the orange door: unique living since 2007

The Christmas morning mimosas. Presents ready to go under the tree. Christmas breakfast table is set. (See the cooked meat pie th...

Meat pie has returned as a Christmas morning breakfast item! Here is the meat part, waiting to be wrapped in dough! And here it is un...

Hey look!  I finally got the cards up!  Hooray!

Hey!  Do you know what is fun? Taking pictures of a macaroni and cheese recipe's ingredients if you have tripled them. Do you kn...

Here are some Christmas food failures.  On the top, a pound of chili bacon peanut brittle.  Sadly, in getting the candy to the proper tempe...

I had a carefully planned out schedule of easy steps to a prepared Christmas.  It was a really good plan.  I didn't follow any of it an...

Our theme this year?  Feet! At my grandparent's grave, that's Mom, Aunt Pat, me, Aunt Carol, clockwise from upper left. At...

Here's hoping your day is filled with lights and laughter.

Intro is here .  My favorite part of this calendar is that it acknowledges how silly and circuitous this quest has been.  FINALLY he l...

Intro is here .  Sigh. It's not going to be on the bookcase.  You'd be better off looking in those stockings. Will ...

Intro is here .  You've been reading C. Clement Moore, haven't you?  Santa will indeed come down this chimney, but not for a ...

Intro is here .  Okay, again, not a bad place to look.  But it's not here either.   I kind of like the portrait above the f...

Intro is here .  Ah, we get ever closer to the Christmas date and "He" bear is wasting time in the kitchen!  It's not in...

Intro is here .  I'm all for looking for Christmas in the cookie jar.  Did "He" bear  not find it?  Maybe the cooki...

Intro is here .  I always thought this was the maid doing the cooking, like Alice in the Brady Bunch.  But maybe that's "He...

Intro is here . (note stylin' red thread.) Oh, "He" bear,  you are so very, very close. Don't you see it in the ...

Intro is here .  Who is that bear in the bathtub?  It looks exactly like our bear, minus the ribbon. Is he staring at his own self?...

Intro is here .  Again, a good place to look for presents, but not for Christmas.  Maybe if someone introduced "He", the b...

Intro is here .  Oh "He" bear, how did you get on the roof?  Should you really be out there, you with your tiny brain?  I...

Intro is here .  Ah-ha!  So now we know that rooms are assigned!  And "He" bear has been exiled to the attic.  And someone...