Month: November 2014

Shop Small for Christmas : Etsy

As the Christmas shopping season approaches, you’ll be seeing signs for ‘Shop Small Saturday’. This is a great time to give your business to the Mom-n-Pop shops. You know, the ones that actually employ most of America. OK, moving on… What’s Etsy? You may know already, but in case you don’t, Etsy.com is a website […] Read more…

Candied Cranberries : Eat ’em raw!

Who would eat a raw cranberry ?! OMG – what an awful thought! No, no, no…these are ‘candied’ cranberries. This is my new wow ’em treat for guests this holiday. Why – because they’re unbelievably festive and even more unbelievable easy! I actually had to take extra pics and spread out the steps to make […] Read more…

Renningers 2014 Antique Extravaganza – Mt.Dora, FL

It’s that time of year again – Renningers Antiques Extravaganza !! I’m a junk junkie, I love everything old, well, most everything. Every year, there’s a huge antique fair over in Mount Dora, FL (no, there really isn’t any ‘mountain’ there), about 1.5 hours East.  http://www.renningers.net/index.php/main-locations/mount-dora/mount-dora-home My Aunt Kathy, and I go every year at […] Read more…

Veterans Day – We must never forget.

My son asked me one day about the little paper poppy in the truck windshield that I had trouble tossing. Faded and torn it was purchased, as I always do, from the veterans who give them for a small donation. I tried, in vain, to explain where how story of the poppy came from. This […] Read more…