Homemaker Series - Basic Homemaking Skills - Daily Chores

Becoming a homemaker is often met with apprehension, fear and a little anxiety over everything that is needed to run a home. We watch our mothers/stepmothers, grandmothers or great grandmothers go about their days, and we learn certain things from them, we pick up here and there on the general gi…

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Weekend in Review

Oh my friends, I have been meaning to get a post up in what seems like forever.  I do have book reviews here and there, actually there seemed to have been quite a few scheduled around the same time, and I try not to do that but once in a while it happens. Anyway, I'm still here, as always if yo…

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The Daughters of Ireland by Santa Montefiore - TLC Book Tour

About The Daughters of Ireland • Paperback:  576 pages • Publisher:  William Morrow Paperbacks (August 15, 2017) Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same... "Everything Santa Montefiore writes, she writes from the heart,” says JOJO MOYES. See why in this unforgettable story of…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 08/28/2017

Good morning everyone, hope you've all had a brilliant weekend.  Mine was so incredibly busy, I still feel like I'm on the go and didn't really get to rest at all.  Bummer!!! I'm super slow this morning so please bear with me. Let's see what's going on this week, and before …

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Winners of Organizing for Your Lifestyle and Dirty Wars and Polished Silver

Thank you all so much for entering both contests.  I used Random.org to pick a winner, and the winners for both contests are: Organizing for your Lifestyle - Malorie Shepherd Dirty Wars and Polished Silver - Carol Bancroft Congratulations ladies, I'll be contacting you shortly to get your maili…

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Dirty Wars and Polished Silver by Lynda Schuster - TLC Book Tours and GIVEAWAY

About Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Melville House (July 18, 2017) From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent ,  an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflic…

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Monday and Tuesday

Every day I have the best of intentions to come in here and write some things down.  I envision sitting on the couch with my laptop and just allowing my thoughts and feelings to transpire through my fingertips, but dawn turns into dusk and those intentions are left behind, much like some of the ta…

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