Saturday, June 19, 2010
Flea Market Finds...
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Celebrating Home with Style
Hi everyone-
I have changed the name of my blog to reflect both of my passions. Selling Celebrating Home and finding and fixing up vintage finds.
Today I am going to show you more of my finds and share a recipe!
First, I'm so excited that I have a new recruit for my business! She is going to do great and I'm excited for her to start making money and filling her home with beautiful things! If you'd like to do what I do please contact me. You can start your own business for $149! And be making money within a week!
But back to my latest finds:
This beautiful wrought iron two tiered planter was just $15 at an antique store in Louisville. I knew right away I wanted to fill it with moss and faux Easter eggs! When the weather warms up I'll move it outside and fill it with petunias.
I have changed the name of my blog to reflect both of my passions. Selling Celebrating Home and finding and fixing up vintage finds.
Today I am going to show you more of my finds and share a recipe!
First, I'm so excited that I have a new recruit for my business! She is going to do great and I'm excited for her to start making money and filling her home with beautiful things! If you'd like to do what I do please contact me. You can start your own business for $149! And be making money within a week!
This beautiful wrought iron two tiered planter was just $15 at an antique store in Louisville. I knew right away I wanted to fill it with moss and faux Easter eggs! When the weather warms up I'll move it outside and fill it with petunias.
This piece has been with me for along time. Matt found this in the trash years ago. It was brown and had a horrible fabric on top. I gave it a white wash treatment. (Watered down paint) I took off the top and recovered it in this raspberry toile (I love toile!!!!). Then I added this raspberry trim with a hot glue gun! I tossed on needlepoint pillows and set antique china on a double cake plate in the same color scheme to complete the vingette! It makes me happy just to look at it and it provides extra seating when needed! You can do the same thing with a similiar find!
Well, I will leave you today with my famous Banana Pudding Recipe:
2 pkg. instant banana pudding
2 cups whole milk
2 cups half and half
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 small container heavy whipping cream
2 cups powdered sugar
1 box vanilla wafers
2-3 bananas sliced
*Mix pudding and both milks on high until blended add vanilla.
Pour this mixture into a separate bowl. Into your cold mixing bowl pour heavy whipping cream and beat on high until stiff peaks appear-add powdered sugar slowly until incorporated. Fold whipped cream into banana mixture. Slice amount of banana you prefer into the pudding and fold into mixture.
Line a beautiful bowl with vanilla wafers. Pour in pudding and top with a layer of sliced bananas and then a layer of vanilla wafers. Place plastic wrap on top and put into refrigerator for 4+ hours.
This is banana heaven!
Enjoy! And remember:Celebrate Your Home Today...
Shannon
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
It's snowing again!
It's snowing again. Not good news! School buses don't do well in snow and ice. But I made it just fine this morning.
Here's that pot roast recipe:
2 1/2 pound chuck roast (any roast will work)
1 bag of peeled baby carrots
1 8oz. pkg. of mushrooms
1 onion finely chopped
36oz. of beef broth
1 packet onion soup mix
*Turn your crock pot on high and put in a crock pot liner (I LOVE these things-no clean-up)
Place all above ingredients into crock pot and dinner is done when you get home from work! (8 hours)
I always serve mashed potatoes and yeast rolls with this dinner!
Always a favorite!!
I am pricing yard sale items today. We are going to the Georgetown Optimist Club on Saturday (we will have a booth) for their yard sale. Starts at 8am!!!!
Here's that pot roast recipe:
2 1/2 pound chuck roast (any roast will work)
1 bag of peeled baby carrots
1 8oz. pkg. of mushrooms
1 onion finely chopped
36oz. of beef broth
1 packet onion soup mix
*Turn your crock pot on high and put in a crock pot liner (I LOVE these things-no clean-up)
Place all above ingredients into crock pot and dinner is done when you get home from work! (8 hours)
I always serve mashed potatoes and yeast rolls with this dinner!
Always a favorite!!
I am pricing yard sale items today. We are going to the Georgetown Optimist Club on Saturday (we will have a booth) for their yard sale. Starts at 8am!!!!
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Weekend...
I went to see Shutter Island with my mom and Catie Saturday night. Really boring...Was hoping it would be suspenseful and scary! Yesterday I played bingo (Celebrating Home) and won some great prizes (I'll post pics soon). Then I went to the funeral home. My friend Ann was my next door neighbor growing up and her father passed away. It was very sad...
On an uplifting note, I am making pot roast tonight. Another family favorite and I will post the recipe later today. Gotta get back out there and drive that school bus! Yee-hah!
Have a great day...
Oh P.S.- The yard sale was rescheduled to March 6th that was supposed to be this past Saturday. Bummer...
On an uplifting note, I am making pot roast tonight. Another family favorite and I will post the recipe later today. Gotta get back out there and drive that school bus! Yee-hah!
Have a great day...
Oh P.S.- The yard sale was rescheduled to March 6th that was supposed to be this past Saturday. Bummer...
Friday, February 19, 2010
TGIF!
