About a year ago a friend and I stood looking at our battered and outdated Fellowship Hall at our church, which serves as everything from a cafeteria and craft area to a gym for the preschool. Decades of constant use really showed and we both utterly loathed the old valances of ruffled pink, country blue and teal that shrieked late 80s. That ( Read more... )

Phoo! I'm tired, must be time for bed.  Tomorrow is our big church picnic for Easter and I'm up to my ears in fixings for a huge green salad, glorified rice and two big pans of peach cobbler. Yay!  Plus I'll be doing the face-painting on the side. Makes for a busy but good event. I just have to finish one salad and I can hit the hay ( Read more... )

Our youth group had its annual dessert auction this morning, something I had imagined grandiose plans of wonderful desserts I could make.. (I even contemplated trying to build a "robot" out of ding-dongs) and then ended up too tired to really do any of them the day before.  Darn!  Nevertheless, when I woke up I figured I had time to make *something ( Read more... )

I love Easter, it's such a wonderful time with all the yard blooming like mad, sunshine and rain showers and clouds of blossoms everywhere. We all work to clean up the church (our 'home and family' of the heart) and get it all pretty and scrubbed and weeded, etc. and it's a nice excuse to get a new dress sometimes ( Read more... )