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In Sweet Pea’s Kitchen big holiday celebrations are always kicked off bright and early starting with a big breakfast. Whether we are devouring cinnamon rolls, quiches, frittatas, scones or coffee cakes it’s all about coming together and celebrating the day. Coffee cakes are one of my favorite breakfast treats to make not only for holidays, but lazy weekends as well. They come together pretty quickly and taste just as great at room temperature as they do straight out of the oven. Unfortunately that isn’t always great when you are trying to watch what you eat and every time you walk into the kitchen you see a big chunk of coffee cake just calling your name. 😉 And let me just warn you, this coffee cake is going to be really hard to resist! Moist and tender cake bursting with plump blueberries, topped with a streusel topping and…

This Sunday is Easter; one of the most important holidays and notorious for brunch and Easter Egg hunts! I love how Easter allows everyone to wear brights and pastels you even see the boys donning pastels here and there. With color on-trend  this Spring season there are more stylish choices than ever to wear a fun chic outfit on Easter Sunday. Let’s go over a few Easter Sunday scenarios!

Sunday Brunch

One of the most popular days for brunch is Easter Sunday. This usually means right after church people will head straight to brunch buffets. The trick with that is looking chic and appropriate for church at the same time.

The Outfit: I suggest a fun patterned or colored dress. A maxi dress is great for comfort and style. Pair the dress with a cardigan. 

Halogen® Three Quarter Sleeve Crewneck Cardigan $46.00 Nordstrom.com

Wear this cardigan unbuttoned…

Incredibly moist and delicious banana bars topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting that’s certain to brighten anyone’s day. These banana bars are incredible…of course it is hard to go wrong when something is topped with a thick layer of creamy cream cheese frosting. Especially when that something is a moist and flavor packed banana bar. These bars get an extra boost of banana flavor by adding a splash of banana extract. Make sure you use really ripe banana in this dessert to get the best flavor. You know, those bananas that you are embarrassed to have out on your kitchen counter so you hide them in your pantry only to find them a week later? Yeah those bananas. The bananas that are so spotted and black you wonder if you should just throw them away? That’s them! 😉

One Year Ago:Tzatziki Sauce 

One week till, ahem, Schooooools out. For. Summer!

Craziness! I still have exams till the end of April (dear lord) but things are finally coming to an end! Every year it happens the same way, too. It will be early second semester, it’s crappy weather and you want to die you hate school so much, you pray for reading break to come faster, then all of a sudden you realize there is a month left. The weather, though rainy and poopy right now, is at least warm, and when the sun does peak out, is glorious! Time to break out the shorts!

I have also realized that I have an addiction. No, not anything serious, but definitely dangerous to my figure. I can’t seem to stop baking brownies. In all variations. I don’t know what it is, but I constantly am thinking of how to create the ultimate gooey, chewy…

love aesthetics

I looove seeing other people’s wardrobes and I love reorganising mine and am always searching for a better system. Maybe because it involves thinking about both fashion and decorating… I’m not sure. I guess the big challenge when it comes to storing pretty much anything, but especially clothes, is fitting everything into a confined space while balancing aesthetics with practicality (meaning you can see everything and take items out easily, etc). I like any kind of open storage; especially things like clothes and jewellery are very decorative and too pretty to hide behind closet doors. I think maybe a lot of space for hangers and some drawers for smaller things and accessories would be the ideal system for me. I would also love to have a separate clothing rack to organise my favourite items of the moment and plan outfits.

What does you ideal closet look like? 

Here’s a big…

Envelopes look so chic when they are obviously from some old book.