Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes? Every month a group of seven bloggers share their workspaces, homes, towns, and more!

Make sure you visit everyone to see where the magic happens!

Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Em at Dust and Doghair
Iris at Iris’ Original Ramblings
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Julia at When the Girls Rule
Leslie at Once Upon a Time Happily Ever After 

This month’s theme was kitchens.

Please lower your expectations.

A lot.

My kitchen is not entertaining in the least. It’s probably my least favorite kitchen of all time. I’ve lived a lot of places so that’s really saying a lot. A normally-placed window and white paint on the walls would make a WORLD of difference. But. I’m a renter, so. It is what it is.

It does hold a lot of favorite items of mine with stories. That orange painting? One year it rained so many days…day after day after day of just torrential rains, week after week. Everyone’s basements were flooding and so a LOT of cool stuff was going out in the trash. I got Quite a Few Things from The Great Flood. Including the big orange painting.

I’m not a big one for putting a lot of stuff on the fridge…this is a lot for me. Two of my works of art HA HA HA HA, the ER bracelet from last fall’s kidney stone incident, a Valentine’s Day card with googly eyes from my sister (yes, we’re both 12), and one of my nieces just got engaged AND bought a house!

I am also incapable of keeping a well-stocked liquor “fridge-top,” cuz I drink stuff as soon as it comes in! My current fave is boozy coconut limeade. Recipe below!

Another sweet niece gave me this chicken egg timer (which came first? the chicken or the egg timer?) when I first sold my house and moved to Brooklyn. The elephant teapot was a gift from a couple I work with after I gifted them with taking their wedding photos.

My sister gave me this cake tester at my bridal shower…31 years ago. He went missing for a few years with all the moves, but now he’s magneted to the side of the fridge right next to the stove for cake testing.

I bought this lamp at a local estate sale back in my eBay days. I got SO many great things from that woman. She had a sale like twice a year and I got so many wonderful things from her over the years. I always find a home in my kitchen for this lamp, everywhere I go.

I think my sister also gave me this sweet little sugar bowl with the bees on top. Long long ago beyond the years where my memory still goes.

And that concludes our little tour…

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!

A 4-minute video where I give a little more in-depth tour.

AND the promised recipe.

This originated from the SmittenKitchen website but I have adjusted it to my liking and convenience and so the ingredient ratios are easy for me to remember.

1 can Cream of Coconut. The sweet, creamy stuff you use for pina coladas. I prefer Coco Lopez over Coco Goya.

1 can (I use the coconut can for my measurements) light rum.

3 cans ice.

Juice of two limes. I just discovered I can put the whole lime (well, cut in half) through my juicer without peeling! Have you ever tried to peel a lime? Then you know what an exciting discovery this was! Juice limes then…

Put the lime in the coconut.

Sorry, I hadda do it.

Blend all for a long time at top speed til it’s smooth and not ice chunky.

You could stick a lime slice on the rim of the glass to make it decorative…or you COULD just guzzle it straight from the blender. But who would do such a thing??

I’ve been enjoying these by the thermos-ful at sunset beach when I’m allowed out. Let me know if you try it.

Make sure to visit my friends today to see their kitchens!

Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Em at Dust and Doghair
Iris at Iris’ Original Ramblings
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Julia at When the Girls Rule
Leslie at Once Upon a Time Happily Ever After 

xoxo