Kitchen Christmas Tree

The big reveal is coming.

What To Do With That Pumpkin After Halloween

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This is one of my favorite

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Silver spray painted look great as centerpieces for Thanksgiving.

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Pumpkin bird feeder

What will you be doing with your pumpkins after Halloween?  Please share

Kids Room Inspiration

Our baby girls are walking, talking climbing and are outgrowing their nursery.  Time to pack away the baby cribs and move into BIG girl beds. While looking around the internet for kids room inspiration here is what I found that inspires me. 

I like the idea of the floating bookshelves with the tree wall art.  

 

Love

 

The bed skirt is adorable

 The ottoman is yummy 

Wooden Spoon Love

What is there not to love about a wooden spoon.

 

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Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop Contest

Made this video for a Tootsie Pop Contest We asked our 2 year old daughter  if she was up for the challenge of finding out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, we never figured it out but we made this great video! :)



 You Can simply click on this link and VOTE

Baby Doll quilt

 

 With a few fabric scraps, some vintage trim and a few hours of my time I made this baby doll quilt for my baby girl.  

The squares are 2 1/2 inches with a 1/4  inch seam

7 squares and 8 squares down.

Book Review

The Ministry of Christ: 1000 Days is a look at the last three years of Jesus Christ's life.    While Jesus lived roughly 33 years on this earth, his public ministry was only 3 years, which is roughly 1000 days of ministry.  The Falwell explains how we can apply the teachings of Jesus to our own lives.

This book was simply written,easy to understand and I came away encouraged after reading it.

Sunday Afternoon Blueberry Pie

Fall is in the air.

 Time for baking

I love the smell of homemade pie baking on a Sunday afternoon.  I think they smells extra good on Sunday.  

Filling

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup white sugar
•   9 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 4 cups fresh blueberries
• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
• 1 tablespoon butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
2. Mix sugar, flour, salt, and cinnamon, and sprinkle over blueberries.
3. Line pie dish with one pie crust. Pour berry mixture into the crust, and dot with butter.
4. Bake pie on lower shelf of oven for about 50 minutes, or until crust is golden brown. 

French Pastry Pie Crust

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
• 5 tablespoons water

Directions

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, and sugar. Mix well, then cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal.
2. In a small bowl, combine egg, vinegar, and 4 tablespoons of water. Whisk together, then add gradually to flour mixture, stirring with a fork. Mix until dough forms a ball. Add one more tablespoon of water if necessary.
3. Allow dough to rest in refrigerator 10 minutes before rolling out. 

 

Green Mohair couch

I have had this green mohair couch in storage for many many moons.

My choices were to

1.   cut up the couch and REuse the mohair for a project (never got around to it, story of my life)
2.  USE it as a couch.  (that's a good idea)

The day finally came that I was going to either use it or reuse it.   So glad I decided to USE it just the way it was. 

She fits perfect into my music room.

Reading Nook

Family Photo

 

Tater head family photo.  

Bible / book cover

Patch work bible book cover I made.  Easy and fun.

Finding where you belong

Fresh from the garden

yum yum

Sunshine and dirt

No TV, no  stimulating toys… just two girls in the sunshine and dirt.

This is the mud pie kitchen I put together for my two little peanuts.  Needless to say they love it!

Tree Branch Curtain Rod

When we moved into our new house I had no idea what I was going to do for a window treatments on this HUGE window in our bedroom.  My hubby's solution was to tape the curtains to the window for the night in order to get a good nights sleep.   Well, needless to say  I grew tired of the "tape your curtains to window idea"  and went on the  hunt for something that would fit out budget of $0 dollars.  

Items needed:

1.  3 curtain rod bracket s ( found in junk drawer)
2.   Hemp Twine  (found in craft room)
3.  Gromets ( found in garage)
4.  Fabric ( used what was taped to window)
5.  The best part  TREE BRANCH  (found on burning pile in backyard)

$0 dollars for window treatment makeover

 

Kitchen Garden

A lot can change in a garden in just one week.  We had the first salad from the garden last night.  Well, just the lettuce, but still YUMMY. 

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Today's (junkin') treasure finds.

 

Kitchen Garden

ANTICIPATION......I can't hardly wait to eat the first bowl of salad out of my little kitchen garden.

Jesus changed my life

Stained Glass Hearts: Seeing Life from a Broken Perspective

Much like stained glass, life's broken pieces become the prism through which God's grace shines most brightly and beautifully.
"Life is no doubt full of difficulties, but it is also filled with promise and possibility," says best-selling author and WOF speaker Patsy Clairmont. In Stained Glass Hearts Clairmont guides readers to view the difficult experiences of life through the lens of God's grace. Using art as a theme, and likening people to stained glass windows, she shares that it's when we're surrounded by darkness that His healing light shines most brightly within us. Encouraging women to step back and see life from this new perspective, Patsy offers help and hope for the dark places of life.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this well written and interesting book and recommend it to anyone in the process of healing from some hurt, or wanting an uplifting read.

Thinkin' spot

How to make a lined zippered pouch tutorial

This is what happens when it rains for two days straight.

I have seen these cute little zippered pouches around the internet and on etsy.  So I  decided to make a couple for birthday gifts.  

I found this tutorial over at Skip to my Lou.  They are sure easy and fun to make.   

Vintage Camper

We finally moved our vintage camper a.k.a "the playhouse" to the backyard.   Now it's time to decorate and clean her up.  Some of our fondest memories have been made in and around her. 

Week 3 in the Garden

The garden is growing very nicely.    I added one little strawberry plant last week,  can you find it?  

Week 2 in the Garden

This is where you can find me most mornings.  Watering and weeding.   Love my time in my little garden.  Do you plant a garden?

The best feelings in the world

What would you add to the list?

New Vintage Website

I am very excited to announce the launch of our new and improved vintage website.  It has been a whirl of activities at the Queen's Palace.  

  We will be adding vintage items for sale daily.  If you are looking for a deal on vintage items to re-purpose or re-use in your home decor, you are going to want to check out our website.   

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Rock Flower

The things you can do with rocks while waiting in a parking lot.

Happy Friday the 13th

It's a beautiful day! 

My view outside my sewing room

 The sun is shining

 

 The best flowers to get from your children.  There chubby little hands wrapped around them ready to give them to me  is precious and melts my heart ever time. 

 

 What shall we read tonight at bedtime.....hmmmm

"Is your Mama a Llama?"  is a must read EVERY night.