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A gentle word of CAUTION:
There is no rhyme or reason to what you may find here!! I will simply share with you the STUFF I find, or.........should I say, the STUFF that finds me! I could be rummaging or hunting OR sometimes it comes from out of no where, but nonetheless, the STUFF is there and it is REAL!


I am notorious for hoarding! You might ask: What is she gonna do with all that STUFF? Check my Etsy site for creations made from my stashes! Just click on the picture above to go to my site! You might get LUCKY! Something you see HERE could be for SALE!

Saturday, February 28, 2009




When life gives you LEMONS...make LEMON SQUARES!!



LEMON SQUARE RECIPE---Yummmmmmmy!!

CRUST:
2 Cups Flour
2 Pinches salt (or hubby, which ever is handier!)
1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar
2 Sticks of Butter

FILLING:
2 Cups Sugar
4 Tablespoons Flour
4 Eggs (beaten)
6 Tablespoons LEMON juice
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

Mix CRUST ingredients (until crumbly). Pat into cake pan. Bake 20 minites @ 350 degrees.
Set aside while making Filling.
Mix FILLING ingrediants and our over CRUST. Bake 20 minutes @ 350 degrees.



Sprinkle with Powdered Sugar and ENJOY!!
Some of you know I’ve had quite a bout with an unexplained “back pain” situation. For close to 4 weeks I have done EVERYTHING (and then some) to get relief. Suffice it to say, 2 Vicodin doesn’t even touch it! I now have my computer perched on top of 2 metal milk crates because I literally cannot sit down. I was kind of moping around today thinking… “ I am SO ready for this to be over. What have I not learned yet?”…when I got an email from a dear friend, Judy Packard Ethington, requesting my LEMON SQUARE recipe. I went to search out my dog-eared recipe, which started a chain reaction inside of my brain. “Oh ya, I thought, the citrus trees are loaded. I see the oranges and grapefruit trees out the window. But I can’t see the lemon trees. I walked (hobbled) out into the sunshine, camera in hand and took a few pix of this sunshiny fruit, thoughts still ticking away. The sun felt healing and I found GREAT appreciation for these and other citrus trees that were growing right here in my own back yard! For a little window of time, the pain no longer had center stage. I thought about so many other things that have been crowded out of my thoughts by pain… and memories of blessings began to flood into my soul without number!!

I thought more about lemons in particular. At first taste, you would think they were impossible to enjoy. BUT, Ah HA! There really are MANY ways to find joy even with that bitter taste present!! So I just thought I’d share these thoughts with those so dear to me. Having felt rather worthless housework wise and meal wise, I have been served by some dear friends. I have had the overwhelming desire to GET WELL, so I can thank them. I realized I don’t have to wait.

THANK YOU Judy for simply asking for a recipe!


Share with anyone else who may be having a poopie day. One other offer: If you live within the area: PLEASE feel free to come and help yourselves to some of these LEMONY-sunshiny wonders in our backyard! Seriously!! Just BYOB. If you are too far away…please enjoy the recipe anyways and know that like the lemon (our trials) at first, though they seem impossible to reap delicious fruit, with other blessings and family they truly can become SWEET!!!!

ENJOY!!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

NEW*NEW*NEW*NEW*NEW*NEW*NEW!!!

My NEWEST Etsy Aventure!!

OK...Call me CRAZY (hey, be NICE!), but I just opened a NEW Etsy Shoppe!

It is called (tah tah tah, Duh!!!):

The CONTENTED HOUSEWIFE!!

(stop LAUGHING!)


I'm EXCITED! It has its own UNIQUE personality! It takes you ROOM-by-ROOM through your own little "nest" and shows all kinds of GOODIES that could make it just a little COZIER! Maybe in ways you've never thought of before!!


Here are just a few ideas to get you started...then click the link (on the right, by the same name) and you can enter my "stash of stuff" that might be just what you are looking for...it COULD HAPPEN!!
Cars a little boy has lovingly played with...Vvvvvvrrrrooooooom!!!


I TOLD you I have BUNCHES, GOBS, OODLES and TONS!!

Friday, February 6, 2009







Sometimes just taking the photos can be the best part!