I’ve heard it said, “Don’t get your “knickers” in a wad. (Sort of… or something like that… because really, what are “knickers”*snicker*) Sometimes your heart and mind can be so full that it’s hard to form words and express thoughts. Emotions carefully kept guarded behind the everyday duty of life can become so common place…
Y’all, I have a thing for chiggers… but not a good thing…~I DO NOT like them. I can still hear my mother’s voice wafting across the pasture as I headed off on another adventure. One of my favorite things as a kid was walking along the road near our house and picking wildflower bouquets. “Rachel,…
I answered the buzzing of my cell phone with, “Hello, this is Rachel.” The voice said, “I got your name and number from Thelma at the thrift store and she said you could help me.” “Oh really? How can I help you?” I asked. She told me her daughter was a germaphobe and a neat…
If you aren’t into blue and brassy gold for your festive centerpieces, just hang tight! I get it, I really do. I understand your angst. However, if I’m helping with a school function at our school or a graduate’s Open House, then I’m ALL about the royal blue and brassy gold. Truly y’all. Let’s hear…
I suppose when you have a creative design business, the sky is the limit when it comes to projects that come your way. Her handsome son was graduating from High School in June. He’d found an old vintage suitcase, well, this suitcase in the photo above actually. Never mind that I remember the day that…
Can we still be friends if I tell you a secret? Oh good! Because, you see…the secret… it’s ALL about these seasons. BIG huge siiiiggghh Exhale! I struggle with the change of seasons. There I said it. Remember last year when it got a little crazy and every one went all “Fake Fall”? AND July……
I quickly glanced at the text I had just received on my phone. It appeared that one of my sisters who lives right on the “tippy-slopey-slippery-sandy” edge of the Southeast Florida coast was going to be slammed and upheaved and flooded and swept away like a red and white plastic bobber on a 25lb fishing…
Last Thursday, y’all went all September 1st on me. And I love you for it! Y’all had it everywhere, facebook, pinterest, instagram… Like, “Y’all, it’s September 1st, the first of the “ber” months! And I’m like, “I know right. “Ber” months…bbbbbrrrr….like ice and snow…bbbbbrrrr.” So I thought to myself, September? Fall? How’s that possible y’all? Because…