This box arrived on my front porch the other day! Shipped from OHIO!! From Winans Chocolates + Coffee to my doorstep. I’d been anticipating its arrival! A box coming with chocolate and coffee printed on its side…………and the real thing inside?! Definite anticipation. Winans sent me a super fun mix of chocolates, candy and coffee […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Yarn Along {Breathe}
Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams ~ It’s a finished dishcloth! This yellow-ey/gold one has been on my needles for a while. I found another aqua one in my knitting bag when I was rooting around in it. I’m ready to do the thumb gusset on my fingerless mitt. I gathered up supplies for my […]
Family Christian Giveaway
When my Mother was here visiting, she and my daughter and my niece and I, all loaded up, bags and ourselves and lists and laughs, into my vehicle and headed off for A DAY OUT. Our first stop to shop was at the Family Christian store! Mother was wanting to get her own copy of […]
Yarn Along {One In a Million}
We started harvesting this week! Hooray! We’re always glad to start gathering in the crop, once it’s ready. There’s just something about harvest, despite the long hours and busy-ness and bit of hectic. I’ve stitched a little on a dishcloth and thought a little about starting my other fingerless mitt, but otherwise my yarn-y projects […]
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 […]
Yarn Along {The Hobbit}
{affiliate links included} I was intrigued with the heart-shaped dishcloth pattern that I mentioned last week. I made two and I loved seeing them emerge. My yellow one came out larger. I actually really like the look of the pink one. For using, though, I think the size of the yellow one might actually […]
Yarn Along {Tin-Tin}
{affiliate links included} I posted about my pom-pom wreath yesterday. I mentioned thinking a small, pink pom-pom wreath would be cute for Valentine’s Day. I didn’t think I had any pink yarn. It helps to go look at what you have! 🙂 Actually, I was picturing a soft, solid-colored pink. This yarn wasn’t with my […]
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 […]
In Our Wardrobe {No. 20}
Today in our wardrobe {post}….we have a cat! This is Tiger! My son took pictures for me and he’d rather snap of the cat than of clothes! 🙂 🙂 He loves his cats. {So you get a close-up of shoes.} {Lands’ End a long time ago!} Knit skirt. From Wal-mart or Target. Your guess […]
Ten Moments in My Life I’d Like To Repeat
1. My wedding day! I loved it Totally enjoyed it. Completely. 2. Snuggling my new-born babies. Not the labor and delivery and c-sections part. But, totally the thrill of meeting them for the first time and wrapping them up all snug and delighting over their tiny fingers and soft cheeks. 3. When I was a […]
Celebrate With Favorites Giveaway!
Well, January just tore on by! Ever since Thanksgiving our days have definitely done that. My sister and her family were here for Thanksgiving, {yay} I had two craft shows with my Lilla Rose, then surgery, then Christmas celebration here and traveling and Christmas celebration in Ohio, home again and then Matthew and Renae headed […]
Monday Musings on Pain and Stuff
It’s a lot harder to do things, to accomplish tasks, to fulfill daily routines, when you hurt. That’s not a profound statement. But it’s one I’ve come to know as true over the last couple of years. It’s nearing six weeks since my surgery. I wasn’t supposed to lift anything over ten pounds for six […]
In Our Wardrobe {No. 17}
Today in our wardrobe, we have an outfit of Renae’s again. Yay! She’s wearing a denim vest. She made this vest from a denim dress. The dress was too short and she wasn’t wearing it much and she decided to take the top of it and refashion it into a vest. She took the skirt […]