A new baby, a new house, sisters to be sharing the same pink/purple butterfly themed room. And quilted, hand appliqued and embroidered door sign to celebrate.
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
More Thrifted Finds
My most recent thrifting adventures turned out with some great deals.
Wooden stacking farm blocks $2.00.
Two books: $0.50 and $0.25.
Four balls of wool yarn $1.00.
Pair of wool socks $0.25.
Grand total so far...$4.00.
So far so good in my challenge for keeping my bill around $5.00. Until I saw these hand embroidered 11x17 framed pictures, for $3.00 a piece. They're obviously very old and in junky frames, but so intricate and I LOVE them. Pictures don't do them justice. I had to have them.They will be perfect either sewn into pillows for a little girl's bed or in barn board frames in a little girl's room. I just couldn't pass up someone else's handmades. This batch of thrifting...$9.00. Still pretty darn good.
Chicken Salad
Warm weather = desire for summer food. My husband determined this to be the best chicken salad ever, served on my homemade bread. This says a lot from a man who is a trained chef (don't get jealous, he doesn't practice his skills at home more than a few times annually).
Chicken Salad
2 cups cooked chicken breast (I just boiled)
Handful of chopped walnuts
Handful of sliced grapes
Mayo
Few pinches of garlic powder
Salt, Pepper
Splash apple cider vinegar
Stir, spread and enjoy.
Handing over the camera....
You don't mind a few more pictures of our vacation, right? I pushed the camera in other people's hands so my little guy will have pictures with his mama in them, too. I lost my mom when I was 15, and although there's oodles of pictures of us kids, there's not nearly enough with our mom. My advice? Hand that camera off. There's too many good memories to miss. Make sure mama is in the pictures, too.
Basket Cover: March
I've been
working on that big project I set for myself-making a basket cover to
display and then store books month by month. I need to do something to
organize the hundreds of books I have! Seriously, I have tons...I've
been collecting since high school. Anyway...
Here's the cover from:
January
January
On to March....
First of all, we don't have a plethora of St. Patrick's day books, so what to put in the March basket of books? The story goes back to when we were deciding which month to elope back when we were engaged. We picked March, as there's nothing that goes on in March that's exciting in our lives. In Maine, there's usually either dingy snow that you can't do anything fun with or it's mucky, muddy and cold. It's the month where winter's just about gone, but spring hasn't quite arrived. We thought it would be a great anniversary month, at least something to look forward to in March. I remember when I suggested this to my husband and he agreed we should get married in March. He said "March is a bear anyway". There's the inspiration. Here's the cover. A friend made our little guy that cute little bear...isn't he cute?!
First of all, we don't have a plethora of St. Patrick's day books, so what to put in the March basket of books? The story goes back to when we were deciding which month to elope back when we were engaged. We picked March, as there's nothing that goes on in March that's exciting in our lives. In Maine, there's usually either dingy snow that you can't do anything fun with or it's mucky, muddy and cold. It's the month where winter's just about gone, but spring hasn't quite arrived. We thought it would be a great anniversary month, at least something to look forward to in March. I remember when I suggested this to my husband and he agreed we should get married in March. He said "March is a bear anyway". There's the inspiration. Here's the cover. A friend made our little guy that cute little bear...isn't he cute?!
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