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My Pillow Case Dress made the front page of Etsy today. Gotta run right now but will try to post a Screen Shot soon!

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Family Fun at the County Fair

It is National Peanut Festival Time! There are Greasy Pig Contests, 4H competitions, Livestock Auctions and...
Funnel Cakes, Fried Pickles, Corn Dogs from "The Corn Dog Man", and Cotton Candy and...
...arm band night. For $10 a person you can purchase the coveted purple arm band and ride anything you wish all night long(well at least until closing).

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Celebration

Gathering with family, eating taco soup, roasting marshmallows, wearing the smell of smoke given off by oak branches in the fire...

So the holidays have begun!

A Day In the Civil War

I took three of our children to see a reenactment of a small battle that took place in our area during the Civil War. You would think that as homeschoolers we had attended many such occasions but sadly this was our first.

I thought we would go out to this field and watch people "act out a battle" then go home and talk about the guns and the smoke. Boy were we surprised!

The people involved in these reenactments actually camp out at these events - not in campers or modern tents with modern comforts, but dressed in period costumes, sleeping on period nap sacks under period tents, rugged and authentic.

This tent slept 6 men for this whole weekend - Thursday night through Saturday night.

Yes, there was an entire Union and a Confederate camp set up and before the battle we were allowed to visit the camps. The reenacters were very knowledgeable and very willing to share information with us. My son was so excited to get to hold a variety of Civil War era rifles and to learn new things about them but the highlight of the day was when our oldest daughters friend Abigail (whose whole family is involved in these reenactments)convinced a family friend to took my kids and let them do a run through of prepping and firing a cannon.
They were given specific tasks and positions and ran through the procedure three times while a small crowd gathered and watched the demonstration.



After a hot lunch and a small wait,
the battle began.

All in all, it was a wonderful Saturday complete with history lessons that we will not soon forget.


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Over The Meadow and Through the Woods...

to Grandmother's house I took them.

And she fed them...spiders and miniature pumpkins?

My kids are very fortunate to have such wonderful grandparents.

Thanks, Mom and Dad!

Good gifts come in pretty packages...right?

Well, sometimes, yes.

Often, however, we have received the best gifts in great big garbage bags. This time it was four bags.

Thank you Madison (and Mommy) for passing down clothes to our C. We had so much fun going through all the clothes and C enjoyed trying on every single dress, skirt, shirt, blouse, jeans and shoes.

Two Skirts Remade

C outgrew this little skirt. Although the skirt was intended to be nearly floor length, it was almost knee length when she tried it on last. The issue was that it still fit her waist.

The green skirt was found at a local thrift store. It has gorgeous knife pleats in the back and angles downward for a full and feminine look. The two skirts were meant for each other.


After piecing the two together I crocheted and beaded a small belt and C had a brand new skirt for church on Sunday.

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