I’ll be honest right up front, this post is mostly eye candy. Two of my favorite collections are dishes of different blue & white transferware as well as white Ironstone. I have already touched on collections in a previous post. And, although most everything I have I can use in…

It’s a rainy kind of Friday here and I am loving it! For lunch, I made a favorite staple of ours: sourdough deep dish pizza. It’s definitely one we repeat every few weeks. With the pizza comes sauce! And, as I have mentioned, I can our own tomato sauce. This…

I wanted to switch gears a bit and graze by the ‘at home’ world with kids. I do homeschool our 3 kiddos, ages 12, 10, and 6. But, even if you don’t, even if your kids are grown but you have grandkids or neighbors, etc… let me tell you some…

So many fun things can be made at home versus buying at the store… and depending on what item you are talking about, it can be a very small amount of ‘hands on’ time for you in the kitchen. I began making our own yogurt a couple of years ago…

So daily life. Does it get you excited? When you think of ‘tomorrow’ is it, after all, another day? Or does it hold intrigue? We can very easily forget that each day is a gift. There is a lot of mess, isn’t there? As I have mentioned in another post…

This morning, I was thankful to have gotten dishes done last night (some Mondays I am too exhausted to get to them). That meant just getting clean dishes put away. My kids have chores each day/week that they’re responsible for. My two oldest are boys and they alternate weeks with…