I am always trying to rearrange my cupboards and pantry because of the limited space I have. Every time I think I’ve figured the best solution, my cupboard runneth over once again. So a few weeks ago I started my never ending rearranging once again. But this time I think I conquered the job! I came up with a totally new direction for a few cupboards and the pantry. The first step was to pull all the baking pans out of the bottom cupboard and replace that space with all
Yesterday was a sad day, it was time for our garden to come to an end. Between the super high temperatures and an 18 day drought despite hubby watering the garden every day, it was ready to say bye bye vegetable garden. There is nothing better than fresh picked vegetables and we started our garden early April. From getting the soil ready, planting and Lia overseeing the project our garden had a good start. This is a blog I wrote when we were ready to plant. We planted summer squash,
“Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest” as stated by Paul, the host of UBC and that is the topic for Day 26 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. Today my topic of interest is Beautiful Water Music. For this challenge, it’s suggested to go to YouTube and find a video that readers might like. Since it’s so peaceful to sit on a riverbank and enjoy the sound of the water gently rolling over the rocks I decided to share a
I love to turn something into something it wasn’t intended for and use what ever I have stored around the house to make it work. Today for Day 25 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge I’ve added storage to my laptop stand I built from a keyboard stand. This is the original blog I wrote so you can see how it started: http://themarthareview.com/keyboard-stand-converted-to-laptop-stand/ After I completed my conversion from a keyboard stand to my laptop stand, I realized I needed a shelf to store my file folder that I use constantly
A few weeks after Mother’s Day, I saw the most beautiful yellow butterfly in mom’s memory garden which we updated for her to look down from above and see the beauty she loved. I think mom’s yellow butterfly was sending down a message to me. I have seen yellow butterflies in the garden before and it’s been said there are many meanings of seeing yellow butterflies. One is an Irish folklore where they believe that the yellow butterflies show that the departed souls of our loved ones are resting peacefully