Everybody loves peanut butter! It’s one of those first sandwiches you eat as a kid and the best snack before bed. Who hasn’t enjoyed a quick peanut butter spoon when you get really hungry! Peanut Butter is one of those super foods that can fill you up fast but still tastes great in cookies, snacks…
If you’re like me (and my crafting friends), we’ve made about all the super easy ruffle scarves we can handle. All our friends have one and the local big box store can’t keep the yarn in stock. So this past week, my 2 crafting friends and I have been branching out. We’ve been looking for…
I have a stack of treasured vintage books that I have inherited from my Grandparents and Great Grandparents. Those books have a place of honor on my book shelf. But I also have a box of old, water stained, torn up books in the garage that are not even good enough for a thrift store…
Flora’s Wish is a book of questions, secrets, deception and curiosity. Flora lives in an affluent world where her Grandmother is the ultimate southern lady. Flora is desperate to marry in order to fulfill the family need and requirement of producing an heir. However, she can’t find a groom – they just keep dying. She…
Last weekend we took the kids to the Cincinnati Museum Center. Whether you are interested in climbing in the woods, playing on a farm, discovering what happens when you put balls in machines and turn the cranks, becoming the engineer on the waterways or experiencing life in a city just your size, the Duke Energy…
What do you do when you have too much stuff to fit in your small house or apartment? Sometimes you can just scale back on your posessions, but there are other times that you just need to find a way to streamline your stuff. I have been collecting small space organization ideas for a while…
Back in the 80’s, my Grandmother found an old vintage ammo trunk. It was drab, boring and utterly uninspiring. But Grandmother Oldham had an eye for art. She knew how to take something that had no appeal and transform it into a thing of beauty. Recently I was at my Mom’s house and saw her…
My mom loves blue. So when I wanted to make a new quilt using blue and white fabric, I knew it would be a great gift for Mom. I used blue floral fabric and blue solid fabric that I inherited from my Grandma. I found this pattern in a quilt book from the library. I…