Home & Homestead Living
~ quilt pieces ~ Tuesday’s giveaway – of course you don’t have to use these Lancaster Rose Style #2250 fabric pieces for a quilt; they can be used for whatever project you desire. As it happens, it’s cut for a quilt so, if that’s your leaning, it makes it easy peasy. ~ Granny’s quilting shapes directions ~ It reads, “In…
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~ silly sheep ~ Monday’s giveaway is a trifle silly – a sheep stamp. Just the one, mind, but I wanted you to see both front and back -smile-. It’s rather a large stamp, about 2.5 x 2.5, brand new and never been used. What you need to know: -one comment = one entry -contest ends one week from today,…
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~ Lebanon, VA ~ “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.” ~ I Thessalonians 3:12 ~ “….how sometimes we have dreamed of a better state of things in which each man’s independence should make the brotherhood of all men perfect. ….Must we wait for…
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~ twenty-four peaches, cut up and simmering ~ Peach Slurry. Gosh, sounds rather dreadful, doesn’t it but it’s so good your tongue will slap your brains out. -grin- I bought a half bushel of peaches and have been making my version of peach jam although, I wanted to make pesto today. Unfortunately for pesto making, it’s pouring rain and it’s…
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Next week is a week of giveaways; in no particular order… ~ Baggallini, accordion bag ~ ~ tea cup, saucer and Twinings Earl Grey tea ~ ~ one funny little sheep stamp ~ ~ Lion Brand Jiffy yarn, 4 skeins ~ ~ quilting pack ~ No photo but a needlepoint kit; by the time its day has come ’round, I’ll…
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~ cautious, cautious ~ Do simple things give you much pleasure? If so, we’ve a lot in common. This week, I’m trying to lay low, take it easy, stay in the studio or kitchen and tend to hearth and home. This month, there have been three funerals and two of those, necessitated a trip out of state. It always catches…
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“Better a dry crust with peace and quiet, than a house full of feasting with strife.” ~ Proverbs 17:1 ~ “Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child, Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, Within my heart, that it may be A quiet chamber kept for thee.” ~ Martin Luther ~ “Traditionally we are taught, and instinctively we long, to give where it…
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~ Sadie trotters ~ ~ Dani Girl trotters ~ ~ my trotters ~ ~ tart trotters ~ Blessings ~ sensible shoes ~ sensible women who wear sensible shoes ~ healthful feet ~ happy feet ~ Dei Gratia, Sandra
~ Roselawn, in Princeton, WV ~ “…in life they were loved and gracious, and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, there were stronger than lions.” ~ II Samuel 1:23 ~ “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I…
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~ Sam P. Spade, Secret Agent ~ All the dogs help with chores and seem to love being in the Ranger on a beautiful day. Here, we’re cleaning out the livestock water tank; it tends to get algae and “seaweed” stuff that needs to, periodically, needs to be removed. ~ water tank needing to be cleaned ~ ~ clean tank;…
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~ red fox in our yard ~ We’ve had some visitors this week, in particular, this red fox came by just prior to dusk. The dogs, Thank God, were in the house; I’ve no interest in seeing anyone injured and, contrary to popular opinion in the valley, don’t want to kill the fox. That’s been done, once, on the farm…
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