Happy October!We’ve been utterly and completely blessed with GOING-ON-THREE-WEEKS of absolutely gorgeous autumn weather. There’s been little wind, cool nights, and seventy to eighty degree days. It’s warmed right up several afternoons, but if I’ve closed the house up it stays cool enough and then I throw the front door and windows back open as […]
Ten Ingredients For a Hello Kitty Doll Teaparty
If you’re interested in teaparties and dolls and fun snacks and love you some Hello Kitty, I have a party idea for you! 🙂 Here’s a list of ten ingredients, give or take, you’ll want when throwing your teaparty! Many of the ingredients are quite adaptable to your preferences, tastes, and people! NO. 1 ~ […]
In Which I Think About Special Days and Friendship
I do not claim to understand life. The living and breathing and moving of it. The heart of it and soul in it and soul in us. Mystery this. How we live in the moments and the clock tick-tocks them away faster than we can say hickory-dickory-dock and wraps them up into memory packages for […]
Mug and Teacup Exchange Spring 2018
It’s Teacup and Mug Exchange Reveal time! Yay!! Last fall I joined in on this teacup exchange for the first time. You can find my post about it right over here. I signed up again for the spring exchange and this time I chose to do the teacup exchange and the mug exchange. That means […]
Pages and Projects {So Close to Amazing Party}
Do you like books and parties? I, for one, certainly do! This led to my hosting a So Close to Amazing party! Here’s a few pictures of the book and the food and some prizes we had! {Before I forget, you can link up YOUR #SoClosetoAmazing posts for a couple more days right over here […]
So Close to Amazing Blog Tour and Link Party
It’s time! It’s all the happies! It’s AmAzIng!!!! We’re kicking off the So Close to Amazing Blog Tour! It’s a tour full of So Close to Amazing Stories and Book Reviews. And there are twelve other bloggers co-hosting! {August 21 – September 16} I’ve chatted a few times this summer about Karianne Wood’s soon-to-be-released book, […]
Think Write Thursday {A Pretend Afternoon Gathering of Girls}
The email for Think Write Thursday hit my inbox and here’s what it said. {linking up with Carole} This week’s topic is…………. to plan a dinner party, inviting THREE people, living or dead. ….insert my thought here…{Although it would probably be easier for them to attend if they aren’t, well, dead.} 😉 tell us: who […]
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 […]
Some Pictures of Some Cows and Some Other Stuff
Matthew was doing a few chores and checking cattle for his brother who was gone for a few days. I rode along and I took my camera along, as I rode along, and thus, along the way, at one of our stops I took some pictures of some of the cows. It was just a […]
Autumn Party…from the Past
Taking a trek back in time again to visit Party Past! In the fall of 2008, I had a simple 60th birthday party for a dear lady, friend, and neighbor. It’s so fun to look back. I love remembering details. Autumn colors are so pretty. This chocolate cake was fun to make. Quite simple. […]
Baby Shower Pictures
One of my long-time friends had her first baby the end of August. A boy! A couple other friends helped me and we held a baby shower for her in my basement, in September. My pictures aren’t all that great. I was too busy to stop and take good photos like I really wanted […]
Jean Pocket Silverware Holders
There are a lot of pretty pictures in my True Woman 201 studybook. One of them showed the back pocket from a pair of jeans with silverware tucked inside. I instantly thought of my denim napkin holders. Next, my mind jumped to the old jeans I still had in an upstairs closet. […]
Of Cake Pops and Party
In January, at birthday time, Renae told me she had an idea. She wanted to have a couple of her friends come over, not now, but in July at her half-birthday, and celebrate then with summery things like swimming and such. That was fine with me. She began to plan and would add ideas […]
It Was A Birthday Party
I feel like looking at party pictures again! This was a birthday party for a friend. Maybe in 2008? Yes, it was. I went and checked. We served Strawberry Lemonade and adding fruit to the glasses was a fun and pretty thing. And went well with the beverage! This was just an afternoon party with […]
Welcome Party…. From The Past
I so enjoy looking back. I am so grateful for pictures. I procrastinate at sorting and loading my pictures in this digital picture age, but I am so glad for memories and frozen bits of life. There are so many things I would forget and DO forget until I look back at pictures! Way back in […]
We Throw a Party
I had a friend who turned forty this fall. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to throw a party! I really love setting things up for a party. It does take time and effort, so it doesn’t always happen. 🙂 Lovely fall flower arrangement! It was part of my friend’s gift and served as our centerpiece […]
Of Party Past
I posted a bit back about a party I had for my sister-in-law. It got me to thinking about how much fun it is to have a party now and then and how much fun it is to go to one now and then and it got me thinking about some parties past and that […]