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 […]
Memoir Monday {No. 71}
Beautiful iris bloom brought in by my daughter! Irises by the propane tank… Farmer and son. Checking out some stuff on the trailer. New recipe I had fun trying. Chicken Enchiladas. Yummy! Pretty place setting….always catches my eye! Pretty, pretty salad. Cookie time. Fun still life to capture. Love the textures of […]
Simply Thank You
I thoroughly enjoyed my wedding day. Every bit of it. It was one of those days when you live and love and rejoice in every moment as it happens. I have a lot of great times that I look back on with fondness. Days that I did enjoy. They were memorable. They were fun. Yet, […]
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.” […]
Chinese Style Gift Boxes And Very Fun, Completely Cute, Make Me Smile Gift Tags
These little packages make me so happy. They were fun to fix up. I had a last-minute-lunch with friends a couple of weeks ago and the last-minute-idea that it’d be fun to take gifts along for my girlfriends. I’d picked these Chinese take-out style gift boxes up at a Target one time and still had […]
Memoir Monday {No. 70}
Simple snacks. Ground to work so we can plant corn. Trying a new recipe for fun! I made Risotto. Have you ever made it? My farmer planting corn. Resident Roadrunner. He was standing at the end of the sidewalk when I pulled in on my return from a trip to the field. He stood […]
Wherein We Visit the Statehouse
When we visited Matthew’s brother’s family a bit back, we took a daytrip and one of the things we did was visit the capitol building, or statehouse, as it is commonly referred to, in Topeka. We’d long talked of going and had mentioned it before to J&E, because they don’t live that far away from […]
I’m Giving Away a True Woman 201 Interior Design Workbook
I’m so happy about this giveaway! I really, really loved working through the first studybook in this series back last year. It is called True Woman 101 Divine Designand you can hop over here to find out more information about it and find the weekly videos online. I knew they were working on […]
Memoir Monday {No.69}
This is my $2 garage sale candle! I’m still happy, happy with this find. Beauty has been much on my mind and what a gift it is and how there is a lot of ugly in this world and sin marred it so, and each bit of beauty is something to be so thankful for. […]
More Quotes From True Woman 201
You can read the first post on True Woman 201 over here… True Woman 201 What true women have you been inspired by? I feel blessed to know a lot of women who desire to be true women of God and to strive for Him. I didn’t say perfect. They’re real. We’re real. […]
May Flexi 2015 Early Arrival and New Headbands and A Sale!
We have new items and sales today at Lilla Rose! New design on headbands! New Elegant Flower flexi and bobbies! April 23-25th ~ 10% off of the new headbands and the May flexi ~ And 20% off of other select items! And meet Grace ~ arriving early for Mother’s Day! Our May […]
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 […]
Memoir Monday {No. 68}
Did you have a good week last week? I certainly hope so. I noticed these little pans in my cupboard a few weeks ago. They’d been tucked away and I’d forgotten them. We had three bananas that were getting too dark and overripe, so I flipped through my cookbooks and found my Banana Bread recipe […]
Three Things {Favorite Finds No. 4} Pampered Chef Cooling Rack, Glass Bottles, Insulated 31 Water Bottle Thing-a-ma-jig,
Drumroll! Da-da-da-dum! I’ve been wanting to post more of my favorites. There are so many days that I think, “I’m going to blog.” and then I get busy with with something else that HAS to be done or I get sidetracked with another project or interruptions or unexpected things come up or I get a […]
My Littles and Easter {Strolling Down Memory Lane}
I found myself looking at our old Easter pictures and laughing and as always, wondering how the years have galloped along so fiercely in such a fast fashion. Oh, these chubby faces and exuberant expressions and short arms and legs! Green has always been this boy’s favorite color. He dyed all his Easter eggs green this […]
When, On The One Hand You Want To Dissolve Into Maniacal Laughter…
Life certainly has its moments. “You seem like you just have it all together.” THAT. That is what a friend recently said to me. Alrighty then. While I appreciated the thought and the compliment, {who doesn’t appreciate a good compliment now and then?} this big part inside of me wanted to fall down on the […]