Today for a Ten on Tuesday topic, I’m thinking about ten places I’d like to visit! I like home and I like to be home a lot {and that works out pretty good with farming since farming requires a good bit of time in one general area! ha!}, but I have some places that have […]
Let Us Laugh
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything. ~ Irish Proverb I have these reminders scattered around my home…and some days I need to read them all….more than once…. 😊😄 I’m thankful for laughter and happy. It really is good medicine. I often long for the “garden days” before […]
Drilling the Wheat 2016
The squeak of the drill. The rattle of the press wheels. The throb of the tractor engine as it puts forth power. It is rhythmic. It speaks of the circle of life and seasons. It is a down deep cycle of farm life. It is a sound I love. And I love […]
Burlap Pumpkin From The Little Green Bean Giveaway
Missy from The Little Green Bean is bringing us this delightful giveaway today! Her creations are so happy and fun. I love them. {photo credit ~ The Little Green Bean} Aren’t these burlap pumpkins the cutest?! Our giveaway today is for ONE burlap pumpkin in size medium. The winner will get their choice of color. […]
Yarn Along {The Imagination Station}
Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams ~ It’s a candy corn family!!!! 🙂 My post last week has a link to the pattern if you are interested. I hurried and finished the set of coasters, so I could add them to a birthday gift for my friend last week. We were meeting for lunch and that gave […]
Cupcake Flowers
Back in the spring, I pulled pages out of a Martha Stewart for these candy flower cupcakes. They hung out in my three-ring binder. {the pages…not the cupcakes. Although, that woulda been nice!} A few weeks ago, I pulled them out of the binder and made cupcakes. I also wanted to try this recipe for […]
Redeemed and Free and Known and Loved
I give you all my dreams and hopes and plans, Lord. With open hands I come and stand. Please. Take them all. Mold them. Make them. Plan. Create them. Into what You want for me. Dream the dreams You dream for me. At Your feet I fall. Deeper still I long to go. To follow […]
October 2016 Flexi and a Giveaway
We’ve had a dolphin. A starfish. Two owls. A cat. A paw print. We have a butterfly and a ladybug. There’s a dragonfly and a horse. For October, we have a FOX flexi! And there are two of them! This is the Night Fox.…. He is antique copper with hints of lite bronze. This is the […]
In Our Wardrobe {No. 43}
Friday again! I have been drinking in sunshine and perfect September weather all week. These pictures are from a few weeks ago. I found this tank on sale at J. Crew. I really like it and like the embellishments on it. They add just the right touch. Totally fits my taste. 🙂 So fun when […]
VeggieTales Every Day With God Devotional for Girls
LOOK! {affiliate links included} It’s a Veggie Tales daily devotional for girls! We have a giveaway for one today! Veggie Tales make me smile. They are so bright and cheery. We haven’t watched any Veggie Tales for quite a while, but we did in days past. Days with younger, littler kiddos! Their exaggerated humor is […]
Yarn Along {The Undoing of Saint Silvanus}
Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams ~ Books for the week ~ The Undoing of Saint Silvanus by Beth Moore Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist The Life-Giving Home By Sally and Sarah Clarkson Do You Know You’re Already Amazing? by Holley Gerth {Still a few days to enter our giveaway for a copy of […]
Ten Simple Tips To Pass Along To My Kids
I jotted a few of these things down a couple of years ago. In the back of my mind, I kept thinking I’d turn it into a blog post. I let it continue to simmer and wait. Today it becomes a post! What would you add or what would your list say? Share in the […]
Of Parcels, Packages and Paper {No. 4}
Here’s some fun packaging of treats for a friend’s birthday! We made cake pops and tucked them into cute, treat boxes. These boxes came from Sweet Lulu. I tucked the cake pops into little muffin liners and settled them inside the box. This treat box is clear coated onside, so it protects the cardboard against […]
In Which a Vine Grows and Gourds are Harvested
Once upon a time in a sandy Kansas garden, some pumpkin and some gourd seeds were placed gently in the ground and the seeds sprouted and the plants and vines grew green against the dusky dirt. But the deer didn’t know the plants weren’t for them and the bunnies crept close and the leaves were […]
In Our Wardrobe {No. 42}
Wardrobe day~ Super simple. Favorite Necklace. Tee. Jeans. This is Renae’s favorite color and I really like the color on her. The walls of her room are very near this shade. Her Love Always necklace is from Wired Boutique. She makes beautiful jewelry from Scrabble tiles and dominoes. She also has some beautiful pieces with […]
Baby, Baby Board Book Giveaway
{affiliate links included} Morty is so happy to announce to us that today we have an absolutely adorable giveaway! It’s a board book for babies and it’s about babies!! Can you really get cuter? Baby, Baby! Let’s open the pages and take a peek inside…………….. It rhymes. {that’s always a score to me.} It shows the […]