Day 11-Thanks Bernadette!

Day 11, originally uploaded by rhmom42.

My dear friend, Bernadette, writes a lovely food blog: Diva Indoors:Food with love. Her photos of her recipes make me wish she lived a little closer so I could volunteer to be a tester. When I saw the photo of her Strawberry and Cara Cara Orange Salad with Basil, I [...]

The Artistry of John Coles

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Thanks John! We love our new porch!!! It’s just perfect!

My Brush with Celebrity

So…..My girlfriends and I were spending the day together getting some retail therapy. We were laughing and carrying on and having a great time together. There were a ton of people with the same idea.

As we walked into the “Big JoAnn’s” (as we affectionately call one of our favorite craft stores), a woman comes up [...]

A Really Sweet Gift Idea

I have a really cute gift idea that I wish I could take credit for. A friend of mine is turning 50 and in lieu of gifts, it was requested that we bring her a plant for a friendship garden. So this weekend, I went to a really neat nursery, Triple Oaks Nursery in Franklinville [...]

Vote for Kristie!

A few months ago, I was asked to photograph Kristie for South Jersey magazine’s Top Model contest. The contest was published in this month’s magazine (along with one of my photographs of Kristie).

Kristie is a really sweet girl. We first met her at the barn where we leased Shelly, my daughter’s first horse. As is [...]

I’m In! I’m In!

If you are a knitter, you have to check out Ravelry.com. It is difficult to explain how cool this site is. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: “Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for [...]

An Old Favorite Returns

I’ve been a fan of Victoria magazine since it’s premier issue, so I was upset when it went away. But now, I’m thrilled to report that Victoria is back with all of it’s genteel gorgeousness. Here’s a look at the latest cover:

I just love this magazine! And to my surprise, inside is an article about [...]

An Amazing Croppin’ Weekend

My friends and I are back from our scrapbooking weekend in King of Prussia. I highly recommend Scrappin’ Getaways. We each had our own six foot long table! The amount of space was incredible. I think this was the first scrapbooking weekend where I didn’t spend all my time hunched over my supplies in my [...]

On the Tenth Day of Christmas Denise Showed to Me…..

My favorite holiday recipe (thanks Aunt Lovie!):

Hot Fruit

Serving Size: 8 Preparation Time:1 hour

Ingredients
1 large can sliced peaches
1 large can apricot halves
1 large can pear halves
1 large can pineapple chunks
1 11 ounce can mandarin oranges
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup vanilla wafer cookies — crushed
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 orange

Drain fruit. Mix [...]

On the Sixth Day of Christmas Denise Showed to Me…..

Two Blog Candy winners:

Congratulations Cathy and Alison!! I’ll email you for your addresses. Thanks for commenting on my blog!