Today is Friday Story Time by Lia and you know I love to bake! Mama had three bananas that were perfect for making banana bread so I got my chair ready, grabbed my new apron and chef hat and got busy making banana bread for my Friday baking day by Lia. I’ve made banana bread before and each time I try a different recipe. This recipe called for 2 1/3 cups of bananas but when I mashed them I didn’t have enough. So mama came up with the idea of

We are halfway through the Ultimate Blog Challenge and the topic is to write about a time our business faced adversity. I’m actually going to write an adversity update from a blog I wrote in 2018. When adversity visited us, we had to come up with a plan.  We made the decision to close our retail shop but that doesn’t mean we are “retired”. This is the blog I wrote in October 2018. http://themarthareview.com/how-to-handle-adversity/ After we closed our retail shop we opened a new business, Mama’s Minkys where we design

I think this is a first for me, I have nothing to say except I’m sharing a bit of nature on Wordless Wednesday from Vereen Gardens. Peaceful, beautiful, quiet place to see nature at Vereens Gardens.

It’s Story Time by Lia I’m sharing my surprise with you! Look at my new apron and Pizzelle cookies I made. Don’t I look adorable and I love the butterflies in the fabric! This was the first time I made cookies in a cookie maker. I had a BIG surprise the other day. My neighbor surprised me with an apron, chef hat and matching face mask that she made and the fabric has butterflies on it! But there were also 2 more masks and they were all in a tote

My hubby had an old walking stick that he brought down to South Carolina when we moved from upstate New York back in 1994. I found mine a few years ago and Lia was lucky enough to find one just her size on our last hike! So now we all have walking sticks. My Walking Stick This is a walking stick I found when trying to get up a river bank in Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina a few years ago. I wrote a blog about my escapade

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