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May 6, 2020

Currently 05.2020 & My Spring Goals

Gal pals, linking up with Anne in Residence for Currently 05.2020. These posts are always fun! Just as fun as yesterday’s Sentence a Day and my new 10 on the 10th series. In case you missed it, you can read April’s Currently post, here. You can start writing your sentence a day for May and link up with us on […]

Filed Under: Life and Style Tagged With: #Currently, #Giveaway, #Mother'sDayGiveaway, #springgoals

April 30, 2020

Questions for May’s 10 on the 10th Post & Giveaway

Dear ones, have another post planned for today but wanted to get the questions for May’s 10 on the 10th post out to you first. In honor of mothers and Mother’s Day, we are going to be answering 10 mom-themed questions. You can play along whether you are the mama to a fur baby, human […]

Filed Under: Life and Style Tagged With: #10onthe10th, #10QuestionSAboutMotherhood, #FurBabies, #Mother'sDay, #Mother'sDayGiveaway, #Motherhood, #Pets

April 28, 2020

2 Quick Spring Crafts for a Quarantine Afternoon & Giveaway

Ladybugs, thanks for popping in for my 2 quick spring crafts to do one of these idle quarantine afternoons. Chances are you will have some if not all the materials needed for the first project. And for the items you don’t have, I bet you could find something in your craft stash to sub in. […]

Filed Under: Craft and Create Tagged With: #CarrotCutlery, #CraftandCreate, #Crafts, #EmbellishedFrames, #Giveaway, #LifeAfterRetirement, #Mother'sDayGiveaway, #Spring, #SpringCrafts

March 12, 2020

Blog Giveaways: Thinking Aloud Thursday 03.2020

Blog readers and writers, welcome to this post about Blog Giveaways for Thinking Aloud Thursday 03.2020 with my friend Penny at Penny’s Passion. [source] Over the past few years, I have joined in for some holiday cash or gift card giveaways on my blog. According to my count, I have hosted over 10 giveaways on […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #BlogGiveaways, #Giveaway, #Mother'sDayGiveaway, #ReviewsandReflection, #TisBetterToGive

May 5, 2019

Currently, 05.2019 & Mother’s Day Give-Away

Morning, ladybugs! Linking up with Anne in Residence for the May edition of her Currently series. Anne’s Currently posts always go live on the first Wednesday of the month. Or, in my case, recent Currently posts have gone live a few days later. April’s Currently post was also fashionably late. Don’t think I hardly turned […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style, Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #Currently, #InstapotCarnitas, #LifeAfterRetirement, #Mom, #Mother'sDay, #Mother'sDayGiveaway

April 27, 2018

A Mother’s Day Poem and Mother’s Day Giveaway

Sweet mothers and others, I have dropped the ball on this post! Should have been up yesterday before bed but we went to the El Paso Chihuahuas baseball game and I just plain forgot! So scrambling now to get this out to you so you can enter our Mother’s Day giveaway!! Poem in Your Pocket […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends Tagged With: #familyandfriends, #Giveaway, #Mother'sDay, #Mother'sDayGiveaway, #PoemInYourPocket

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OOTDs and SIAs: My Fashion Haus 07.2020
In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...

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