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family~food~home~garden~DIYLynn Blaylockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05203013063405463263noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933947922249457644.post-28847607815990822652017-10-03T05:17:00.001-07:002017-10-03T05:23:13.317-07:00<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="453" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSouthernDirection%2Fposts%2F1287523361376993&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe><br />
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You can purchase this as a tshirt or hoodie.Lynn Blaylockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05203013063405463263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933947922249457644.post-70950142864331348102017-09-26T12:24:00.000-07:002017-09-26T12:24:12.435-07:00<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="546" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSouthernDirection%2Fposts%2F1282832128512783&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe>Lynn Blaylockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05203013063405463263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933947922249457644.post-44639728511535189962017-07-18T11:58:00.000-07:002017-07-18T11:58:59.209-07:00July 4th Camping and Black Pot Cooking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I hope everyone made the best they could out of July 4th and whatever vacationing could be done. We sure did around here! </i></div>
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<i>We are not the go vacationing for the 4th kind of folks usually. Most the time to be quite honest we're usually working. It's very much took for granted that most people are off on typical holidays but honestly it's just not so. We are also limited greatly by the fact that we have animals. Someone must be able to tend and feed them.</i></div>
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<i>Fortunately, we made our escape just over the hill and camped out the week. Several of the children were able to either pop in or camp with us the majority of the week.</i></div>
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<i>Here's a few of the smiling faces.</i></div>
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<i>Not a bad looking bunch for some river bathed campers.</i></div>
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<i>We didn't go to a traditional campground but chose to rough it on some of the Ole Man's property. He wasn't sure about our whole endeavors considering he wasn't going to be able to stay more than a day or two because of work. He also was pained that we didn't do much more planning.</i></div>
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<i> This women is a go by the seat of you pants-er.</i></div>
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<i>The first day we started out just picking a spot and beating down some field grass to set up camp. I know it could have been mowed or cleared first but hence the go by the seat of the pants part.</i></div>
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<i>Me purchasing a 12-quart cast iron dutch oven and a hey...let's do it a few weeks before was the inspiration for this camping endeavors.</i></div>
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<i>We initiated the black pot with <b>15 Bean Soup with smoked sausage.</b></i></div>
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<i>It was so..so..good.</i></div>
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<i>We had got rain during the day and being down on the creek made that warm stew a blessing.</i></div>
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<i>I brought a few essential cast iron cookware for the week. I'm a believer in keeping the coffee on and not much beating some eggs in the morning. Truly, we did more eating than anything;</i></div>
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<i>a good bit of of creek playing, hiking and foraging, </i></div>
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<i>we stumbled on a hallowed and forgotten home place.</i></div>
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<i>I had a super time roughing it with my Jack Rabbit.</i></div>
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<i>This was a wonderful way to spend the week. I am definitely hooked. I can't wait to do it again.</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for stopping by for a visit.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Hey and Good Morning!</i></b></span></div>
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<i>I apologize for not posting in some time but sometimes life will keep a person busy. </i></div>
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<i>I thought I would put a post up explaining the basics of how we do chickens. I had been asked by a couple of folks lately, so I thought I might share a little bit about our chickens. </i></div>
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<i>Before I go any further, I want to make it clear me nor the Ole Man are experts. So I have no expert advice but we have been keeping chickens about 5 years now. As a child, we had a good number of chickens (100 chickens give or take) so I have a little basic knowledge to offer. </i></div>
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<i>With that being said there are so many different ways and opinions that are out there about keeping chickens. </i></div>
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<i>There really are no iron clad <b>do's and don'ts</b>. I say it will be something that will come along with a bit of a plan and a little trial and error.</i></div>
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<i>My biggest message is to say:</i></div>
