Author Archives: Brittany Bly

How to Make the Best Cheese Plate

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Get in my belly! The most delicious thing in the world to me is a perfect cheese plate. It’s a fun appetizer and it even works as a dessert. A cheese plate is perfect for a picnic and perfect around the holidays. The gooey, the creamy, the totally decadent goodness. And you don’t even have […]

Lemon & Vegetable Summer Pasta Salad

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This pasta salad is picnic perfect! It combines a few of my favorite ingredients to make a dish that is flavorful, summery, and perfect for a light lunch. It’s vegetarian and vegan friendly too. That’s right – there’s no meat, no dairy in this fun and colorful pasta salad. Scroll down to the bottom of […]

Shop Handmade & Raise Money for Hurricane Harvey Relief

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What Can We Do for Hurricane Evacuees? So Much. I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about feeling “helpless” after Hurricane Harvey. Don’t. People want to help but the needs of shelters and evacuees is changing from minute to minute. So us at Pop Shop America and lots of other handmade businesses are focused on […]

How to Make Fruit & Edible Flower Topped Cupcakes

What’s prettier than these Fruit & Edible Flower Topped Cupcakes? I will tell you what right now: nothing! These are the prettiest cupcakes in the whole world and they are so easy to make. I like to bake the cupcakes from scratch (we included a recipe below) but honestly – you could buy store bought […]

Honey & Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting Recipe

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Yum! What is more delicious than a homemade frosting? Buttercream is so versatile and perfect across a wide array of desserts. You can use buttercream on any kind of cake, cupcake, pound cake, or loaf. You can swirl in lots of unique ingredients to make unique buttercreams like: Chai Tea Buttercream, Pink Champagne Buttercream, and […]

Positive Impact in Style: Meet Tierra de los Artesanos

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Tucked inside the cutest shopping center in Eado is a new shop called Tierra de los Artesanos. It’s full of handcrafted goods that feel traditionally Mexican and fresh and modern too. The first time I stepped inside, I immediately fell in love. The walls were lined with photos of the artists whose goods you can […]

The Summer Sun Cocktail Recipe with Lemon & Thyme

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Here’s a gorgeous cocktail for a gorgeous summer day! We call this The Summer Sun because it’s perfect for warm weather and an afternoon outdoors. It combines several garden fresh elements for a palatable and interesting blend. It’s a little bit boozy, a little bit fresh and clean, and a little bit green. It combines […]

Neo-Bohemian Jewelry: Meet Houston’s Modern Artifacts

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The first time I met Heather Wobbe I came face to face with an Amazon Goddess. She is well dressed, friendly, and fun. And she also happens to be the tallest woman I’ve ever seen in real life! She is absolutely mesmerizing.  Her handcrafted jewelry line, Modern Artifacts, is mesmerizing too. Her jewelry is elegant, […]

The Best Alternatives to Shopping at Hobby Lobby

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In case you missed this in the news, in early July 2017 Hobby Lobby was fined $3 million dollars and forced to forfeit 5,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts.These artifacts were intended to be on display at Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible set to open in DC near the end of 2017. Although Hobby Lobby maintains […]

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