cocktails, island style, stories & beautiful blue water
Welcome to our tiki bar tailgate 2015 & the Jimmy Buffett concert! I’ve lost count of how many Jimmy Buffett concerts I’ve been to over the years ~ but my first was in 1988, so let’s just say there have been a lot. We’ve been doing our bluwaterlife tiki bar tailgate for several years, and there are Facebook albums for… Read More
Have bar, will travel ~ again! I scored a vintage Londonaire travel bar while shopping at Seaside Sisters during my Tybee visit last November. I pondered using it in its original state, doing something crafty, or adding some sort personalization ~ and here’s the bluwaterstyle result. 🙂 I’ve enjoyed the other travel bars I created from metal train cases. They are definitely my style…. Read More
Drink wine. Make something pretty. Art Blossoms. I am so on board with this! Art Blossoms is a campaign by women, for women with the goal of encouraging art and sustainability to blossom all over the country. I’m excited to be part of a group of bloggers invited by Protea Wines USA to contribute to this campaign. You know I love… Read More
Three-day weekends are one of my favorite things! Here are a few of my favorite drinks and side dishes for your weekend 🙂 . My favorite Summer Sangria ~ delicious with in season summer fruit ~ These fried green beans are a great and easy appetizer. Try them with my Summer Sangria ~~~ My Watermelon Mojito is the taste of… Read More
Infused water is a perfect thirst quencher ~ easy, healthy, inexpensive. The options and flavors for infusing are everywhere ~ Pinterest, food & drink blogs, magazines ~ but guess what? I’ve got three tips and tricks for making infused water even better 🙂 I love things that are SCBD ~ SMALL change, BIG difference! Here’s my first tip ~ Citrus flavors are my… Read More
A summer evening with low humidity, a slight breeze and no bitey bugs? Over the July 4th holiday weekend?? IN THE SOUTH??? Alert the media, and this calls for a special cocktail!! It’s the Sunday evening tail end of the July 4th holiday weekend ~ one of my fave holidays in the year ~ and we enjoyed some unexpectedly nice weather… Read More
A rainy day in a beach town is perfect for getting off your regular path and exploring the neighborhood. And the first day of our Memorial Day week bluwatergetaway it rained. I mean RAINED. As in DOWNPOUR. A CONTINUOUS DOWNPOUR. I swear the animals were lining up two by two! A look at any weather map showed a swirling mass… Read More
Welcome to my tiki bar tailgate 2014 & the Jimmy Buffett concert 🙂 Tuesday night in Atlanta on May 27th was only the 2nd stop on the new “This One’s for You” tour! This year Jimmy changed venues ~ from the big ol’ Lakewood amphitheater south of town, to the smaller amphitheater in Chastain Park ~ and he last played Chastain 27… Read More
Happy kickoff to summer! To get us started off for the summer season, I’m sharing my own special bluwatersplash cocktail that has never yet been published on the blog. I came up with this early last year, and shared it with friends and folks who asked for it. If you’ve downloaded the drink and bar cards you saw that it was listed, but… Read More