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<i>My husband and I made the decision we wanted chicken. He got excited and began researching like crazy. I, on the other hand, had a pretty good idea of what I wanted and more over what</i></div>
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<i> I <b>didn't</b> want.</i></div>
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<i>First, I didn't want a 100 chickens!</i></div>
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<i>We both have full time jobs outside the home. We also had a house full of kids at the time and plenty of obligations. I'd love to think we could train them to have helped but that is something that must be instilled early with children. You might force them to help but they most likely will hinder more than help. We are a blended family. Our son Jack has grown up with them and is a good help and enjoys our hens.</i></div>
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<i>Second, I didn't want chicken poop everywhere!</i></div>
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<i>Free-range has good points and bad points. We became fond of having our first hens out and about. They were soothing and fun to watch. They kept the bug populations down. It was also good for their nutrition. When we let them free-range, I wore flip-flops and watched were I stepped and instead of fencing them in anything I didn't want them in had to be fenced in.</i></div>
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<i>Then we would turn them out during the day and put the up at night.</i></div>
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<i>Here is the cute blue coop the Old Man built.</i></div>
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<i>He search and purchased the plans. I think he paid $10 for the complete plans. I am here looking through the folder and I have searched on line to find the website or any information to share with you. I can't find it. It was purchased on Ebay but must have been removed now.</i></div>
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<i>The material list is small and very efficient. very little waste if any of materials bought.</i></div>
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<i>We chose to purchase 4 barred rock pullets. Barred Rock chickens are a very hardy breed. They weather the cold very well. Baby chickens are adorable but many times they just don't make it; they often die. It's also harder to tell the boys from the girls until they grow a little. We don't bother with a rooster. </i></div>
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<i>Our hens lay all winter.</i></div>
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<i>My chickens day starts when I let them out of their house when my son gets on the bus. I might take them some table scrapes or pull them some weeds or grass during the day. We feed and water them in the evening around supper time. That's also when I gather the eggs. We shut the house door at dark when they have gone in to roost for the night.</i></div>
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<i>We feed ours Layer Pellets. That's what the first hens were already being fed. We tried ground feed once but it seemed they wasted more than they ate and it didn't last as long.</i></div>
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<i>As far as collecting and keeping eggs, I wash mine with warm soapy(dish detergent) water. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I wanted to wish all of you a wonderful holiday season; </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>one filled with family, friends, and plenty of home joys.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jack made this one. He makes me happy when he wishes and asked to go to the woods with me. We just make them simple. Those are the ones I seem to prefer.</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Ole Man got me excited when he left out for work. He popped his head back in to tell me it was spitting snow. </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'm proud of this little plant here. The Ole Man gets me a poinsettia every year. Some years, they are more resilient than others. This one survived the the winter and the summer. When Autumn set in the leaves started turning the brilliant red. It's not full blown red but it's quite beautiful. I let a cold snap freeze out a little portion. Oops!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Here's ole St. Nick peeping out from one from this year. It's very red.</span></i></div>
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<i>I hope everyone's weekend is shaping up nicely.</i></div>
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<i>I thought I'd throw a quick post out on this beautiful Saturday evening.</i></div>
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<i>I 'll be heading on to the work place in a little while but I thought I'd share some of my vintage loves </i></div>
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<i>I hope that all is well with everyone and that the fall crafting bug has bit you too. I don't know why it has taken me so long to get this project done. I been wanting to do it for so long but I just never seemed to get around to it.</i></div>
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<i>It all started by saving last years pumpkins stems for the one we carved.</i></div>
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<i>I have seen pumpkins done in all kind of wonderful fabric like velvet, ticking, burlap..and so on but I didn't have any that just screamed pumpkins to me.</i></div>
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<i>I really just thought the fabric had such a vintage feel. Especially, the green one, it reminded me of the drapes that hung in our babysitter Mrs. Hall's home.</i></div>
