I love holidays.  This year for Mardi Gras, along with the beads I bought for work, I made Cajun Jambalaya using this recipe. 

It was an easy recipe to follow and turned out pretty good.  I remember my mom making it when I was still living at home.  It has been years since I've had jambalaya so I had almost forgotten what it was like.

Jason isn't one to try new food, but he gave the jambalaya a try.  He seemed to like it.

It had just enough spice.  I would definitely recommend it.
 
Our Fat Tuesday wasn't complete without a King Cake.  I bought this one at Schnuck's.

Here are some things I'm enjoying this week. 

Peanut butter cupcakes from The Cup, thanks to my mother-in-law.

My new clutch by DessHandbags.  You can visit her Etsy shop here, or go to The Foundrie.  I love, love, love these clutches!

 My Marc Jacobs quilted handbag.  This is by far one of my favorite handbags, bought resale of course.  I could never afford this bag new. 

I bought this chair at Potentials.  We've been needing extra seating in the living room and I thought this would be a great addition.  I plan on cleaning it up and adding a new seat cover.

Valentine's Day is Tuesday.  Unfortunately, Jason and I have conflicting schedules this week.  We had our Valentine's dinner Saturday night. 

{Our favorite Valentine candy.}

{Jason got me Breaking Dawn on Blu-ray.} {I made candy heart cookies to take to work.}

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!!!

Jason and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on January 20.  That weekend, we packed up the car (and the dogs) and took a road trip down to Mountain View, Arkansas for the weekend.  It was a much needed break from the busy city.
We stayed in a cabin on the bank of the White River, with no cell phone service and no Internet.  It was nice to be disconnected for the weekend, but thankfully we had satellite TV.  Otherwise I would have gone insane.  We ate at the local restaurants and shopped for antiques downtown.  Because we had no cell phone service, we got our "Words with Friends" fix by playing actual Scrabble.  I took tons of photos of the inside of the cabin.  I loved the rustic look and the over all feel of each room. 






We even took the dogs on a "nature" walk down by the river.