Favorite Quote of the Day.....

"Faith is the willingness to recieve whatever God wants to give, or the willingness not to have what God does not want to give."

Elisabeth Elliot

Favorite Quote of the Day!

"For I have learned from experience, that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstance."

Martha Washington

Vignette Exception.....

I am not feeling well today, tummy troubles, so I will make a short post about an exception to the "3" thing vignette rule.

Here is an area in my kitchen, in which this is my decor. You will notice four things here, the antique plate is the fourth thing and the exception...why? Because it acts as a backdrop for the french press, coffee beans and candle that are the 3 for the vignette. It is my "pop" of color, it was very inexpensive (found in our travels to Door County" and is just pretty in my sight.

Have a wonderul Thursday!

Make Someone Special, Feel Even MORE Special!!

How special would your family members feel if you brought THIS to the table?!!

Pretty? Yes! Special? Yes! Yummy? Yes indeed!

Difficult and time consuming? NOT AT ALL!!

This was a special Anniversary dessert that I made for my In-Laws last night to celebrate their 54th Anniversary!

And here is how easy it was. In my freezer I had an angel food cake (bought from the bakery section of a super market) a tub of Cool Whip and in my pantry a box of pudding. All these were sugar free, as my MIL is diabetic. I cut the cake in thin layers and simply layered cake, pudding, and cool whip, 2 layers of each. Done.

I keep these small glass cups for dessert specials, and use them often, as I think my family is pretty special! AND....it is built in portion control! BONUS!

But, they look pretty, make you feel special and add very little extra work to dessert time.

I will admit, I have a dishwasher, so it does not add to the work of clean up, but I can see how it would seem "excessive" to the person who must wash their dishes by hand, HOWEVER, you and your family are worth a bit of spoiling once in a while!!

Have a fabulous Wednesday!

Playing Around With Vignettes....

We all have them, vignettes. Those places on top of our end tables, coffee tables, counters, dressers, dining tables, etc. Places that we "display" our treasures.

It is an easy way to get pops of color in our rooms, and easy way to show our personalities, and you can use just about anything to do it!

For example, here on my kitchen island, I have a colander, candle jar and pepper mill.

The key to a great vignette is to cluster 3 things. Odd numbers will ALWAYS be more pleasing to the eye than even numbers of things. Odd numbers of treasures will make sense to the human eye, while even numbers will be perceived as "off". (this is not the same when hanging symmetrical photos tho....another post!)

I added even more color to the colander by filling it with apples (which spilled out & I liked that look) but alas, the apples do not last, however, were quite tasty!!!

So play around, have fun, show your treasures!!!!

I will post another "exception to the rules" (rules are, at times, made to be broken!) tomorrow!

Have a fabulous Tuesday!!

5 Things I Love.....

1. I Love fun ideas for gifts that I can make and give with love!

2. Father God's amazing color palette.....natural, beautiful and given to us with love from Him!

3. Football!!! Yes, I am huge football fan and had the most exciting season this past year...Super Bowl Champs...fun, fun, FUN!

4. Old, comfy jeans!

5. Flip Flops!!

Have an amazing weekend, love on your family, worship the Lord in all His splendor and RELAX....take time to breath, look at all the things around you that are amazing, bless you and give thanks.

And The Winner Is.........

Amanda!!! Yes indeed, I turned this mess.......

into RELISH!

Fresh, organic, sugar free, good for my Hubby, relish!!