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<i>You know it's got places or been cut to giblets to the point there's nothing to save. I find that it's the perfect stuffing for alot of the vintage-y crafts. It will be pretty heavy and lumpy.</i></div>
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<i>I don't know why I find that to be about perfect for imperfect craft.</i></div>
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<i>If it was something done way back in the day that's what they would have done.</i></div>
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Happy , Happy Friday to you!</div>
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I'm not as excited about the fact that it's Friday as I am about the family get-together tomorrow with the my family on my Mama's side. We don't call it a reunion but I suppose that's what it really is. It's really just Mama's brother's and the children and the grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on!</div>
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My mother was the youngest of eleven. All the sisters and quite a few of the brothers have passed away. </div>
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I think the reason we don't call it a reunion is because it is something that we have always done!</div>
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Our family is somewhat unique and close! </div>
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When my Grandma was alive it was an every Saturday thing;</div>
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<i>everyone </i>showed up. </div>
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I guess you could say we communed as a family as it had always been.</div>
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There was absolutely nothing fancy but <i>oh..</i>how beautiful it was.</div>
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It still is for us now. </div>
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My Mama and Daddy live at the homeplace now and that's where we all continue to gather once or twice a year. It's kinda of amazing there's always a bitter sweetness for the ones that have gone and the looks on the faces of the ones that are left but <i>oh man</i>...has one family grown. </div>
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Now use to Grandma did the cooking every Saturday!</div>
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I mean a electric and a wood cook stove and two tables full of prepared food.</div>
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<i>Lol..even if it was 80 degrees outside that wood cook stove was cranking!</i></div>
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Grandma was amazing and there was nothing like her.</div>
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It takes all of us these days. Mama cooks up a mess of stuff and everyone brings a dish or two but if you don't have the time or just don't cook don't worry there is always plenty.</div>
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Now that leads me to figuring out what I'm bringing. That can get hard because we all know certain things get claimed quickly. Don't even think about deviled eggs or chicken. </div>
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I'm thinking I'm going to dumpling up.</div>
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I think I'll take my Turkey Dumpling Casserole.</div>
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The dessert I've chosen will be Apple Dumplings. They are dumplings but completely different than the casserole. Lol..I don't think I even have a picture. I will try to get some pictures and a recipe for those. they are very good.</div>
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I also think I'm going to try this new little dish I had pinned on Pinterest. </div>
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This is a recipe from Manila Spoon.</div>
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Check her site out. It's pretty awesome.</div>
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I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.</div>
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Lynn Blaylockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05203013063405463263noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933947922249457644.post-75817348872811540002016-08-05T04:33:00.001-07:002016-08-05T04:33:24.755-07:00Winner Winner Chicken Dinner<img src="https://magnabilities.com/backend/public/img/products/4274_SP1176_2.jpg" /><br />
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<b><i>The winner is ..<span style="font-size: large;">Nobody..</span>..Lol..I never imagined that absolutely no one would enter.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>I guess I'll leave it there. Nothing more to say.</i></b></div>
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<i>For Us, it's only a week away. </i></div>
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<i>What becomes of the kids of summer?</i></div>
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<i>Summer ends</i></div>
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<i>Hello apple cider and candy corn.</i></div>
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<i>On to the new season!</i></div>
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Lynn Blaylockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05203013063405463263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933947922249457644.post-16423263736122220902016-07-18T07:48:00.000-07:002016-07-18T07:48:28.727-07:00Magnetic Monday<br />
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<i>I hope everyone had an especially nice weekend. We did around here. We weren't up to anything very outrageous but it was sure nice to have the time off from work. We did enjoy a very nice family get-together at my sister house. She invited all the family down to a cookout especially for their son Ryan who had came in on leave from the Navy. </i></div>
