Lyn in England

Check out this great give away.

I am crazy about vintage linens. This gal is having a great giveaway. Pop over and check it out. Check out her ebay pages and website while you are there.

Vintage Linen Treasures

Christmas Tags for LESS!

Tags for Christmas packages can be fairly costly, but it is important to label each package properly so each recipient gets their intended gift, right?  Well, I have a few tips on how to keep the cost of these items to a minimum. 

• Print your own using address labels.  Try these links for Christmas printables.  Gift Tags, Christmas Printables. 
• Consider making your own labels.  A little sticker on an address label, children drawing on address labels, etc will make the most adorable unique and personal labels for your gifts
• USe last years Christmas cards.  Each year I have a few cards left over from the previous year,s mailing.  I also save the fronts of all cards sent to us.  These make excellent and FREE labels.  Use a hole punch so you can attach with packaging ribbon or simply adhere with tape on one corner.  Sign the back and you have a FREE Gift Label.
• Use a photo.  We all have photos that have been printed that we will never use in a scrapbook, photo album, or frame.  Punch a hole in a corner and attach as above.  Sign the back and a little line about what the picture is.  People really enjoy these labels.  They aren't free because you paid at some point to have the pics printed, but they cost nothing extra.  These are always a big hit with our friends and family.

Happy Gifting!

These are my thoughts.

Leslie Valeska

~Contributing Writer~

Leslie Valeska is the lucky wife of Thomas.  With children ranging in ages from 4-16, she has had a lot of time to learn and experience much of the fine art of homemaking. She is a writer, speaker, and vintage seamstress. For FREE daily tips and a FREE E-zine on simple and frugal living visit her blog Journey to Simplicity. Need a source of encouragement, inspiration, and support on your journey to Godly womanhood? Visit Simple Journey Ministries (she has a FREE E-zine too!) Of course, don’t forget to visit the Simple Journey Bookstore!

Christmas Ornament Recipe

TODAY'S VERSE from HEARTLIGHT -- This is great

Evolution of Dance

Oh my! This guy is GOOD!!!

Here is  his website. What a fun video to watch!!

A busy week ahead....

The week ahead is filled with activities....but fun activities!!!

We are home today...doing our school work and enjoying the bit of snow that has fallen. Tomorrow is my town day...I'm meeting two different ladies to sell them some of our "stuff". I will be so happy to have this stuff sold!!! Then it's off to Wal Mart to return something I bought on Friday, and do a bit of Christmas shopping. Then it's time for my Mom's night out!! It's our Christmas party...we'll celebrate with a good meal, great friends and a round of Dirty Santa!

Wednesday, we're "watching" a friend's BIL. He's mentally at the age of about 5, but is over 50 years old. They are going to the public school to teach an abstinence program (so proud of them!!). When they come to pick him up, we're headed for our milk run. I'm really looking forward to getting milk this week. The gal and her husband we buy milk from moved into a new rental home, and out of her parents' home this past weekend. We have a gift for her and can't wait to give it to her!

Thursday...at this moment, looks like we'll be home as usual that day. :)

Friday is our homeschool group's Christmas craft party. I actually have chosen my craft already! Yeah, me!

Saturday, we're headed to town to see Handel's Messiah at a local church. We've never seen this and are really looking forward to it!

Sunday, is a Christmas parade in town. We watched our little town's parade yesterday....can you tell we LOVE parades?!

Vision Forum sale!!!

Go check out the deals at Vision Forum's sale!!!

I could sure spend some major money there!!

'Under God' pastor dead at 97

ALEXANDRIA, Pa. - The Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died at 97.

Docherty died on Thanksgiving at his home in central Pennsylvania, according to his wife, Sue Docherty.

She said her husband of 36 years had been in failing health for about three years.

"George said he was going to live to be a hundred and he was determined," she said in a telephone interview Saturday. "It's amazing that he was with us this long."

Docherty, then pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, just blocks from the White House, gave a sermon in 1952 saying the pledge should acknowledge God.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was unfamiliar with the pledge until he heard it recited by his 7-year-old son, Garth.

"I didn't know that the Pledge of Allegiance was, and he recited it, 'one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,'" he recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2004. "I came from Scotland, where we said 'God save our gracious queen,' 'God save our gracious king.' Here was the Pledge of Allegiance, and God wasn't in it at all."

There was little effect from that initial sermon, but he delivered it again on Feb. 7, 1954, after learning that President Dwight Eisenhower would be at the church.

The next day, Rep. Charles G. Oakman, R-Mich., introduced a bill to add the phrase "under God" to the pledge, and a companion bill was introduced in the Senate. Eisenhower signed the law on Flag Day that year.

Todays Quote......Thomas Watson

What’s Been Coking in my Kitchen?

 

 

While I was cooking up my soups Leanne and Sierra made a triple batch of apple cinnamon muffins. I bought a 20lb box of organic Fuji apples on my last Azure order and have been working to use them up. We have eaten a lot of apples, made 3 apple pies and now 3 dozen muffins. The box is almost gone now..  

 

I don’t have a recipe for her coffee creations printed down yet.. maybe someday! 

That is all the cooking for today!!  Hope you all have had a pleasant and blessed Sunday on your homesteads!