April 2012

While redoing the 4th bedroom, my son decided he no longer wanted the upper doors on his entertainment armoire. Instead of throwing them away, I took them to the garage. I decided I was going to give them a new life but I wasn't quite sure what that new life wou…

A long with working on several projects this week, I have also been going through all the downloaded photos. You know trying to get rid of duplicates, blurry or just down right scary horrible ones! Anyways, back a few weeks ago while digging around in one of my …

Back about 15 or so years ago DH and my father made me a wonderful cabinet to display my mothers china. It has gone through several transition, the last one could be seen in my dining room.....molding added around the top, doors removed and painted black. At one poi…

Over the past few months I have been working on several projects off and on. One of them was this buffet. PLEASE ignore the stuff on it. Now this solid poplar wood buffet was bought second hand over 50 years ago by my parents. When my mother purchased …

2I have read this book to my children and have/will be reading it to my grandbabies. "FERDINAND THE BULL"  BY:Munro Leaf "A true classic about a young bull who loves to sit quietly and smell flowers all day long." * Books-A-Million  Price …

This is one of my all time favorite books. I usually read it once a year.   "THE GREAT GATSBY"   BY: F.SCOTT FITZGERALD  " The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary nove…

Good Morning and welcome to the reading nook! First I am going to give you a little background on why I chose two of the books on the list. As many of you may or may not know, I have been in college for the past 5 years. One of the classes that I have taken was …