In case your Monday has been as rugged as mine….

I just wanted to share a bit of beauty with you.

There are those days when leaving the flowers at the store is just too much to ask of a girl.

Wishing you a beautiful day!

Jennifer

Popularity: 1% [?]

I saw this on Nannygoat and knew it was the solution to all my Valentine woes!  It took only minutes to pull together, and I feel like it’s the best Valentine I’ll ever send to school with my children:

Adorable!  It’s personalized, and best of all, I don’t have to sit there while they write their [...]

Another week, another report.  56 steps taken in this first week of February.
A few highlights from the week:
We fed the sister missionaries dinner with less than 1 hour’s  notice, and on the craziest night of the week.  It was wonderful to have them in our home.
I decided that this whole One Step idea is ridiculous [...]

My sister came to town unexpectedly last weekend, so I decided a quick craft project was in order.
After bumping into this post recently, I decided to try making my own burlap wreath.

I bought a yard of burlap and found an old wire hanger, and we were set to go.  (sorry about the lighting, we made [...]

If you’ve never checked out Bakerella’s site, you need to.  So cute.
When she posted this recipe, I was intrigued.  It’s the peach cobbler recipe that so many people use, but with a couple of ingredients added to it.  Because I had all of them in my house, I decided to try it out.

Ingredients:

Start by pouring [...]

While I know this is of no real importance in life, this week I had a little fun by changing some minor things in my living room.  For the most part I just shopped my house, but I also added a couple of new little things.  The final product is one I’m really pleased with.  [...]

I was on the hunt for pillows with some turquoise in them when I found these placemats on clearance at TJ Maxx.

I liked the colors and the pattern but I didn’t need more table linens.  And then I thought:  wait, there are four of them.  Why not make pillows with them?!  So they came home [...]

Three years ago I purchased this vintage mirror at a yard sale, intending to use it in my girls’ room when our house was completed.  Well, we moved in, and it just didn’t fit the space.  So it’s sat in my basement for the last 2.5 years.  Until this week.  Here’s the before:

A close up [...]

I love the boldness of this tablecloth.  When I first saw it, I thought of Mary Engelbreit and her well-known illustrations (this cloth was obviously made long before ME was illustrating, and I found it long before she began designing fabric).  Black and white with touches of red will always be a classic color combination.

The [...]

Sometimes things are purely a matter of  location and timing.  I was in TJ Maxx this week looking for something specific (that they DIDN’T have) when I came across a lovely cable knit blanket in the clearance section that had no tag on it.  On a whim, I took it to the registers with me [...]