Haley J.'s Profile

Display Name: Haley J.
Personal URL: http://haleysuzanne.wordpress.com
Member Since: 3/30/09

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I love that robin's egg blue paint - what's the color / brand?


Colorful Vintage-Inspired Play Zone for 3 My Room
2/15/13 8:28 PM

I'm actually going with a big project, because it's on my list, and I need it out of the way to be productive with the rest of the cure: Operation Xmas Removal. I usually do it on Epiphany, but wasn't able to get to it on Sunday. So, today's the day!


Day 5: Select One Project from Your List to Complete this Month Apartment Therapy January Cure
1/8/13 3:48 PM

As someone who is expecting, please let me encourage you: buy from the registry! I have gotten many gifts, but only 2 things that I was actually registered for. Many of the things I was given had no gift receipts, I couldn't tell where they came from, and I had no use for them. So, someone at the Goodwill has lucked into some stuff. My husband and I are on the hook for everything we registered for, but we have stacks of other stuff that's not really useful to us. PLEASE, shop off their registry!


Unique Non-Baby Baby Gift
Good Questions
4/7/11 3:58 PM

Paint over it! Even it your potential buyer has kids, it might not be their style, it may not suit the gender, etc. It will be viewed as just another home project they need to handle. And even if you offer to paint over it, they may worry you won't do a good job or it will be sloppy. Just paint it a neutral. Selling your home isn't a time to let emotional ties to your decor rule your decisions; you're leaving the room anyway, so make it work to sell your house.


Should I Paint Over a Mural As We Show Our House To Potential Buyers?
Good Questions
3/11/11 2:38 PM

Here are pictures from two different baby blankets I've just finished for my daughter (due in June).

Here's a very basic solid: http://www.flickr.com/photos/haleysuzanne/5482158705/

And here's one in the four colors we are using in the nursery (work in progress shot, each square is 9" x 9" and are sewn together):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haleysuzanne/5408075685/

If you like those, you can find patterns on my Ravelry page: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/haleysuzanne

I figure I'll probably make up to another 4 blankets - each a different pattern. Maybe have auntie make a chevron pattern in your nursery's four colors? Or a granny square that uses only those?


Patterns for Modern Crochet Baby Blankets?
Good Questions
3/3/11 4:41 AM

I used dried morels to make this recipe of spaghetti with pancetta and morels. It was amazing - the flavors worked together beautifully.

http://haleysuzanne.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/spaghetti-with-pancetta-and-morels-2/

Also, Marxfoods.com has some very good recipes for fresh and dried morels on their site.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | What Should I Make With 20 Pounds of Dried Morels? Good Questions
9/17/09 5:59 PM

@lasomnambule - Try Seed Savers Exchange or even Burpee.com. You will need to do some homework ahead of time to see what will work best indoors or in containers.

@whytephoenix - Absolutely. My mint even jumped containers last year when it really started thriving and was too close to the parsley. It is a predator, and it's already coming back for more this year since it's an annual.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Blogging Chow: The Easiest Herbs to Grow Indoors
4/6/09 10:20 PM

I was reared by my Southern grandparents. We had a garden and raised cows, so we had fresh veggies during the summer and our own beef most of the year. It sounds like heaven, but the practice of boiling veggies down to a gray mush really turned me off them for years. Most meat was battered and fried, or maybe grilled. My family cooked only traditional Southern foods-- not even spaghetti-- so I didn't try many foods until later high school or college.

I still crave my Grandma's rich desserts, and I can batter-and-fry like a pro. But, I have a much more varied palette now, and I prefer my veggies prepared simply-- not cooked to death. I am much more health-conscious, but I still love artery-clogging Southern fare.

In the end, I've branched out and learned to love more than just what I grew up on.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | What Kind of Cuisine Did You Grow Up With?
3/31/09 8:53 PM

I am on the hate end of the Ikea spectrum. I've been two or three times. I have never bought kitchenwares there because they always look so flimsy. That, and when I went to buy Billy bookcases to build a wall unit, the experience was so terrible I swore I'd never go back. Love the shelves, but didn't love Ikea.

And yet! Hedgehog shaped cookies make me think maybe I should go again. And the baking pan. And the cake doilies.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | New IKEA for the Kitchen: 15 Maybe-Good Things
3/31/09 8:40 PM