Summer Fun we will have to wait til next year.

I love to decorate for Fall

Loving the Fall weather and getting out all the decorations.

Bring on the Fall Yall

Doesn't Fall make you feel good. I love this time of year. My sons we're born and I married my sweetie. We will start year number 14 in a few more weeks. Seems just like yesterday that we got married. Do you know where he is going to take me for our anniversary ???? To a Big Ole Flea/Antique market. O'w I can't wait.

Yellow Treasures

Founds these beauties by the roadside the other day. I think they are a bargain at $5.00.

How Do I Keep Brown Sugar Soft?

How Do I Keep Brown Sugar Soft?

I posted about brown sugar a few weeks ago. I was showing how to dress up containers that I save. If you have a slim fast container, cover it with pretty paper that matches your kitchen and poor the brown sugar in. The you will have a cute little container and a scoopy already to use.

Isn't Aunt Joyce's backyard peaceful looking.

We went Gem mining at the Gold Gem Grubbing .

I found a Cleopatra Lace rock and I am having it made into a pendant. I will show when it comes in.

Wysteria Tree..... Have you ever seen one ?

While on our Spring Break in Cleveland, Georgia, we spotted this tree that was covered with Wysteria. Isn't it beautiful.

Eating at the Varisty in Atlanta on the way home from Spring Break. Here is the famous Douglas at the Varisty. If you seen the show on the Travel Channel about good places to eat, he was on there with his unique way of asking for orders.

What do you do with the open crackers?

Well, you take your old pringles can. Wrap some pretty paper around it ( my choice is strawberries ) put open crackers in and wa la , Fresh crackers.

Some other things I've done are carry all marker and pencil holders. I would show you that one but I neice has it. I'll need to make another one.

And also, I have make a jelly bean dispenser. I need to post that for Easter. Hopefully, I will get it to you next week.

I like containers and finding other uses for them.

Pringles cans and slim fast cans are never throwed away.

Here I have used a slim fast can to make a brown sugar holder and as an added bonus, it already has the scoop.

tHe Festival iS hERE........................

But it rained today............................

So we will just have to go tomorrow.

The Olustee Festival is again this weekend.

I hope to go tomorrow and purchase another pound cake yum.....

We are singing praises today to the almighty.

Yesterday we traveled to the Mayo Clinic to find out why Daddy is breaking bones when he sneezes. Now if that sounds as bad to you as it did to our ears, you realize we we're a little more than worried.

Well to break it down. Dad doesn't have bone cancer, he has something called ITP and it is a common blood disorder where your blood count is too low. He does produce blood cells in his bone marrow, but his spleen is zapping them. His count is up to 40,000 and they will not need to do anything until it reaches 30,000.

So, let's just say we are shouting praises to our almighty God.

Merry Decorating to you......................

I just love this time of year. The feeling of Christmas just makes you happy. That feeling comes from baby Jesus. The Shepard's who first learned that baby Jesus was here on earth must have felt very special. Notice in the story they went straightforth. That means they went right away. They knew the story of Jesus and went to see.

I even imagine they had try outs in heaven for who was going to be the Angel that was going to announce to the world that Jesus was here. It had to be an Angel who had a good voice, not to hard but with authority, and must be a beautiful radiant Angel.

Happy decorating to you, for the real feeling of Christmas still comes to us each year just like it did on that First Christmas night.

I'm back.............

After football season has come to an end and I have recovered from surgery, I can get back to blogging.

For all your Christmas needs this place here is the bomb. I ordered this box full of wonderful dried goodies in September and I was thrilled. You can start doing your Christmas shopping here with these nice people at www.driedflowersdirect.com.

They have eucalyptus wreaths, dried flower wreaths and bundles of oat straw.

Take a look......O'w did I mention the prices are out of this world.

I'm So Excited, I have my roots.

You might ask what is this child talking about. Well you see here in the country, we harvest our wood in the summer for the Fall and Winter burning.



You hear people talke about "Going Green"; I want to yell "We've Been Green, Your Just Catching up". I am lucky enough to have a family who has several acres of land with trees and wildlife. (the 4 legged kind not the 2 legged kind)he he. When we get ready to harvest the trees, Daddy drives the tractor around and finds the trees that are good but need to come down. These trees usually have had woodpeckers drilling holes in them and he selects them for the year.



Now my daddy is a steward of his land. He loves it, takes great pride in it and he even fusses over it and the wildlife. He worries over the baby turkey's. The baby turkeys have a hard life coming of age between the rainy weather and the coyotes; they have to be tough to survive.



Ok to my point. While we we're cutting trees, I found some old tree stumps that have been in the forest for years. So, I thought ( I do that occasionally) these would look good in my front yard. So, I made those eyes at my sweetie. You know those eyes that said " Will you please cut this stump, I promise I'll make it up to you". Then I asked Daddy, "Daddy will you load these on the trailer". To my joy they all fit on the trailer with several of the trees and I can't wait to place them in the yard and to show you. One of the stumps even has ax marks on it with smut, it looks like someone tried to burn it years ago for some reason.



Now for the funny part of the day. We we're finishing up. All of us hot, dirty and ready for some sweet tea. ( here in the south we don't make that un-stuff) Daddy leaves with tractor and said trailer full of trees, hubby and I start to leave in truck, like I said tried. It had rained so much that the dark black good soil just would not let us go. So stuck we we're. I hiked it to the house to get the tractor, but when I get there no daddy. I'm like what, this worries me since Daddy has had heart problems; so we hop on the golf cart and down to the back field we go to find daddy. He had walked out of the back 60 and was waving his hands; he was stuck too. We rode around gathering all the stuck people; take them to lunch that mom had fixed and 3.5 hours later after lunch, we we're all officially unstuck. So, I have my roots in more ways than one.

Free stuff, everybody say Yeah............

tHe oTher dAy; while we we're going over to mom and dad's I drove by this house that had a big pile ready for the garbage man. So what does my wondering eyes see; a free wooden ladder just waiting for me. So, I scanned and drove by a little to quick; but lucky for me, I'm as good as Saint Nick. I quickly turned around before anyone else spotted my treasure and slid it in; it was light as a feather. Much to my son's O'w no, I'm ducking, hope no one see's; I gleefully smiled and said; BUT IT'S FREE.

Here's some of the new things I'm adding .....

Didn't mother nature make a perfect flower pot. This will make part of the walkway up to our home.

A Post Coming

So hits the busy time of the year for us. Football season for our little league is in full swing. And guess who is co-chair of concession; you guessed it, me. So, I am up to my elbows in schedules, hamburgers, hotdogs and football pads. But, I do have a few good post coming. Since, August is my B-Day month; I have to make time to decorate. I also need to get the pics of the new shelves my husband has installed around the twins room. With twins you have double everything. So, after playing 4 years of sports already in just baseball and football; we are running over with trophies. So, I am trying to get organized before school hits and get their room decorated.

Also, the tree stumps for the front yard are hopefully going to get installed this week; right, honey. (it's a subliminal thing; hopefully he will get it)

So, hope all of you are doing well.

I will be posting soon.

See not so organized.............

See beautiful antique server nothing wrong with this picture. But what is that I see at the bottom?

Why it is a remote control truck and dust buster. Where else would you keep an remote control truck, but in the dining area. RIGHT..........