Wonderful Wednesdays #14

Officially - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  I went back and forth on whether or not to skip this weeks party as I know we are all very busy, but I figured that I would go ahead with it, and hope that you are around enough to hang out for a few and join!

I am lucky I am even getting this post out. I am in my final countdown to Thanksgiving and the big black Friday sale at the Antique Mall. I am working extra hours right now to help the mall out by preparing our booth signs for all 200+ booths at the mall, had two doctors appointments today, did a small amount of Christmas shopping in between, and am about to start packing to go to my parents, and cleaning up around the house to get ready to bring the Christmas decor up from the basement! Whew! I need a nap just from thinking about that all - but I am excited at the same time!

Lets get to the features then why don't we?

Createinspire shared their Almost Duck Egg dresser. I may be a little biased here as we sold a beautiful light blue chest in our booth this week 2 1/2 hours after we put it in and I have it on the brain!

 Upcycle Addict shared their shutter island - I love how this turned out! And the finish on the top is beautiful!

Easy Life Meal and Party Planning shared how to get ready for the holidays through great planning!

Now, onto the party! 

• Please follow Wonderful at Home on at least TWO of their networking sites (you can find them on the top of the page)
• Please put the Wonderful at Home button (found on my sidebar), or a link somewhere on your blog, post or "where I party" page in order to be featured. There is no limit to how many times a blog can be featured, so just keep linking up every week! Trust me, you will be thankful later! 
• Link up as many of your WONDERFUL posts as you would like, but please make it a post and not a general link to your blog. They can be crafts, DIY projects, tips, repurposing ideas, recipes, etc! 
• Visit at least TWO other link ups. Please - we are all here to support one another right!?
• HAVE FUN! 
• ** I will make EVERY effort to email the bloggers that are being featured, so that they are aware, and get to come see their feature first thing. Submitting your email at time of posting the link would be helpful. If you have any questions about privacy, please see my Privacy Policy If you are one of the ones featured, don't forget to grab the "I've been featured" button from my sidebar! 

Here we go! 

Our Favorite Pinterest Things Friday #2

Yes, you read that title right. And no, you are not going insane. It is Monday. I don't know what to tell you! Things just seem to get away from me during the holiday season.  We have been getting ready for the big sale at the antique mall, trying to finish up on a couple projects around the house, running around like crazy trying to get the outdoor furniture, garden stuff etc into the garage because it actually snowed here already (a few times!), as well as getting ready for the holidays!

This week, I am featuring recipes that I have found on Pinterest that I just LOVE. I would love for you to follow Wonderful at Home on Pinterest, but if you would like, please also feel free to follow my personal Pinterest account, where I have a specific board called "Recipes I Love!". Any time I try a recipe and LOVE it, I move it over to that board! So if you are looking for something to make for dinner, dessert, a party etc, you can go there and find one that has been tested and approved, and has the husband thumbs up!

So here we go!

Copycat Alice Springs Chicken - I have made this twice in two months. We love it! And it is low carb which is something I have to watch due to my PCOS.

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Peanut Butter Cheese Ball - YUM! She hit a home run here. My family LOVED this. I keep getting requests for it! 

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Easy BBQ Ribs. The first word says it all. It was easy, and amazing. It was my first experience making ribs, and she gave such good directions!

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Well I hope that you enjoy these recipes! We sure did! See you after Thanksgiving! 

Wonderful Wednesdays #13 with features

Wow how this month has flown by hasn't it? We are 9 days away from Thanksgiving! I can't wait. My husband and I go and spend the night at my parents, which is only about 8 miles away, but we play cards, wake up to the AMAZING smell of giblets cooking on the stove, eat my Fathers FAMOUS biscuits and gravy and watch the Thanksgiving parade before gobbling down loads of food! 

Everyone has traditions, and everyone loves their food, but I have to say, ours is THE BEST. My parents are phenomenal cooks. I mean AMAZING. Sometimes to a fault - ha! We like our dishes the way we like them. Don't anyone dare bring some concocted version of sweet potato casserole (my aunt makes the best, so she makes it), don't anyone dare bring a bizarre rendering of green bean casserole (I usually contribute that) and by all means, we better have giblet stuffing (and my parents take care of that since it is a must, and not everyone that comes to dinner thinks giblets are an appropriate food.

