A friend of a friend asked me about book suggestion gift ideas for our mutual friend and that’s all I needed to do some pairing! 🙂 I thought it would be fun to bring you some favorite book pair ideas of mine for your consideration! Add them to your personal library or use them for […]
Happy Mailboxes For Valentine’s Day
Happy mail. I like sending it and receiving it. Fun cards, encouraging notes, letters of appreciation. These all qualify for the happy mail category. How about some happy MAILBOXES today?! I came across this cute craft on Pinterest and knew it would be fun to make for my little nieces for Valentine’s Day! And that’s […]
You’re The Apple Of My Eye
Here’s a fun and simple Valentine treat idea. I made some of these last year and gave to a few friends. I love the contrast and the pop it gives the apples. I saw the idea in a facebook video if I remember correctly. What you need…………….. Red apples Green or Yellow apples Small […]
Orange Garland and Joy to the World Advent Book {Pages and Projects}
For two or three years now, I’ve thought very much about purchasing the Advent study from She Reads Truth, but so far I never had. I love the Christmas season, but it adds extras and I didn’t know if I would get the study done. We often travel and I always had other Bible studies […]
An Advent Devotional: Unwrapping the Names of Jesus
{Note: Links in this post are affiliate links, and we will be compensated when you make a purchase by clicking through our links. Read our disclosure policy here.} A book just right for Christmas! It’s an Advent Devotional and it’s wrapped in a beautiful cover! 🙂 An Advent Devotional: Unwrapping the Names of Jesus by Asheritah […]
A Thanksgiving Harvest
I watch the smoke spiral up from the sweet corn stalks and general garden tangle and I confess my first reaction is “glad-to-see-that-mess go” followed quickly by “no-garden-next-year” all played in sour tones and trebles. Then, I pause, a bit ashamed. Yes. That garden did become a big tangled, overgrown mess. It made me feel […]
Pretty Ordinary Pictures Because They’re Pretty
Happy Easter! It’s only a bunch of pretty ordinary pictures because they’re pretty. I grow more and more thankful for beauty. And I decided this week that I think I will buy chocolate bunnies for my children until I die! 🙂 {Because chocolate bunnies are important….} Chocolate eggs and flop-eared bunnies are from Winans. I […]
Ten Things I Enjoy About Valentine’s Day
The story of St. Valentine. We read a children’s book quite a few years ago and it told this story about St. Valentine. The emperor decided to ban marriage because he was having trouble recruiting men for his army. He believed the men didn’t want to leave their homes and families and decided banning engagements […]
Hearts and Roses and Apple Pie
I put this pie together one day in January. Since it’s Valentine week, it seemed like a good time to post these pictures. It was fun to try another design and use some hearts. I had hearts in my head because I had added Valentine touches around my home and had been enjoying thinking about […]
Valentine Prize Ribbons
About the middle of January I spied a fun idea on Laura from Decor to Adore’s Instagram. She’d made some really cute Valentine prize ribbons. I hopped over to her blog post and I filed the idea away in my head and on Pinterest. The week before last I pulled out the idea, my craft […]
Hello February 2017 ~ A Burlap Runner, Some Yellow Roses and a Story
It’s Think Write Thursday over at Carole’s…………. Today’s topic is HELLO FEBRUARY!!! This subject is fun for me since I wrote a long run of Hello Monday posts that morphed into Memoir Monday posts and then ran their course for that season and time. Along with greeting February with a cheery hello, we’re welcoming this […]
Bright Blooms for Easter
Blessed Easter! Jesus, our Savior is risen! He’s risen, indeed! Delight in each Day and Live Loved. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2016-2018
Shredded Paper Nests Craft
Here’s what I did over the weekend, among other things! Some crafting! {affiliate links included} I receive a few magazine subscriptions and I enjoy leafing through them. When I find a page with a craft or a recipe or some other manner of inspiration that I want to keep or make or remember, I do the […]
A Valentine Tablescape
{affiliate links included} Pretty dishes and a table spread with beauty. From simple to elaborate, they draw me every time. Tablescapes catch my eye in magazines, on blogs, in books, on Instagram. Spreading out dishes and arranging and spelling out love and care for the people who will grace the table. Home and food. They […]
A Christmas Tablescape and Some Gingerbread Men
{affiliate links included} There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Christmas Day may be past, but the celebration of Jesus is never past. Never delegated to only one day. The celebration is in our every day and our everyday. Â We celebrated Christmas with […]
Ribbon Candy
I wanted to find some old-fashioned ribbon candy to use as decor for Christmastime and I was delighted when I did! I had fun opening the box and finding out what colors and designs were inside. So intricate and beautiful! I can’t decide if I like the solid colors or the stripes better. I […]
To Always Gaze Upon That Baby
I want to see the baby in the manger, yes, I do, I want to gaze upon him with a child’s eyes and view, I want to see him all wrapped up in his swaddling clothes, I want to gaze upon his little fingers and his toes, I want to smooth his hair, all downy, soft, […]
