Beautiful Calling

   Doesn’t look like much but these were all over the walls in the corner from a puppet house we had. It was original builder’s paint and even the finger smudges around the lightswitch wouldn’t wash! I’m going to paint today! I woke up the other morning and decided that I wanted to paint our [...]

My preserves so far. Or part of them anyway. They fill the cupboard Last year was the first year I attempted to preserve food for my family. I don’t have any sort of talent in that area but I purchased the Ball Blue Book of Preserving off eBay and have had great success. If I [...]

Fresh flowers were a something I treated myself to regularly before our littles arrived. When I became a stay-at-home mommy, our budget changed a bit. Actually, not so much the budget but my priorities. Anyhow, my neighbor told me about this farm where you could buy beautiful flowers that I could feel good about ‘splurging’ [...]

Photo by Jek-in-the-Box Sunday Night 10:45pm I have a cold in August. There is just something wrong about that statement!Here I am, can’t sleep because my ‘node id dough duffy’ and when I lie down I can’t breath. I gave up and just took a Nyquil. I’m generally opposed to taking medication but sometimes it [...]

Photo by Bookgrl Monday morning {as usual}, I am putting things back in order after the weekend. I do very little on the weekends; usually only the essentials. I also have a Bunwich order to prepare and then I am heading to Dragonfly Landscape to order the triple mix needed for our first ever vegetable [...]