We have about 13 1/2 people (the 1/2 is the one great kid we have in our family), so we cook two large turkeys. One oven baked and one fried. The fried one disappears FAST. It is smaller than the baked, but we enjoy having both around.

What are your traditions? What do you have for Thanksgiving? I would love to hear!

So lets get to the features!

New Mama Diaries shared their Dark Hot Chocolate - YUM! I love a good hot chocolate!

Ms Moozys Open House shared their Crockpot Caramel Sauce.  I have one word for this. YUM!

 Little Brags shared this great stool redo. Love the material!

Now, onto the party! 

• Please follow Wonderful at Home on at least TWO of their networking sites (you can find them on the top of the page)
• Please put the Wonderful at Home button (found on my sidebar), or a link somewhere on your blog, post or "where I party" page in order to be featured. There is no limit to how many times a blog can be featured, so just keep linking up every week! Trust me, you will be thankful later! 
• Link up as many of your WONDERFUL posts as you would like, but please make it a post and not a general link to your blog. They can be crafts, DIY projects, tips, repurposing ideas, recipes, etc! 
• Visit at least TWO other link ups. Please - we are all here to support one another right!?
• HAVE FUN! 
• ** I will make EVERY effort to email the bloggers that are being featured, so that they are aware, and get to come see their feature first thing. Submitting your email at time of posting the link would be helpful. If you have any questions about privacy, please see my Privacy Policy If you are one of the ones featured, don't forget to grab the "I've been featured" button from my sidebar! 

Here we go! 

 

A Christmas treat that's easy as 1 - 2 - 3! Good for the kiddos too!

Let's admit it folks... the holidays are upon us. Over the past few years, I have to admit that I have sort of meshed Thanksgiving and Christmas all into one. I can't help it! I LOVE the holidays! It is the last glimmer of happy, smiles and love before us Michiganders get snowed in and people start to get.... ANGRY. Ok... Ok, maybe that is going a little far, but seriously, things get a bit tough around here, so I enjoy the holidays to the fullest, and that includes cooking and baking my little heart out! Now maybe this wouldn't even fall into the baking category for most people, but you know what.... the oven was on, I had the fireplace going, a Christmas(y) movie on and pushed out a tray of these in minutes!

It is a great treat to make for your neighbors, to add to a cookie tray, or to send with your kid to school. YES! They can help too because literally, it is one of the simplest treats you can make for the holidays.

Here is what you need:

Preheat oven to 350
*Pretzels
*Rolos
*M&M's (regular, dark, peanut, peanut butter, peppermint - or any flavor that you would like!)
*Baking sheet

Place the pretzels on the baking sheet. Unwrap Rolos and place one Rolo on each pretzel. Bake at 350 for around 5 minutes. You want them soft, but not melted everywhere!
Take them out and place a M&M in the middle of each by gently - and I mean gently - pressing down. You want to try not to break the caramel out, or else they will stick to the baking sheet. Then let cool! You have got yourself a simple, yummy and easy treat to make for the holidays!

A note - make sure to get your Rolos early, the stores have a habit of running out during the holidays!

Happy early holidays!

Wonderful Wednesdays #12 with Features!

Its finally winter...eeeeekkkk WHAT?! I mean fall right? Well here in Michigan, it has snowed, and that snow has stuck. OUCH. It was something I was not yet prepared for. I actually hoped that we would still have the bright fall colors hanging around during Thanksgiving. (Nice dream huh?). So... we deal with it. This Sunday is suppose to be back up to 54 degrees... a much better number than the cool crisp 34 degrees we are at now (in the warmest part of the day).

Things are picking up at the Antique Outlet, which I am happy to see! I am excited to watch our sales grow this season as it will be the first Thanksgiving/Christmas with two booths. We have already decorated for Christmas at the booth. And I can officially say from the look of our sales, that people were glad! I have sold more vintage Christmas items than I would have thought, so I won't hesitate to decorate next year as early as I did. As you know, I am a huge fan of Vintage Christmas, so it is hard to see a lot of it go out the door, because yes, I am one of those who wishes they could keep everything! 

I have also escalated my Pinterest addiction. Yes, it's in full force now. So, I figured I would put it to good use, and on Fridays, I will share some of my favorite things that I find while browsing!

So, why don't we get to the features from last weeks party! 

Small Talk Mama shared her Freebie Francine from Filthy to Fabulous re-do. WOW! Say that 5 times fast! But isn't it a beautiful piece!?

