Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
