Some exciting news!

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My favorite neighborhood shop, Vintage and Vogue, now has an online shop!!!  Now you can shop there too!  Click here to go see their beautiful new website! 

Banana Crumb Muffins

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I had some overly ripe bananas but I didn't want to make the usual banana bread so I did a google search on "banana muffins" and found this amazing recipe!!!  I was shocked at how good the reviews were. It seemed like everyone loved them!  That's always a good sign...

The cinnamon crumb topping is what makes these so good and oh boy are they ever good!!!   I ran out of regular cupcake liners but I remembered that I had bought these fancy ones when Lauren and I took our cake decorating class last year. I had planned to use them for chocolate cupcakes but never made them.  They worked out perfectly for these muffins because they keep the crumb topping in place!  It sure makes the muffins look like they came from a bakery or Starbucks, doesn't it?

The recipe is from the All Recipes website (click on that to get the recipe).  The only change I made was to add a teaspoon of Vanilla.

A wonderful day!

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I hope all the mothers out there had a wonderful day yesterday!  My daughter and I drove to visit my son, who is about 1 1/2 hours away.  We had a wonderful lunch with him and his girlfriend and I had the best sandwich ever! It was a rosemary flank steak sandwich with blue cheese! YUMMY!!  Lauren found her favorite cookie, vanilla meringues, in pastel colors!  They are perfect with the coffee that my son gave me for Mother's Day.  We are both coffee lovers so he gave me a bag of some special coffee beans from a local roaster he recently found. 

How was your Mother's Day?

Happy Mother's Day!

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Happy Mother's Day to my wonderful mom, my two former mother-in-laws and all the mothers and mothers-to-be out there!!! I hope you all have a beautiful day!!!

Show and Tell Friday!

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This week for Show and Tell I'm sharing my Eden Rose! It's in its second year now and it's amazing how much bigger it is now compared to last year! 

Most of the roses are turned to face the sun which unfortunately for me is on the other side of my fence.  I walked up my neighbors driveway to take the photo below....

The good thing about it facing away from my house is that I'm not torn between leaving the blooms on the bush or cutting them! I've been cutting a lot for bouquets!  Here's a bouquet I brought to work this week...

My Endless Summer Hydrangea is also blooming now...

If you are joining in on Show and Tell Friday, please remember that your Show and Tell needs to be something from your home or garden. Please read the Show and Tell Guidelines for step-by-step instructions on how to participate.If you would like to join in, please enter your name and leave your exact Show and Tell blog post link, not just your blog link and as a common courtesy link back to my blog. If your link has been removed, please re-read over the guidelines before re-posting, or e-mail me with any questions.Thank you! I look forward to seeing everyone's posts...it may take me awhile to get around to visit everyone since I work full time but I'll do my best to get to your blog as soon as I can!