True Love

Simply:

TREAT OTHERS THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE TREATED

Cauliflower Sandwich

Easy and delicious if you like cauliflower. I made this today for lunch and thought some of you might enjoy this. This sandwich is exceptional when summer tomatoes available. A big, thick slice of tomato on top of the cauliflower....Oh my gosh, it's wonderful.

Hope you enjoy!

1 head of cauliflower, cut from the stem
1 heaping tablespoon of mustard
1 1/2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
salt and pepper to taste

Steam the cauliflower until tender. Place in a bowl and I use my pastry cutter but you could use a fork and smash the cauliflower in small pieces. Salt and pepper to taste. Add the mustard and mayo and mix well. It looks like egg salad when it's finished. I always put my cauliflower on whole wheat bread.

A Dear Friend

A very true quote:

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forgot!


Yesterday I lost a truly great friend. It was sudden and totally unexpected but knowing her that is the way she would have wanted it. No suffering or sad goodbyes for her. She was a follower of Jesus and steadfast in her faith until the end.

She was a great friend who I'll never forgot and who I will miss for a long time. I will always be very thankful to God for the friendship He allowed us to share. It was a blessing!

Decorating with Cookie Cutters

In an earlier blog, I talked about changing little things around to give a new look. This is something I did recently in our breakfast room. I have a small table with a lamp and a large candy jar on it. I was wanting to do something different to it so I pulled out some cook books and cookie cutters and this is what I came up with. I also have had the brass Martha Stewart cookie cutters on my kitchen cabinets for quite a while. The Martha Stewart cookie cutters is one of my great garage sale finds. Her cookie cutters back in the day were $25.00 a piece. I got the metal cookie cutter box (in one of the pictures) full of her cookie cutters for $5.00. When I used to watch her show and she would be selling them I had always wanted them, so I was very excited when I found them.

This is another little example of pulling out things that are hidden in your draws or cabinets and displaying them.

Mosaic Flower Pot

I found these huge concrete pots at a nursery that was going out of business about 10 years ago. I got them for $4.00 a piece, great bargain! I have wanted to do a mosaic pattern on these pots ever since I got them. I know, it's taken me quite a while to get this accomplished. I'm just working on one pot now and this one is for the flower garden on the north side of my house. The other pot will sit in the flower garden that is around my vegetable garden. My plan is to have a veggie theme on that pot instead of flowers.

I have collected old dishes from garage sales and old tile that people have discarded from bathroom makeovers for a long time, so I have a pretty good collection of colors. I wish I could say that there is an easy way to do this but if there is, I haven't found it yet. I used the tile nippers for so long the last time I worked on the pot that I have a huge blister in the palm of my hand. So next time, I will be wearing my garden gloves when using the nippers.

I drew a pattern of how I wanted the flowers to look on the pot. I will tell you that as I started to work with my dishes and tiles the look changed somewhat. I still think it is a good idea to draw an idea of what you would like and you can always change it as your working on your project.

I decided to show you my pot as I am working on it in stages instead of showing you the finished product. I am now in the process of making my main designs on the pot.
As you can see on the pot, I had a plate that had the word sweet on it and I used a tea cup saucer with a colored tile in the center for a flower instead of breaking it up. You can see where the saucer was broken, I sanded it a little to remove rough edges so it would be smooth.

I used a chisel and a hammer to break larger pieces and sometimes they went the direction I wanted them to go and other times they went the opposite direction. NO EASY WAY!!!! That's where the nippers came in and the BIG blister developed.

I hope I haven't discouraged you from tackling a mosaic. They are somewhat of a pain but I think they will be really unique and beautiful when they are complete. They can really be an eye catcher.

Until next time. :)

Busy Month

Well, it's been a busy month for me. Our oldest son moved out into an apartment, I have been spring cleaning our very dirty house, pampering my seedlings and working on various projects, my biggest one, the garden.

I do this only once a year but it's that time when I clean the inside and outside of my windows and oil down all the woodwork. Honestly, I have so many other things I would rather do than clean house. I love a clean house but I don't like cleaning it. I enjoy moving furniture and arranging everything the way I want it but cleaning is getting put further and further down on my to-do-list. Actually, I'm waiting to become a millionaire so I can hire someone to clean my house while I go and have my weekly massage. :) I'm not kidding!

This is my second year on starting seedlings and this is like taking care of a baby. Making sure they don't dry out, they have enough heat in the afternoons and evenings, and the fan blowing on them to strengthen their little stems. It's something all the time but it's worth it. Those tomatoes will be wonderful this summer. I left the heat on too long and too high and wiped out my basil. Oh well, I will have to buy that, I'm not starting over.

These picture are some little touches of spring in our home.