Life offers many beautiful moments. May I catch them and pause to breathe them in as they slide, sparkling and shining, through my fingers, running in rainbow hues and coloring this life of mine. If I could only bottle them and save them and line them up on my windowsill to stand there at bright […]
Cake and Roses and Fudgy Frosting
There is something about a beautiful cake that just makes me smile. I love Lisa’s cakes and pictures and ALL HER FOOD over at Celebrate Creativity. Trust me. You want to take a few minutes to go gaze. Here’s her Sweet Category. Check out her beautiful cakes. I had read her tips about icing […]
Pieces and Snippets in Pictures
Pictures draw me. They pull me. They speak to me. They hint of story. They portray pieces of frozen time and snag snippets of lives lived and memories made and dreams dreamed. They capture God’s creation. Square after square. Moment upon moment. Seeking beauty and sealing it within the frame. Art and creating and thinking […]
Hand Lettering From Children of the Day
{affiliate links included} I’ve been spending a bit of time here and there on handlettering. I started combining it with my Bible study when I began working through the Open Your Bible study in January. This was soon after my back surgery and was a good recovery activity. I posted the pictures over in […]
Making a Wheat Wreath
{affiliate links included} Linking up at Decor to Adore. Do you want to make a wheat wreath? You know you do! Or if it isn’t your thing, just enjoy scrolling through the photos anyway! 🙂 This is what you’re going to need to make a wheat wreath, give or take. The VERY FIRST thing […]
Grace Like Waves and Giveaway Hop
It’s Giveaway time again! I’m so very excited about this package of giveaway goodies! I KNOW. I think I announce my excitement every time. BUT, I am excited about each giveaway. BECAUSE, I like to get to give away things I love, things I find beautiful or handy, and things I am excited about! […]
Chit-Chat From Around the Farmhouse
I scroll through my pictures as I work on editing some of them and I realize I have a lot of pictures that I love, of life and details. The type of pictures that often ended up in my Monday posts. I start to edit and save some of them and I dump them […]
In the Farmhouse Kitchen with Pretty Pies: Strawberry
{affiliate links included} Last week I posted pictures of Triple Berry Pie. Today, let’s try STRawBeRRy!! A couple of weeks ago, I had strawberries to use and I was still thinking about pretty pies and I began to pull out ingredients to put together strawberry pie. A few months ago we found out my […]
Ribbon Embellished Paper Clips
I’m often on the lookout for simple ways and details to add a bit of bright and beauty to my home. I believe beauty is a blessing and creating it in our homes inspires us and the people we love. {affiliate links included} I’d noticed some cute paperclips in a picture of a planner. […]
Playing in the Kitchen With Triple Berry Pie
{affiliate links included} Pie inspiration and pie dough play! I thoroughly enjoyed creating this pie. BECAUSE….just plain fun and pretty! A bit back, I’d found a beautiful account on Instagram with beautiful food and pie. When I saw her pies topped with beautiful cut-outs and draped with lattice and leaves, I knew I wanted […]
An Ordinary Monday and Eggs and Wildflowers
It’s Monday morning. I rather like Mondays, though I know they aren’t so popular everywhere. I try to rarely make plans for Mondays and so mostly I’m home on Mondays and it’s a fresh new week and a fresh new day. This Monday morning I’m slow and a bit achy and sore. I crawl out […]
A Grateful Eventide
Eggs and flour and berries and butter. Baking and creating from pie inspiration. Outside it clouds up and begins to rain. And it is gorgeous!! The loveliest spring rain falling down on our still thirsty earth. The kitchen light gleams and the oven hums and it gives off cozy, warm heat. My window above my […]
The Gift of a Day
Hello farmhouse! Hello gorgeous wheat! It’s just a gloriously, gloriously brilliant day. It’s crying out, “Notice Me!” It’s whispering, “Look long and hard. Linger. Let your gaze land on each detail. Drink in this day that the Lord has made. He gift-wrapped it in pure gorgeousness and He handed it to YOU!” AND….. Whether your […]
A Photo and A Quote
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ James M. Barrie A photo and a quote! They are two of my favorite things! That’s all folks! 🙂
Beauty to Bless and Quotes to Ponder
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today […]
We Have a Party
This year we became the parents of two teenagers! I looked at my man one day back in the fall and I said, “Sixteen and thirteen. Our children are turning sixteen and thirteen. We need to have a party! These are both milestone ages and both in the same year and of course, they will […]