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<i>I also got off the fence and signed up to be a <b>Magnabilities </b>Consultant. A friend at work introduced me to this custom jewelry line. I started with a necklace/insert combo for my Mama for Mother's Day.</i></div>
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<i>I'm often hooked with a gift I can add to later!</i></div>
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<i>The brochure was full of all kind of necklace, bracelet and even ring combinations. Choices of several varieties of inserts, pendants, chain length's and styles. The options are totally endless.</i></div>
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<i>I was wooed in with this necklace I'm showing here.</i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Honeybee!!</span></b></i></div>
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<i>Then I learned I could download any picture I wanted and make it into custom pieces.</i></div>
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<i><b>How cool is that!</b></i></div>
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<i>Well Mama's birthday is coming up so I thought I'd get her some to add on to her necklace; </i></div>
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<i>So I figured I may as well join up with Magnabilites.</i></div>
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<i>I could see I had already formed some kind of love affair...</i></div>
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<i>Now I've downloaded my barn picture. </i></div>
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<i>I photographed this barn a few years ago and it's been one of my favorite pictures I've ever taken. I have thought of having it framed or something to display in the house</i></div>
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<i>Now, I've shared what's had me fascinated this weekend.</i></div>
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<i>I thought I'd show ya my <b>Lace-Back Bra DIY</b>.</i></div>
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<i>I've had my mind to do something like this for sometime now. The opportunity finally arose when I came across this wide band lace that was fairly close in color to my favorite worn out bra.</i></div>
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<i>Isn't it terrible to hold on to such things?</i></div>
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<i>I was almost ashamed to write this one for having to admit to keeping things that are so raggedy but here I am sharing.</i></div>
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<i>You can buy pricey lace back or fancy bras but they usually come with a pretty good price,</i></div>
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<i>so..</i></div>
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<i><b>why not</b> <b>see</b></i></div>
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<i><b> </b>how this will turn out?</i></div>
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<i>I think this will be a nicer look with some of the low back or very thin summer shirts,</i></div>
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<i>I started out by pinning the old bra onto Priscilla.</i></div>
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<i>I then pinned the lace to the old bra where I intended to cut the old bra away.</i></div>
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<i>Also, my lace was on the wide side and I didn't want it to ride to high under my armpit so I put a dart on the side to get it down to size around the cup.</i></div>
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<i> I base stitched and went back with a whip stitch on both inside and outside seam.</i></div>
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<i>And there you have it!</i></div>
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<i>I baked up a simple cherry pie, I thought I'd share with you.</i></div>
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<i>This is just a no-brainer kind of recipe. I just tweeked my basic <a href="http://sookz-nook.blogspot.com/2013/11/flaky-2-crust-pie-shell.html">2-crust pie shell</a> with a little bit of granulated sugar and a sprinkle of cinnamon.</i><br />
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<i>I generally use the Crisco Butter flavored shortening. It always proves to give me good butter results. I am still using White Lilly All Purpose flour these days. I can't seem to remember to pick up some Martha White when I'm in a neighboring county. </i><br />
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<i>The funny thing about this whole pie was my anger that was congered up when I put the large can of Duncan Hines Comstock Pie filling in my pie to find it was barely there. I had used this product for a long time but it simply was not enough to fill my pie. </i></div>
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<i>I grab my purse and run for the nearest grocery store.(not Walmart but Lowes) to find that they don't even carry that brand at all nor do they carry a large can at all. </i></div>
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<i>Here it is Friday morning again; I've been wainting for the morning dew to dry and get onto my yard work.</i></div>
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<i>I also got inspired to make this <b>Up-cycled Denim Skirt </b>from a pair of the Ole Man's worn out jeans.</i></div>
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<i>It would be like a boyfriend jeans except they are the hubbies worn out jeans.</i></div>
