I’ve been using essential oils for five years now! I can’t believe it’s been that long. I don’t think I’ve ever held a giveaway for oils. When I was thinking about celebrating through July with giveaway favorites, it occurred to me to definitely give away some oils! I really love my oils and use them […]
Ten Quick Memories Of My Years With My Man and My Kiddos
Ok, gang! {That was the first greeting that popped in my head as I set out to type this post. Then, it made me giggle! But I went with it, all the same. Maybe, because of the giggle. I find beginning and ending blogposts a bit challenging at times. Not always. But sometimes. I think […]
Celebrating With a Stickers Giveaway From The MeadowLarke
How about some succulents and tacos to get our week started out right…….even if they come in the form of hand drawn sticker sheets!!! Woot! Woot! This is our giveaway today! These stickers are hand drawn by my niece, Larke. To say I love them is to say it in a very understated way. […]
Celebrating With a Lilla Rose Symphony Flexi Giveaway
Every Friday I find myself asking in my head, “Where HAS the week gone?” And every time I turn the calendar page to a new month, I wonder the same thing. Except, “month” instead of “week”. July is sneaking towards half over! We have winners for our GraceLaced giveaway and our Magnolia Journal giveaway. Yay! […]
Ten Favorite Childhood Memories
Last week I walked down memory lane and posted ten birthday gifts I received and loved SO MUCH when I was a kid. This week I have ten childhood memories. These things were often part of our daily life and were some of the little things I loved then. 1. Going to town to get […]
Celebrating With a Giveaway From Livvie + Hazel
Good morning! Good Monday! Good new week! Continuing on with our July celebration, here’s our third giveaway! {Hop over here if you haven’t read the “why” of celebrating our way through July!} For those that have read the why, Carry On! 🙂 Livvie + Hazel just launched their beautiful, new line of jewelry! It […]
His Workmanship
The handiwork of God snuggled securely in a little seed. It grows. Roots. Shoots. Reaches. Slowly, interceptibly becoming. Stronger. Taller. Ready to produce. And then tiny buds emerge. Linger. Lengthen. Begin to bloom in edged, intricate detail. Tiny flower + tiny flower + tiny flower coming together in one glorious hydrangea display. […]
Play On
Play on. . . Bow hums across the violin. Fingers press piano keys. Guitar pick finds guitar strings. . . Play on. . . Pen pressed on paper. Keyboard taps. Canvas waiting, empty, blank. . . Play on. . . Scrubbing at the stuck on spots. Corralling clutter everywhere. Folding tidy washcloth squares. . . […]
Celebrating with a Magnolia Journal Giveaway
Hey friends! The second giveaway to celebrate our way through July! This giveaway is for……………… wait for it…….wait for it………. a set of four Magnolia Journal magazines! This set is Volume two through five….. the premier issue stands alone! This magazine looked fun to me last year and I decided to give it a try. […]
Pages and Projects {Books, Stickers and Yarn}
Happy Independence Day! I hope your fourth of July is filled with fun, family & friends and fireworks! 🙂 Our local firework display was last evening and we watched the colors light up the sky and reflect in the lake and felt the boom rattle our frames. I often reflect on the reversal of life […]
Ten Birthday Gifts I Loved
I’m grateful for every good day and I’m grateful for good memories. This month has me contemplating back over the last forty years. ‘Cause truth be told, forty sounds like a loooooonnnnggg time, when you think about it. It really makes me giggle, because inside I don’t feel all that old, or grown up or […]
Celebrating With a GraceLaced Print Giveaway
July. July always summons up memories and pictures of hot sunshine, water spraying, and long days. It carries me back to childhood and carefree days and summertime living. Stirring up lemonade or Kool-Aid in the burnt orange Tupperware pitcher and wedging the lid on top. Eating popsicles, orange or red, purple or green….licking them […]
Taken Care Of
James 5:7 ~ Dear brothers and sisters, be patient as you wait for the Lord’s return. Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to ripen. This past season, on our farm calendar, we waited and we waited and […]
Ten Favorite Storybooks For Children
This could be an endless list! 🙂 Storybooks for children are a whole lotta fun! I have another stack of books waiting for another post and I know I could do several posts! For today………here’s ten books I love! No. 1 Bambi Gets Lost We had this book at my house when I was a […]
Of Wheatfields and Praise and Harvest 2018
Every year when harvest is finished, the last acre cut, last bushel deposited in the truck to head to town, my heart wells thankfulness and at some point my tongue gives voice to a favorite old hymn of mine. “The God of harvest praise, In loud thanksgiving raise, Hand, Heart and Voice………” Harvest is […]
Ten Things That Delighted Me This Spring
No. 1 I won a Blendtech blender and I’m still over-the-moon delighted about it!!! It’s so fun to use and it gives me fun messages when it’s finished blending like, “Ta-da!” and “You should tweet this blend!” Ten years ago, I wouldn’t have even known what in the world it meant to “tweet my blend”. […]
Praise and Promises in My Lord
I praise you Lord, for You are good. I bow in humble, grateful gratitude, You fill me up and pour me out and fill me up again-Amen. Oh, thank-you Lord, my Savior King, And Spirit-led, my heart it sings, For You ARE good, you hear my sighs, You steady me and calm my cries, My […]
