This is one of those posts that started with a specific project or decorating goal in mind, and then slightly veers off course.ย Last spring, I skipped the whole decorating of my rustic fireplace mantel project with pretty flowers and fresh decor and went straight to summer and…
Did you know thatย 2025 is the 75th Anniversary of the Peanutsยฎ comic strip and the 60th Anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas? If you did know that then you are my person!ย For weeks I have seen advertisements for merchandise, clothing, tumblers, coolers, jewelry, and everything in-between.ย We…
This weekend, I made a disaster out of a recipe for my bread machine. I know the recipes by heart and all the steps to make a perfect loaf of bread in my bread machine. But I was in a hurry and distracted by other things on my…
Last year, I visited my local library more days than in previous years.ย The allure was just as much about rediscovering my love of reading as saving money by revisiting my love of borrowing library books while also avoiding book clutter piling up in my house.ย As a…
It was sometime in the 1970s when I watched my mom and my grandma meticulously clean, prep, paint, and finish their current masterpieces in ceramics class. Those trendy ceramic Christmas trees were filled with tiny glass bulbs, and when the inner light bulb was turned on, it created…
