I love to hear from you. Be it on my Facebook, on my Instagram, and even here below on the comments, I LOVE to hear from you. And it's because of one of my followers that inspired this week's cocktail, the French 75. Last week I shared the French Martini, and that spurred on the inspiration for this yummy drink. It's perfect as an alternative to a mimosa, a cocktail to serve at a shower, and a refreshing fizzy refreshment with the tingle to … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: French Martini
This weekend is about the love... Love is in the air. Valentine's Day is about the love, and something about the French and Paris makes me think of love and romance. It's not about being with a boyfriend or girlfriend or lover. Let's think of it as this cup runneth over abundance of joy in our hearts, whether you have a partner, maybe it's for your kids, maybe it's just the love of life. Maybe it's for vacations to places like these. … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Cake Mix
If you haven't figured out by now, I love cake batter, birthday cake, cake anything related. So sharing today's recipe is easy for me for a couple of reasons. The first being it's so tasty. {huge grin} The second reason is it's 2 ingredients. Love that. The third reason is it's light. Yup. Light as in light on the calories. I'm really trying to honker down on calories in vs calories out thing. Smart choices have to be a part of my … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: BYOC
I'm BACK.... I had to get my groove on y'all. Keeping it real. Out all last week for Market with my girl, flight delay coming home till the WEE hours of the morning, phone crashing. Such is life. But... life is SO good, you have NO idea! Lots of amazingness happened, and as the momager, I had a few followups I had going on, plus, to be honest, I needed to REST. As most of you know, every Friday on The OP Life is Fuzzy Friday. So … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Blushing Bellini
Celebrations are in ORDER! I'm saying let's pull out the bubbly, toast to GOOD times, toast to success, and toast to being unstoppable! You guys know that #FuzzyFriday is meant to represent celebrating your wins, your challenges you've overcome, all the great things going on. Even if it's the smallest thing, it's worth giving yourself love. My vibes are immersed into my "momager" job this week. In case you missed it, you can read it … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Irish Coffee
I don't know if it's because I'm trying to get back in the swing of things or not, but it seems I'm gravitating towards coffee (because of THIS post earlier this week...). Maybe it's my subconscious nudging me! Whatever it is, tis the season for cold weather drinks. We need something to warm us up, right? Well, here's a classic that's a no fail idea. For today's #fuzzyfriday I'm serving up Irish Coffee. I even got my … [Read more...]
FuzzyFriday: New Years Edition: Champagne 3 Ways
I know having all these holidays against a weekend can totally mess up our days. And yes, today isn't Friday, it's Wednesday. But what I wanted to share with you would do us no good on Friday if I wanted to share a New Years Eve recipe on New Years Day. So hello Wednesday #FuzzyFriday! Bring out the bubbly to toast in the new year, toss out the old and bring in the new. If we're busy hosting our friends, let's keep the beverages simple. … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: The Two Forces
First things first... giveaway ends TODAY. A $500 gift card. Your choice of Target, Amazon or Nordstrom. There will be 3 winners, and you have nothing to lose. Enter here! Three Winners Christmas Giveaway Now, onto the main order of business. It's 5 o'clock somewhere, right? For those of my new friends on The OP Life, every Friday we celebrate with cocktails. I call it Fuzzy Friday. We celebrate all of our wins, the … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Peppermint Patty
Sometimes we create the best things by accident. That's what happened with this drink. I was trying to be mom of the year and bought some flavored milks, along with the flavored egg nog (like I did last week when I shared with you the Pumpkin Pie Martini recipe HERE). I had never seen Mint Chocolate milk before. Have you? So I picked it up and away I went. After another trip soon thereafter to the store when I stumbled across … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: On The Rocks
I know #FuzzyFriday is mostly about the fun libations I love to share with you, and about celebrating those wins we've had through the week, but today I thought I'd do a little twist on this and talk about the glasses. I'm kinda keeping this theme of bars and barware. You can see my post from yesterday's bar carts HERE. It's all how you serve it up, right? (That's true in everything we do in life, right? {wink!}) Well today I'm … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Orange Cranberry Kiss
