A castle room renovation included an up-cycled door insert as a mercury glass mirror.
Don’t buy that stuff ! You can make you own at home and it’s super easy.
When your cousin marries a fabulous guy, you make her anything she needs for the Big Day! That includes 100 jars of tasty, low sugar blueberry jam with berries straight from the farm.
Get out there, it’s lovely out. (well, it was today)
Check the Local Haunts for some places to visit. Why did the chicken cross the road? Beacuse it’s a railroad CROSSING! And besides, it’s Ybor City…urban poultry.
I spend an inordinate amount of time in my favorite space, creating and changing recipes to fit a more healthy – and completely doable – lifestyle.
“to dance artlessly, without particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment” – That pretty much sums up what goes on in my head most of the time. Here’s a collection of miscellaneous fun favorites.
Get out there! Check out my adventures near and far.
A while back I picked blueberries – a lot of blueberries ! Most of them got frozen for use in smoothies, jams and for my morning cereal. Some I’d been eating from the fridge and decided to find another use. When I was a little girl, my Grandmother would pull out a special bottle of […] Read more…
All over the country corn is in season. Not everybody has the opportunity to cash in on the same kind of gold at the end of this rainbow we here call Frazier Farms. This little local pocket of agricultural happiness is truly a local treasure. Every year I would wait for the signs to go […] Read more…
Ahhh, Summertime – time for picnic, beach and football food….mmmmm. Yet another weekend is on it’s way. Southern menus include Pulled Pork Sandwiches, yummy, ugh nooooo – You’ve seen those greasy cousins of the gut bomb that the men inhale! Sure they taste good, all that fat laden pork swimming in a sea of bar-b-que sauce […] Read more…
I’ve been trying to keep myself on a more healthy track. Not always easy. This afternoon I put in an order for some goodies from my favorite online health food company, VitaCost. I was reminded about a pic I took of a box from their last shipment. They print funny little things on their boxes. […] Read more…
Remember that Gluten-Free Flour Mix I sent you? You don’t – well go and print it out. You’re going to want to keep it…well, if you’re a gluten-free devotee. I promised I’d share a recipe or two with you on what to use it in. Well, I found a good one. A riff on an […] Read more…
Stunning Underwater Shipwreck Portraits Taken Off the Shores of Bali – My Modern Met. I had to explore this site after seeing this incredible post. I do all my work with my iPhone and I’m not the only one. Check out the other posts and see what other seasoned professional do with their camera-phones. Enjoy. Read more…
We’ve got a respite for the summer from the chocolate-covered-holidays! Time to clean up our act a bit. These days there’s a huge surge in gluten-free living. So many people have an aversion to gluten, and the symptoms so awful, that even normal folks are tapping in. Even my Mom’s into it, and she’s got […] Read more…
I’m sure you’re wondering why I’ve attached a photo of my washing machine and a noticeably sparkling clean laundry room floor. (No, the laundry room has NOT been remodeled,…yet) This is a reprint from a post I on my Aunt’s Blog KTgreendesign.com from August of 2012 – I still have, and love, this machine – but beware […] Read more…
OK, Boys N’ Girls it’s your old pal Mr. Wizard….(Ouch, I’m really dating myself – and not in a good way). Today we’re making household cleaners….No, not like Breaking Bad! Pay attention dammit! 🙂 The other day I told you about how I clean a monumental amount of blueberries, well here’s what I used…I have […] Read more…
It’s May and here that means that it’s U-Pick Season for blueberries ! Yay!! After the commercial harvest is done, the farmers let folks come in on the weekends and pick berries till they wear their fingers blue or wear a hole in their wallets! At $3.00 a pound, it’s not hard to do. But […] Read more…