Stories from Inside the Lavender Box

I Have “Pie” Hopes…

There is something about a pie that just makes me feel good. Beautiful flaky crust, sky high meringue or whipped cream topped, pie is…

Memories are funny things…and not all of them good. But that is okay. Every moment leaves an imprint on our lives and, good or…

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…Ella Fitzgerald Today is the first day of summer, and here in Northern Nevada, we can feel it. 100…

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it…Henry David Thoreau As you may have noticed, I have been…

I am an Oklahoma born Kansas girl… and proud of it. I fully (and sometimes aggressively) love my home state(s). I will proudly respond…

I’ve spent the majority of my life working in the healthcare field. In all honesty, from ages 12-46, I worked in healthcare in some…

Almost everyone knows about the Mardi Gras celebrations that take place all over the world on Shrove Tuesday. But the real party on Shrove…

The process of closing Lavender Box, my brick and mortar bakery, and switching back to a cottage bakery has been, in all reality, very…

Northern Nevada is having a not-so-normal winter this year. One storm after another, some dumping more snow than I’ve seen since I moved from…

When I decided to open my bakery, I was almost overwhelmed with all that goes into starting a business. It had been my main…

Oh the places I have been. For a girl born in the Oklahoma Panhandle and raised in Southwest Kansas, Reno Nevada is a whole…

Fun baking today, I get to start on a batch of decorated sugar cookies for a Dr. Seuss birthday party on Friday. I LOVE…