What We Ate Wednesdays

So we love to eat, not every meal is exactly recipe worthy but that doesn't mean I don't like to take photos of it. This weekly post will essentially be a weekly photo dump of our little feasts

Apple crisp

Potato crust quiche

Testing my hand at some fruit ice for my nightly drinks on the porch

 

Lettuce and tomatoes fresh from our neighbours downtown veg garden. I made a delish pear and shrimp salad with the lettuce along with homemade honey garlic dressing

And on that note I am off to make lunch lol

What We Ate Wednesday: Dog Editon

I often have followers online ask what we feed our Bostons because they can be pretty picky eaters and a lot of Bostons have sensitive stomachs. I figured What We Eat Wednesdays would be a good day to fill you guys in on what the pups eat too.

Now Lemmy is 9 months old and since day one will eat anything in his way, hes not picky at all. He is still on Nutrience Puppy till next month. Dolly was a different story. We tried her on about 4 different foods over 3 months and she would puke them all up, and would get to point where she would just stop eating them all together. Once we started her on Nutrience Dog Food all the puking stopped. Shes still never been exactly eager to eat so we tend to put some wet food on top of her dry food to get her a little more stoked on meal time.

This food is a little more pricey then you grocery store food, but that stuff is pretty much like junk food for your dogs. Most of the stuff on the ingredients on those bags you can't even pronounce. I prefer to spend a little extra and know the quality of food our pups are getting.

Treat wise they get Old Mother Hubbard bones daily. And for special treats they eith er get pigs ears of their new fave is BBQ smoked rib bones!

We also buy everything for our dogs from a local Centertown independent pet store called Pet Circus. They have such a great staff! The owner has Bostons himself and is always around to chat with us about the pups and spoil them with treats. I wouldn't want to spend our money anywhere else.

My next dog mission is to make my own treats for them but all the recipes I find don't have a shelf life much longer than a week or two. So I am on the hunt for a better recipe.

What do you guys feed your dogs? Any treats to suggest?

Retail Therapy

Every girl needs some every now and then! Here is some fun stuff I have bought in the past month due to my shopping addiction!

Can you tell I am ready for fall already? What are you guys looking forward to getting to wear again most come fall?

Mermaid Hair

I don't know if most of you know this but in my younger days I was a hair stylist specializing in color and extensions. I moved around to much, as I was kind of a vagabond, to keep up a steady clientele anywhere so eventually I just ended up doing it on the side. And to this day I still do.

Which means a lot of my friends luck out and get things like a full head of fusion extensions for half what it would cost in a salon! This past week I did a full head and figured I would share all the fun with you guys.

So to do a head of extensions I prefer to use 2 at least if not 3 varying lengths of hair. You also need a heat gun some clips and patience! It's a tedious task but for some wierd reason I love doing it lol. Some people use finger caps (little gloves for each finger) but I prefer not too.

People always ask what the bonds look like under the hair and I always forget to take a picture so here is one I stole from google images so you guys can get the idea.

Alright so here is the before and after of the GF I did them for. Usually I would have curled them too because I always think extensions look best curled,but it got pretty late so it wasn't happening lol.

 

For her we used 22 inch and 20 inch hair (would have used 18 as well but they were out when we got the hair). Makes me miss my weaves! But I vowed to let my hair grow and get epic all on it's on and thats what I am sticking too!

Fusions are not for lazy people! If you don't want to maintain and style your hair properly don't ever get these or it will be a nightmare for you! But if you are willing to put in a little extra time on your hair and love the look then they are a great edition to your own mane!

How many of you have had fusions before and what did you think?

Union Local 613

Whenever I hear about any kind of new restaurant opening up in Centertown it becomes a must for me to try it out. I love our little neighborhood and gladly welcome any new magical spots to eat when lazy or just feeling like having a little something different. And that is exactly what we got at Union Local 613 which opened over the past month at Somerset.

