Gone Party Planning!

image via here, then photoshopped via me   Lily’s 1st birthday party is this Sunday! Woo hoo! (and that’s why I’ve been absent lately) Asking for prayers, rosaries, whatever you can give me, that the 45% chance of rain forecasted for Sunday does NOT deliver! Although we are an affectionate family, I don’t know that [...]

Freecycle Goodies

My sister-in-law, Bonnie is having a Twice Owned Tuesday party over at her blog, House of Grace. Since pretty much my whole house can be classified as “Twice Owned,” and lately all I’ve been posting about has been about Goodwill or garage sale finds (I’ve been busy), I figured I would post some of my [...]

Open a Banana Like a Monkey

Like your bananas kinda green or barely yellow? Have trouble opening them since the skin is so firm? Open your banana like a monkey – backwards! Works every time… Once you try it, you’ll never open a banana (green or brown) the same way again… How do you like your bananas? These are def not [...]

Vintage Baking Tin Hedges

I promised you a project, how about recycling some things around my house to make some new decor, in honor of Earth Day? Remember these free cuties I scored last weekend? From the same garage sale as the fan? Vintage-y Bake King tins, love em! I thought this would be the perfect thing to make [...]

Garage Sale Finds from this Weekend

I really, really need to get going on some projects! That’s my goal… I will have a project tomorrow. Promise. I went to a few garage sales on my way to and from running errands on Thursday then a huge neighborhood one on Friday (from the neighborhood where my husband grew up). Since I got [...]