How to Set a Traditional Easter Table

As you may know, I am a contributor on Houzz where each month I create an Ideaboard around a specific idea or theme. This month, with Easter fast approaching, I decided to focus on a few of my favorite things for setting a beautifully traditional Easter table. Bright whites, pastels, sparkling glass and silver, it [...]

Children’s Advent Calendar Printable {Free}

I absolutely love Christmas! It is without a doubt, my favorite holiday. I just love everything about it. The smells of Christmas trees, cookies baking, and cooler weather in the air. The sights of bright Christmas lights, houses decorated in their holiday best, and stockings hung by the mantle. I love the sounds of Christmas [...]

Christmas and Holiday Cards

Christmas cards are one of my favorite things to receive in the mail – especially the cards with photographs on them. That way, I can see how much everyone’s children have grown through the year, but in reality, I always love to see the creativity in everyone’s card selection as well as their photograph. No [...]

Mingle Monday {7 Christmas Wreaths Tutorials}

I absolutely adore Christmas wreaths. Honestly, I think I may have a bit of an obsession with them and couldn’t wait to show you the 7 Christmas wreath tutorials that I’m absolutely loving. Each of these could easily be made in some of my favorite Christmas Wreath tutorials and inspirations that I’ve found.   I [...]

How Times Have Changed. Or Have They?

We’d rush through our baths, barely drying off in a hurry to get our nightgowns and slippers on and back downstairs before it started. Mama would have made supper early so that our night wouldn’t be “interrupted” and we could find our favorite spots in front of the television before the first scenes of the [...]

Mingle Monday {I Made That}

Welcome to Mingle Monday! Every year for Easter since I was a little girl, we’ve always dye dozens of eggs in a multitude of beautifully hued eggs. I remember the grandchildren would always wait inside as my Grandparents would head outside to the hide the egg for the big hunt. Once the eggs were all [...]

New Year’s Day Superstitions

I grew up in a family with a legacy of deep-rooted superstitions. An inordinate amount of them, too. Not just the eat greens and peas on New Year’s Day, those are rather mild in consideration. With Irish great-grandparents with customs of throwing salt over your shoulder, never standing with just one shoe on, and always [...]

Merry Christmas

Wishing your family a Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

Where’s Jeff?

First thing each morning, Little Buddy leans over the balcony railing trying to spy with his little eye where Jeff might be hanging out. And the first words out of his mouth are no longer, “Good morning.” I am now greeted with an exuberant, “Where’s Jeff?” Is Jeff sitting in the sleigh of Little Buddy’s [...]

Mingle Monday :: Christmas Photo Ornaments

I hope you enjoyed the salt dough and cinnamon applesauce ornaments I shared with you earlier. Now, I am sharing another favorite Christmas ornament that I love to hang on my tree each year. It is our Christmas photo ornaments. Each year, I have a photo of Little Buddy with Santa made into an ornament. [...]