First I just want to start off with how AMAZING the decor was because of course you all know how much I love interior design. Mason jar everything (swoon because i have a mason jar addiction), glass bottles made into lighting, kitchen tools as pulls for the beer taps, reclaimed barn wood covering the ceiling and burlap sacks adorning the menus! Not to mention a gorgeous mural painted by local tattoo artist Julian of Five Cent Tattoos

Now on to the food! The prices aren't what I would call wallet friendly but don't let that stop you from eating as much on the menu as possible because it's all so good! We started off by trying all the appetizers they had ( it was 3 of us it was nice to just share). So we got the deviled eggs, biscuits w rabbit gravy and a sampler platter of meats (though now they have battered pumkin flowers which i am super tempted to go back and try)

The deviled eggs were by far the best I have ever had, they had cured bacon in them!? I mean how can it get better than that! I loved the biscuits and gravy, at first I wasn't sure how I felt about eating rabbit but it was delish. The meat platter was alright but what really made it shine was the amazing mustard served with it!

I really loved how everything came out on mismatched plates, the type you'd expect to see up at the cottage. Made it all feel very comforting and homey.

For dinner I had the fried green tomatoes, boston bibb, pimento cheese, pickled corn, bacon & black pepper ranch along with the oysters on the half shell . I could have eaten it all 10 times over. I really liked their untraditional take on fried green tomatoes and the salad was a perfect compliment to them! The oysters were huge, fresh and delightful!

Nate had their special of the day which was a slow spit cooked pork along with their macaroni salad which has shrimp in it! Somehow I didn't taste any but he said it was amazing. Our friend who came with us had the yard bird (essentially deep fried chicken) it had a buttermilk batter and an amazing dry rub underneath that gave it a really rich flavoring def worth trying.

And last but not least me and Nate had dessert! We were actually pretty full but everything had been so delicious and unique up to that point we felt like we had to taste dessert!  I had a lavender and buttermilk tart and Nate had some sort of parfait with caramel and candied jalapenos. Again both amazing w zero complaints!

All in all if I could afford to I would eat at this place easily once a week lol. I guess if I could control myself to just ordering a thing or 2 I could but I am not very good at self control. Our server was so sweet and always on top of everything and their staff as a whole was very friendly and welcoming. For sure my favorite new restaurant in the neighborhood and hopefully soon to be yours too!

You can check out more of their menu on their website linked at the start of the blog and feel free to follow them on Facebook or Twitter !

Preciously Mine Giveaway!!!!

Alright guys so as a fun edition to the new blog I will be Featuring some of my very talented friends and the things they do/run/make. Along with some of these fun features I will be doing some awesome giveaways!

First on the block is my gorgeous and talented friend Audrey, the master mind behind www.preciouslymine.com .

This French Canadian beauty currently lives in California with her handsome boyfriend. Living the life with season passes to Disney Land! She half makes me miss living in California lol. You can follow Audrey on twitter HERE and on Tumblr HERE

 She has a cute little workshop down there where she crafts amazing hand made and custom bags, purses, wallets and other fun surprises!

Her products sell super fast on www.preciouslymine.com but she updates it weekly with super cute new designs so you are best to check back often. Though it could be dangerous on the bank account!

Now comes the best part

 Audrey being the sweetheart that she is wants to give you all the chance to will one of her designs!

This amazing clutch was hand made by Audrey this week just for all you awesome readers!

How To Win:

1.You can get one entry to this contest by simply commenting " I love Preciously Mine" on this blog entry

 2.You can also get an entry by adding both me and Audrey on twitter and tweeting the following " Dearest @MissWrenxo and @AudreyPrecious I want to win the www.preciouslymine.com Giveaway!!! "


That gives you all 2 chances to win this amazing bag!

I will be doing the draw next weekend so you all have a week to enter, good luck to everyone!


*plz make sure you guys are leaving me a way to get a hold of you if you win*

YAY!!!

Alright guys my new blog is officially up and running! I moved over a bunch of old posts  that will still be relevant on here. So yes there are a bunch of blogs on here but don't worry you didn't miss out on anything.

Keep an eye out over the next few days for the launch of new blogs and LOTS of super magical giveaways for all my awesome readers!

Take a quick peak around the blog and at all the fun new aspects!