I simply love aprons... I don't know when this love affair started, or how it began, but I really do love aprons. Her...

Would you believe me if I told you about our weather for Wednesday, March 23? ...morning: warm, like a lovely spring day was ahead .....

Early spring has arrived across the land, and after a long, icy winter, we welcome it gladly! More than ready to trade our boots and mittens...

Sharing an old Irish blessing... May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and f...

  The rapid rain dancing on the windows, the puddles in the yard, mud everywhere...it's enough to make a country ...

...take a little spring walk (bring along your gardening shears) and cut some bare branches for forcing. Crabapple or forsythia would be pe...

...to Tina at  The Serene Stamper  for sharing the Stylish Blogger Award with me. I'm taken by surprise and so appreciate her kind words...

Today is a good day to stay indoors. There's a chilling blast of cold wind from the north and a prediction of 7 to 10 inches of snow. Ea...

My friend Diana is the Queen of Cute, the Princess of Parties, and just an all around clever gal! She made these adorable cake pops for a c...

I would not, could not, cut a quilt or coverlet! I would not, could not...regardless of the condition it's in, or how tattered it ...

Last week, as I bundled up the kids to take them to school, the temperature was -11 degrees. Tomorrow has a forcast of 60 degrees. Last ...

Wishing you a day of sweet surprises!

I am a list-maker, note-taker, and, I admit, "it might be important so I'd better save it" type of person. The challenge......

...create handmade Valentines with oodles of ribbon, doilies, stickers, rubber stamps, snippets of fabric & vintage buttons. ...there...

The snow has stopped, the sun is shining, and the kids went back to school today. They've had 3 snow days at home this week, with a 2-h...

While I was hoping for several inches of snow, it was not to be. This is how our day began... And now, at day's end, the ice is beco...

This week I have found that a digital camera can only take so many accidental drops. I've cringed over the years as I've reached, as...

In a world that seems to spin faster each day, I've found it helps me to slow down that pace a bit by enjoying some quiet, simple pleas...

These pretty clothespins would certainly make our laundry look nice blowing in the warm breezes. However; they were made to stay inside...a...

"Do you still have your tree up?!" Ah yes...I've been greeted with this question many times over the last couple of weeks....

Last Sunday a sweet lady at church gifted me with this... just because she was thinking of me. She had taken the time to crochet a cott...

...fill your pantry with cocoa, marshmallows, brownie &   cookie-baking supplies ...make snow angels, build a snowman or go sleddin...

Some days, there's just the need to be creative. Now, if I admit to you that even though it's only January and I've been spring...

On New Year's Day it's our tradition to eat stuffed pork chops and sauerkraut...two foods said to bring good health and good fortune...

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.  Don't clean it up too ...

Wishing you the warmth and love of the Christmas season. Now, more than ever, we're reminded that the finest gifts and sweetest joys co...

As the kids say, "Oh my dears to chicken ears!" Christmas is nearly here! And with the last of the baking in the oven, the only...

It's cookie-baking time here and we're up to our elbows in flour, butter, and sugar! Once the counters are visible again, I'll s...

The season's joys are as plentiful as an overstuffed Christmas stocking. We've had snow here in the Midwest for several  days now....

A dusting of snow, briskly blowing wind, and delicate patterns of frost on the windowpanes. Deer are feeding in the fields close to our home...