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Face Cream for Mature Women As we age our skin care needs change. We oftentimes need to switch to different health and beauty items from the ones we used when we were younger. I am in my late 50s and have found some face creams I love from AVON. Some creams I tried simply didn’t […]

My Favorite Face Cream

PartyLite Candles and Home Decor If you love PartyLite products as much as I do, you’ll enjoy browsing their site for gifts and home décor. They offer an outlet section that features huge discounts on favorite items, and they also feature special items. Simply use the drop down menu under “Shop.” I love using candles […]

PartyLite Products

Recipe for Pumpkin Pudding Delight This is a recipe I first saw on The Rachael Ray Show, but she didn’t put pudding in hers, and I played around with the ingredients to make it my own. It makes a delectable dessert served in pudding cups over a ginger cookie, and garnished with a ginger cookie. […]

Pumpkin Pudding Delight Recipe

Recipe for Sugar Free, No Flour Peanut Butter Cookies You can enjoy the deliciousness of peanut butter cookies without using refined sugar or flour. This recipe shows you how to use Splenda in place of the sugar, these cookies are a delectable treat for all! These cookies are terrific for Diabetics or for those who […]

Sugar Free, No Flour Peanut Butter Cookies

Vinegar Has Many Great Uses! There are many uses for vinegar. I use it for several different things. It is something that just about every household has on hand. You can purchase it in large bottles for very reasonable prices, too. It’s much cheaper than cleaning products and will not harm the environment, either, so […]

Uses for Vinegar

Potato Candy is Delicious! My mom used to make potato candy one or two times every year. She would always make it for Christmas along with some of her best cookies. It was such a treat, and even though potatoes and peanut butter might not sound good mixed together, you have got to taste it […]

Potato Candy Recipe

Visit Nelis’ Dutch Village Located in Holland, Michigan Nelis’ Dutch Village was my favorite place to visit as a child. I went there often on school trips and with my family. It was so much fun looking in the gift shops and visiting the village homes and animal petting/feeding areas. I rode the carousel, but […]

Nelis’ Dutch Village in Holland, Michigan

Mother’s Magnificent Recipes My mom was an excellent cook! She grew up in the country, where they made everything from scratch. From milk gravy with sour dough biscuits, homemade pie or cobbler, wonderful cakes, and the list goes on and on. I’m going to share a few of her great recipes here. Unfortunately she didn’t […]

Mother’s Magnificent Recipes

Bunny Cake Pattern for Easter or Springtime Every Easter since when I was a child, my mom and I would make a bunny cake. I think she saw the pattern for the cake in a magazine and was brave enough to try it. I realize now how simple it really is, and it’s great fun […]

Make a Bunny Cake

Make Suet At Home It’s easy and rewarding to make suet for the wild birds in your yard. Keep the birds well fed during the winter season or all year around with suet they will love and appreciate. This recipe is easy to make at home. You can do large batches at a time and […]

Homemade Suet Recipe

Make Your Own Glass Cleaner! Window Washer at the Arizona Science Center I co-owned a commercial janitorial service for five years, and we made our own glass cleaner. It was more economical for us, and it really cleaned windows and other glass well without streaking. I’m sharing that recipe and another homemade glass cleaner recipe […]

Homemade Glass Cleaner

Easy Macaroni Salad This macaroni salad recipe is very flexible as far as ingredients are concerned. You can easily change it to satisfy your family’s taste preferences. I will share how I make it here, but you can experiment and come up with other little tidbits and ingredients to personalize it yourself. This is perfect […]

Easy Macaroni Salad Recipe

You Can Cut Up a Watermelon in a Variety of Ways There are a variety of ways to cut up a watermelon. It pretty much depends on your own personal preference as to how you choose to do it. If you’re cutting it for a party or for guests, you might want to do it […]

Cutting Up a Watermelon

My Favorite Christmas Cookies Baking cookies for Christmas has been a long-time family tradition for me. Of course these cookies are good any time of the year, but Christmas and cookies just go together, don’t you think? Every year my mom and I baked the sugar cookies, peanut butter with kisses, raspberry almond, and on […]

Christmas Cookie Recipes

Cats…I’ve Had a Few My family had cats off an on as I was growing up. I moved back home in my late 20s and we decided to get a couple of cats. Unfortunately right after that, I ended up moving 45 minutes away for a job, so I missed much of their growing up […]

My Cats ~ My Family

Banana Pudding: A Quick and Easy Dessert Banana pudding is one of my favorite desserts. I’ve always enjoyed it. I now make it with sugar-free pudding, though, because I’m Diabetic. Even if you’re watching your sugar or caloric intake, you can still occasionally enjoy your favorite dessert recipes. This really is easy to make and […]

Banana Pudding Recipe