Crafty Allie shared her Homemade Rotisserie Chicken. My husband loved a good rotisserie chicken - so this will be on my table at some point!

Ever Evolving Life shared their Kitchen Island Re-do. I can't say enough how much I love it! 

Now, onto the party! 

• Please follow Wonderful at Home on at least TWO of their networking sites (you can find them on the top of the page)
• Please put the Wonderful at Home button (found on my sidebar), or a link somewhere on your blog, post or "where I party" page in order to be featured. There is no limit to how many times a blog can be featured, so just keep linking up every week! Trust me, you will be thankful later! 
• Link up as many of your WONDERFUL posts as you would like, but please make it a post and not a general link to your blog. They can be crafts, DIY projects, tips, repurposing ideas, recipes, etc! 
• Visit at least TWO other link ups. Please - we are all here to support one another right!?
• HAVE FUN! 
• ** I will make EVERY effort to email the bloggers that are being featured, so that they are aware, and get to come see their feature first thing. Submitting your email at time of posting the link would be helpful. If you have any questions about privacy, please see my Privacy Policy If you are one of the ones featured, don't forget to grab the "I've been featured" button from my sidebar! 

Here we go! 

Our Favorite Pinterest Things Friday #1

What better than a new blog series? And what better than showing off my favorite things from Pinterest? Well, frankly dear, I can't think of anything! Lately, my Pinterest addiction has skyrocketed. I don't know why, and I really don't care - because I am enjoying this addiction!

I get so excited about the things I find. Each time I find something that catches my eye, I think: Oh! The possibilities! More times than I wish to admit though, it stays... just a possibility. I wish I had more gusto. I wish I had a never ending flow of energy, but for many reasons (some my fault, some not), I just don't.

I also love promoting other bloggers and blogs so I will try to choose from the blogger community as much as possible! I think that this is such a great community, and there is nothing better than supporting each other in the adventure. So in honor of "Our Favorite Things Friday #1", I will give you a rounded out version, so you get a taste for my overall style and taste.

Lets get started then why don't we?!

                                                                         

                                                                        

                                                                         

                                                                            

That about sums up this weeks "our favorite things", I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Until next time!

Wonderful Wednesdays #11 with features!

Welcome to Wonderful Wednesdays #11! We are going live with this party a little later than we usually do every week... not by much, but still - late. You see last night, I was dead beat tired. I came home from work (where at the Antique Mall, I walk and stand on the hardest concrete floor known to man for 8 hours), had a few minutes to sit on the couch before my husband came home and had to make dinner, then literally laid down and stared at the TV. I mean it. I didn't blog or play on Pinterest, which is HUGE. I usually stay up for a couple hours after my husband goes to bed so I can catch some of my shows, work on my blog and just decompress - and when he fell asleep, I turned off the TV and was OUT! That means I was EXHAUSTED! Then today, I got up at 7am (that's pretty early for me) and drove 2 hours to a little antiquing town to do some treasure hunting! I am pretty happy with the treasures I found, but as I walked in the door at 7pm tonight, I realized, I am beat!
So let's just get to the features and party for this week why don't we?

Red Tin Inn shared their Sheet Music Christmas Trees - how beautiful are these!?

Thrifty Treasures shared their Ruffle Pouf - what a great soft addition to a room!

Scrumptilicious 4 You shared their Chicken Pot Pie - I need to make this soon, as my husband has been asking for it for years!

Now, onto the party! 

• Please follow Wonderful at Home on at least TWO of their networking sites (you can find them on the top of the page)
• Please put the Wonderful at Home button (found on my sidebar), or a link somewhere on your blog, post or "where I party" page in order to be featured. Trust me, you will be thankful later! 
• Link up as many of your WONDERFUL posts as you would like, but please make it a post and not a general link to your blog. They can be crafts, DIY projects, tips, repurposing ideas, recipes, etc! 
• Visit at least TWO other link ups. Please - we are all here to support one another right!?
• HAVE FUN! 
• ** I will make EVERY effort to email the bloggers that are being featured, so that they are aware, and get to come see their feature first thing. Submitting your email at time of posting the link would be helpful. If you have any questions about privacy, please see my Privacy Policy If you are one of the ones featured, don't forget to grab the "I've been featured" button from my sidebar! 

Here we go!