Apreciation

Wednesday was Professional somethin somethin day, aka Secretaries day. Below are a couple of gifts that I made for our wonderful Secretaries at school.

I took a water bottle:

and filled it with my favorite Crystal Light packets. Raspberry IceFor the next person I took the freezable containers that Balls sells. I found these in the section with all the canning jars. I filled them with Peanut M&M's. YUM

Here is the lid. These were quick and easy little gifts to make.

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Yard Work

We have been working madly in our yard for the past few weekends. We don't have much space, but would really like to have a garden. We are creating raised bed gardening in our yard. I told my husband if we do this then it has to look nice. We went to our friendly Lowe's and purchased cedar 2x4s and 2x6s to create our raised gardens. This is what we have created so far. After pictures will soon arrive.


In this bed we have 2 Boysenberry, 1 Raspberry and 1 Blackberry bush. I am really excited to see if I will get enough harvest off of the to make jelly.

The longer bed I plan on planting my tomatoes, jalapeno peppers and green peppers.
In the shorter bed I plan on putting the onions and garlic.

These beds I am really excited about. The bed in the back I plan on putting Swiss Chard and Cucumbers in the back to climb up the fence. The bed in the middle will have lettuce, watermelon, cantaloupe and a small space for squash. Then the long skinny bed will have Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Beans and Strawberries.

Happy Spring Planting
Donna

Cracked Feet

Okay, I don't know if anyone else has this issues, but I do every year and it is very painful. I get really bad cracked feet in the spring time and when we go to the lake in the summer. I have tried everything under the sun but nothing really works. Well the other day I wore flip flops for the first time this season and guess what. Yep my feet cracked. They hurt so bad. I put lotion on band-aides and then put them on my feet. I wore band-aides for a couple of days. Then I came across a blog on The Common Cents Home. She had a guest blogger who talked about this wonderful ointment. I figured I would give it a try. I am now a lover of this ointment. It is called Calendula. I have seen a difference in my feet and I have only used it twice. I have also used it on my hands and they are not dry and yucky. Check it out.

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Lady's February Sweater

I am in the mind set right now that I have to many project going at once. Well, maybe I just can't seem to finish the projects that I have started because I keep finding new ones that I want to do. I am on a mission to finish the February Lady Sweater that I started in February. I have been working on it off and on. Last night I have come really close to finishing the body of it. Here is a link to what the sweater is suppose to look like. I just love it and can't wait for mine to be finished.

Lady's February Sweater

Night Stand

We have been very busy around here. The weather has been wonderful, but here in Kansas it is very "BREEZY". Since the weather is warming up I am getting the gardening bug. I have attempted several times for a garden, but just can't get the produce. So this year hubby and I have built raised beds. This weekend I had the day off on Friday and asked dear hubby how much topsoil to get delivered so we could fill the beds. He told me 10 ton. What?! So the obedient wife that I am ordered the soil. We are now finished with the beds. Will post pics later.

In the midst of building garden beds I came across one of my favorite blogs, Knock off Wood. I decided to make The Simplest Nightstand because younger son has wanted a nightstand for his room. So the super mom that I am decided to make one all by myself. Mine is a little smaller in size because of the space it has to fit in, but hubby and young son love it. I am very proud of myself!

This is not the best picture. I took it with my phone, but you can get the jest.

Tacky Tuesday

Okay. I took one of my treasures from this past weekend and spruced it up a little. I love it! This little gold frame has been given new life. I took the little gold frame that I paid $2.99 and painted it Brushed Nickle. This is my favorite new color.

I then took this wonderful Spray adhesive and sprayed it on the back of some fabric and the backing of the picture frame.

I was looking for the perfect picture to put in my new frame. I came across this picture of my grandmother when she was a child. I had forgotten that I even had it. What a wonderful find.

Now my new frame is put in place with the cute little bowl that I found at Goodwill.

Total cost for the frame was 2.49. What a deal for a new look. Good luck on your turning tacking into Treasure.

Donna
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Been Busy

Okay, I thought I was going to be good about this blogging thing. I really did have good intentions of writing daily. Hasn't happened. I have been following and readying everyone's blogs. So many wonderful and inspiring ideas out there. Well you all have inspired me. These are a few of my recent finds at the Goodwill. Can't wait to fix a few of my treasures.


That is a cute little hat in the corner. I have seen them at Specialty stores for $40. I got it for 99 cents.



That's right this mirror was only $4.99. It is a heavy mirror. I can't imagine what the original price was.