Kimberly

Kimberly is so grateful to be living in the sunny South Bay with her loving husband and 2 fun-loving children! She enjoys spending time with friends and family, entertaining, reading, crafting, playing at the beach, traveling, fashion, beauty, steaming hot soy lattes and good wine!

MB’s Annual Holiday Open House & Pier Lighting {Event}

Manhattan Beach 18th Annual Open House & 23rd Annual Pier Lighting

Since moving to Manhattan Beach 3 and a half years ago, we have looked forward to the annual holiday open house and pier lighting event held in downtown Manhattan Beach each year! It is a festive way to kick of the holiday season and enjoy the strong sense of community in the South Bay. Local [...]

Wild: From Lost to Found on The Pacific Crest Trail {Book Club}

Wild {Book Club}

This month our book club read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Wild is a memoir written by a women whose life is set into a tailspin at age twenty-two after losing her young mother to cancer. Cheryl describes her failed attempts at keeping her siblings and her [...]

Our Halloween Traditions

Madeline's Butterfly by Cola Smith

It seems like this month flew by! Can you believe today is Halloween day!? Are you ready for trick-or-treating and the sugar highs? Over the years my family has developed several Halloween traditions that make this holiday even that much more memorable for us. Aside from enjoying an evening filled with of costumes, pumpkin carving, [...]

4 Minute Pom Pom Bows {DIY}

4 Minute Pom Pom Bows

Having a coordinating hair accessory for each and every outfit is easy with 4 Minute Pom Pom Bows! These simple DIY bows take just minutes to make and require only a few supplies. Whether you make bows to coordinate with each outfit in your child’s closet or make bows for her entire soccer team, these bows are [...]

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken parmesan is one of my all-time favorite Italian meals! I learned to make a magically delicious batch of chicken parm a few years ago from my friend. Here’s the recipe that she shared with me. I hope you enjoy it!  Ingredients: 6 chicken breasts, fat cut off, and pounded out 4 eggs 1 1/2 [...]

Halloween Cupcakes ~ They’re So Cute It’s SCARY!

RIP Tombstones

Halloween celebrations are filled with all types of spooktacular sweets and treats . I always admired the spirited and creative cupcakes I saw online and in magazines that really captured the essence of the festivities. A few years ago I challenged myself to give this crafty cupcake decorating a whirl and since then it has been an [...]

Simple and Chic Fall Tablescape {Guest Contributor}

Simple and Chic Fall Tablescape

Hi! I am Kelli, Kimberly’s soon-to-be sister-in-law. Last week I set my table for the Fall season and sent Kimberly a few pictures. She loved the details and ideas and asked me to write this article to share my tablescape with all of you! I love all the gouls, gobblins, witches and black cats that [...]

Mammy’s Decadent Apple Crumble

Mammy's Decadent Apple Crisp

The smell that was emitting from my oven while this dessert was baking was absolutely heavenly. It was almost hard to concentrate on anything other than the sweet apple-cinnamon buttery decadence baking in my oven. The good news is that it tasted just as good as I hoped. I just polished off a piece and [...]

Halloween Tablescape Ideas and Inspirations

Halloween Tablescape

Halloween is my favorite holiday for which to decorate! I love all types of friendly Halloween creatures, cobwebs and pumpkins. I look forward to decorating my house for Halloween all of September and make sure that I get to decorate on or before October 1st each year in effort to maximize the amount of time [...]

Family Intervention with a Trip to HappyLand

Family Intervention with a Trip to HappyLand

One thing I have learned in my five short years of parenting is that the phases that kids have are temporary.  This is good AND bad. We are often cruising along in our happy little family life and things are going so well, that, I take for granted how well-behaved and sweet my kids are [...]