I’m back! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Sorry for the radio silence since before Christmas. As you may know, Brad and I took a cruise to Central America just before the holidays, returning just in time to welcome our entire family to Lake Arrowhead for a giant, week-long house party. However, I got the stomach flu on […]
My Christmas Table and DIY Place Cards Greetings and thanks so much for stopping in on Christmas Eve. We have arrived home from our cruise to Central America just in time for the arrival of all our kids who are coming in from Chicago, Philadelphia & Washington, DC. So we will be enjoying Christmas with […]
Happy Holidays! I’ve decked the halls and wanted to show you around my home at Christmas. So, come on in… We are actually on a cruise right now, sailing somewhere in the Western Carribean in Central America. Yes, my husband decided we needed to take a cruise the week before Christmas, so, it forced me […]
Peppermint Hot Cocoa Gifts From The Kitchen This week I will be attending my annual Holiday Book Club meeting. This month we read a book that I really enjoyed called Orphan Train. Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller is a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten […]
Greetings and thanks so much for stopping in to Sundays With Celia Vol 25. This post is a week overdue, as I failed to bring you Sundays With Celia last week. As you can imagine, life got in the way during this super busy time of year. Between doing the last of my Christmas shopping, […]
How To Make Homemade Peppermint Bark Greetings and thanks so much for stopping in today for a lesson on how to make Homemade Peppermint Bark. In my last post I showed you the holiday party I hosted for my Comfort Food Group. I made the Peppermint Bark to give to my guests as holiday party […]
How To Host A Casual Holiday Comfort Food Dinner Greetings! Thanks for stopping into the blog today during this busy holiday season. Speaking of busy, I hosted 2 dinner parties this week!! Last night was a gathering of my Comfort Food Group. We get together once a month, rotating between each others homes for potluck […]
Cream Cheese and Pesto Christmas Mold In a recent post entitled Easy Yet Elegant Holiday Snacks I showed you how to make this Cream Cheese and Pesto Christmas Mold as part of a larger blog post. It didn’t include a printable recipe so today I thought I’d reintroduce it as a stand-alone blog post with […]
After Orange County is a publication dedicated to living life in the slow lane. I escaped The OC for life at a higher elevation. Leaving suburbia behind, I now live in the beautiful mountain resort of Lake Arrowhead. Join me at 5,000 feet above and beyond as I cook, garden, renovate, entertain, travel and live life After Orange County.
