Just a quick hello and a bunch of fun links and updates for your Monday! Here at Preservation Acres we are knee-deep in wedding preparations as my baby sister is getting hitched here in just a few weeks! EEK! This is both incredibly fun and exciting and overwhelming, as you can imagine, and I will probably be scarce around these parts until we have all recovered! In the meantime, here are ... View Post
Spring Break Break
We are officially on Spring Break. (Insert loud cheers from around the land!) The boys have been shipped off to the Gran's and I have a full two days ahead of wrapping up projects before I runaway to the mountains for a few days and hopefully type till my fingers ache as I dig into Book Two. Also on the agenda for the week - rest. Blissful, delightful rest. And some porch sitting. I am ... View Post
Giving Up
This year for Lent, in addition to desserts, I am also giving up Doing Too Much. I am giving up Piling On. I am giving up Waiting for My Real Life to Happen. And I am cooking some amazing food. Read More HERE ... View Post
Make-Do and Make Lovely Monday – Candlemas Love
I have gone a little Candlemas crazy this year, with three different post elsewhere... I discovered the celebration of Candlemas three years ago while doing research for my first book, and fell instantly in-love with this quiet mid-winter celebration of hope and light, that marks the presentation of Christ, barely over a month old, at the temple. Early February is generally the time of ... View Post
things I am doing on this thursday
(source) Today I am hanging out over at the At Home in Arkansas Blog . If you can, come join me and check out some of my favorite reading-inspired ideas for a book lovers wedding. I think I need to throw a bookish party of some sort just to get to use all of these ideas. I am especially in love with these hanging books, and the book page pompoms. I will also being trying to line up a ... View Post
Thursday’s Confessions-The Knotty Life
Welcome to Thursday's Confessions. A weekly feature where I confess, before you my sisters and brothers, the silly, the ridiculous and even at times the shameful. Why? Because confession is good for the soul. Even in Blogland. Confession: Sometimes I worry about not fitting in. About you not liking me. About you making the wrong assumptions about what I think or believe or feel. That if ... View Post