After a very long break, with a few false starts thrown in, I'm finally back! For those who remember me when my blog was 'Our Home in the Maples/Maple Stone blog'...👋 HI! For those that aren't familiar...WELCOME! So glad you're here.
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Life has been really busy the past 5+ yrs. Many d.i.y projects & craft projects were finished, and so much more that I'm not going to get into. Plus during this time I was working on the blog every now & then. I knew I was going to come back to blogging I just didn't have a set date.
The MapleStone Home...
This blog is where I share all the happenings...from D.I.Y. to decorating with found items, family treasures & reusing what I have. There will also be recipes, life, books, & some of my favorite things.
Finally...
I hope that my little corner of the blogging world inspires you to find your own style using what you have...MoreThank you for visiting ♡ Enjoy your day, Tina ♡
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Hey again! So this is what I read/listened to from April to June. Number 13 and 14 are back to back posts but the rest of the 'What I've Read" series will be a monthly post and will be a combination of audible, kindle and physical books. Let me know if you've read/listened to any of these books and if so what you thought.
- (audible) DEAD WAKE - BY: Erik Larson - "... It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love..."
- (audible) THE WORD IS MURDER - BY: Anthony Horowitz - "It’s been two years since Injustice aired and Detective Daniel Hawthorne needs cash. Having gotten himself fired from his job at the Metropolitan police, Hawthorne decides to approach Anthony Horowitz. He’s investigating a bizarre and complex murder and he wants Anthony to write a book about it, a bestselling book of course, with a 50/50 split. The only catch is they need to solve the crime."
- (audible) IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS - BY: Erik Larson - "The time is 1933...A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first, Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany”, she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate..."
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So here we are. . .
A few days after Memorial Day and for many the unofficial start of summer.
A time for sitting by the pool, lounging in a hammock or soaking up that vitamin sea while enjoying a book or 2. Here is a list of books I read/listened to from January through April that you might enjoy. . . Number 13 and 14 are back to back posts but the rest of the 'What I've Read" series will be a monthly post and will be a combination of audible, kindle and physical books. Let me know if you've read/listened to any of these books and if so what you thought.
- (audible) The GUERNSEY LITERARY and POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY - BY: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows "As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. . .Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways."
- (audible) UNSPEAKABLE THINGS - BY: Jess Lourey "Inspired by a terrifying true story from the author’s hometown, a heart-pounding novel of suspense about a small Minnesota community where nothing is as quiet―or as safe―as it seems.
Cassie McDowell’s life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents’ strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she’s grown accustomed to them.
All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale.
One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed―violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes the stuff of shocking rumors. The accusations of who’s responsible grow just as wild, and dangerous town secrets start to surface. Then Cassie’s own sister undergoes the dark change. If she is to survive, Cassie must find her way in an adult world where every sin is justified, and only the truth is unforgivable."
- (audible) DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY - BY: Erik Larson "In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
The White City (as it became known) was a magical creation constructed upon Chicago's swampy Jackson Park by Daniel H. Burnham, the famed architect who coordinated the talents of Frederick Olmsted, Louis Sullivan, and others to build it. Dr. Henry H. Holmes combined the fair's appeal with his own fatal charms to lure scores of women to their deaths. Whereas the fair marked the birth of a new epoch in American history, Holmes marked the emergence of a new American archetype, the serial killer, who thrived on the very forces then transforming the country."
(audible) CLOSE TO THE BONE (WIDOWS ISLAND NOVELLA BOOK 1) - BY: Kendra Elliot "FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager’s skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island.
Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case—and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past. The remains suggest eerie similarities between this victim, and Cate and Tessa’s friend Samantha, who disappeared when she was fourteen.
Cate finds herself up against closemouthed locals, buried town secrets, and even her own heart. As the case unravels, will she be able to cut through the fog and find justice for the missing and the dead?"
So there are the first books of 2021 that I listened too.
Happy Reading ♡ Enjoy your day ♡ Tina
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In this day and age of technology we rarely see children use their unbridled imagination. Most of their time is spent playing video games, watching t.v. or participating in some sort of organized activity.
Now, I was an active child but I had the free time to let my imagination take over. My children were always allowed this time to create/imagine. Out of all three of my children, my youngest was the one with the most vivid imagination. Now when all three were together, all though there would be fights, they could create a wonderful world. They were allowed to bring all there toys out and just go to town, just like I was.
Imagine the shock, when DH told me that when he was little he was only allowed to have ONE toy out at a time!! "You have got to be kidding me!?".... was what came out of my mouth, he replied yes.
Anyways, fast forward about 9 years, one day when we were visiting his parents, my kids started pulling out all the toys they brought, asking if they could use this and that, so they could create, and guess what? That's right.........his mother informed then only ONE toy...My kids, being so much like me, looked at their grandmother in disbelief and asked "WHY?" Her response, " There is no reason to make a big mess, plus you can only play with one toy at a time."
They put ALL of their toys away, then sat with me on the couch. After about 15 minutes my middle child , who was always brutally honest, looked at me and said, "I want to go to grandma & grandpa V's house, it is more fun there." (No, DH mother did not hear this.) We stayed for a few minutes longer, packed the kids up and headed to my parents. No sooner did they walk in the door and out came the toys.
I had just finished telling my mother and sister of the one toy rule, when my kids and my nephew come out of my dad's office with all kinds of knick knacks and treasures to use.
I sat down on the couch and for a moment I was an uninvited guest into my children's world, where a pile of books become mountains, the stripes in a rug become a road, where anything and everything is possible.
For sometime, as my kids got older, I was no longer able to be that uninvited guest.
But thankfully my precious Devyn has unknowingly allowed me to visit once more, a place where the unbridled imagination of a child is free to expand beyond the universe..................
UPDATE: My precious is now 16 and the place of unbridled imagination is now in the mind of my precious 8yr old grandson "J" when visiting with him.......at least for a time.....
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Tina ♡ Tarenley House
How many of ya'll have ever heard of Alabama Firecrackers? If you have then you know how addictive they can be! If you haven't, then you're in for a treat!
These are usually made with regular saltine crackers but I use the mini ones. They are the perfect size for popping in your mouth.
MINI ALABAMA FIRECRACKERS
ingredients:
- gallon size ziploc bag
- 1 - 1oz pig ranch dressing mix
- ½ teaspoon of garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1½ tablespoons red pepper flakes
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 11oz box mini Saltine crackers
instructions:
How to cook MINI ALABAMA FIRECRACKERS
- In ziploc bag pour in ranch mix, garlic, onion,black pepper, red pepper flakes and oil.
- Close bag and mush ingredients around with your hand to combine
- Open bag pour in crackers, close bag
- Roll and flip bag carefully (do not crush the crackers) making sure to get all the crackers covered
- Lay flat for 1 hour then turn over and lay flat another hour, repeat this step 2 more times then let sit over night
- I added a step, because they still seemed a little oily - I laid 4 layers of paper towels on a baking sheet and spread the crackers out in a single layer.
- Take 4 more paper towels and lightly pat crackers.
- Then let sit for about 2 hours before putting in a bowl to serve.
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Tina
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