My amazing grandmother gave me this awesome retro bowl. I have been wanting wanting to make one for a long time and I had even made a board for them on Pinterest. After researching them online for awhile I was finally ready to make my own with my new-to-me retro bowl. Here is how I did it… Continue reading →
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Red Robin – Yummm, I mean Eggggs
A mama Robin has decided that the top of our flood light at our back door is a great place to create a nest. We have to agree since we get to watch this wonderful process!
Oh Snap! Trapped Snapping Turtle
Ok, so the other night my husband and I were sitting in the family room watching TV-nothing exciting there. BUT I kept hearing this scratching sound and I feared the worst, that there were critters in our walls of our newly decorated family room. My brave husband dismissed the critter idea and went out to investigate and there he found our Trapped Turtle. Continue reading →
Hair Drawer Dilemma
I have had it! I cannot take it any more. The mess. The inability to find anything which inevitably leads to us running late for church or school or anywhere that actually has a start time.
It is the hair drawer dilemma. This is the drawer in the kids bathroom that houses the hair accessories and brushes for my daughters.
I have come to realize that I can’t do it alone (actually I don’t want to) OR maybe I am trying to teach my children to be proud of what they have and they should take care of it. Yes, go with that one, sounds better than ‘moms just had it!’
Here is what it looked like before…..

Really embarrassing I know! Now the work in progress….




