Event: Spring Vintage Market Days of Nashville

                     Hey everyone! Happy Monday! I wanted to share all the pictures from my trip to the Spring Vintage Market Days of Nashville event from this past weekend. If you haven't been before, I highly recommend you visiting this event the next time around. I was able to visit and take pictures of their Spring event and my mom was able to attend as well. We had such a good time and picked up several great pieces from very talented vendors. This event features clothing, jewelry, vintage, home decor, antiques, furniture, and so much more. I love all of the home decor and I use a lot of the images that I take for inspiration in my own home.

                    If you look back in my blog history from December 2017, you will find my trip to the December Holiday VMD event and now this will display the spring event. I love attending this market and I hope you enjoy every detail and picture as much as I do. Thank you so much to the owners of Vintage Market Days for having me and letting me share this great event. I hope you all enjoy the pictures below and be sure to visit their website for future events in the Nashville area.  There are a lot of photos, I hope you enjoy :) Thank you for stopping by xoxo Tesla


There were so many great vendors here! Here are just a few to mention that I had the chance to talk to and learn more about their brand! All of these brands have instagram so be sure to search for them there by their name below:

- Gubba and Dangy

-Barking Birds Antiques

-Wandering Lark

-A daisy a day

-Tulip Grove Farm

-The gray door market

-Farmhouse Frocks

-The Cotton Shed 

Vintage Market Days Website

Home Decor: Mam's Spring Table

               Hi Everyone! Happy Thursday! Tonight on the blog I am sharing my grandma's (or as we all know her and call her "Mam") spring time tablescape. Mam always creates a beautiful tablescape no matter the occasion. I like to think I get my love for table details, place settings, and linen napkins from her.  We both love looking at ideas from our favorite magazines and pinterest. Reed and I went home over the weekend to celebrate Mam's 75th Birthday which was a lot of fun.

              I thought it would be fun to show off her beautiful table and dedicate this blog post to her :) I hope you are all enjoying your week and I hope this post brighten's your day just as it brightens mine. I love grandma's they are truly wonderful and a precious gift from God. I am so thankful to have two beautiful grandma's and also Reed's lovely grandma as well in my life. I hope you enjoy the table details below. I am sure there will be many more lovely tablescape's from Mam in the future on here :) Enjoy! xo Tesla


I didn't have my good camera with me; therefore, these pictures are taken from my phone.

Her centerpiece

This is Mam opening gifts for her Birthday

She had the cutest bags of homemade caramel corn for us to take home, so cute  and so yummy :)

Recipe: Gluten Free Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

            Stop what you are doing and make this recipe! Haha I’m not kidding, it is that good!! I have been following a baker/blogger named Elisabeth Farris from Elisabethandbutter and I always enjoy her Gluten Free recipes she puts together and this was one of her recipes, I had to share asap! Reed and I loved this bread. It would be great for a get together, breakfast, or dessert.

         Even if you aren't gluten free, you can substitute the GF baking flour to regular flour if you choose. It's a great recipe! Enjoy and let me know if you make this and love it as much as we have. Have a great evening and more recipes coming soon :)  Here is Elisabeth's blog with all of her recipes. I enjoy her social media and blog. Thanks for stopping by! xo Tesla 

More of Elisabeth's recipes and this recipe:

Elisabeth and Butter Blog

Here is the recipe:

Gluten Free Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

Ingredients

For the Banana Bread:

⅓ cup coconut oil, melted before measuring

½ cup honey

1 tablespoon maple syrup

2 large eggs

1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 bananas)

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ cup milk (I used 2% but any type is fine)

1 ¾ cups gluten-free all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

Cinnamon Swirl and Topping*:

1/3 cup sugar or coconut sugar

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Details:

1. Preheat oven to 325°F and line a 9×5 loaf pan with parchment paper going up all the sides and the bottom.
2. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the melted coconut oil with honey and maple syrup. Add the eggs, mashed bananas, milk and vanilla and whisk to combine well. If the coconut oil starts to solidify, place it in the microwave for 10 seconds and whisk again.
3. Add the flour, baking soda and salt to the liquid mixture and stir until combined.
4. In a small separate bowl, combine the granulated sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
5. Pour half of the batter into the lined loaf pan and then sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar on top. Pour the rest of the batter on top and spread it out. Sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar on top and swirl with a knife.
6. Bake for 55-60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7. Remove from oven and let it sit in the pan for 10 minutes to cool and then take it out and let it cool completely on a wire rack.

