Let’s take a little prowl around my porch. The look of September and October has grasped it! Lovely gourds and pumpkins, and flowers that have a wild, end-of-summer beauty. Though winter is the only season I’m glad to see leave and I’m usually grasping the coattails of whichever one is on the way out, […]
Quotes to Remember {No. 3}
Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections. I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and His kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of organized religion and frequently missed by the too-smart. Sometimes it’s not the professor or […]
Books Tablescape
Once upon a time in Instagramland, summer was slipping to an end and cooler temperatures were tiptoeing closer and autumn was through the trees and around the bend in the path, not quite visible, but approaching. School sessions and schedules were starting in again and many people were posting pictures of back-to-school and last-days-at-the-pool and […]
Memoir Monday {No. 88}
An end-of-summer/beginning-of-fall look. We late-planted some gourds and pumpkins and they are growing. Tucker picked a few beginners for me. The flowers look a bit bedraggled from the heat and the croquet balls speak of summer days and the gourds hint of autumn. Matthew & I spent a day out with friends. I took a few […]
Organizing Photos In Three-Ring Binders
I love pictures. If you’ve dropped by here even just a few times, you may have figured that out. I like taking them, I like having them, I like the memories they create. I also like and appreciate all the pictures friends and family have given us over the years. Many years ago, I was […]
Summertime Yellowy Lemon Wreath
One of my friends’ daughters posted a picture of her beautiful lemon wreath on Instagram. I loved its bright cheerfulness. Soon after, I was moving the flowerpots around on my porch and simultaneously watering them and moving them some more. I’ve rearranged the porch a few times this summer. In part, because of wind […]
Instapost { July No. 2}
I have a lampshade in my living room. It’s making me laugh. Almost everytime I walk by it, there’s this part of me that goes, “I have a LAMPSHADE in my LIVING ROOM!!” With the same amount of wonder and amazement and drama and tone as Rapunzel in Tangled when she exclaims, “I […]
Outside and On the Porch
I’m hoping to eventually have some plants along the south and back of our porch. I picked up a few at Wal-Mart right at the beginning of harvest. They were clearancing everything out, so I decided to snag a few and stick them in. I’m trying a couple of hydrangeas. Not sure how they’re going […]
Apricots and Sugar
Sometimes it rains. Sometimes you have a plan for the day. Sometimes the to-do list just sits and waits. Sometimes you call your farmer man and say, “It rained. Of course, you have nothing to do since it rained so……….” Sometimes you notice apricots on the counter. Sometimes you sprinkle sugar on the counter around […]
Love the Home You Have Giveaway
I’m so excited! We have a giveaway happening. Yesterday, I posted a Tour of our Farmhouse, that I’ve long thought about putting together. This giveaway helped me to put a few finishing touches on the tour for now. It was fun timing, I thought, to talk about home and to do this giveaway. I recently […]
Come Take a Tour of Our Farmhouse ~
I’ve had this post long in the works and hanging out in the behind-the-scenes and drafts in my dashboard of my blog. Therefore, with much ado, I bring you OUR FARMHOUSE TOUR. And a few quotes about home…. Be it ever so humble, There’s no place like home!!!!! There is nothing like staying at home […]
A Few Memories and Collectibles From My Grandma
I’ve been thinking I’d post about a few things I brought home which had belonged to my Grandma. She went home to Jesus back in December and no longer needed one earthly thing! Isn’t that just pretty awesome to think about how everything we need is supplied for us when we go to our HOME […]
Miniature Pillows for Decor
I want to show you something I’m excited about! These miniature pillows my daughter has been creating!!! I just so love them! She’s had a good time coming up with different ideas and then stitching away. She had fun making them and I had equally as much fun photographing them. She did several Scrabble letter pillows. […]
A Garage Sale, A Scrabble Game, and An Excited Girl
Maybe a month or two or three ago, I thought, “It would be fun to have Scrabble tiles.” Thinking fun decor! The stuff you could do with them, such as spell stuff or use initials or just scatter the letters. Possibilities galore! I texted my sis and said, “If you find old Scrabble tiles, I’d take some.” […]
I Love You Pillows
I’m so in love with these I Love You pillows. For a couple of reasons. For starters, I think they’re terribly cute. For another thing, my daughter created and crafted them. So, of course!! They are just so fun to me. She had the idea and had sketched it out in a notebook and […]
Crafting an Easter Wreath
I’m EXCITED!!! I made a wreath. Well, kind of. I did not make everything with my own bare hands from scratch, from vines and branches grown in my yard and garden, from fibers woven on my loom, and from plastic melted over my own fire and paint stirred together from crushed berries and whatever else. […]