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I'm super excited to share with you today.... I’m participating in a Good Old Fashioned Recipe Blog Swap! Julie {White Lights on Wednesday}, Kelley {Miss Information} and Rachel {i love my disorganized life} have paired up 30 incredible bloggers to trade blogs for the day. Rachel from {I Love} My Disorganized Life and I will be sharing a fabulous recipe on each other’s blogs {but we can’t tell you what they are, because they’re a secret!}. Be sure to visit both of us on May … [Read more...]
Today I have a VERY special treat for you all. My dear friend Chrissy - the AMAZING Chrissy, from The Taylor House is here today sharing her favorite Chocolate Dessert Recipes. Please give her a nice warm welcome & check out all these awesome recipes that will have you drooling for sure. I'm also guest posting over at her place today where I'm sharing my Top 12 Chocolate Recipes. Hi, everyone! It’s Chrissy from The Taylor House! I am so excited to … [Read more...]
Good Morning!! I was just looking at the calendar & realized that May is nearly gone already!!! Shocking how fast this year is flying past. So now that Mother's Day is out of the way I have been in full summer mode. That means that my head is geared towards all the things that happen in the summer. The thing that really kicks off summer is Memorial Day. So I thought I would start off my summer prep with finding some of my Favorite Patriotic Fonts. I know I am going to need … [Read more...]
YAY!! I'm so excited for today!! Today is National Chocolate Chip Day!!! I think you all know that I love chocolate chips & will find a way to add them to as many dishes as I can. So today gave me a HUGE excuse to make something new with chocolate chips. What a fun thing to celebrate - right??!! Don't they look so good???? Oh my word- I even got my hubs (who isn't a huge fan of chocolate chips - I know) to really love these. It could be that they … [Read more...]
Back on Easter we spent the day enjoying the glorious weather & working on getting the yard cleaned up from the winter. That meant trimming branches from the pine tree. The hubs thought I was nuts when I was trimming all the pine needles off the branches & storing the branches all in a large tote. He really thought I was crazy when I told him I was going to craft with them. Hehehe- I spent the past weekend finally doing something with them. He never liked the coffee filter … [Read more...]
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The American Cancer Society. All thoughts & opinions are my own. I am so happy to have this opportunity to share my story as part of the American Cancer Society's 100'th Birthday celebration. Happy Monday All! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. We had GLORIOUS weather here in Northern Idaho. Seeing all this beauty around here is really making me miss my mom. When we moved here … [Read more...]
Happy Sunday All!! Happy Mother's Day! What are you doing today? Any plans? We will be hanging around. I'm not a fan of "Hallmark holidays" so I really rather treat this like any other day. One of our farmer's markets finally opened yesterday so we had to make a point of getting over there. While we have our co-op, we don't always participate. I have been DYING to get to the farmer's market. So that was how we spent our day yesterday, which means I am … [Read more...]
Happy Saturday Everyone!! Great projects shared this past week for Your Best Weekly. We had some really great quick recipes that look amazing. We also had some really fun project ideas that I know I will be using in the future. I also shared my homemade Mother's Day gift of Coffee Infused bath salts & shared with you all how to make bath salts. Once you make them you can use my free printable tags if you are giving them as gifts. It's been a great week of sharing these … [Read more...]
Happy Mother's Day Weekend everyone. While I don't personally like to celebrate holidays like Mother's Day for myself- I do like to do something for my mom. A while back you remember me showing you some of the images that I took at our spring sibling photo session by the lake. I did those for Mother's Day for my mom. This mother's day photo session we did specifically because I had planned on getting a nice big canvas for her. I also wanted one for us to update the walls around here. … [Read more...]
**Disclosure- I was sponsored by Lactaid for this post & future posts. All opinions & thoughts are my own. Do you have issues with dairy? Are you lactose intolerant? Last week I had the pleasure of teaming up with The Motherhood & Lactaid to learn some things I didn't know about being lactose sensitive. I really didn't know much about lactose- I THOUGHT one was either completely intolerant to lactose or they weren't. I also thought this was the same as a … [Read more...]
Have you wrapped up your gifts for mom yet?? No worries- I have some great ideas here for you that won't break the bank & most of them you can do with the things you have already on hand. Normally I would make my mom some sugar scrub. She loves it & helps keep her feeling soft. Unfortunately with the chemotherapy- it makes her skin super sensitive & anything abrasive just isn't good for her right now. So I did the next best thing- bath salts. She loves to … [Read more...]
It's Tuesday again which means it's time for the Friend Connect Blog Hop! I'm so excited to be co-hosting this awesome way to meet new friends and find new blogs. You can choose to follow the co-hosts in whatever way is best for YOU! Here are some ways to connect: GFC, BlogLovin', HelloCotton, RSS, Twitter, Facebook. Or my personal favorite- sign up for emails so you don't miss a thing. Ok, so let's get to the party, shall … [Read more...]
