Every year for the last seven I've made a fabulous frozen punch for our church open house. It's a grand recipe I got from a friend years ago but it is extremely time intensive. I borrow a large stock pot from the church every year to make it.... you dissolve stuff and add a million ingredients and then pour up into a thousand ice trays because I quadruple the recipe. I've never ... Read More »
Parties and Decorating
Church People Can Have Fun Too!
Church People can have fun too! And my church is proof. This year our church gathered once again for an open house in our home and we had a blast. Some really funny things happened this year. Some planned and some not so much. Like the coat rack crashing and all the coats being left in a pile on the floor. As people left they had to dig through a pile of coats to find ... Read More »
2015 Christmas on Main – “it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful”
We've lived in tiny one bedroom apartments in South Carolina to a ranch style home in Georgia to our current home on Historic Main Street in a small town in North Carolina. All of them have been just that - home. Some days "home" looks neat and picked up while other days it looks like a lego, sword, baby doll, books and paper tornado hit our home dead center. But that's sort ... Read More »
How I found myself in the middle of a live Frat party this week.
My sweet Christian friend who is sharing her story of redemption and freedom from drug addiction started sharing her story through a variety of social media platforms. One of which is Periscope. I wasn't familiar with this app so I was playing around with it trying to figure out how to follow and watch her daily 2pm coffee chats. Well somehow - I swear I don't know how ... Read More »
Plantation ferns, cucumber sandwiches and peonies = Simply Southern
I've never done one of those home parties before where you have a representative come and sell their product and people that are interested come by and look and purchase if they want. I have a friend who asked me about hosting one for Jamberry Nails and I agreed and asked if we could also combine it with a Silpada party and so we did. And it was a lot of fun! Sophie was a ... Read More »
When we act bigger than we really are
Oh bless'er. She was born wanting to be a toddler and now that she's in second grade she wants to be a preteen. Oh she still plays with her dolls, dresses up her big bear and plays "pretend" but sometimes she steps into responsibility that doesn't belong to her. Like at the Super Bowl party we just had at our house. She and several other little girls were all playing ... Read More »
Pintest Plans down the drain.
So that's what I was hoping our Super Bowl Party would be looking like but instead it will be pretty much nothing close to that. It'll still be awesome though and we'll have spent less money which is always a good thing. I threw my back out Thursday night - welcome to middle age....when you change bottom bunkbed sheets and come out getting stuck bent over. So all the plans I ... Read More »
Open House and memories of a party crasher
We love having our church family over for an open house every year the Sunday before Christmas. I'll admit that sometimes I get my panties in a wad over it. You know, thinking people might spot the massive dust bunnies in the corners of the house or cobwebs that have gone unnoticed. I felt more at home at a church member's house last week than I ever have. Our host and hostess ... Read More »