Did you notice something new around here? Nest of Posies has officially been to the beauty shop & has taken the big leap to WordPress! Woot! Which means, I left the free blogger format for my blog of (ahem…4 years) & moved on up to the big time. Not that there is anything wrong with…
Fall mornings around my neighborhood & rambling
Confession: 2 years ago I let the blog & my shop get in the way of our family enjoying all the Fall beauty outdoors. I told myself I would never let that happen again. It didn’t get me anywhere, other than kicking myself in the rear for the rest of the winter. The kids were…
Quick & Pretty Way to Organize your Jewelry & Accessories
It’s too good (and pretty) not to share!Once again the Dollar Tree comes to my rescue = Hurricane Vases for jewelry & accessory holders. I love being able to see my pretty baubles, rosettes, posies & hair accessories. They’re to pretty to stay covered up. I fastened my Allora rosette necklaces on the outside of…
Owls, Spiders & Birds ~ Oh My! A Halloween Mantel
Well, Hello October.Goodness, it’s so good to see you.The kids & I had the best time this weekend. We brought up the famous “orange” storage boxes that holds all our treasured ghosts, spiders, birds & pumpkins. We all seem to treat those orange boxes like they are truly long lost buried treasure. They know exactly…
sight words, homework & the Saturn2 Laminator
Last week I sent out the above picture via my Instagram stream. This picture basically illustrates how we spend our evenings. After dinner & baths I’m trying (trying being the key word) to establish a routine for many more school years to come. We are hitting the flash cards hard with sight words, math & nature. …
NYC in watercolors
Dreamstime Schulman Arts Bunny’s Artwork Ikdk Ikdk Remembering those we lost. Honoring the survivors. Grateful for the heroes. I’m social as can be! Are you? Follow along if you like. Hello! I’m so glad you’re here & reading my posts! I’ve started truncating my posts, so please click over to read the rest of the…
The happiest place on earth – Disneyland
With Summer coming to a close, I wanted to post some more of our vacation pictures. Because after all, documenting our family memories is why I started this blog in the first place. And to much of my surprise, my husband loved Disneyland. I mean, really I still am in shock over that one. But…
Leaf Art for the kids
photo from flickr Are the leaves starting to trickle down from the trees where you live?I just noticed mine the other morning. I’m thinking the above is a soon to be project the kids & I will have to do. Isn’t it great? I’ve been in the land of gameday/football bags for the shop. (I…
Summertime fun: make a recycled playhouse
I’m a sucker for some of my old posts. They’re like my old clothes to me. I can still remember the memories & what I was doing while wearing them. Please tell me, you understand that last sentence? 😉 I made this recycled playhouse a long time ago, before I ever knew what a link…
the FREEDOM to be wearing white pants…again
They call it the Nova Sure Procedure, but for me, it’s the freedom to wear white pants again – procedure. I hesitated in writing this post, because, umm well it’s rather personal. But the thoughts of sharing this continued to enter my mind. I mean, I know 99.9% of my readers are female. Why can’t I talk…