window into our life of love, joy, and adventures!

My blogs

• Feathers, Feathers and More Feathers
• Puppy DogTales
• Clay in the potters hands

Blogs I follow

• A Cottage to Me
• THE SPOTTED HARE
• Miss Paula in Stitches
• Bunny Jeans Decor ~ ~ ~ and More!
• Julie' Eats & Treats
• little jenny wren ..... ♥ ♥ ♥ ..... life and dolls
• "One Good Thing" by Jillee
• "Through the eyes of Tweedles"
• **
• *****Cheri's Chatter*****
• **My Desert Cottage**
• *Simply Scratch*
• 5 Acres & A Dream
• <a href="http://www.mangiodasola.blogspot.com/"> Mangio da Sola</a>
• <center>Mrs. Patsi @ A Working Pantry</center>
• A Christian Mom
• A Cozy Cup of Tea
• A Cultivated Nest
• A Diamond in the Stuff
• A Doctor and a Nurse
• A girl and a glue gun
• A Healthy Jalapeno
• A Home With A Smile
• A Joyful Chaos
• A Kiwi Stitching
• A Little Cup of Mexican Hot Chocolate
• A Moment with M.O.M.
• A Parrot for Keeps
• A Place of Quiet Rest
• A Vintage Chic
• A Wise Woman Builds Her Home
• Abounding Treasures
• Achieving Creative Order
• Across My Kitchen Table
• Adventures in Thrift Land
• Aesthetic Nest
• African Grey Parrot
• AimeeInOhio
• All Day I Dream About Food
• All is Amazing
• All My Scattering Moments
• All Roads Lead to the Kitchen
• All you need is love...
• Allison's Parrots
• Almost Unschoolers
• Amy Stitches... and LOTS more!
• An Enchanted Cottage
• An Oregon Cottage
• And This Little Pig
• Angel's Adventures in Life and Stitching
• Anita's machine quilting and frugal living
• Annie Beez Folk Art: A blog about cross stitch and any other hand works that strike my fancy!
• atty's
• Barb's Bird Paradise and Aviaries!
• Barefoot and Baking
• Basketmaster's Weavings
• Beach Cottage Stitchers Blog
• Beach Gypsies
• Beehind Thyme Farm & Garden
• BellaCrochet
• BellaDella
• Between Naps on the Porch
• Beyond The Picket Fence
• big B
• Bits of Floss
• Blackberry House blog retail shop projects and painted furniture
• Blessed Femina
• Blessed Homemaking
• Blissful and Domestic - Creating a Beautiful Life on Less
• Bramblewood Stitches
• Brassy Apple
• Brown Dirt Cottage
• Bumpkin Bears and Friends
• Bunny Mummy
• Bustle and Sew
• Ca11i0pe's Reviews & Stitchy News
• Cackleberry Cottage
• camp and cottage living
• Cathlin cooks... but mostly bakes!
• Cathy at Studio 28
• Cedar Hill Ranch
• Cherished Hearts At Home
• Cherry Hill Cottage
• Choosing Simplicity, More than Survival!!
• Christmas Tree Lane
• Cindis World
• Close to the Root
• Coco Rose Diaries
• Coffee Tea Books and Me
• coffee with a canine
• Colletta's Kitchen Sink
• Comfy In The Kitchen
• Confessions of a 40-something Mama Queen
• Confessions of a Homeschooler
• Cooking With Love
• Cottage Cozy
• Count it *all* JOY!
• Country Girl at Home
• Country Hearts at Home
• Country Momma Cooks
• Country Pleasures
• Coupon Shopping and Stockpiling with Treasure
• COZY LITTLE HOUSE
• craft whatever
• Craftberry Bush
• Crafty Kelly
• CRAFTY STORAGE
• Creative Breathing
• Creativity Stirs The Soul
• Creekside Cottage
• Crochet Apostle
• Crochet Every Day
• Crochet Galore
• Crossed Purposes™
• Cubby House Crafts
• Curb Alert!
