Updated House Tour: The Girls’ Room

June 10, 2014 by Aliesha

The girls share a room and Jude has his own. The girls’ room has not changed much since the last time I posted about it, but since I’m updating my house tour page, I thought I should include this room too.

The room is bright, colorful, and playful, just like my spunky girls.

Most things in the room were DIY (including the lovely “art” on the wall behind the rocker… ahem).

The girls’ closet is makeshift, since our house was built in the 1920’s and has very few closets.

I love their gallery wall. We recently cleaned up the toy area and moved some things around so that this corner would be less “junky.”

We still have a changing table in the room, though I stole the pad off the top for Jude’s room. We always change CC on the floor anyway. Hopefully she will potty train soon and we can move the table out completely!

Vera is in a toddler bed now, and she does really well with it.

We have lots of children’s books. This shelf contains only some of them; the rest are in the living room.

If you recall, this is the “before” shot of what this room looked like when we moved in!

Thanks for joining me today on a tour of the girls’ room!

Whole Wheat Cranberry Zucchini Bread

June 9, 2014 by Aliesha

This post has also been posted on Baking Whole Grains, a site I write for which compensates me for sharing whole grain recipes. While I receive compensation, this does not influence my opinions. All photos and directions are my own.

Around the holidays, I always buy a few extra bags of cranberries when they are on sale to save for recipes like this one! The tart pop of winter berries pairs so well with the sweetness of honey in this bread. It’s a great way to enjoy the summer bounty of zucchini as well!

You won’t feel guilty eating this bread for breakfast since it’s made with whole grains, natural sweeteners, zucchini, and cranberries. It’s a great way to feed all those things to your kids as well!

adapted from here

Whole Wheat Cranberry Zucchini Bread

Cook time

50 mins

Total time

50 mins

Author: Aliesha @ Feathers in Our Nest

Recipe type: Bread

Serves: 1 loaf

Ingredients

2 cups whole wheat flour, freshly ground
2 eggs
⅓ cup honey
½ cup olive oil
⅓ cup sucanat or brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. baking powder
2 cups shredded, unpeeled zucchini
1 cup cranberries (frozen or fresh)

Instructions

Grind wheat in the WonderMill. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan.
In a bowl (or the base of a stand mixer), combine eggs, honey, olive oil, sugar, and vanilla. When mixed, add salt, baking soda, baking powder, and flour.
Fold in (by hand) zucchini and cranberries, mixing just until combined.
Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes until golden brown, top is slightly cracked, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack completely before slicing.

Enjoy!

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Updated House Tour: Master Bedroom

June 7, 2014 by Aliesha

It’s been forever since I updated our house tour page, so I’m going to start working on that!

First up, here is our master bedroom as it looked this morning.

When we walk in our bedroom, I want it to feel like a haven, and like a peaceful place that isn’t filled with junk or kids toys. (I know, high standards.) We got our headboard this spring, and it’s been so nice for reading in bed or nursing Jude! I don’t know how we did without it!

Since we just moved Jude into his own room, we had to do some switcheroos. My dresser became his new dresser, and I got this one. The room he moved into was our office, so my desk and computer moved into our room.

I like keeping my dresser clear of miscellaneous things so I can display pretty things on it!

I think I’ll probably keep my desk area more organized and clutter-free since it’s in our bedroom now.

I am planning on painting this chair… but what color? I was initially planning on white, but maybe black would be nice? My mom made the pretty coffee filter wreath on the closet door. I bought these lamps before we were married and I knew I would love them always.