Now that we're officially in November, I'm in the mood for scents and flavors that make me think of Thanksgiving. Those fall fruits and warm spices that make me feel like sweaters, jeans and boots. It's fresh and light, but yet warms you inside. I made it into a martini just because I felt a little fancy and felt like having a rimmer on the glass.... feel free to omit it, but licking the orange and sugar is SO yummy! … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Bloody Brain Shooter
In the holiday tradition of the weekend, I wanted to share a festive drink that will be quite the statement maker in your grossly ghoulish spooky parties. Did you ever think I'd teach you to be a mad scientist? Well, I want to teach you lots of skills, and this one will impress your guests. The chemical reaction from the acidic lime juice with the Irish Cream causes the cream to curdle, creating brain-like curls and strands. Isn't this the … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: The Frenchy
I don't know why I'm feeling Frenchy, but I am. I took those pictures on vacation a couple of summers ago in Paris (pre fancy camera!). Yesterday I posted about the Parisian doors (see that HERE). Today I'm sharing a Parisian drink. The Frenchy. Clever, huh? I didn't make it up, but it DOES put good use out of that fancy pear vodka we used a few weeks ago, remember HERE? Well, with a simple change of one of the juices, bam, we have a whole … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Salted Caramel White Russian
On one of my recent trips to the liquor store, they had a big barrel at the front of the store full of flavored vodkas at a really good price. There was one that caught my eye that I couldn't pass up. Salted Caramel. I was like SERIOUSLY? I'm obsessed with everything salted caramel. I can't ever pass by dark chocolate and salted caramel bars when I see them at the store. So when I saw this vodka, I had to try it out. Nothing really to … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Fall Harvest Vodka
Like fashion, I like two extremes of cocktails, in case you haven't figured out by now. One, I like things pretty fancy, meaning let's do something different, line the rim with something creative, and make it bling. Or two, I like things as simple and easy as they get, just throwing something together really fast. Well, this SUPER yummy drink is part one and two. Yes, it's only 3 ingredients and SUPER easy to throw together, but one of these … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Mommy’s Shirley Temple
Yet another week has flown by, and it's still in the 90's. Just as I was getting geared up for fall, mother nature wants to mess with us. For how long, we shall see. So I'm dealing with the heat of the weather and my hormones that like to play mind games with me as well! HA! #heatwave This week, this chic doesn't have time for fancy pants. I'm not entertaining this weekend as I'm going to be more of a sports mom on the go. So I'm creating … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Pink Tart
Fuzzy Friday, here we go! Sometimes we just need to throw something refreshing together. Nothing fancy. Something refreshing and EASY. And it's fun. I'm all about easy and yummy because sometimes, we don't have time for fanciness. The point of this is to unwind and celebrate the end of the week, all of our achievements, and the upcoming weekend. Instead of the basic Sprite or Coke, I love to have Fresca around the house. I love the … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Moscow Mule
I don't know how many of you shop because you see something spontaneously online, but that's what happened to me when I got THESE mugs. And, the Moscow Mule is something that I had been wanting to try to be quite frank. So I bought the mugs so I can make this drink. Because they were so cool and different, being all GOLD and all. And the drink? It was SO easy, so refreshing, and I even sent my girlfriend off with a to-go … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Golden Glamour
Today's Fuzzy Friday calls for celebration. Actually, every Friday does. Not only does every Friday, but every day in our lives, we need to celebrate something. Every little success, every little challenge you overcome, every new positive thing with your work, your family, your kids, your relationships, need to be celebrated. It keeps those positive feelings of success and achievement and goodness going. Even if you're stressed out, had a … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Friday: Blueberry Zing
It's FRRRRRRIIIIIIDAY! YESSSSSSSSSS! This week marked the beginning of four different things/projects/changes/whatever you wanna call em, and I'm barely keeping afloat, but it's ok. It's life. High school events beginning to roll (did I just say HIGH SCHOOL? a-hem... say it isn't so!).. amongst other stuff... So bring on the zing... let celebrate our accomplishments, we did it, and it's the WEEKEND! Happy Fuzzy Friday … [Read more...]