• Cynthia's Cottage Design
• daily yarns 'n more
• daisies and dresses
• Dan Alcantara
• Dandelions and Lace
• Dandy Duke
• DanHasBike
• Darling Doodles
• Days at Buttermilk Cottage
• Deals By Dawn
• Dear Lillie
• Deb's Stitchy Stuff
• deborah jean's DANDELION HOUSE and GARDEN
• Debra's Book Cafe
• Deep Fried Cupcake
• Deep South Dish
• Deleted Blog!
• Delighted Momma
• Delightful Order
• Diary of a Quilter - a quilt blog
• Dining Delight
• down to earth
• DragonFlyMomof2 Designs© & Designs on a Hook
• Eagles Wings
• Echoes of Laughter
• eight acres of eden
• eighteen25
• Eileen Hull
• Embracing Your Creative Soul
• Embroidered Embellishments
• Enriched Living
• Epic Stitching & Epic Reading
• Everyday Mom
• Fahrenheit 350°
• Fairview Farm
• Fake-It Frugal
• FarmgirlCyn
• Farmhouse Blessings
• Farmhouse Country Style
• Farming On Faith
• Flutterby Patch
• For the Luv of Crochet: Afghans and More
• foxtales
• FREE SPIRIT HAVEN
• From Cotton to Silk Dreams
• from here to there
• From House to Home
• From The Farm
• Front Porches and Sweet Tea
• Frugal & Focused
• Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker
• Frugal by Choice, Cheap by Necessity
• Frugal for a Reason
• Frugal Makes Cents
• Fête Fanatic
• Garden Of Daisies
• Get Fit Tommy
• Get Wacky and Crafty with Pattiewack!
• Girls in the Garden
• Give a Girl a Fig
• Glimpse of My World
• Golden Angel's Works
• Gone Crafting!
• Good Eats
• Good or Free Deals
• Gooseberry Jam
• Gramma's in the kitchen
• Grams
• Granny Trace Scraps & Squares
• Greater Things
• Green Mittens
• Gretchen's Ramblings
• Hammers and High Heels
• Handmade by Heidi
• HANDS & HEARTS....for HIM
• happy little cottage
• Harvest Lane Cottage
• HARWARD'S COTTAGE
• Hayley's 365
• Heart Maine Home
• Heart Of A Mommy
• Heartfelt and Homemade
• Heartfelt Homemaking
• Hearts in Service
• Helen Philipps
• Heritage Schoolhouse
• Hickery Holler Farm
• Holy Experience
• Home of a Floss Junkie
• Homecraft Framing and Gifts
• Homemade Mamas
• Homemaker's Cottage
• HOMEMAKING DREAMS
• Homemaking on the Homestead
• homespun living
• Homestead
• Homestead Apprentice
• Homestead Blessings
• Homestead in the City
• Homestead Revival
• Homesteading by Faith
• homework
• Hookin' With Laalaa
• Hooking Along
• Hopalong Hollow Gazette
• Hospitality Lane
• How to Live in 320 Square Feet
• Imagination Refridgeration
• In His Hands Hollow
• Inspiration Everywhere
• Inspired Crochet Design
• It's Daffycat
• It's the little things that make a house a home...
• ittybittybirdy *Chelsea Ann*
• iveyc95
• ivy nest
• Jenny of ELEFANTZ
• Jina's World Of Quilting
• Journal for Women
• Joy's thoughts and things
• Joyful Homemaking
• Just Passing Through
• Just Poifect!
• K&K Test Kitchen
• Kate's Book Club
• Kathy's Stitching and other comments
• Kathy's Stitching Blog
• Keeper of the Home
• Kentucky Sampler
• Knick of Time
• Knits for Needs
• Knot Garden
• Kombucha Kamp - Kombucha Mushroom Kits, Kombucha Brewing Support
• La Cocina de Leslie
• Ladypug Mugs
• Lamp Unto My Feet
• Lark's Country Heart
• LaurieAnna's Vintage Home
• Learning The Frugal Life
• Lemon Tree Creations
• Lemons and Larkspur
• Let's Stitch
• life in a humble cottage...
• Life in the Shoe
• Life Is Good
• Life with the Ellwoods
• Like Mother, Like Daughter
• Linda K's Creativity Works
• Little Blog In The Big Woods
• Little Farm in the Big City
• Living a gentler life...
