Have you been using your Cricut Mug Press all year to create custom designs for your friends and family? The original Cricut mugs were solid white but now you can order sublimation mugs with colored handles and insides. This opens up so many fun options for designs and gifts. Here are a few of the…
I have been enjoying making simple crochet flowers and leaves but wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them. I have used them in small baskets with Bible verse cards and shared them as little random acts of crochet kindness, but recently I decided to use a terracotta flower pot and create a…
When the kids were small, we made sure they had all the basics in their backpacks. Favorite character on the pencil pouch? Check! Cool color and design notebooks? Check! Snack for snack time? Yep. Band-Aids for playground scratches? Check! Now that the kids are grown up and in college, their backpacks are still the most…
For the past few weeks, I’ve been searching thrift stores, yard sales, antique stores, and Goodwill, looking for a quilt topper or old quilt that had no emotional significance so I could cut it up and make Christmas stockings. I was so excited when I finally found one for nine dollars at a thrift store….
When we take a road trip, we try to find the little local shops and restaurants that are hidden or mostly known only by the locals. On a recent adventure, we were traveling through Hodgenville and had a bit of a craving for something sweet. Sure, we could have stopped at the local Dollar General…
I’m really comfortable with canning, dehydrating, and storing food from our garden. But I’ve never really experimented much with fermentation. I did make the best sauerkraut ever last fall with a head of fresh farmers’ market cabbage. And honestly, that gave me the confidence to try something else new – fermented cranberry pineapple honey. This…
If you come to our house on a Saturday morning, chances are we’ll have homemade biscuits and jelly with bacon, eggs, and a hot cup of coffee. Or maybe we’ll have a blackberry muffin or blueberry waffles with hickory syrup. And now that my new bowls from Wayfair have arrived, our weekend breakfast has gone…
Recently, my mom gave me a Singer treadle sewing machine that she used when she was sewing her clothes for college back in the late 1960s. I don’t think it’s been used much since then, and it’s been sitting in her house for years. She brought it out to me a couple of weeks ago,…