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A Traditional Family Favorite with a Brand-New Twist: Cake in a Jar
One of my favorite family traditions is that we always make Red Velvet Cake for birthdays . . . . everyone’s birthday, every year! I was given the recipe many years ago by our Aunt Louise and I still...
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Thursday Favorite Things: Washing Windows
There is just something wonderful about opening all of the windows on a sunny spring day and getting out in the fresh air to wash the windows. I have always loved washing windows because there is such...
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{Almost} Wordless Wednesday: Scrappy Granny
We had so much fun creating this Mother’s Day banner for our Grandma! The complete tutorial is in the May issue of the Ruby for Women magazine, and I will also be posting it here at...
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In Other Words: A Sermon in a Sentence
”Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in His sight,...
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Fresh Eggs Daily
I am always searching the blogosphere for family-friendly resources for you and your family. Yesterday I discovered (through the Inspire Me Monday blog hop at Create with Joy!) Lisa Steele of Fresh...
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Thursday Favorite Things: Spring Cleaning (Washing Windows)
It may seem strange to some people, but one of my MOST favorite things to do in the spring is to wash the windows. This morning the sun is shining and it is absolutely PERFECT outside our little lake...
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Caramel Glazed Apple Bread from the kitchen of Vintage Mama
My favorite recipe book is the original Betty Crocker Cook Book – the one that is a multi-ring binder with the red background. Mine is well over 40 years old, but I still turn to it when I’m looking...
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Confessions of a “Clean Freak” Part 1
We are all different. And that is OK. Well, at least, it should be OK, but there are certain things that seem to cause otherwise ordinary people to become very judgmental and critical. Would you ever...
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Thursday Favorite Things: My Sewing Room
Well, now that I’ve spent the past three weeks sorting through boxes, baskets, and storage bins I can finally work in my sewing room again! All that stuff we hauled in from the garage landed right in...
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The Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop is where you can link your favorite post of the week or write a post about your favorite things and share it with old and new followers. The hop is hosted and...
View ArticleThursday Favorite Things: Rest
It has been a long and exhausting week. Seems I can’t stop myself from agreeing to WAY too many activities both for myself and my little family, and now we have all crashed in heaps of weariness....
View ArticleA thousand little things
Now that I have the time to begin a project and (sometimes) finish it, all in the same week (month, year, decade . . . . ), it has been really great fun to tackle some of the projects around the house...
View ArticleToday the kitchen sink . . . . tomorrow the world!
It is amazing to me how much I can actually accomplish in an (uninterrupted) hour! Even though we are in the midst of summer activities – recently completed a week of VBS, then a week of camp for the...
View ArticleThursday Favorite Things: Making Stuff!
It’s kind of a paradox around here . . . . one day I’m sorting, organizing, and throwing stuff out because we just have TOO MUCH stuff. The next day I’ve got all of my craft supplies out on the dining...
View ArticleAlmost Ready!
This has been a very busy summer here at Vintage Mama’s Cottage. All the usual family activity seems to have fit quite nicely with room to spare for working on our new business venture. Between...
View ArticleTurkey in the Straw Cupcakes from Sugartown Sweets
This recipe for these adorable “Turkey in the Straw” cupcakes was originally posted by Karen on her blog, Sugartown Sweets. She so generously allowed us to include this recipe in the holiday issue of...
View ArticleHoliday Banners from Hometalk
Here at Vintage Mama’s Cottage, we LOVE to create seasonal celebration banners! It is so much fun to put together lots of beautiful embellishments on letter tags that spell out a sentiment or message....
View ArticleSpring Cleaning . . . Really???
The other day I came across an article about house cleaning and creativity. Seems like this is an age-old dilemma for women of every generation, because I remember hearing this discussion as a young...
View ArticleThe Garden is Calling
Many years ago I discovered a gardening book where I first read about square foot gardening. I was immediately intrigued with the concept, probably because I had always planted my gardens the “old...
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