Happy Blog-Aversary To Me

WOW Y'all!  I posted my very first blog post four years ago today.  This little hobby of mine has allowed me to share recipes, craft projects and farm happenings with you and I thank you for your time and attention!  This is also post number 401.  Geez have I had a lot to talk about or what!

 

In honor of my blog-aversary, I would like to give away a copy of one of my favorite books!

 

MaryJane's Outpost

By: MaryJane Butters

 

 

It's one of my favorites.  So much so that after I had rented it from the library... twice... I decided to buy it to keep.  It holds cool information about MaryJane Butters life in camping and home and about backpacking, recipes, wild edibles, crafts, and she uses a lot of enamelware, which won me over from the get-go.

 

To enter to win this fantastic book, please leave a comment or shoot me an email letting me know what your very favorite post is from Peppysis over the last five years!  Maybe it is a recipe that you have gone back to or a craft that you may have done.  Or maybe even how sweetie peetie my Kate is!  You pick and let me know.  I will go through and blind pick a winner next Saturday, July 13, 2013.

 

Thanks for playing and thank you ever so much for taking an interest and myself and one of my most favorite hobbies! xoxo 

In This Skin

Me and my spotted skin... here we go.  I live with psoriasis.  My psoriasis is called Guttate Psoriasis.  Red spots form on my skin anywhere they want to, without reason or timing or cause from anything I am doing.  The cells in my skin produce at a more rapid rate than they should.  I have been dealing with the red spots for about six years.  Before that I dealt with white spots or areas of my skin turning into white splotches which happened mainly when I would tan and mainly on my torso.  It was like my tan would peel off. This I can remember starting in my late teens to early twenties.  Whether the white spots are related to the red spots I don't know.  Doctor after dermatologist can't make it go away.  Items help and sometimes make it lighter but never go away completely.  I feel that I am in a lucky stage right now because the red spots are mainly on my shins, the white spots remain everywhere. 

 

The sad part to me is that this is the first year that I have actually thought about hiding it from people.  When you go from long pants and jeans, because of warmer weather, to shorts and skirts and the kids at day care ask about my owees and does it hurt.  The truth is that it does hurt at times and it does itch and I do want to hide it.  The good thing is that I do have ways to make it feel better and please believe me that I have tried remedy after remedy over the years.  When you have something like this, that is visible to everyone, you try everything from tar to vitamins to teas to sunlight to lotions to medicines.  One tube of cream from the pharmacy had a retail price of $860.00.  Yeah.. that is what I said... and it doesn't work... for me anyway. 

 

So there is my confession and here is what it looks like and what I use to calm it down and the best lotion that I have found to use.  I wanted to share because I know I am not the only one and you may have it or may know someone who is at their whits end and maybe something I show you that I use may help flare ups or itching.  Or maybe you have a suggestion for me that worked for someone you know. 

 

 

 

And what I use.

 

 

ugh this is as big as the picture gets.  If you can't see something let me know and I will help you find it.  I didn't include links to the products and for that I apologize.  I feel as if I have said enough.  Sometimes I let people in on the blog here before I would ever let anyone in in person.

And by the way, psoriasis is hereditary and supposedly can go into remission.  Here's hoping!

 

 



Indoor Hopscotch

I am all about playing outside!  But, as we all know, weather just does not permit at times.  So to keeps kids entertained and physically active I have to get creative. 

Last week I had the thought to make a hopscotch board out of masking tape on the floor.  We have industrial carpet here at the DC so it is pretty flat.  You could also do this on tile or non-carpeted areas.  I bought a new roll of masking tape for seventy seven cents at WalMart and used a square library book as my template.  For the numbers I had to improvise and get creative with the tape.  They don't have to be perfect, they just have to resemble the numbers. 

We are using a bean bag that I made for another game and we toss it to a number.  Whatever number it lands on I ask the player to say what number it is.  The three year olds are beginning to recognize the numbers and will call them out if they know.  The younger ones get to listen to counting and will begin to mimic what they hear.  This is really fun.  Sometimes I think I have more fun at this than they do!

 

 

i've been loved on!

it feels good to get a lil attention, don't it! 

 today, a product that my lovin husband builds for me to share with others has been

featured on A Little Etsy Love

 

how sweet!

 

our bathtub shelf is featured and i am tickled to death

 

thanks for lovin on me A Little Etsy Love!