Inspiration

I am constantly inspired from reading blogs and searching the internet

Here is what I have been doing to save all of this precious information

A while back I created another blog where I include links to projects so that if I ever get to complete the idea I can link back to my inspiration when I show my version!

I have everything tagged so that things are easy to find

If I find a recipe I would like to try, I save it in this blog and then just look under the tag and there it is

I also keep poems and sayings on this blog as well as pictures too!

This helps save me from having everything saved on or computer and I never have to search like a mad woman... it is all right there when I needed!

What do you do with the inspiration you come across?

It works...

it really does work!!!

My friend and I ventured to JCP Outlet last Monday.

While we were there they were having an additional 30% off clearance sale.

I was thrilled because I was looking for small pates for my plate wall in my kitchen

You can see the wall I am referring to HERE

Here is what I found... 6 different white dessert and saucer sized plates in tone on tone white!!!

(please ignore the condition of my work table)

The price... just a whopping 70 cents each!

I knew I wanted to hang them on the wall ... but how???

Then I found Diane... and she has a blog and she designs and she shares...

So then I proceeded to add a hook on the back of each one using this AWESOME tutorial from Diane @ in my own style  ~ check her out you will be glad you did!

I used a sanding block... some hot glue sticks... hot glue gun and paper clips

Nothing beats a project that uses readily available stuff!!

WAHOOOOO

and here it is...

Let me tell you this is so CHEAP... and so EASY and so SECURE too!

I cannot show you what I did with the plates after adding the hooks YET...

but stay tuned and I will show you all on Sunday...

I am squealing over this project!!!

Finding Gram....

Well I did not make it to my friends party tonight because of all the snow!

I am so looking forward to April when the snow stops and I can visit people again!

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FINDING GRAM

My gram died back in July ~ I miss her!

On Monday when I was preparing for my tea I thought of her and cried

I could actually hear her in my heart telling me that she was with me

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Tomorrow while we bake cookies... I know I will think of her often, that was our thing

My gram, my mom and I would make and bake for Christmas

Gram flattened the nutroll cookies with the bottom of a glass and then spread the nuts evenly over the dough and roll them so tight with her beautiful hands

As we made more and more cookies Gram would clean the messes and make lunch

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Grams service when she died was beautiful... my Uncle made programs and every once in a while my hubby will come across the program around the house or in his car... it really is the darnedest thing, he will put the program in one place only to have it appear in another

He will look up with his baby blue eyes and ask Gram what she is trying to say to him

Today he found the program again...

and tonight he came across a birthday card from her to me with $10.00 in it in our filing cabinet

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She always signed the cards "luv u Gram"

I smiled when I saw the card and teared up because I miss her.

When we "find" Gram around the house or in the car it is a blessing... the hubby rolls his eyes sometimes because he is not "into it" like I am ... deep down though I know he believes she is telling us she is still around

I will miss her tomorrow... a little more than I do today

But I know that I will feel the tug at my heart and feel her presence with us

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I like finding Gram... and someday when my time is through here on earth I will find her and  will get to keep her close!

Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott

Jamie was trying out for a part in the school play.

His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen.

On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement.

'Guess what, Mom,' he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me....

'I've been chosen to clap and cheer.'

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge..

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was: A four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy just said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry.'