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<i>He decided to go through his overrun closet last night. He had a shirt he needed some buttons resewn. As he tossed me the shirt, he flung the pants in the floor and said, "You don't won't these do ya? I'm going to through them away. They're done for."</i></div>
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<i>They were very worn out!</i></div>
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<i>The crouch was blown out and there was quite a bit of holes in the butt.</i></div>
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<i>I thought they'd be a good fit for this project. </i></div>
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<i>In my minds eye, the more worn and tattered they were the better.</i></div>
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<i>I also wanted to be sure I could actually fit these.</i></div>
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<i>They were a little roomy but I thought that would be a good thing.</i></div>
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<i>I thought I'd share some of my goings on this week as I had a cup of coffee and breakfast. </i></div>
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<i>Today, I'm chowing down on what I'm going to call my <b>2 Egg Leftover Omelet.</b> The reason I say that is that I throwed in leftover salad makings from supper and topped it with some leftover spicy canned tomatoes. I wasn't sure about the radishes and celery going in there but I like it.</i></div>
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<i>It looks a mess...but..mmm ...<b>it's good!</b></i></div>
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<i>I'm also waiting for the dew to dry off the grass because Friday's is my yard mowing day. We've had some cool nights this week and the grass is extra wet.</i></div>
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<i>I've also got our local AM station playing this morning. They've put me in and extra special good mood with all the <b>beach music</b> they're playing in honor of our very popular <b>Hot Fun In The Summertime Beach Music Festival </b>here tomorrow in <b>Stuart, Virginia.</b> It's all <b>Carolina Style Beach music</b>. It's altogether different than the California style. </i><br />
<i>I'm talking the <b>Tams </b>and <b>Chairman of the Board!</b></i></div>
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<i>Growing up a Carolina Girl..I love it! </i></div>
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<i>I'm no dancer but I love to see a couple dancing the Shag</i></div>
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<i> Well lastly, I'm going to share what I'm calling my <b>Black Sack Dress..</b>DIY.</i></div>
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<i>It started with this little denim dress I bought at <b>Cato</b>. I really liked the fit and it was pretty dang comfy. </i></div>
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<i>but I'm not sure I like it. </i></div>
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<i><b>I'm</b> not sure what about it doesn't satisfy me the most. </i><br />
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<i>Today it's this ruffled, very natural country apron with my new obsessive queen bee stencil.</i></div>
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<i>Almost ever since I have been whipping stuff up in the kitchen, I have usually kept an apron hanging up. </i></div>
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<i>I know my love for aprons comes from watching my Grandma Hylton bustle around in the kitchen hair bunned and apron on.</i></div>
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<i>A lot of times, I just had something country-style with some gingham or calico print; sometimes they would simply tie around the waste; sometimes they would be ones that would be more similar to this one as to slipping over the head. </i></div>
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<i>I would be well into my recipes or the dishes before I'd remember to tie and slip one on. </i></div>
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<i>Lately, I have become much more obsessed with tying an apron on. It simply saves my clothes.</i></div>
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<i>I have been cheating quite a bit lately and just cutting a apron out of some scrap fabric and tying it on...no hemming..no anything. When it became soiled I would ball it up and through it in the trash.</i></div>
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<i>Since then I made me a quickie apron with the bib to be sure to keep things off my top.</i></div>
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<i>The quickie was more aggravation than anything because I simply didn't do it right.</i></div>
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<i>I finally took the time to make one bonafide! </i></div>
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<i>I chose this natural looking fabric from my stash, a favorite of mine lately.</i></div>
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<i>I am hoping ya'll had a wonderful and productive week.</i></div>
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<i>Work has been slow at the plant so my department has had to take some additional time off.</i></div>
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<i>Being big on time and short on funds was bringing me down. </i></div>
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<i>Looking at the state of my bathroom was also bringing me down. Instead of focusing on what I couldn't get done I just went at the week and the bathroom with the do the best with whatcha' got mentality.</i></div>
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<i>We only have one bathroom in our home; so through the years it has been used to a frazzle.</i></div>
