{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. […]
Yarn Along {Bugs Bunny’s Carrot Machine}
{affiliate links included} Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams. I took this picture first and it is in the post first, so our Kid Pick is just FIRST this week! 🙂 Another Little Golden! Bugs Bunny’s Carrot Machine. We had this book when I was a kid. Oh, that rascally rabbit! I was so […]
Yarn Along {Who Took The Farmer’s Hat?}
{affiliate links included} Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams. There were a variety of books scattered here and there around our house, I noticed. I picked up my camera and snapped some frames. Miss Renae has been lingering in the pages of Anne of Ingleside and running down to Rainbow Valley with Anne’s dear children. […]
Yarn Along {Lego MiniFigures}
{affiliate links included in this post} Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams. The beginning of the fingerless mitts! I like how they are looking and this yarn is fun to work with. My knitting has been patient a lot lately! I’ve been working on some other projects and somehow our winter-now-turned-to-spring has contained lots […]
DIY Pom-pom Wreath
{affiliate links included} Back before Christmas and right after my surgery, I commenced to making pom-poms! And they were absolutely fun to do! My main purpose for making them was to make a wreath. The pom-poms look so very cute just piled in a basket, too! They became part of my Christmas decor for […]
Yarn Along {The Tawny Scrawny Lion}
{affiliate links included} This week finds me focusing on these three books. I just recently acquired Flash and I LOVE IT! It is a relaxing read. It is gentle. It is entertaining and then Rachel Ann Ridges pulls a life lesson out of each story and chapter and pretty much nails it. She blogs over […]
Yarn Along {The Very First Noel}
Pom-poms. They’ve been happening. They are seriously fun. I’m intending to make a pom-pom wreath, but for now I am utterly and utmost DELIGHTED with how terribly cute they are in piles and tucked into a basket as part of my decor. Just tickled pink. {affiliate links included} UPDATE: {If you are as taken as […]
Christmas Ornaments ~ Glass and Paper
I saw this idea floating around a few places online and I loved the look. Clear glass has always been a favorite of mine. I loved how fun these ornaments were filled with paper curls. My sister brought some crafting stuff out when they came out at Thanksgiving. She brought along some old music sheets. […]
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 […]
Yarn Along {Simply Tuesday}
My completed dishcloth from last week.… {And, yes, I do realize today is Wednesday if you are wondering about my blogpost title. It will make more sense when we get on down to the books! 😉 } Yarn Along has been an inspiration to me! By pulling out my yarn and needles again, I see […]
Yarn Along ~ Just a Dishcloth and Savor
I actually worked on my dishcloth some more! I thought it might be just in the very same stage as last week. My cousin and her family are here visiting and her husband is helping out my farmer man during harvest. We’ve had some moments here and there to chat and I worked on […]
Yarn Along ~ Dishcloth and Dear Mr. Knightley
Every Wednesday, over at Small Things, Ginny hosts a Yarn Along link-up. I was intrigued when I recently discovered it and I knew it would be fun to link up. I only knit dishcloths, so I don’t have a huge variety of knitting projects. And my knitting is come and go. I’ll have it out […]
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 Lollipop Bouquet
My brother had a birthday coming up and I knew what I wanted to make and gift him with for his birthday. I’d pinned the idea for a Lollipop Bouquet to my Pinterest Gift-Giving Ideas Board. Over at A Mom’s Life her daughter had made one for her brother’s birthday and I thought it […]
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 […]