Pumpkin Sourdough Bread/Muffins

It’s been a week and a half since we’ve been grocery shopping. Sick kids happened. And last night the baby had a fever. And today it poured rain and hail. That meant I was going no where and if I wanted something other than the meager variety of food in the cabinets and fridge I’d …

Square Framed Photos Collage

It warms up my heart to have some of the best of our family moments captured and hung. These frames have hung in many different houses while they were our home. I like to switch up the pictures in some of them. And I like to change how they are arranged. This time I chose …

Randomness

Randomness… ’cause that’s all I got. Is that cheating somehow? I’m actually crocheting a new thing again. This makes me happy. And means that there will be a pattern of sorts on here again soon. Wanna guess what it is? I’m using up more of this yarn that I up-cycled from a sweater. It’s really …

Sourdough Bread Bowls

My favorite place to eat in the whole world is the St Louis Bread Co. In other places than St Louis, MO (where I lived during my teenage years) this eatery is called Panera Bread. Whatever you call it they make this AWESOME soup in sourdough bread bowls. I could it eat all the time. …

Seedlings

It was only a week ago that there was just brown dirt here. Now there are bitty strands of the most awesome green. That new life stretches to the light. We may have over seeded slightly… Can I blame chubby 3 year old fingers or 7 year old exuberance? Maybe. But I have to admit …

Books to Table/Nightstand

Craigslist was nice to me today. Ok, it was really some random stranger that was nice to me today. Even better! But slightly more awkward. Anyway, I got a lot of free books. Big hardcover books almost all the same size! Perfect! Not to read. To make into furniture. free books In taking apart our …

Flooring… Done!

Remember the big floor project? Well, I said I’d post our done pictures and so here they are. Though I’m cheating just a tad. The transitions to tile and carpet aren’t quite done. Almost. Soon. So close… Still you’d not know by the pictures. And here they are… Here’s my post about the entry floorboard. …

Seeds

I have seeds nestled in the warm moist ground in my garden and in pots and window boxes! Seeds are magical. I feel like I spent the last few days skipping around liberally showering handfuls of seeds into rich soil. I feel like the whole world will soon burst with life and color. The reality …

My Window

Once again Pinterest changed my life the other day… in a very small way. But still awesome. I’m probably the last person alive to not know this. Maybe not the last to recognize the potential though. Did you know that dry erase markers are awesome on window/picture glass? Well I found out when I saw …

Dolly II

Well, I finished Serenity’s dolly just in time for her first birthday. (Here’s my first post about dolly.) Embroidering the eyes are the hardest part to me. The lips and hair are a challenge. But the eyes… Perhaps it’s because I think eyes are the most important. I was pretty happy with my results. We …