Homemade Chocolate Orange Lip Balm

Chocolate orange lip balm is one of my favorite all natural recipes.  The chocolate and orange are a perfect flavor combination. What better idea than to combine them into a lip balm.   Pin for later: After some time living in the south, I’ve found it can get pret-ty dry in the fall. –out of no […]

Wordle Word Cloud

Oh, this is just too cute.  I’ve seen this pop up on several blogs in blogland so I had to check it out.  Wordle will take your entire blog, search for the most commonly used words (omitting words like “the” and “to”) and creates a word cloud.  It’s not just for blogs.  You can create […]

HE is Much Better

You’ve taken such good care of us.  You’ve worked sometimes ALL DAY and even into the night.  But, it’s just that time.  It’s not you, it’s me.  This has to be done.  Goodbye old friend… And HEL-LO to you… Our poor washer has been on its last leg and the dryer officially quit so it […]

Local Honey for My Honey

My MIL has been telling me to get some local raw honey for my honey.  He has nasty allergies and there are claims that local honey is the best medicine for this problem.  I looked into this claim and found there are no official studies for proof.  There was an unofficial study conducted that found […]

Back in Texas

Baltimore’s Inner Harbor image credit I just got back from Maryland for a week-long family and friend visit.  I’m home now with a camera FULL of pictures (mostly of food!).  They all thought I was nuts for pulling out the camera for every meal but it was OH SO DELICIOUS that I wanted a way […]

Library Closet

No way!  I love this idea…and if I had an extra closet in my home, I’d be all over this.  My friend posted this link on fb and I fell in love.  Jolie over at Shopping Candy bought her first home and has been very busy renovating and decorating.  She turned a regular hall closet into […]