• Living a simpler life in my little white cottage
• Living and Learning on the Texas Prairie
• Living the Frugal Life
• Love Grows Wild
• LoveLove
• Make It and Love It
• Make It From Scratch
• Making Do with the Not So New
• Marmee's Pantry ~ For Such a Time as This
• Martin Family
• Mary Jane's TEAROOM
• Mary's Meanderings
• Maven of Savin'
• Meal Planning 101
• Mennonite Girls Can Cook
• Mimi Sue's Cottage
• Miss Abigail's Hope Chest
• Mockingbird Hill Cottage
• Moda... the Cutting Table
• Modern Vintage Homemaking
• Molly's Kitchen
• Mom's Frugal
• Moment to Moment
• Moments With Mother Culture®
• Mommy's Kitchen
• Moms In Need of Mercy
• Monica Wilkinson
• Monique's Stitches
• MorningRamble
• Mountain Home Quilts
• Ms. Redo
• Musings of a Frugal Granma
• My 3 Monsters
• My Cotton Creations
• My Favorite Recipes
• my french country home
• My Kitchen Escapades
• My Simple Blessed Life
• My Sister's Kitchen
• My Way Home
• Mylene's This & That
• Nancy Zieman’s Blog
• nannygoat
• Natural Earth Farm
• Neabear's Sewing and Craft Mess
• Nebraska Views
• No More Spending.net
• NoJo Photography
• Note Songs
• Nothing But Country
• Nutmegger's Stitching Works
• Of Needlework and Such
• Old Centennial Farmhouse
• Old Fashioned Tips
• OLD HOUSE HOMESTEAD
• One Perfect Bite
• oneshabbychick...
• Opulent Cottage
• Organic Gardens Network™
• Our Family Led By The Lord
• Our Simple Farm
• Owl-About-Crafts
• Ozark Mountain Family Homestead
• Ozarks sew n' sews
• Parrot Musings
• Parrot Training, an adult flock
• Passion or Obsession???
• Peaceful Home
• Penny Pinching Provisions
• Penny Rugs and More
• Persnickety Primitives
• Pieces by Polly
• Pieces From Me
• Pinay In Texas Cooking Corner
• Pinecraft-Sarasota
• Pink Penguin
• Pink Slippers
• Pioneer Woman at Heart
• Plain Pam's Place
• Play At Home Mom LLC
• Poppy Juice
• Prairie Flower Farm
• Prairie Schooler ABC Stitching Bee
• Princess Pattern Collector
• Puppy DogTales
• Quirky Cashew
• Raising Godly Daughters: One mom's journey
• Rawdorable
• Recipes by Amanda's Cookin
• Red Hot Fibers
• Reluctant Entertainer
• Remote Treechanger
• Renaissance
• Rene la Frog's Ramblings
• Repeat Crafter Me
• Ribbonwood Cottage
• Rita Hutcheson-Cobbs
• Rookery Ramblings
• Root Simple
• RootsAndWingsCo
• Rose Chintz Cottage
• Rue's peanut butter and jelly life
• Rusty Heart Designs
• Rusty Rooster Vintage
• Saint Nolt Sews
• Samster Mommy
• Sara vs. Sarah
• Scissors & Spatulas
• Scrambled Henfruit
• Scrappy quilting and more..
• Seasons Of My Mind
• Sense of Home Kitchen
• Sew A Little Happiness
• Sew Beautiful Blog
• Sew Blessed In Amish Country
• Sew Many Ways...
• Sew Pretty Dresses
• SewBaby News
• Sewn With Grace
• sewtakeahike
• Sharon Sharing God
• She Is Crafting My Doom
• Shelley's Artsy Fartsy Life
• Silver's Journal - Мои разноцветные крестики
• Simple Blessings
• Simple Blessings
• Simply Organized Homemaking
• Simply Sabrina
• Simply...This. That. And The Other
• Sit on down & stay awhile
• Six Sisters' Stuff
• small things
• Smashed Peas and Carrots
• SoulDelights
• Southern Blessings
• spindle cottage
• Splashes of Serenity
• Sprinkle Bakes
• Still Waters
• Still Writing Love Letters
• Stitch of Love
• Stitch Passion
• Stitch-It-Up
• Stitchey Stuff
• Stitchin' & Life in a Small Town
• Stitchin' Sweet Sue
• Stitching and Sharing......
