• Cooking

    Summer Pineapple Pie

    12:55 AM - By 

    Today I plan to make up a sum­mer pineap­ple pie and let me tell you if you/re look­ing for a last minute sum­mery treat to whip up for the fam­i­ly or a last minute get togeth­er this is for you! Sum­mer brings peo­ple togeth­er on back patios for back­yard BBQ’s and swim par­ties for the lit­tles, all accom­pa­nied by amaz­ing foods and a good fruity sal­ad or oth­er fruit treats lay­ered with whipped top­pings. This is def­i­nite­ly one of those treats that will have peo­ple com­ing back to the table for more. It’s fruity, light, cool and mouth-watering Ingredients 2 tbsp sugar…

  • Cooking

    Sweet Southern Sun Tea

    7:42 PM - By 

    Hon­est­ly I don’t remem­ber hav­ing a whole lot­ta sun tea grow­ing up. In fact, it was a on going joke that my mom could­n’t make good tea. She always seemed to scald it on the stove and it had a burnt taste. She was even gift­ed a fan­cy tea mak­er one year for Christ­mas which did help.…buuuut when it quit work­ing she all but quit mak­ing tea.  I start­ed mak­ing tea again about 7 years ago when Josh and I were first mar­ried. Tea for this gal is best served cold and sweeeet. South­ern style I guess you could say. And…

  • DIY Projects

    How to make DIY Coffee Stain

    7:31 PM - By 

    The list of things I want to try to DIY is long, and I have always want­ed to make my own stain. Now there are plen­ty of meth­ods out there for mak­ing stain and I am shar­ing how I have decid­ed to make my own. It’s chem­i­cal free and all the ingre­di­ents can almost exlu­sive­ly come from your kitchen. Need­ing ideas for how to use this beau­ti­ful wood stain?  Look at this amaz­ing aged effect on this wood block craft. Ingre­di­ents Needed Cof­fee Grounds, I’m using left­overs from this morn­ings brew Dis­tilled White Vinegar Fine Steel Wool  Mason Jar with lid Steps Pour about 2…

  • DIY Projects

    Decorating from the Pantry

    6:56 PM - By 

    Being stuck at home real­ly makes you eval­u­ate the things you have right in front of you. Your decor for exam­ple. Maybe all this extra time at home has brought your atten­tion to areas of your home that could use a refresh. Sure you could do a lit­tle online shop­ping to pass the time, but how about we raid our kitchen cab­i­nets for FOOD…yes food, but were not eat­ing it, we’re dec­o­rat­ing with it! Enjoy this col­lec­tion of cre­ative ways to use pantry items in your decor!  To kick off our col­lec­tion is this amaz­ing dis­play of glass jars, can­dles, lentils,…

  • DIY Projects

    Easy Ink Transfer Using Parchment Paper

    7:57 PM - By 

    I have always want­ed to try my hand at trans­fer­ing images via wax or parch­ment paper. All I had on had was parch­ment so thats what I used and I am pleased with the result. Was is per­fect? No, but for the the look I want­ed per­fec­tion did­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mat­ter. I am not claim­ing this is THE best way to trans­fer images, I am sim­ply shar­ing what I did to achieve this look. I start­ed with a piece of parch­ment paper I cut just small­er than the size of a piece of card­stock and taped them together. Next, I print­ed this…

  • Cooking

    Amish Cinnamon Swirl Bread

    5:21 PM - By 

    I made this recipe for the first time this morn­ing. Sun­day’s are typ­i­cal­ly crazy in our house. Rush­ing for show­ers and get­ting ready for church. Due to the cur­rent quar­an­tine we watched church from home and kept our social dis­tance but y’all, can I just say, no amount of social dis­tance should keep you from shar­ing this amaz­ing melt in your mouth recipe with your fam­i­ly and friends.  Speak­ing of fam­i­ly, I am hap­py to have had my great grand­moth­ers loaf pans hand­ed down to me. Every­time I use them I can’t help but won­der what all she made with…

  • Decor - DIY Projects

    5 Repurposed Kitchen Island Tutorials

    1:50 PM - By 

    When I was toss­ing around ideas for cre­at­ing a kitchen island, I knew with­out a doubt that I want­ed to repur­pose SOMETHING, but I wan’t too sure on what. Of course, if you fol­low the blog, then you already know we decid­ed on the dress­er in the image below. I am super pleased with how this piece turned out. But y’all, if I had a place in my house for more than one repur­posed island, you betcha I would have these in this collection. I just sim­ply want­ed to gath­er them for you, and unfold my thought process behind my…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    DIY Spindle Carrots

    6:42 PM - By 

    Mak­ing Spring decor using these skin­ny spin­dles from the shop just may be my new obses­sion! Not only was thi project easy, but also, the end result turned out absolute­ly amazing!  What you will need: Spin­dles Miter Saw Green flo­ral stems hot clue orange paint small paint brush twine and/or raffia The process start­ed out fair­ly sim­ple. I had two long spin­dles that I cut down to about 6″ each using a miter saw. If you need to get your hands on these I offer them over in my wood sup­ply shoppe. GET THEM HERE.  After they were cut to size, I light­ly sand­ed…

  • Decor

    Thrifty Spring Decor for Your Mantle

    7:18 PM - By 

    Recent­ly, I made a trip to one of my favorite thrift shoppes in town on a mis­sion to gath­er a few bud­get-friend­ly items for my Spring man­tle. I did­n’t want to go all out Easter‑y with bright eggs and bun­nies but did want a taste­ful yet fresh look to my space. After brows­ing the store for about 30 min­utes, which must have been a new record for me, I had a col­lec­tion of vin­tage prints, old bas­kets, books and some faux euclyp­tus stems. I also bought a old chip­py bird­cage and a sofa table, but that’s a whole dif­fer­ent thing.…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    DIY Outdoor Spindle Projects

    6:58 PM - By 

    With Spring on the hori­zon, my mind is start­ing to drift to fresh­en­ing up my out­door spaces. Since mov­ing to our new home­stead we have put all of our atten­tion and ener­gy into clean­ing up the out­door spaces but I am ready to start think­ing of all things pret­ty. I have nev­er real­ly giv­en much thought to out­door upcy­cling projects until this year and let e just tell ya…you’re gonna be see­ing a lot of spin­dles out in my yard and on my porch!  While gath­er­ing inspi­ra­tion of my own I decid­ed to cre­ate this con­ve­nient lit­tle col­lec­tion for you to…