• Hello October! $50 Your WAY Giveaway

    Giveaway October Logo

    Time for my October giveaway.  September sure left like a LION! Snow! High winds. What kind of high winds? The kind of wind that tore the door off the BRAND NEW John Deere Tractor!!!!!! BLEW the door RIGHT OFF!! Other than that September was a pretty calm month. Made a new friend at the Goodwill store of all places. We are like two peas in a pod. Similar life paths including a move to Sandpoint! The house is still a work in progress. Deck… still not done. Now that we have snow, I’m doubtful that my front porch or deck will be done before spring. Staying hopeful. pfffffttttttt who are we kidding? I’m not hopeful at all. Ohhh can you see the devil on one shoulder and the angel on my other?! They are havin’ a heck of an argument. With all the rain we were having in the middle of September we decided to tackle the kitchen and add the barn wood back splash. OHMMMMMMMGGEEEEEEE!! It warmed up the kitchen like crazy!! It’s beautiful!!!! It took a lot of work. The ceiling is 12 foot so there was a lot of ladder work. (Me…. not a fan!) It’s really…

  • Cook’n now!! Review

    I figured after all the Christmas cooking and baking it would be the perfect time to tell you about Cook’n Recipe Organizer. Because if you are anything like me you spent more time LOOKING for all the recipes to use for the holiday’s than was really necessary! Honestly, my Grandmothers recipes were in one spot, more recipes were in the junk drawer (whaaaa? Your recipes aren’t in the junk drawer!?!?  Really?  Go check, there has to be one in there, it’s behind the take out menu for the corner deli that closed 2 years ago. Trust me!!) anyway, my recipe cards are in too many places.  Soooo trust me when I say this program is AWESommmme!!!! Because by this time next year I will know where ALL my recipes are with just one icon on my desktop!! First, not only can you find any recipe ANYWHERE on the Internet… you can add your own recipes!!  I started my own cookbook “Nonnie’s cookbook” (okay, okay…I’ll work on the title later!) My kids are grown with homes of their own and I would love for them to each have copies of the family recipes. I would hate for them to be lost.  Cook’n…

  • Home Organization 101 Notebook Review

    Home Organization 101 Notebook A simple guide to simplifying your life! I was given the opportunity to review the Home Organization 101 Notebook.  I tried the system for a full 2 weeks.  I have to say I’m impressed.  This isn’t a big book. There aren’t tons of pages to read.  There aren’t a million and one jobs that you really won’t do for the day let alone for the whole week!!  Okay, I take that back…. you might……. but I know I WON’T ’cause I’m basically pretty lazy! I want a clean house… but I would rather search the Internet for giveaways… play with Baby Alice… take pictures…visit blogs…. tweet…. go to the library… basically anything else…. BUT I hate it when the house is dirty…. even though we hardly ever get company… I still want a clean house. Seriously!!  What if Ellen comes over?!?!  (WOW that rant went on and on and on!!) Okay, so back to Home Organization 101….. it WORKS!! The system is easy. There are certain small jobs that you do in the morning, afternoon and evening. I put my ‘cheat sheet’ in a plastic 8×10 sleeve and tacked it inside the pantry door.  I used a…

  • iCaught Santa Review and Giveaway!!

    How much FUN is THIS?!?!  Yes, that is my tree!  Yes, that is my Santa sack, those are family presents for Christmas (Let’s not tell Emma or Eli please!!) AND yes, that is Santa!!!   I’m so excited about this picture!!  I’m having prints made at Walgreen’s!  Then I plan to have Norgan our little elf with his camera ‘catching’ Santa. This site is AWESOME!!!!!!!  I love that I can chose from 20 different Santa poses.  You can add a border to your photo if you want.  Sooooo CUTE!!!!!! Super fast!  Take a picture of your tree. The higher the resolution the better.  Upload to your computer.  The iCaught Santa site will help you make Santa the correct size, then the correct coloring. It’s all really easy!!  AND if you look at the photo gallery of other Santa pictures you can get all sorts of ideas. What I’m even more excited about??  I get to share a giveaway with my readers!!!  I have 5 codes for 5 different winners.  I will email to you in time for Christmas! So this will be a fast giveaway. AND if you think this is great…. it gets even better!!  Once I have 30…