• Stitching For a Cure
• Stitching in Texas
• Stitching the Night Away in Illinois
• Strangers & Pilgrims on Earth
• Stretching a Buck
• Strings Of Me
• Stubbornly Creative
• Sugar Mountain Memories
• Sunny Simple Life
• Sunshine-Stitches
• SusieQTpies Cafe
• Suz Place
• Suzanne Woods Fisher
• Sweet Bee Cottage
• Sweet Harvest Farms All Natural Artisan Soap!
• Sweet Home Stitchery
• Sweet Tea and Simplicity
• Sweete Felicity
• Sweetly Home
• Tales from Bloggeritaville
• Tamarack Shack
• Tatertots and Jello
• Tea Rose Home
• Teeny Tiny Cabin
• Ten Things Farm
• TennZen
• Texas Cottage
• Texas Preacher Woman
• That Family Blog
• That skinny chick can bake!!!
• The Bluebirds are Nesting...
• the BUTT'RY and BOOK'RY
• The Charm of Home
• The Comforts of Home
• The Country Blossom
• The Country Cook
• The Crafty Penguin
• The Daily Apron
• The Deliberate Agrarian
• The Doodle Bird Blog
• The English Kitchen
• The Farmhouse Porch
• The Farming Wife
• The Geeky Cheeky Parrot Keeper
• The Girl Who Ate Everything
• The HouseWife Rookie
• The Icing On Paper Crafts
• The Knitty Gritty Homestead
• The Lazy Hobbyhopper
• The Left Side of Crochet
• The Legacy of Home
• The Lettered Cottage
• The Messy Roost
• The Musings of Mrs Evans
• The Old Farmhouse Gathering
• The Pantry
• The Rachel Berry Blog
• The Sewing Room
• The Silly Pearl {Handmade}
• The Simple Life of the Boreings
• The Simple Woman :: revisted
• The Sisters Cafe
• The Thrifty/Garden Home
• The Twisted Stitcher
• the urban baker
• The Vintage Homemaker
• The Welcoming House
• The White Silk Purse
• Thibeault's Table
• This & That
• Three Pixie Lane
• Thrifty and Fabulous Blog
• Time-Warp Wife - Keeping Christ at the Center of Marriage
• timothy adam designs
• tinkered treasures
• Titus 2 In Action
• Today's Fabulous Finds
• Turtles Eat Lettuce
• Twin Leaf Cottage
• Two French Bulldogs
• Under The Table and Dreaming
• unfolding
• Unless The Lord...
• versus
• What a Ride!
• What You Make it...
• where a second glance makes all the difference
• Where the Creek Meets the Lake
• While He Was Napping
• Whiskers & Wool
• White Wolf Summit Farmgirl
• Women Living Well Blog
• Wren House Yarns
• wvluckygirl jewelry
• You Seriously Made That!?
• Your Sacred Calling
• ZEEKSBEAK
• Ziggy's Parrot Place
• Zoo Crew Danes (and Dachshunds too!)
• {nifty thrifty things}
• ~*In The Kitchen With Kim*~
• ~*~ Leanne ~ Harvest Moon By The Lake ~*~
• ~Organized Homemaking For Christ~
• ~♥ Home Is Where The Heart Is ♥~
• ♥ The Quiet Home

About me

Occupation	Certified Nurses Assist
Location	Northern Illinois
Introduction	I am a person who loves to spoil her family and given the opportunity I will! I love being a help to others. I absolutely adore the simple life! Just give me time with my family and I am happy.
Interests	I love to cross stitch, crochet, knit, sew, bake, cook, Love to read, walks with my hubby, spend time with my family, I also love parrots, dogs!
Favorite Movies	Love historical, romantic movies, I love the Austen collection, Anne of Green Gables, Waltons, Little House...
Favorite Music	I love all types of music, too many to list! My all time favorite is country music.
Favorite Books	My Bible, anything by Jane Austen, Beverly Lewis, of course Nicholas Sparks, Elizabeth Elliot, to name just a few!