The Remix Archives // Dotty Cardi

I got this cardigan only about  a year ago, but have kind of worn the hell out of it!  It's a great piece that adds warmth, but isn't too bulky, and is in one of my favorite colors and patterns.  Clearly I wore it all the time last winter, and I anticipate wearing it quite frequently this fall and winter as well.   Now I have its counterpart in charcoal as well!  I liked it so much I had to have it in another color... and it comes in pink too!

Blueberry Struesel Muffins

Yup, still on a baking kick.  It's pretty awesome.  Luckily I have a friend who just had a baby, so she's been the beneficiary of quite a few of my baked goods lately.  I think I'm going to try and step away from the baked goods for a bit after this.  I have a recipe for French Onion Soup that I'm super stoked to try!  I first had French Onion Soup in the Denver airport coming back from TxSC this past March and I loved it!  I haven't used my crock pot all summer, but now that fall is coming, I'm going to drag it out and make all kinds of soups and stews and hearty meals.

But anyway, back to blueberry muffins.  These were super yummy.  I've finally finished off all the blueberries we picked, so that means either going out and picking more, or laying off the blueberry recipes for a while.  Or going out and picking more, freezing them, and laying off the blueberry recipes until I pull them out of the freezer...

(Found at The Girl Who Ate Everything.  Recipe Source: muffins adapted from Barbara Bakes; streusel topping from allrecipes)

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 cups blueberries

Streusel Topping:
1/4 cup white sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 tbsp butter, softened
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon


Preheat the oven to 350º and line your muffin pan with paper muffin liners.

First, prepare the streusel topping in a small bowl by mixing the sugar, flour, butter, and cinnamon with a fork. Get it fully incorporated so that it has the texture of wet, crumbly sand. Set this aside.

In a small bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and salt.  Then, in a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla and milk. Add flour mixture and stir until just combined and gently fold in blueberries.

Pour the batter evenly into 12 muffin cups, sprinkle them with streusel topping, and stick it in the oven! Bake at 350º for 20 to 25 min, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.


Oh, and I'm over at the Shop Ruche Blog today with a little post about equestrian inspired style!  Head over and check it out if you like!  Their equestrian themed lookbook is so gorgeous!

Olive Green Anna Giveaway

Anna, from Olive Green Anna, is offering this big, cozy sweater from her vintage shop, for one of my readers to win!  I'm sure I've already talked about how I need more sweaters in my life for the upcoming cold months, so maybe this little number can help one of you along in the sweater department!  Check out the garment details below for more info:

Size/Weight/Dimensions
CIRCA: 1980s
BRAND NAME: -.
MARKED SIZE: 42
ESTIMATED SIZE: 48 Large
CONDITION: EXCELLENT
SHOULDERS: 48cm
SLEEVE LENGTH: 53cm
BUST: 55cm
WAIST: 55cm
HIPS: 55cm
LENGTH:77cm
MATERIAL: Cotton Knit


To Enter:
Leave a comment on this post with a way to contact you and, for fun, let me know what your favorite autumn treat is!  
For a second entry, "like" Olive Green Anna on Facebook.  If you do this, make sure to come back to this post and leave another comment letting me know you've done so.

The giveaway will be open for entries until Saturday, September 22 at 9pm PST.


Or, if you like something else in her shop, don't worry!  You can take advantage of the discount code "WINNE" to get 15% off!

INDIE Autumn Sale! And more...

Fall is starting to appear, and what with school starting back up, the weather cooling down, and the excitement of the upcoming season brewing, I've been thinking about goals and giving my creativity a jump start.  And, since I'm trying to jump start my life, I thought I'd put INDIE on sale in case any of you want to jump start your blogging.  So!  INDIE will be on sale for the rest of September!  I've recently updated a ton of content on INDIE, including adding some new sessions, so take advantage of this deal and sign up for INDIE for $10 off the full price*!  If you're already an INDIE student, you don't need to sign up again, just go ahead and login to the e-course and you'll have access to the updated content!  Wondering what INDIE students have said about it?  Check out these testimonials!

