One of my favorite desserts is Black Forest Cake! This chocolate & cherry cake is known as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte in it’s native Germany. Schwarzwälder, meaning “Black Forest”...
This is an old post, but since I’ve been making some changes to the original project recently that I will post about later, I thought I would repost it to freshen everyone’s memories. &nb...
I’ve recently come across a great little online wedding shop called Bride & Groom that I wanted to share. I know that this isn’t a wedding blog and that I am already married, but some...
Winter is probably my favorite season of all. I love looking out of the window and seeing a blanket of fresh snow. I love the holiday season and all of the tastes, smells and sites that come along wi...
This past weekend Hubby and I traveled down to our house in Bedford Indiana for a couple of days to get the inside of the house cleaned up some. When we moved, it was a last minute thing AND we were ...
We’ve finally shut down the air conditioners and started eating more soups and roasts here at our house. The leaves have changed and the days are no longer so unbearably hot. Autum is my favori...
I apologize if you have been trying to get to my blog recently only to be met with a blank screen. Last night apparently some hackers from Bangladesh hacked into my hosts servers, another large hosti...
I am now only a day or two away from having the full overhaul and clean out of my craft room finished! As promised I’ll be taking pictures of all of it, but for right now I’m posting the ...
The last couple of weeks I have not been posting at a regular pace and for that I apologize. Due to some depressing life circumstances several years ago, and not knowing when to let even more depress...
I have recently started a second blog called Ada Venture that is for parents and children. I’ve been disturbed lately by the culture of rudeness, over-sexualization, video games/text message ob...
Or at least that’s what I’m calling her right now, I might change the name later, but for the moment that is the working title of my latest project. I’ve been working on her all day...
My space is limited, and therefore so are my storage options. Up until last weekend I was storing my zippers in little plastic boxes shoved into a plastic drawer in one of those storage stacks. The d...
A few months ago I mentioned this great tutorial from Ooh Leela! for a way to package lemons. I’ve been so eager to try to make my own version of it, but I haven’t had much call for gifti...
This mess (above) is what my button hoard started out as. I really didn’t think that I had THAT many buttons to be honest, LOL. Three years ago it was pretty much limited to what came as extras...
As I was clearing off the DVR and catching up on old episodes of The Martha Stewart show, I spotted an episode description that said “Jelly Mongers”. I’ve been in a canning mood thi...
Part of my Summer of organization includes decorating parts of the apartment that have been barren since we moved in a year and a half ago. One of these areas is the kitchen. So far the whole thing h...
I have been so preoccupied with trying to get everything completely organized the last month or so (as you know if you read the blog) that I haven’t had much time for blogging. I thought today ...
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I’ve been on an organization high since we got back from vacation. Maybe it was the inspiration of living in someone else’s beautifully decorated cottage for 2 weeks, maybe it was just ge...
This is the last of my USS Patoka (AO-9) photo posts. I think I saved the best for last: The Shellback Ceremony! For those of you who don’t know, the Shellback ceremony is a Navy thing for sail...
These are the second installment of old Navy photos. Again these sailors were attached to the USS Patoka (AO-9) during WWII. Images can be enlarged by clicking them. Tell Your Friends!TweetFacebookLi...
You all know that we love estate sales and auctions, we obviously love the Navy and you may or may not know that WWII is one of our favorite time periods. Hubby is very interested in preserving WWII ...
I’ve been trying to clear up a bunch of little tasks around here that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. one BIG one of those is cleaning up my computer files. While doing that I came a...
Here are some of the random photos from our vacation that don’t really fit into any of the other posts that I have planned. Each one can be enlarged by clicking on it. Tell Your Friends!TweetFa...
I haven’t done a giveaway in a few months. I quit doing them because no one was entering really, but I have a few more regular readers now so I’ve decided to give it another try. For this...
Last night I FINALLY finished organizing all of my digital music files. Yes, it took me two weeks, but they have been building up since the late 90′s and it HAD to be done! I’m sorry that...
Well I’m up again tonight renaming music files… that’s also what I did all day! Hopefully I will be finished before the weekend. I still have about half of them left to do. Christma...
Starting last weekend I have been spending my days TRYING to get my music files organized. I switched all of my CDs over to digital (MP3) files a long time ago. I find them much more convenient and p...
I love the color of the Regina flats by Elie Tahari. I thinkt he simple styling allows the “random” placement of the sequins to not be overpowering Tell Your Friends!TweetFacebookLinkedIn. ..
Here is another batch of vintage magazine scans from random magazines. I wanted to finish up posting these random images before I start posting things from my “new” acquisitions. Images c...
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