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Afternoon Crafting

It is amazing what one can do sitting on the porch on a warm spring afternoon... besides doze off.  I am loving my church pew being on the porch.  I cannot wait to sit on it to shell peas, break beans, chat with friends and spit watermelon seeds over the porch rail.  Today I decided that I needed a couple of pillows for the pew.  I dug around in my fabric stash and found a piece of vintage scenic fabric and some velvety upholstery stuff and got to work.  I only had one bag of stuffing and one of the pillows was going to be fairly big.  So I cut up a bed pillow that no one really uses anyway and used the stuffing from it for all three of the pillows.  Then I started working on my other pillows.

 

My Uncle from Florida gave me a bunch of shot bags on their last visit here.  They are too cool.  I have made a pillow or two out of shot bags in the past for our rocking chairs on the back porch.  They are super simple if you know anything about using a needle and thread.  If you don't, I made a few to sell in my Etsy shop, ShotgunsAngel.  So I used some of the bag of stuffing to stuff these little cuties.  They really add a bit of character to the seat and they aren't very big but will offer good support to you lower back.  I think all church pews should have them!  I have sat many a time in church with my arm or a hymn book behind my lower back.  Those sermons can get long!

 

If you want one of my pillows and are local, give me a holler and we could probably do something about the shipping charge... the shot shell pillows... not the other ones... sorry.  I know they are going to be in hot demand too. 

 

 

Checked Out

The book in review this week is:

 

Cube Chic

 

By: Kelley L. Moore

 

I do not work in a cubical currently but have in my working lifetime and oh how I wish I had had some of the hilarious ideas from this book to take my cubical from drab to Cube Sweet Cube.  This book makes me long for work decorating contests.  Not really.  I am fine where I am and get to decorate all the time.  I love that the author includes links and stores where items were purchased and used in each highly decorated cubical.  From Garden Cube to Casino Cube this book will have you rolling! 

 

Checked Out Rating: 10

 



Pineapple Casserole

One of my very favorite side dishes that my Grandmother Brown made was pineapple casserole and apparently I am not the only one in the family with this fancy!  The dish seems to show up Thanksgiving and Christmas quite a bit!  It is very simple to make and  it tastes so good.  It just adds a bit of sweet to supper and you get your fruity food group in not to mention the sugar group and butter group!  This dish has also become one of my loving husband's favorites as well.  You can add it to a pork chop meal or a chicken leg meal and you know pineapple always goes good with city ham.  Dang... i guess you could even have as a side to cereal if you wanted to. 

 

Enjoy and I bet the only thing you might have to buy for this is the pineapple.  I never tried to make it with crushed or tidbits so don't ask.  Just stick with the plan stan ok.

 

 

Ain't that just the fanciest font you have ever seen?  Goes right along with the fancy dish it heads up.  Here's some prep pics I had to take with my phone because I left my camera at the day care.  Mind you... my flip phone... I don't have one of this nice instagram ones.