tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29034910273140281142023-06-20T06:08:00.228-07:00the sister chroniclestwo sisters, one summer, and a car named mr. darcyAlex & Libbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01877522976829476156noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903491027314028114.post-85629104183717714732011-06-10T18:53:00.000-07:002011-06-10T18:57:35.385-07:00<div align="center"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The loveliest things in life are sisters. Some you're born with, others come later. Libby was a gift from Mama and Daddy. Hayley was a gift from Chi Omega and has been the best little sister a sorority girl could imagine. Her 19th birthday was last Sunday, June 5th!</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Here's her card I crafted:</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-woAypxNLGrM/TfLEpSx5tNI/AAAAAAAAAMw/DW-LWx_4Bmc/s320/CIMG2673.JPG" t8="true" width="120" /> <img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rW5O88AQqdk/TfLErmLyYxI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Sx7GybzLSpM/s320/CIMG2680.JPG" t8="true" width="280" /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wj82cUpDNRo/TfLHybrcMBI/AAAAAAAAANE/d6epmTEmHgU/s640/CIMG2683.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">All that's needed are some cute sheets of letter stickers, patterned paper, scrapbook daisies, glue dots, a box of Crayolas, scissors, and your local Hobby Lobby, aka the enabler of all shameless crafternoons. Perfect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="260" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jbCDnuNs6CA/TfLJvhJAJ8I/AAAAAAAAANI/yCyuiwV3AdM/s640/CIMG2699.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /><img border="0" height="280" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dqb4-HBQdU8/TfLJxGLJ8LI/AAAAAAAAANM/9Z1-w8_SNeo/s640/CIMG2701.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">May all your birthday wishes come true, Little Bitty!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Big Mama loves you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="614" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SS--jxBegZQ/TfLLVXmVM3I/AAAAAAAAANQ/5Fctq3F376U/s640/CIMG2236s.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /></div>Alex & Libbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01877522976829476156noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903491027314028114.post-54883275273543605802011-06-06T11:44:00.000-07:002011-06-06T11:44:44.174-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Summer is finally here!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I graduated eighth grade last Wednesday with honors and had a pool party this weekend to celebrate. Alex lifeguarded while my friends and I swam, had hamburgers and hotdogs from Daddy's grill, and enjoyed the first Saturday of vacation. Now that school is officially out, we'll have more time to not only soak up the sun, but to get creative and blog!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mjWrA4mezFA/TeGb0Nw78uI/AAAAAAAAAMM/ksAhqAZ4yDM/s320/IMG_20110522_182614.jpg" t8="true" width="239" /> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="155" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iU-ps61wjFU/TeGb3ELxdzI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/cvLKzeVBLe4/s320/IMG_20110522_182534.jpg" t8="true" width="115" /> <img border="0" height="155" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nwUOPBsclxs/TeGb6msHusI/AAAAAAAAAMU/pr2QvbZ97RU/s320/IMG_20110521_074641.jpg" t8="true" width="115" /></div>Alex & Libbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01877522976829476156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903491027314028114.post-52672563306015680092011-05-21T10:26:00.000-07:002011-05-21T19:25:15.413-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="295" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMuJX50ejhE/TdfvrHEmeFI/AAAAAAAAAI4/BeWJw5ab_hU/s320/CIMG2669.JPG" width="205" /> <img border="0" height="295" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F-LXFeDFUW0/TdfL0Koe44I/AAAAAAAAAH0/K4PPXwW6Fho/s320/CIMG2633.JPG" width="215" /><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Last Wednesday, I turned 20!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Mama and Libby baked a chocolate cake accompanied by French vanilla cupcakes, both wrapped in homemade strawberry lemonade icing decorated with real daisies and pink polka-dotted pinwheels. They also made the hanging pastel pom poms, the alternating patterned banner, and the letters spelling my name. What a perfect birthday surprise!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Sunshine S'more Cupcakes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">(As found <a href="http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Sunshine-Smore-Cupcakes/Detail.aspx">here</a>!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1 (18.25 ounce) package of French vanilla cake mix</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">2 tablespoons of graham cracker crumbs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1 1/2 cups of water</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">3 egg whites</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">24 milk chocolate Hershey's kisses</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1/2 cup of graham cracker crumbs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1 (7 ounce) jar of marshmallow creme</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Instructions:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, then line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">(We only did 12, because Lord knows we don't need 24 cupcakes lying around.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">2. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, 2 tablespoons of graham cracker crumbs, 1 1/2 cups of water, and 3 egg whites. Beat for 2 minutes at high speed with an electric mixer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">3. Lick the beaters. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Divide batter evenly among paper lined cups, filling them to about 2/3. Place a chocolate kiss in each cupcake (or leave a few kiss-less for non-chocolate lovers like Libby). Spoon 1 teaspoon of graham cracker crumbs into each cupcake.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">4. Bake at 350 degrees for 18 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and top each cupcake with 1 teaspoon of marshmallow creme. (Dip spoon in hot water to prevent sticking.) Return to oven for about 1 minute to gently melt. Once finished, decorate the tops with graham cracker crumbs, whole graham crackers, and Hershey's kisses.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">5. Take your yummy s'more cupcakes and pretend to camp out. Enjoy!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="275" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6dEd5doyME/TdKb-BEamyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/xoecuaWOcCE/s400/CIMG2628.jpg" width="400" /></div>Alex & Libbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01877522976829476156noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903491027314028114.post-61942453661934344892011-05-14T14:43:00.001-07:002011-05-14T17:00:03.433-07:00<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mywmChwn0FM/Tc1wAXMlrqI/AAAAAAAAAFU/iQMcCnCOgFQ/s1600/Kiss+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mywmChwn0FM/Tc1wAXMlrqI/AAAAAAAAAFU/iQMcCnCOgFQ/s200/Kiss+%25282%2529.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="200" /></a> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taking a cue from our photographer mother, whose creativity and love for the whimsical and aesthetic must have swum through the gene pool, we created this blog simply because we love to create.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea blossomed this spring when we realized we had no idea what we were going to do with our summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mama, who has never lacked an idea in her life, answered: “Document it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some sisterly brainstorming, we could think of no better way to honor our artwork, baking, cooking, photography, and writing than to chronicle our adventures during the sunshine months to share with family and friends. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hence, The Sister Chronicles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5V-8m53sl08/Tc1wKEhKhQI/AAAAAAAAAFY/POkc_914988/s1600/CIMG2477.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5V-8m53sl08/Tc1wKEhKhQI/AAAAAAAAAFY/POkc_914988/s200/CIMG2477.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From today until early August, we hope to color your lives with as much joy, beauty, imagination, and gracious style as have always colored ours, as well as to record our love for the exquisite and each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And, i</span>f nothing else, it will keep us out of our parents’ hair and ward off boredom until the school bells ring – junior year of college for one of us, freshman year of high school for the other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While separated by five-and-a-half years, we are the closest of friends and the perfect pair (that only happened after the older one grew out of telling the younger one that there were monsters in her closet, and after the younger one grew out of being a pest). With the oldest being a frilly, lipstick-wearing writer and the youngest a funky, toenail-painting artist, we are as similar as we are different. For instance:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Libby's. Alex's.</span><br />
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