Lemon Inspired Rustic Table Centerpiece and Fresh Homemade Lemonade Recipe

A lemon-inspired spring table centerpiece that’s bursting with bright yellow spring color and a fresh homemade lemonade that will have you counting the days until summer! There are so many life lessons you can learn from the simplest of things … like a lemon.

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Pallet Wood Tray, Millennials and Farmhouse Style

A pallet wood tray tutorial with two different looks My concern about millennials, and farmhouse style. I hope you’ll jump in and share your thoughts about all this today.

Fresh Fruit & Flowers Rustic Centerpiece + Exciting News!

Wanting to make a good impression while my son’s girlfriend was here over the weekend, I figured I’d better do a little grocery shopping.  I bought cookies, cake, several kinds of muffins, cheese danish, cinnamon bread … and so she wouldn’t think all we eat is junk, I stocked up on lots of fresh fruit too. 🙂 While I was at it, I bought some pretty roses that I put in an old mason jar on the nightstand in the guest room. {Read More}

Inexpensive Rustic Fall Centerpiece – Home for Fall

Every year at this time, I have to wear blinders when I go into stores, because we have lots of fall and winter birthdays in our family, and if I hope to put a Thanksgiving meal on the table and have any presents under the tree, I can’t spend money on ready-made decor. So when I found out that Hometalk was hosting a “Home for Fall” blog hop, I wanted to participate, but I challenged myself to do it without buying a single {Read More}

Pine Cones – Nature’s Christmas Decoration

Those of you who are regulars here, know that I’m a magnet for “junk” and have a workshop and barn overflowing with every type of junk imaginable, that I think I might ever be able to do something with, but there’s something else I’m a magnet for, and that’s pine cones. Pine cones make their way home with me on a regular basis.  I can’t walk by pretty pine cones laying on the ground, without picking up at least one or {Read More}

Repurposed Christmas Candle Holder Centerpieces

I always struggle to figure out what to use as a centerpiece on my kitchen table during the Christmas season.  It’s hard to find one that doesn’t take up too much of the table, and doesn’t visually get in the way of seeing people sitting across the table from you, but I finally came up with one that was easy, inexpensive, and fits perfectly on a table.   I come across small vintage tart tins and Jellos molds in thrift {Read More}