Mom and Dad’s 75th Wedding Anniversary   The suggested topic for day 16 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge is to write about the last concert, play or movie that you saw and can you relate it to your business.  While this isn’t the last concert I saw and it didn’t relate to my business, it was a very special concert and related to my family.  Today would have been my mom and dad’s 75th wedding anniversary and when I read the suggested topic, it brought back wonderful memories.   Back in

How To Handle Adversity When you are faced with a situation that alters your quality of life, you have to know how to handle adversity.   My hubby has not had the best year, he came down with the flu in January and was so sick for almost a month.  We though things were looking up, only to have him end up with bronchitis.  Since he was scheduled for a right hip replacement in March, we knew he had to be healthy.  Thankfully his lungs cleared up and surgery went on

Introducing Mama’s Minkys What a perfect blog topic suggestion for Day 14 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge.  The topic is to post about a service or product that you sell and what better time to introduce Mama’s Minkys to my readers. We have just closed our 53-year-old Mar-C’s Interiors business but will still be keeping the workroom and fabricating beautiful window treatments, we just won’t have the retail end of it.  But the exciting part is we are starting another business, we just can’t get enough of sewing!   Mama’s

Empty Prescription Bottles   Today I’m sharing some ideas of what I do with the many empty prescription bottles that we acquire each month.  I remove the labels and wash the bottles then throw them all in a box until I get an idea to use them.   Since we end up with a variety of bottle sizes, I can use them for a lot of different ways. Some of the common ideas are to use them store small beads for crafting or buttons.   We also use them to store nails,

  Favorite Song Lyric For the Ultimate Blog Challenge Day 12, the suggested topic is about music, whether you get a song stuck in your head or you have a favorite song lyric.  Today I’m writing partly on this subject plus I’m bragging about my grandson. (Yes again, but what can I say I love to brag about my grandchildren) Zachary is 20 years old and he only started on his music venture about two weeks ago, putting together about 5 sound beats so far.  He doesn’t limit his musical

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