Thanks so much for this inspiring e-course!! Enjoying it and learning so much- working on implementing several of your tips! Sometimes it's easy to feel so overwhelmed out here in blogland, but listening to each of your unique voices has been empowering. Thanks girls!
- Love Fox Vintage

So glad to have signed up for this! I learned so much more than what I would have figured out on my own. Tieka, Elizabeth - you girls rock and should be proud of what you do. Thank you!
- Kaye

I have been meaning to get started on my blog but my hectic tax season haven't allowed me to do so. I am really glad I attended this conference and got to know all the info I could possibly need to get started ..THANK YOU so much Teika and Elizabeth!
This was really worth it!
- Reetika

I agree with everyone. This was awesome! There was so much information to absorb. I'm hoping that I will have more time to look at all of it. Thanks again!
- Carrie

This course was perfect and i still find myself coming back to it for reference.
I'm buying a DSLR this week and can't wait to put all the great photography tips into action!
- Grace

I've really gotten into my own blog lately, though I have been reading personal style blogs for years. I attended the INDIE E-Conference and I learn so much about blogging. Thank you for all the hard work you and Tieka did, it was so wonderful!
- Brittany

INDIE features a ton of information for the fledgling to intermediate blogger with sessions on how to find your blogging voice, HTML tricks, how to work with sponsors, photography, DIY blog design tips, video blogging, blogging ethics, and so much more!  Want to sign up?  Click here!

And to go along with the INDIE sale, I'm also offering a discount on my featured ad through the end of this week!  Just use the code "INDIEDELIGHT" for $50 off a Featured Ad**.  The Featured Ad stays at the top of my right sidebar during the entire month, and is the only ad that also gets a featured sponsor blog post!  And if you want to offer a giveaway or discount code, you can also take advantage of those as well.  Only one Featured ad runs at a time, so the first person to use the code will get their ad up immediately, but uses after that will have their ad scheduled for the following months, make sense?  If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me!

*INDIE discount valid through 9/30.  $10 off full price of $30.
**Featured ad discount code valid through 9/22.  $50 off full price of $150.

Cider House Rules

Yesterday we pressed apple cider!  I was not wearing this, though I suppose this outfit has a bit of a 50's farm girl look to it, I suppose.  I could photoshop some milk pails into my hands in the top photo, eh?  Anyway, a friend let us borrow his homemade cider press, I put our food processor to the test by chopping up enough apples to fill a 5 gallon bucket, and we pressed out apple juice!  It was cool to make apple juice from actual apples, by hand (well, minus the food processor).  After getting apple juice from the store for my whole life it's cool to do it from scratch.  We'll be throwing some little yeasts in and making hard cider.  Hopefully it'll turn out to be delicious!  I should get a juicer so I can make juice at home in smaller quantities, but our kitchen is already too full as it is, so I'll wait to get a juicer until we move somewhere with a decent sized kitchen.  One of our friends has a little juicer and they love making juice out of all sorts of fruits and veggies!  Seems like a great way to eat healthily and get your fruits and veggies.  

dress(worn as top)/courtesy of modcloth :: skirt/courtesy of superstition vintage shoes/courtesy of seychelles
After spending the whole day working on our apple cider endeavor, we remembered that a friend had invited us to go to a wine tasting event that evening, so we quickly cleaned up and headed to the winery.  It was just this little place in a warehouse, a small winery run by a husband and wife.  It was cool to see this small business run by people who clearly just enjoyed making and drinking wine.  Dan and I aren't super into wine, but I could definitely see something like that emerging from our beer making, eventually.  Dan has thought about starting a little brew co-op here in town, where people can basically subscribe, kind of like a CSA, and then get a portion of the beer that was brewed.  Anyway, I think ideas like that are fun and so community oriented.