Happy Tuesday! Boy what a productive weekend! Boxing things up, sorting through stuff, painting the apartment, moving furniture, eating orange chocolate, awesome fun. :) Tonight Carl and I are taking a break from the wedding and moving scene and going to the fair! I'm quite excited. :) So, here is your post for today! Enjoy!
Enjoy your day and keep those smiles on! Until next time!!
“One girl is worth more use than twenty boys!” ~ J.M. Barrie “Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.” ~ J.M. Barrie “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ~ J.M. Barrie
Hello and happy Thursday! Today, its gray and drizzly outside (which is just fine with me!) and with the upcoming cooler weather, I'm really ready for Fall!
Ahh, I cannot wait!!! Okay, here's your song. :)
Enjoy your day and keep those smiles on whatever you do! Until next time! "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~ Albert Camus "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~ George Eliot
"October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came - The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band." ~ George Cooper
Hello my lovely readers! I hope your having a good week! Mine has had it's triumphs and challenges but I'm surviving it. :) Today's post is about bread because.... well because I love bread! Here are a few different bread recipes that I want to try eventually!
Irish Soda Bread (which I have made before and LOVE!) Oh for my own kitchen! 23 more days! :D
Now along with those smiles, get those aprons on! Until next time!
"How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?" ~ Julia Child "The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight." ~ M.F.K. Fisher
"All sorrows are less with bread." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more." ~ Steve Albini
Hello my lovelies! I hope you had a great weekend! I sure did! Lots of wedding productivity and I had my first Bridal Shower on Sunday! It was just lovely! Much of my family and many friends from church came and Dearest Carl and I were blessed with so many gifts!!!! We now have almost all the necessities and more for our new house! I cannot WAIT to get my hands on that apartment! :D
Well I'm off! Keep those smiles on! Until next time!
"The family is a haven in a heartless world." ~ Christopher Lasch "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." ~ Henry David Thoreau Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happy Friday my lovely readers! I was wondering this morning... who started the trend of shaving your legs? I mean really, who found that necessary!? Upon some research, I found a few interesting historical facts about beauty. Take a look! :)
- Ancient Egyptians used copper and lead ore to create the world's first cosmetics. - The women of Rome used to use burnt matches to darken their eyes and berries to stain their lips. - Curvy and busty said ideal beauty during the Renaissance. - Upper class ladies in Norther Europe plucked their hairlines to make their foreheads seem higher. - Queen Elizabeth set a trend to use powder to whiten skin and red haired wigs. - 1920's, women started plucking their eyebrows. - WWII with fashions of shorter hemlines and sheer stockings brought shaving your legs into style. - 1940's brought tanned skin into fashion. - 1960's, skinny became the standard of beauty.
And we all know what today's fashions are. You know, sometimes I wish I lived long ago when my plumpness would be found simply lovely. But oh well. At least I don't have to pluck out my hairline! Ouch! Thank you Lord.
Here's a song for your weekend!
Keep those smiles on and enjoy your weekend! Until next time!
"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others." ~ Sam Levenson
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone." ~ Dorothy Parker
"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity." ~ Marilyn Monroe
Happy Thursday! I'm doing great with posts this week huh! ;) Yes I will take any applause or chocolate you choose to give.
Today's wish list item is this cookbook! Just take a look at this!!!
I mean... a Jane Austen cookbook?! What could be more epic than that!!!!! Check out the summary!
Jane Austen wrote her novels in the midst of a large and sociable family. Brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, friends and acquaintances were always coming and going, which offered numerous occasions for convivial eating and drinking. One of Jane’s dearest friends, Martha Lloyd, lived with the family for many years and recorded in her “Household Book” over 100 recipes enjoyed by the Austens. A selection of this family fare, now thoroughly tested and modernized for today’s cooks, is recreated here, together with some of the more sophisticated dishes which Jane and her characters would have enjoyed at balls, picnics, and supper parties. A fascinating introduction describes Jane’s own interest in food, drawing upon both the novels and her letters, and explains the social conventions of shopping, eating, and entertaining in late Georgian and Regency England.
Want!!!!....... Okay I'll quit drooling. Here's your song. :)
Enjoy your Thursday and keep those smiles on! Until next time!
"I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner." ~ Jarod Kintz
"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. ~ Julia Child
"As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists." ~ Joan Gussow
Hello and happy August! Today, many people go back to school. Crazy that it's so early but it seems to get earlier and earlier each year. And just to make you all jealous, I'll remind you that I have no school this year! In fact, I'm done! D. O. N. E. DONE!!! :D *happy dance* I'm sooooo excited for this fall! It's my favorite season anyway but with no school to worry about, it's going to be AWESOME! Oh, and I'll be married too. :)
Today I wanted to share this blog post with you! It's some ideas for aBack To School Partythat look pretty awesome! I'll never be sending my kids to school but, when I do begin homeschooling them, I hope I can make the start of the year something to look forward to. And all kids look forward to parties! :) Maybe you can brighten up the idea of school for your own kids?
Here's your song!
Keep those smiles on! Until next time!
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." ~ Lily Tomlin
"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools." ~ Author Unknown
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." ~ Aristotle
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." ~ Edward Everett
Surprise! I'm here again! I liked the idea of last Friday's Lovely Links so much that I've decided to make a day for it! (That way I might actually post something of substance on Feminine Fridays. :) ) Today I introduce to you.... Tuesday Ties! Here you will find all kinds of randomness but hopefully it will all be interesting. :) So here we go! Grab yourself a cup of tea and enjoy!
Enjoy your day and keep those smiles on! I'm hoping it will rain here. :) Until next time!
"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." ~ J.M. Power
"Colors are the smiles of nature." ~ Leigh Hunt
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm baaaaack! Happy Monday! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! Mine was filled with driving, boating, watching the Olympics, playing games, reading, sleeping in, good food, good conversations and lots of laughter. Oh, and I discovered that Chicago smells like fried food and gasoline. In case you were wondering. :)
Today's favorite is people! I love people. But some of my most favoritest people are my family!
From left to right: Carl, Maisy, me, Gavin, Daddy, Lucy, Mommy, Garrett (yes, he's tall)
Aren't we a good looking bunch? :) I love my family. And guess what! In 32 days, I'm adding to that bunch! Here is the other "half". :)
From left to right: Uncle Lowell, Chad, Cousin Kyle, Uncle Kirby, Aunt Dawn, Carl, me, Kalon (Dad), Marilyn (Mom), Rachael, Bekah, Colin, Emily, Andy (her husband), Kurt, Grandpa, Grandma (and we're missing Sarah, Charles, Mark, Carissa, Bella, Dom and Vanessa!)
Jealous yet? You oughtta be! I have the most amazing family on both sides! God has blessed me beyond belief with this wonderful life!!!
And now for your song. :)
Enjoy your day and keep those smiles on! Until next time! :)
"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich." ~ Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
"Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts." ~ Author Unknown
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." ~ Ogden Nash
"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~ Erma Bombeck
"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." ~ Joyce Brothers
