Hello, friends! I will be moving back to posting mostly on this blog account, The Ways of Her Home, since that seems to be the format that most of you say is easier to follow. Thank you for your input! My other blog, Her Lovely Common Life, will remain live for now and I might end up bringing some of those post over here eventually. For today, I just have some random thoughts to share. These are typed with a spirit of humor and yes honesty too, but definitely not any snark, so I promise this isn't just a grumpy rant, but more of a lighthearted expression of release and relief, ha. Random thought #1: I really like being in my 50s! I've never minded growing older and I think it will ... Read more
Goodbye, February…..Hello, March!
Hi, friends! I've been blogging over at my other blog home, Her Lovely Common Life, on Tuesdays and Thursdays but today I wanted to hop back here and give you a quick overview of what I've been sharing over there. February was a fun month of posting! In my "Tea and Books" post, my tea cabinet got a fun makeover and is now a cute little tea and book cabinet! With Valentine's Day on my mind in early February, I reposted an old favorite of mine: "The Love Language of Food". I shared our family's favorite way to eat "Roasted Sweet Potatoes". And talked about my "Ten Minute Tuesday" as a way of getting ready for my trash day and Goodwill drop-off day. Since I'd given ... Read more
Hello Again!
Happy Friday, friends! It's been a while since I've written in this space because I've been over at my new blog site Her Lovely Common Life. Over there, I try to keep a posting schedule of Tuesdays and Thursdays unless I have a tech issue or I just don't have anything in particular to say that day. Yesterday I shared details and photos of my latest little project: a book and tea cabinet! You can click here to read about it. It was a really fun post to write! Here's a little sneak peek..... So, I'm popping back over here today because I've had several friends tell me lately that they can't find my new blog. I know the big reason for that is because I don't have a built-in subscription ... Read more
I Have a New Blog Home!
Hi, friends! I'd like to invite you all to join me over at my new blog Her Lovely Common Life! But first, before you head over there, you might be wondering why I'm starting a new blog site, so let me explain. This year marked my tenth year of blogging! I began in 2015 at Happy is the House. I closed that blog three years later to start The Work of Her Hands which eventually morphed into The Ways of Her Home. I've always enjoyed blogging until this year when the technical side and the yearly fees became a little too much. Since my start, I've used WordPress and worked hard to keep up with the changing technology by researching, googling techy terms, figuring things out, and asking for ... Read more
Texas Thanksgiving
We had a fun Thanksgiving week with our daughter and her family in Texas! We rented an Airbnb that would be spacious enough for their little family to join us and eat and hang out together. It was perfect! The kitchen was everyone's favorite. It was decorated so nicely and was super clean! The den offered plenty of comfy seating for us to sit around and talk and watch movies and YouTube. We even had our own porch kitties. It's become a joke with our family that the animals always seem to find us wherever we go, hahaha. But this little turkey was even sweeter than the cutest of kitties! Everyone had so much fun playing with him all week. He's grown and changed a ... Read more
Dining Room Refresh for Fall
I've been chipping away at a fall project list which included painting my dining room. I was ready for something fresh and colorful but not trendy. So instead of consulting Pinterest, I just went into a paint store and picked out a color that I thought was pretty. The color is "Retreat" by Sherwin Williams and it's a soft cross between blue and green, almost like a eucalyptus. I was happy to have the room finished and ready for a little company recently. Some friends came for tea and scones one afternoon and my daughter and I were excited to set a fall table in our “new” room. I love setting a table with fall colors and textures! Rustic woods with cozy knits. ... Read more
Fall in LOVE with Autumn
Happy fall! I have some photos to share of the season so far, and they are some of the reasons we all fall in LOVE with autumn over and over again each year. Corn fields.... Cotton fields..... Sunflower fields! Pumpkin patches..... Pumpkin French toast and a sweet Pumpkin kitty! Cool nights at the football field. A fall porch with a freshly painted front door. Fall flowers!!! Coneflowers are my new favorite. Starry walks! A first fire with my morning coffee. Always coffee. The cats are getting snuggly. A mama bird nesting one last time for the year? I've read that in our warmer climates they will lay eggs as late as ... Read more
Blog Update
Hi, friends! Just want to let you know that I've made a couple of (hopefully) temporary changes to my blog while I work on some behind-the-scenes issues. Spammy comments are at an all-time high and even though mine all go to moderation where I can trash them before they even post, the amount I have to go through each week is crazy. At the start of summer, I was dealing with 30 a day. Now it's well over 100 in a day. I'm also getting emails from the same weird bots. So, for now, I'm turning off all comments (so I won't miss one of yours in the midst of the hundreds of spammos each week) and I've taken down my contact page. Since my blog is a hobby and not a job, I'm not in a rush to fix ... Read more
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