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<i>Between the kitchen, the kids rooms and the bathroom I don't know which has been repainted and repaired the most but I'm pretty sure it's been the bath. When most of the kids was home it would take some strategic planning to get anything done in here. I could have done well to have installed a revolving door . Now we're down in numbers to just The Ole' Man, Jack and Me. Getting things accomplished and keeping them that way is becoming a bit easier. </i></div>
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<i>I think I have surely avoided taking pictures in the bathroom so to show some real good before and afters I'm not going to be able to do. </i></div>
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<i>Honestly from looking at this picture it doesn't seem that there was a change in color at all.</i></div>
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<i>To tell the real truths, the last time I painted I mixed a half a bucket of dark blue paint I had used in Jack's bedroom with a smidge of yellow paint I had left over from painting the kitchen walls. I don't know what color I could actually claim it to be but it was definitely blue.</i></div>
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<i>Our bathroom was old and when I first moved in we didn't even have a shower. With that being said when the shower was added a vent fan should have been added as well.</i></div>
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<i>Someday, I'm sure the ol' man will do it but until then the fight continues.</i></div>
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<i>Above the shower was yucky!!</i></div>
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<i>I can't even show a before picture because it was yucky!!</i></div>
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<i>I would have gone nuts overs a picture of that. Even after trying numerous cleaning products and hacks off pinterest, after being cleaned the paint remained somewhat stained. </i></div>
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<i>The <b>Best</b> cleaning hack for cleaning mold and mildew I found was plain old <b>Hydrogen Peroxide</b>.</i></div>
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<i>I would buy the big bottle in the health and beauty department and mix about a half a bottle with two big squirts of liquid dish soap in a smallish bucket of warm water. then scrub like crazy. </i></div>
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<i>It did do a good job of cleaning it.</i></div>
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<i>The next big deal with this little redo was the ol' man researching the heck out of the internet and reading, who only knows how many reviews for a good primer.</i></div>
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<i>What he found and bought was <b>Zinnser's Mold Killing Primer.</b></i></div>
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<i><b>Zinnser's </b>primer was the only primer that not only claimed to cover up stains from mold and mildew but claims to continue fighting it.</i></div>
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<i>The price for this primer was about $35 at our local home improvement store. </i></div>
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<i>It definite covered well and I'm feeling good about it's claims.</i></div>
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<i>I have been addicted to the stenciled and distressed furniture for some time now but an artist and a painter I'm not so I aided myself with a stencil to add the Ivy that runs up the side of the cabinet.</i></div>
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<i>My thoughts are that I really do like the <b>grainsack, feedsack, or floursack</b> designs and look but those clothes would not truly be enjoyable to use as a hand towel, even though I bet in times past the nice terrycloth towels we use today were not used. </i></div>
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<i>My quest yesterday for mountain laurel left me then wanting for Rhododendron.</i></div>
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<i>I did run across some tall and scraggly <b>Rhododendron</b>. </i></div>
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<i>Most of the time, you will find it in some mountainous region a whole hill or mountain side covered and the limbs and leaves will be plum to the ground. </i></div>
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<i>What I found wasn't that way but I'm assuming if I walked much further up this mountain we live at the foot of I would have come across a much more substantial find.</i></div>
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<i>I saw these two yesterday when I was digging up some mountain laurel. Today before I went to the woods I looked up Rhododendron on line to see how to gather some and get it to take root. Nothing I found exactly applied to me for the simple fact all the branches are so high and I was really not seeing any evidence of new growth at the ground.</i></div>
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<i>After pulling back some leaves I saw these shoots. A few of them had a small dark green leaf on them. I felt pretty sure it was baby Rhododendron. </i></div>
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<i>Oh my word, I know it will be a lifetime before seeing any real return on this endeavor but it has been fun to see what may come of it all.</i></div>
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<i>Here in Stuart, Virginia we are enjoying an absolutely glorious day. Yesterday, was much the same and I have to say I am ready for these warmer temperatures. </i></div>
