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Tips for Traveling

Tips for Traveling

Tips from an Experienced Traveler! In this article, I will share my best travel advice and tips for traveling to help reduce the stress related to travel, which will help ensure a successful vacation. Making travel plans, travel reservations, trip itineraries and travel preparations well in advance, can often be the key to ultimately enjoying […]

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Mugs by Sylvestermouse

Mugs by Sylvestermouse

My Obsession with Coffee Everyone who knows me personally, knows I don’t wake up until I have had my morning cup of coffee. Each morning, I stumble from bed and make my way to the coffee pot in the kitchen where I mindlessly select a k-cup, pop it in the Keurig Coffee Maker and wait […]

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Angel Blessed

Angel Blessed

Have You Been Blessed by an Angel? When I have been blessed, I want to tell the whole world!  When that angel blessing is accompanied by an inspirational message, I want to shout it from a mountaintop! All of my life I have known I had someone watching over me, protecting me at times, comforting […]

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How to Stencil Cupcakes

How to Stencil Cupcakes

Stenciling cupcakes is easy and I am happy to show you exactly how to stencil cupcakes.  I am including lots of step by step photos to help you see how fast and easy this type of cupcake decorating can be. Stenciling cupcakes is one of the easiest ways that I have found to decorate cupcakes.  […]

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Christmas China

Christmas China

My Christmas China Dinnerware Eating our meals from my Christmas china is one of the traditions in our home at Christmas. Each year I carefully take the Christmas china down from the cabinet and my husband helps me hand wash it before we use it. After our meals, he helps me hand wash it again […]

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My Morning Glories

My Morning Glories

Inspiration and Memories of Morning Glories My Morning Glories are a beautiful greeting and welcoming sight in my yard each morning.   Some may see Morning Glories as weeds, but I see them as a beautiful blessing and reminder of years past.   They are the stars in my garden. When my children were little, they used […]

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Delicious Dinner Recipes

Delicious Dinner Recipes

I have enjoyed cooking for as long as I can remember. Discovering and developing dinner recipes to suit my families tastes is a true delight for me. Online recipes are like a found treasure and I don’t mind sharing my own personal recipe treasures here either.   A Remarkable Roast Several decades ago, I found […]

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Kindle Paperwhite Review

Kindle Paperwhite Review

  For several years now, I have been reading articles and reviews on the Kindle Paperwhite. I have been very resistant to purchasing a Kindle. I have a true affinity for books and have a rather extensive personal library in my own home. Because I am always reading a book, I often sought out recommendations […]

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How to Weed Proof Flower Beds

How to Weed Proof Flower Beds

Finding a way to weed proof flower beds was a constant struggle for me until I found the Perm-A-Mulch pathways, which I discovered last spring when I decided to try something new. I was getting really tired of having to weed my flower beds every time I stepped outside. It was taking the joy out […]

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Homemade Banana Bread Recipe

Homemade Banana Bread Recipe

One of my husband’s favorite recipes, is my homemade Banana Bread recipe.  He loves my Banana Bread so much, a few years ago he requested it for his birthday cake.  Now, that was just funny because for 25 years he picked my German Chocolate cake for his birthday.  Just proves that even after all this […]

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