One of my friends was over this week and we got to chatting. We jumped around from one subject to the next, often before we actually finished a conversation. It would dawn on us that there was something yet unfinished and laugh, “Oh, yeah, back to that…”.
I love bunny trails, because it helps us women girls talk about alot of different subjects all in one coffee (or tea) chat. Today is going to be kind of like that over here at But I Had A Tiara.
So, find your current favorite blend and pour yourself a cup. Let’s take some bunny trails.
Might I recommend….
I saw this Preservation Party post at Sweet Preservation.
I think I am going to do it. A younger friend asked me recently about canning and I think this would be a fun way to get a few of the younger girls from church together for a little canning lesson. At the same time, it will help us take advantage of these delicious berries Oregon is so good at turning out. And I’m always up for a partay.
Might have to be next year, but I’m going to see what I can do.
I found my new date book thanks to my friend Rachel at Once Upon A Farm. I love how she has been able to use the same style each year, in different fun colors. They look so sweet on the shelf all together, and what a tidy way to keep your past memories. I was glad to find that the layout is the one that I have always found works best for me. I really love that it was under ten bucks. There were only three left to choose from. I was hoping for orange, but I got a lime green one with faux alligator skin.What do you use?
I watched a sweet movie while I was writing, as I often do, in the background, as I type (do you ever fully watch a movie?), called Apartment For Peggy. It’s about a young wife who is really doing alot to stretch their dollar while her husband goes to college to get his degree in teaching. One of the ways she does that is she fixes up the attic of an old professor as their home and, along the way, she helps the professor and his outlook on life. I like this movie alot.
The young, expectant father asks his wife if she took her folic acid pills. I had no idea they knew about that back in 1948!
Sometimes one of the many blogs I read will tackle a tough and sometimes awkward or uncomfortable subject. This week, one of the blogs I have recently started reading did just that when she wrote Part One of “When You’ve Been Hurt By The Church”. I hear of this quite frequently, and it happened to our family as well, so I appreciated the fact that she was at a place and time when she could write about it. I am looking forward to her next installment.
I have fallen in love with old tea towels, especially those generously made with almost an entire flour sack. In fact, I love old embroidered linens. I have found a few sweeties lately. Last week I even found 6 tea towels, I don’t think they had ever even been used, with our last initial monogrammed on them – for $2.00 each! That’s cheaper than buying them new and now they will actually be used.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
This reminds me of when I was a little girl and I’d pretend the dishes were characters in a play.
I love unearthing old treasures and letting them be used again.
The rest of this week, in addition to daily chores, I’d like to:
~ Sort through and launder outgrown kid’s clothes to get them ready for the kid’s sale.
~ Try to get some canning done
~ Get ready to go camping
~ Finish ordering odds and ends for school, and finish getting our first week’s lessons planned
~ Get the old table out, now that the Sneaky Mama Hen’s eggs have hatched and she is out of the way for me to get it from it’s dusty storage place without hurting her nest, and get it painted for the school room
~ Finish protecting the wood on the old adirondack chairs
How’s that for bunny trails? There’s always lots to talk about!
Have a great day!
