Afternoon tea, which is very similar to English Breakfast tea, but Afternoon tea has bergamot in it, which is a citrus fruit. We liked this tea! It was a little bitter, but once we…
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May Journal Spreads
Hello! This is Amelia. I’m going to show you some of my May journal spreads! Again, this was another month of experiments, but I am sure that every month of spreads will be that way as I try to figure out what works best for me! There are plenty of things I would change now with these, as well as a few things I will probably take to the next month! This cover page was kind of a last minute idea that I decided to go with, and that definitely shows through! I am not a fan of the flowers I drew on this page, but because May is my…
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Recipe Review: Mini Pound Cake
Hello! A couple of weeks ago we followed a lemon blueberry crumble recipe by CookingClassy.com that we had never tried before. We were excited to try a new recipe and we were also eager to review it for our blog, so we quickly got to work. We worked hard to prepare it and we even waited for it to cool, and then just as we cut the first slice, Mattie accidentally dropped a plate onto the edge of the crumble pan! It fell straight onto our crumble and shattered into a million tiny pieces. It was inedible, much to our despair! Mattie: After realizing that there were too many tiny…
