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#9 What I've Read | April 2024

#8 Re-use It | 3 Quick, Simple and Inexpensive Ideas

#7 Re-use It | Gothic Style Fence Finial to Flag Holder

#6 Re-use It | Tiki Lights to Solar Lights

#5 DIY Footed Risers x2

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#4 Spring and Summer Wreath | Design #4

#3 DIY Swing w/Arbor a Mother's Day Gift

#2 Re-use It | Yogurt Jars to Spice Jars

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Did You Know | Flag Etiquette

Have a fun and safe upcoming NEW YEARS EVE!!! 

See you in 2025!

Until next time, xo Tina
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• The Case for Keto |Author: Gary Taubes| ☆☆☆☆½ | Available Here 

 After a century of misunderstanding the differences between diet, weight control, and health, The Case for Keto revolutionizes how we think about healthy eating - from the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar.

Based on 20 years of investigative reporting and interviews with 100 practicing physicians who embrace the keto lifestyle as the best prescription for their patients' health, Gary Taubes gives us a manifesto for the 21st-century fight against obesity and diabetes.

For years, health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. So why doesn't it work for everyone? Taubes, whose seminal book Good Calories, Bad Calories and cover stories for The New York Times Magazine changed the way we look at nutrition and health, sets the record straight.

The Case for Keto puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we've come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice. Taubes reveals why the established rules about eating healthy might be the wrong approach to weight loss for millions of people, and how low-carbohydrate, high-fat/ketogenic diets can help so many of us achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing diagrams, lists, notes, and the bibliography.

• The Amish Wife | Author: Greg Olsen |☆☆☆☆ | Available Here

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story.

In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner’s report: natural causes. Ida’s husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed.

What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli’s shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli’s subsequent cross-country journey of death—including that of his own son—have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman?

The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida’s brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel’s urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli’s crimes first exposed in Olsen’s Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth—about Ida’s murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years.

I know this post is pushing it close to Christmas, but there are probably some people that are still decorating or haven't started yet that may need some ideas for centerpieces.  Today I've have four ideas for you from Christmases past. So lets get started...   

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This is an easy and simple look, it can either be used on a coffee table (as seen above) or dining table. The base is a black metal tray from Pottery Barn (no longer available), but a shallow dough bowl will work. I added 3 vintage wasp catchers (here or here). I used plain white taper candles and museum putty to the bottom of the glass. Then placed evergreen picks and a few pinecones until I liked the way it looked. 

#2 & #3

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#4

This one uses pieces from #2 and #3, but the "trees" are replaced with the CANDLE HOLDERS I REPURPOSED and this statue I purchased at Hobby Lobby several years ago. 

• Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

• For the Love of Books  a reading journal 

• Leather Heart-shaped Bookmarks these are so cute 

• These makeup bags

• Cute necklace

• I have this book light

• These Bookends are adorable! Or these clear ones

• This Glass Ornament

• How about these 40oz tumblers or a Coffee mug or Coffee mug

• Maybe a throw 

• See more gift ideas --> Here

OR...

Buy them books, books and more books!!!