Recipe is from Elisabethandbutter 

Home Decor: Spring Kitchen Inspiration

            Hi everyone! It has been a couple weeks as I took a little break from social media and blog posting. I hope you are all doing well and hope you had a great weekend! With the warm weather right around the corner, I wanted to share some Spring Kitchen ideas/inspiration with you that I have been searching and finding on Pinterest. I know you will probably be adding in color to your homes or kitchen with the Spring season upon us, and thought this would be fun and helpful to give you a few ideas. Here are a few that I am currently loving :) Enjoy and have a great week. Thank you for stopping by xo

(all images found from Pinterest as inspiration and ideas)

Recipes: Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies

              Hey y'all! :) It's almost the weekend, woo hoo. I wanted to share a wonderful (probably the best) sugar cookie recipe yet. My aunt Carri's and grandma's is pretty awesome but this is right up there in the same ball park. So good!! Mam made these for Christmas and everyone loved them and I knew I had to make them for Valentine's Day and share with you all. The best part is they aren't overly sweet, sounds weird with it being a sugar cookie but they are so delicious!

            I hope you all have fun weekend plans. We are heading to Indiana to spend time with family and friends. I hope you enjoy your Friday and weekend ahead and of course this recipe. Make this for your significant other or for your kids, because it's a good one. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Valentine's Day! xoxo

Sugar cookie recipe:

ingredients:

-1 1/2 cup of sugar

-1 cup of shortening

-2 eggs, well beaten

-3 Tablespoons of sour cream

-1/2 teaspoon of Baking Soda

-1/4 teaspoon of salt

-1/4 teaspoon of vanilla

-3 cups of flour

details:

-pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees

-cream the sugar and shortening together first

-add the eggs, sour cream, and vanilla

-slowly add in your flour, salt, and baking soda

-mix this well

-chill for 3 hours in the fridge

-roll the dough out to your desired thickness and cut or form into ball

-bake for 400 for 8-10 minutes

-cool the cookies on a  cooling rack

-then ice the cookies and enjoy!

For the icing, I just use powdered sugar, water, and vanilla and whipped this up to make a thick consistency, you can also purchase your own icing as well to ice these

Recipes: Valentines Day Classic Cake

                   Hi everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous week! I can't believe we are already in February and only a week or so away from Valentines Day already. Crazy! As you know from my previous blog posts, we have just finished our January Whole 30 so this is a funny post going from healthy food to a  delicious cake haha! But, the truth is I love to bake. Baking is so therapeutic for me and brings me so much happiness. Even if I just have a bite or don't eat any of it; regardless, I just like to bake for people. I think this is in my blood and DNA from my mother, and both of my grandma's (which I am totally okay with :))

                   With the Valentines Day holiday quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to share a classic and yummy yellow cake with chocolate frosting with you. This is a great recipe and so delicious. I will also be sharing a new cookie recipe with you this week as well so stay tuned for that but to start this off, here is the cake recipe. I hope you enjoy this and hope you enjoy the Valentines Day kitchen details. Happy Tuesday :) xo

Yellow Cake recipe:

Ingredients:

-4 large eggs

-1 cup of milk

-2 teaspoons of vanilla

2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil

-2 1/2 cups of cake flour

-1 1/2 cups of sugar

-1 teaspoon of salt

-2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

-1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter softened  

Details: 

-preheat your oven to 350

-grease two 8 inch baking pans 

-use this same mixture/details below for both of your 8 inch baking pans

-in a large mixing bowl combine your eggs, milk, and your other liquid ingredients here

-using a separate bowl combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder

-whisk the dry ingredients 

-then, add in small amounts of your butter a few pieces at a time to the dry ingredients bowl

-mix this until the dry ingredients are moistened by the butter and form crumbles

-then add 1/2 of the liquid egg mixture to the dry ingredients

-the batter will begin to thicken 

-then pour in the remaining egg mixture and beating/stirring until smooth

-bake at 350 for 30-35 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean

-Let the cake cool completely before stacking on top of each other or cutting/icing

Chocolate Frosting:

ingredients:

-2 sticks of unsalted butter softened 

-6 cups of powdered sugar 

-1 cup of cocoa 

-1/2 cup of milk

-2 teaspoons of vanilla

details:

-beat your butter first for a couple minutes on medium speed of your mixture 

-then, add your vanilla and blend into the butter

-then, add in your powdered sugar and cocoa powder 

-add in your milk 

-begin beating at a low speed until a thicker consistency