Tammy's Times

This spring I came up with the idea to refinish our sad looking park bench which we have on our front porch. The finish was peeling off...

About two years ago, I pulled down a clothespin bag that was hanging in the basement, and discovered a bag full of antique clothespins. I...

:::Yesterday and today have been rainy days. We're hoping for nice weather on the 4th, as we have a family outing planned. I guess we ca...

Yesterday was a very "fruitful" day! First, my daughter and I went strawberry picking, which yielded 8 pounds of strawberries for ...

I snapped a few pictures of my flowers in the front beds. The Asiatic lilies are in bloom!  View from my porch.     I really e...

Last year while I was looking for recipes for pickles, it came to me that "pickles" does not universally mean pickled cucumbers . ...

So, I looked, and the last time I officially plugged my Swagbucks referral link was December, 2011. So I don't feel bad doing a little ...

For quite some time now I've not purchased "cream of" soups, because some of the ingredients are ones I prefer not to use in m...

I finished my Sleeping Monkeys (Ravelry link) a few weeks ago, and then they sat in my knitting bag. I was glad to get them finished but si...

Someone shared the following with me, and it has been incredibly helpful to me: I do the things I do , and I feel the things I feel , be...

Several years ago, I looked online and found a recipe for taco seasoning. I just wrote it down on a scrap of paper, so I'm not sure what...

I belong to a buying club, which is very handy for getting a good price on whole foods. My last order, though, I made a mistake. It was l...

On Saturday I finished my daughter's doll afghan: I had just enough yarn to make it a decent size. The last row of purple got cut s...

I wrote this post a few months ago, and then never hit "publish". In the hopes that it will be an encouragement to someone, I'...

I've never been very good at keeping a journal. When I was growing up, I'd get the fantastic idea to start a journal, and then I...

When you aren't sure if you have enough of something, say bobbin thread, do you work faster? I always do! As if sewing faster is going t...

So if there's something you really need , it is a sweater for your jar: or two: or quite possibly, three is the magic number...

After making my three dryer balls, I really wanted a few more. The only wool yarn left in my stash was a cone of sport weight yarn I bought ...

Some friends and I got together to make some wool dryer balls. It was a fun morning together. Since the project didn't take too much tho...

I recently decided that I need to start utilizing my Pinterest boards a little more. I have actually made a lot of the recipes I've pinn...