
This basket liner is super easy too. Visit your favorite thrift store for a basket then personalize it with the super easy liner. Fill with homemade goodies and you're sure to be the Best Gift of the Year Award Winner!
This basket liner is super easy too. Visit your favorite thrift store for a basket then personalize it with the super easy liner. Fill with homemade goodies and you're sure to be the Best Gift of the Year Award Winner!
Amy gives a free tutorial on how to customize a beautiful clipboard for someone on your list. Here's the address to that post - but be sure to stay a while and see all her other cool ideas:
http://adayinthelife-amy.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-can-make-that-teacher-gift.html
Then Sweet Savannah will offer all kinds of beautiful ideas for decorating your home for the holidays. Be sure to visit the posts before and after this one for all kinds of ideas and ... click on HGTV's Favorite Holiday Ideas in the right column - ooo, la,la!

No matter how crazy it gets, don't get commited because of insanity! ;) The men in little white coats are busy enough! ~Smile!~
This is the Secret Sister corner of our church.
To keep our program exciting and "happening" we run our secret sisters for three month intervals. We've found that after that, interest dies off. Also, to ensure that some sisters don't "fall by the wayside" we have a sign up sheet where you put your name, date and item received. There are two people over the program (so they can also participate) and they give friendly reminders to those who've not remembered their sister for whatever reason
This is about half of our Junior Church during the program we did for the adults as part of the Sunday School preliminaries.
This is a couple of our little men helping with one of the songs from the theme.
Flashlights labeled "boys" or "girls" were used for taking up the offering. Here Benji and Racquelle get ready to take up the final offering for the theme.
Before we celebrate Thankful Thursday Thirteen, I'll tell you about our family's latest addition, Bailey, our eight week old St. Bernard puppy. You can read all about her on DJ's blog - he's her proud owner.
Well, this little fella has a whole cart load of my favorite flowers - PINK ROSES! Just in time to help us celebrate a whole bunch of blessings beginning with the letter "P" !

9.Patriotic Parades - LOVE to go to parades. The bands playing, flags waving and all the old cars are my favorites.
And some quotes worth repeating:
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done."
-Gilbert Highet
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." - Selected
"Education makes up what we are." - C.A. Helvitus
"We want to see the child in pursuit of knowledge - not the knowledge in pursuit of the child." - G.B. Shaw
"Educating your child isn't just completing bookwork, it's teaching your child who to be and how to be." - Selected
Enjoy this lovely Winter Wonderland - a Gift from the Father for His Much Loved Children!
Last Monday was my birthday. If you read my daughter's post, you will know that my mom, sister and her surprised me with a tea at Mrs. Teapots the previous Tuesday. (That was when they could work it out as a surprise). You can read about it on Lorna's blog. 



Best Hashbrown Casserole Ever!
2 pkgs. frozen hashbrowns
2 cans cream of chicken soup
16 oz. sour cream
1 stick butter / margarine
2 c. shredded cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 375 degees. Melt one stick of butter. Mix with potatoes, soup, sour cream and cheese. Put in greased 9 x 13 and bake uncovered for an hour. This can also be baked for 45 minutes, cooled and frozen for use at a later date. I like to make two at a time and freeze one. Just set in fridge the night before and bake for 20-30 minutes before supper.
Have a wonderfully blessed week!