I love the little ties around it and I love the back view of the sofa coming into the living room.. See?

Or really, any time that you have people gathered together and eating food!.My local friend Sarah (who just started blogging over at.

The Project Pile.made a cheese ball for us to snack on one day and it was so cute and tasty that I had to ask her for the recipe.I tweaked it a bit just for fun and I came up with the chipotle cheese ball!.

I’ve made this recipe a few times now, most recently for a BBQ we went to right before we left to go out of town to the beach for a few days with the kids.I swore I was going to take a million pictures on that little trip, but toddlers just don’t stop moving so this is the only picture that I got:.

Clearly life is very busy so I wanted to make something really quick for that BBQ.

I whipped this up in about five minutes the night before and stuck it in the fridge!.tea light holder.

and a. clear pedestal vase.That’s really all it takes to bring a little fresh green Springyness into your world!

They really keep their color too.I had quite a big bag full of pine needles that I’d saved from cleaning up in January and they were still as green as can be!.