In the Yard

It’s finally warmed up enough outside that flowers are blooming and we could start our vegetable garden. I’ve got exactly one bloom on the rose bush I started from grama’s rose bush a couple years ago.  The plant is still small, but it really seems to be thriving, with lots of new growth this year. …

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Styling the Meringue Skirt

You may remember the original meringue skirt that I made a couple months ago. It was the very first project from the Colette Sewing Handbook, and I love that it has a scalloped hem.  It’s the first and only one I’ve done so far – at least on purpose. One thing I really enjoy about…

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Decorating for a Wedding

As I mentioned in my last post, my little sister got married over the weekend. One of the most time consuming prep items for the wedding was decorating the church and the reception hall. For Kayla’s wedding, we reused a lot of the glassware from my wedding. That was a huge cost and time saver.…

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Color Week: Blue

It’s color week over at Pamplemousse and today’s color week challenge is Blue. Blue has been a fun and interesting challenge for me – because I wanted to find blue in nature and well as in things people have made. Blue Read the other Color Week posts: Red Orange Yellow Green

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Color Week: Yellow

Today is the day for yellow over at Pamplemousse for color week. Even with all of the flowers in bloom this time of year. Yellow ended up being harder to photograph than I thought it would be. There just wasn’t the variety I wanted. Yellow Read the other Color Week posts: Red Orange Green Blue

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Easter Roundup

Easter is coming up in just 2 weeks.  I guess that means I should get on the band wagon and consider doing a little decorating for the holiday.  Thanks to Pinterest, I have a nice little board full of holiday ideas. The people at Southern Living seem to have been most helpful in my search…

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Springtime Flowers

Yesterday was the first day of spring, and 80 degrees, so I no longer feel bad about the fact that I spent my Sunday doing a little gardening. The first thing I did was take a trip into town.  I needed some new pots and I wanted to pick up a few seeds before they…

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Pink

Buy Lexapro buy Lipitor Buy Neurontin Buy Nexium Pink is a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple. It is also another name for Magenta, a deep purplish red that is the complementary colour of green and, with yellow and cyan, forms a set of primary colours for printing.  To see more pink images,…

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