I'm working hard on getting information out there about my Celebrating Home business. I've been spending about 2 hours+ a day on it. Hopefully I will see something start to happen soon.
We are off to my mom's tonight for dinner. She's making my favorite:
salmon patties! And broccoli casserole-Catie's favorite. I'm bringing a yummy salad with all my favorite things:eggs,cheese,bacon and homemade croutons from fresh bread! All of this is low cal of course (wink).
Tomorrow we are hitting a yard sale at Georgetown Elementary School! Come on out-it supports Relay for Life! I'll post pics if I find any good bargains.Next week there is a yard sale at the Optimist Club in Georgetown. I am planning on setting up a booth there! Watch for pics.
Well-I'm tired and need a little rest before dinner. I'll let you know the recipes soon. I've been asking mom for years to write them down!!
Hoping the stinkin snow melts soon!
Shannon
We are off to my mom's tonight for dinner. She's making my favorite:
salmon patties! And broccoli casserole-Catie's favorite. I'm bringing a yummy salad with all my favorite things:eggs,cheese,bacon and homemade croutons from fresh bread! All of this is low cal of course (wink).
Tomorrow we are hitting a yard sale at Georgetown Elementary School! Come on out-it supports Relay for Life! I'll post pics if I find any good bargains.Next week there is a yard sale at the Optimist Club in Georgetown. I am planning on setting up a booth there! Watch for pics.
Well-I'm tired and need a little rest before dinner. I'll let you know the recipes soon. I've been asking mom for years to write them down!!
Hoping the stinkin snow melts soon!
Shannon
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Will it ever stop snowing?
We have about 8 inches after last night's snow on top of Sunday's. We are off school today-I think this is our 5th snow day since January. But, we still have to eat so I put on chicken and rice in the crock pot yesterday. My family's favorite!
Recipe:
3 to 4 boneless,skinless chicken breasts
2 cans of chicken broth
Place in crock pot on high for 6 hours (tear chicken with a fork)
In a bowl combine
1 can evaporated milk
8oz sour cream
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
stir together and place in crock pot
*let the mixture heat up (about 30 minutes)
then add 4 cups of instant white rice
It will only take about 20 minutes more to be done
Enjoy a steaming bowl of this creamy,hearty dish!
Well that's my tip for today! A nice comforting meal.
I am also going to share some trash to treasure pics of things that my husband and I have done around our home. I'll start with a couple today!
Our beautiful china cabinet was found at a garage sale about 2 miles from our house. The lighting even worked inside. The back is mirrored and one piece (the middle) was cracked. Matt made a template on butcher paper and took it to our local glass store. Guess how much for the new piece of glass? $18. So, for a total of $21 we have space to store my mother's wedding china, wine glasses and so much more. (Matt installed the new piece of glass)
I had been wanting a table big enough that we could have my whole family over. But we just were'nt having any luck finding the right one. Matt found a "top" from an old desk at a local Salvation Army for $15 and he already had legs that he had found during one of his trash picking forays. We painted it solid black. We also painted my great aunt's chairs she had given me. I then recovered the seats and made little slip covers for the backs. I used 2 Waverly napkins per chair (from Target and Ebay) with a simple straight stitch. Then-you won't believe this! Matt found a pew bench in a dumpster a few weeks later and you guessed it we painted it black and use it for seating at the table!
Let me know if you'd like any more details on either of these projects!
Decorating in the snow,
Shannon
Recipe:
3 to 4 boneless,skinless chicken breasts
2 cans of chicken broth
Place in crock pot on high for 6 hours (tear chicken with a fork)
In a bowl combine
1 can evaporated milk
8oz sour cream
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
stir together and place in crock pot
*let the mixture heat up (about 30 minutes)
then add 4 cups of instant white rice
It will only take about 20 minutes more to be done
Enjoy a steaming bowl of this creamy,hearty dish!
Well that's my tip for today! A nice comforting meal.
I am also going to share some trash to treasure pics of things that my husband and I have done around our home. I'll start with a couple today!
Our beautiful china cabinet was found at a garage sale about 2 miles from our house. The lighting even worked inside. The back is mirrored and one piece (the middle) was cracked. Matt made a template on butcher paper and took it to our local glass store. Guess how much for the new piece of glass? $18. So, for a total of $21 we have space to store my mother's wedding china, wine glasses and so much more. (Matt installed the new piece of glass)
I had been wanting a table big enough that we could have my whole family over. But we just were'nt having any luck finding the right one. Matt found a "top" from an old desk at a local Salvation Army for $15 and he already had legs that he had found during one of his trash picking forays. We painted it solid black. We also painted my great aunt's chairs she had given me. I then recovered the seats and made little slip covers for the backs. I used 2 Waverly napkins per chair (from Target and Ebay) with a simple straight stitch. Then-you won't believe this! Matt found a pew bench in a dumpster a few weeks later and you guessed it we painted it black and use it for seating at the table!
Let me know if you'd like any more details on either of these projects!
Decorating in the snow,
Shannon
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