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Styling Harvard: Weekend Recap

 

Happy Monday! It is a GORGEOUS day here on Harvard. I’m blogging from my backyard lounging in my new adirondack chair and sipping on some pink lemonade. Life is good. And now for the weekend recap!

I hope you all had a great Father’s Day weekend. We hosted our first (mini) cookout yesterday. Burgers, hot dogs, potato salad and watermelon…it doesn’t get much better than that, unless you add Snickers salad to the mix. OMG, it was amazing! Snickers are my weakness and I’ve  been wanting to make it for quite some time now but never really got around to it. I’m sorry I waited so long to make it. It’s like heaven in your mouth.  I found the recipe here and tweaked it a bit. Her recipe serves 25 but we were only having a handful of people so I just cut the measurements in half. I also didn’t have a trifle bowl small enough so I mixed everything together instead of layering and put it in my cool, TJ Maxx find, serving dish.

Styling Harvard weekend recap: Snickers salad How amazing does that look? It got rave reviews. It was relatively easy to make. The  only problem I had was not letting the cream cheese soften enough. It made it hard to cream with the mixer. Other than that, it didn’t take long at all. I took the writer’s advice and froze the Snickers before chopping it. I also used a bag of fun size Snickers instead of the full size bars. Two bags would suffice if you did the 25 serving recipe. I found that to be cheaper than buying individual full size bars and you actually end up getting an extra full size bar out of it when you compare the serving sizes.

After the cookout, Tori and I took our dad to our new obsession, the Providence Flea. I love supporting small, local businesses and a lot of the vendors have handmade stuff which is so awesome. Tori and I have some vendors that we really love which I’ll be sharing more of in the coming weeks.

We finished off our night with some drinks by the fire. It was the perfect ending to the perfect day. Here’s a few more pics from our Sunday. Have a great week everyone!

Weekend recapWe bought a pillow for our hammock. Soooo comfy!

Weekend recap Napolean got comfy on the new picnic table. More on that project to come.

weekend recapMy aunt came down yesterday and brought us fresh Maine lobsters. Yum!!

 

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