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  • Approved Recipes

    It’s always a feel good moment when you receive a compliment on your homemade recipes ~ shared by anyone, but specifically when ‘your people‘ give you a compliment….ya pay attention (…and try not to gasp, lol). One of my Jr… Continue reading

    Approved Recipes
  • Tator-Tot Casserole Double Dose

    There are a few homemade ‘toss-together ingredient’ recipes that are our go-to’s ~ and aside from purchasing tator-tot’s these meals are pretty much all homemade delicious goodness! Continue reading

    Tator-Tot Casserole Double Dose
  • Green Pantry Cupboard|Cottage Kitchen

    One of our ‘winter projects’ this year was to add more storage to our tiny kitchen. Now this may seem like an impossible idea, because you see, I could stand in the center of the kitchen and touch the walls,… Continue reading

    Green Pantry Cupboard|Cottage Kitchen
  • ‘Root Beer Float Popsicles’ for ToleTown

    What I love about creating for ToleTown (found here) (a membership painting group) is it stretches my already over-active imagination! You see, Lorrie of ToleTown provides a topic for each month of the year ~ and then Decorative Art Designers… Continue reading

    ‘Root Beer Float Popsicles’ for ToleTown
  • Homemade BBQ Sauce & a Sloppy Joe BBQ Sandwich

    Instead of reaching for your next bottle of Kraft BBQ Sauce ~ try your hand at creating your very own blend to ‘jar’, save and share too! Continue reading

    Homemade BBQ Sauce & a Sloppy Joe BBQ Sandwich
  • House Walk

    Each evening as we wind down, Jerry and I take a ‘House Walk‘. We are ‘early to bed, early to rise‘ type of people so this happens around 7ish. A ‘House Walk‘, is simply a slow walk around the outside… Continue reading

    House Walk
  • Inspired Creative Living ~ Late Spring

    Cottage Living – Home Projects -adding in the charm. Our ‘Winter Kitchen-Dining Room-Home Project‘ is still progressing…and almost complete, well for now anyway, and most of the work is on my end at this point ~ so it’s a good… Continue reading

    Inspired Creative Living ~ Late Spring
  • Crazy Noodles, or is it Crazy Me?

    Have you ever just looked at something and thought, ‘well why not‘? Well, that was me staring into a Delish Cookbook (found here), page 159 to be exact. The recipe shown was Pizza Rigatoni Pie, with crazy ‘stand-em-up’ noodles. ‘Well,… Continue reading

    Crazy Noodles, or is it Crazy Me?
  • It Smells Good in Here

    Our Cottage Home is filled with all things Cottage….our decor, our food, our gardens, our living …..and even the way our home is filled with cottage like scents. When our visitors say ‘it smells goooooood in here!’ ….well, that just… Continue reading

    It Smells Good in Here
  • A ‘Cookie Keeper’ thru ToleTown

    As a Designer for ToleTown (found here~ a fun painting subscription) ~ for the month of May the creative theme for each project is ‘color outside the lines’ ~ mmmm, what fun could we come up with? Continue reading

    A ‘Cookie Keeper’ thru ToleTown