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<i>The past week was filled with a good bit of sunshine but between the high winds and the deep drop in temperature during the night it was basically chilly. It didn't make me desire to do much outside or gardening. I'm glad today is another story.</i></div>
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<i>What I've had on my mind today was <b>Mountain Laurel. </b>If you travel here in the mountainous south you will see it hanging over a rock wall or peeking out the side of an old country road. It's especially glorious on the Blue Ridge Parkway. </i></div>
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<i>It strikes a genuine heart-note for me. I love it! I love to see it. As a child many days was spent in it; making playhouses or playing hide-and-seek. For quite sometime, I have been wanting some of it here at the house;</i></div>
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<i>I've had this eagle above the sink for a couple of three years but when I repainted the cabinets it seemed like he just needed something else. </i></div>
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<i>If the Ole Man shakes his head when he comes in it may be a lot of sanding and maybe some repainting.</i></div>
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<i>Here in Virginia this morning it is a chilly Spring morning; the kind that makes you nervous for all the plants and trees budded out. Freezing temperatures have got me moving and covering up plants I had put out a few weeks earlier when it was warm like a nice summer day. One ole fellow in the community referred to it as <b>Dogwood Winter</b>. I had never heard of that saying but it sounded neat to me so I wanted to share it with ya'll.</i></div>
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<i>For some time now, I have been hankering for one of those beat up old country type signs that are so popular in <b>Farmhouse and Country Decorating</b>.</i></div>
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<i> So this morning I have my <b>Farmer's Market Sign</b> to share with you.</i></div>
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<i>I started out with this slab of wood I brought home from work the other day. </i></div>
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<i>It was wide but thin and it being so light weighted it would be easy to hand it. </i></div>
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<i>It was good and rough as well which made for less distressing.</i></div>
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<i>The rough, porous wood soaked it up quite well.</i></div>
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<i>I used a stencil I already had. </i></div>
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<i>I don't have a had for doing lettering so some kind of aid is a must for me.</i></div>
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<i>The Ole Man may cringe when he sees I screwed it right up with a couple of black screws I had in the junk drawer but I thought they added to the utilitarian look of it all.</i></div>
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<i><b>Thanks for stopping by for a visit.</b></i></div>
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Lynn Blaylockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05203013063405463263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933947922249457644.post-86849985604369134302016-03-14T09:22:00.001-07:002016-03-14T09:22:55.795-07:00Making the Sofa Slipcover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I finally tried my hand at making a slipcover for our old sofa. I have been covering our sofa for some time now. Honestly, from the time we moved from our old home to this home. When I bought this sofa I was really into a red, white and blue kind of theme and it also went well with the other house but this home's interior. Our present home has several rooms with and old gold-in-tone wallpaper. I do love the paper but it has definitely made for some changes in my color choices and sometimes it's been downright hard to match.</i><i>I have also had a whole brew of kids that have piled onto the sofa along with a few dogs along the way. </i></div>
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<i>I have lusted and longed for a new sofa on different occasions but something has always come up or got in the way about the time I would have went through with a purchase of a new one. Many years, I have used a fairly inexpensive one I had bought from a big-box store and it served it's purpose but with wear and tear has gave out.</i></div>
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<i>So, I have found myself joining the slipcover craze!</i></div>
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<i>I truly like the look of slipcovers and find it to be a great option for me. I started out slip-covering the dining table chairs, then my husbands recliner...yes, it was worn out too. Now I've ventured to the big girl, the sofa.</i></div>
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<i>For a first go of it I'm pretty pleased.</i></div>
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<i>The sofa pictured here looks a bit frumpy. I gave my self some wiggle room when I patterned out my pieces. The thing I had noticed with whatever slipcover I had used in the past was that if it was too fitted it would basically wiggle itself off or the ones that weren't fitted ended up looking like an unmade bed.</i></div>
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<i>When it was all sewn and done I'm quite satisfied with the way it turned out.</i></div>
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<i>Thanks for dropping by. I wish you could sit a spell.</i></div>
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<i>My best hopes for you on your projects as well.</i></div>
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