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That’s right.  My Melange is one year old today!  Can you believe it?  It is true what they say…time flies when you are having fun!!! It has been an incredible year.  Thank you, dear readers.  I couldn’t have done it…

I would like to give a shout out to some new blogging friends that I have made recently.  Whether just starting out or old timers, they are new friends to me and folks that deserve a little love.  (Don’t we…

I have the Winter Blues.  I am a sad sack.  Ho-Hum-Hum-Drum.  It usually happens around this time.  The Holidays are over.  The crappy weather has set in.  No Spring in sight.  The realization that the next Holiday isn’t until Memorial…

Angels, cherubs, putti.  To me they are all the same.  I love them one and all. Standing alone or adorning a larger piece, they always pull at my heartstrings. My spirit renews when my gold Italian putti faces great me…

No, I am not in Paris, but this shot sums up where I would like to be.  But instead, among all the craziness of the Holiday Season, after all the running around the last 2 weeks, we are taking a…

Today is Chris’s Birthday.  Most people feel bad when they hear this, assuming that he would get gypped growing up because his Birthday is so close to Christmas, but he would tell you the opposite.  His family always made it…

I wish all of my dear readers a wonderful, healthy, happy holiday.  Spent with friends and family. I hope Santa was good to you this year.  Merry Christmas one and all! Photo:  A photo of me, first born, on our…

My Nephew is 5, going on 30.  I *heart* him, with every fiber of my being. And I don’t mind bragging ~ he is cute as a button, sharp as a tack and smart as a whip!  He is a…

Or, as I like to refer to it…heaven on a plate.  As promised, here is the recipe that I have adapted from Giada De Laurentiis, of Food Network fame.  Because we are only two here, the recipe is easily halved…