Every Christmas I hang a garland of twinkle lights and greenery over my bay window. I love it so much that it is always the very last Christmas decoration I take down. Often it lasts a good month longer than the Christmas tree. Occasionally I’ve left it up til spring, making it over with...
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Our daughter turned 14 recently, and since her biggest wish right now is a guitar of her own, John and I decided to give cash for her birthday. But the morning of the party I realized I also wanted to give her a little gift to open. I thought of running to the store...
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My cookbook winners are Becca (yup, her cookbook was definitely the ugliest!) and commenter #20 Sharon. Email me your address, ladies, and I will get free copies of Family Feasts headed your direction first thing Monday! In other news, I just had to share a picture of the diapers I’ve made lately.  These are...
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Every weekend we have all the kids home for dinner and a movie.  Counting our oldest daughters’ husbands and sometimes John’s mom and my parents, that’s 14-17 people.  Our living area is fair sized, about 18×18, and we have three couches and a couple other chairs around the perimeter.  But it has been challenging...
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I’ve been meaning to show you the pillow pet I made last week for my sweet little daughter (she turns 7 TOMORROW!) I’ve been planning this project for nearly a year, but kept putting it off because I didn’t quite know how to approach it.  But then the other day when I started talking...
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First a bit of bloggy business: I decided to give y’all one more day to enter the Chris Tomlin giveaway.  If you’ve already entered once, you may get a second entry by blogging about the giveaway, or sharing the link on facebook or on twitter. Be sure to go back to the post and...
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A couple hours before we gathered for our picture session this weekend, I decided the little girls really needed headbands to complete their outfits. After a foray into my scrap bin and a peek on Pinterest for ideas, I pulled out the sewing machine and the glue gun and got crafting. I went with...
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I worked hard last week to organize the new bookshelves that we bought at the Border’s liquidation. We originally bought three shelves for $100 each, but when we got there and discovered one last shelf marked down to $33, we happily snatched it up too. We thought that the shelves would work well, but...
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Today while wandering around town to celebrate our 25th anniversary  (love ya, honey!) John and I ventured into Borders bookstore in the mall. As you may have heard, Borders is running a going-out-of-business liquidation, and being book lovers, we wanted to check it out.  We did find a few books.  I’m trying to get...
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Here’s the latest of my crafting projects. I used old jeans, quilt batting, and some of my $1 fabric to make some cute new hot pads. A couple of them even incorporate the back pocket of the jeans, making them usable as hot mitts. Each pad consists of two layers of denim, a layer...
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