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"Memory is Hunger" - Ernest Hemingway
My mom had an innate talent of making everything extra special. With her, everything always had an extra special touch. Halloween...
Emily
Nov 24, 20152 min read
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Change of Blogger-ship
Hello, extended Sweet Butter family! Welcome to our new and improved website! Same coziness, just updated :) My mom, Leslie, opened Sweet...
Emily
Jul 18, 20151 min read
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Napa Bliss
Weddings are the truest celebration of life and love. They are hopeful, beautiful and full of promise. The sheer act of choosing to spend...
Leslie
Sep 13, 20122 min read
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A "Sparkly Affair"
I'm crazy about Fourth of July Sparklers. We have a stash of them at Sweet Butter that we adorn celebratory cakes, cupcakes & petit fours...
Leslie
Feb 13, 20121 min read
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Life's too short not to eat well.
This is hanging in Mario Batali's NYC Food Emporium, Eataly. I just returned from a much needed sojourn to New York City with my family...
Leslie
Jun 21, 20111 min read
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Minnesota...here I come!
Minnesota collectibles abound at Sweet Butter. That is because my husband lives there. We’ve been enduring a long distance relationship...
Leslie
Apr 4, 20112 min read
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A new toy for Sweet Butter!
Sweet Butter got a new toy today, and she is over the moon. It is called a Low Boy. Our new Low Boy being tested for the first time! I...
Leslie
Jan 31, 20111 min read
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Happy New Year!
Sweet Butter opened in 2010…and now it’s 2011! I feel so “established!” The past few weeks has whizzed by almost as fast as we sell out...
Leslie
Jan 11, 20111 min read
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Sweet Butter is nearly three weeks old!
If you've ever had a baby, then you know how joyful and difficult those first weeks can be. A blur of moments held together by a bond so...
Leslie
Dec 13, 20101 min read
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Has it really been a week?
It has been a week since Sweet Butter opened her doors, but all those minutes, hours and days have just been a blur. I have been out of...
Leslie
Nov 30, 20101 min read
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Tomorrow is the big day!
I just left Sweet Butter and blew her a kiss good night. I hope she’s ready for her big debut. Her grab and go freezer was looking a bit...
Leslie
Nov 21, 20101 min read
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I love my brown-haired girls.
We are almost there!! Sweet Butter is so close to opening the neighborhood can smell the Neuskes Bacon. All we have left to do is to...
Leslie
Nov 12, 20102 min read
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Sweet Butter Progress
I would say this photo makes our progress official. One must apply for a permit with the city to hang a sign. It took several weeks...
Leslie
Oct 26, 20101 min read
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A beautiful thing.
Watermelon radish-- it's actually called that! I wasn’t planning on blogging tonight. But I couldn’t resist sharing the most beautiful...
Leslie
Oct 19, 20101 min read
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A Perfect Caffe Latte
This is a perfect Latte. Don't you think? Our baristas were trained by Intelligentsia last Friday and Saturday. This Caffe Latte was just...
Leslie
Oct 19, 20101 min read
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Intelligentsia comes to Sweet Butter
I woke up to a crashed hard drive. Is there anyone out there who would take that lightly? I did a back up a few days ago, but oh…the...
Leslie
Oct 5, 20101 min read
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Getting closer every day!
Our wrought iron gates arrived yesterday! I just can’t believe how much has happened in a week! I flew to Minnesota to celebrate my...
Leslie
Sep 30, 20101 min read
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Sweet Butter's First Official Delivery!
The Chef's Warehouse Truck! The rumble of this truck gave me goosebumps! Yummy goodies inside those boxes! I wish I could remember the...
Leslie
Sep 24, 20101 min read
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Sweet Butter Construction Begins!
Usually the sight of these ugly trash bins make me cringe. But the sight of this particular one makes me smile! It means construction has...
Leslie
Aug 1, 20101 min read
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Yellowtail Restaurant in Las Vegas
My Husband and I just got back from a two day trip to Vegas. Prior to our trip, all I could think about was putting 10 chips down on 26...
Leslie
Jun 14, 20102 min read
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