Absence makes the heart grow fonder

You know, they say "absence makes the heart grow fonder"...so my blogging friends, will you be fonder of me now that I have some new blog posts on the way? You didn't know there would be a test did you? ;)

Life has been so completely busy that I simply haven't had the few free moments it takes to do a blog post. But today my determination was meant and I made the time, my room is a different story however!!

It is SO lovely out that I actually sat outside for a little while today (manly to get this picture;)! And I set up a tftt picture so I now have next week's picture, sorry about missing the 20th's. I hate doing that...I just couldn't get it together enough to blog that week!
So, this is just a note to say that I have an outline for what the next few weeks should look like on my blog so keep checking back and hopefully I'll have posted!
Blessings...and no melting out there ;)

PS. I'm thinking about starting a once a week (on any day I pick;) 'Modest Wardrobe' or 'What I wore' post....what do you think? Please let me know your thoughts in a comment below!

Closet Clearing

I have been feeling the Spring-cleaning bug now for quite some time and last week or so I did a little bit of clearing in my closet!

I wear a lot of sweaters and turtle necks, as well as a lot of black which sounds kind of strange but I just find it a calm color and one that goes with nearly everything. However, none of those are particularly good summer-time clothing choices, so I decided to start working on that! I do usually tend to be more cold then warm but some of those hot days I know we're going to get this Summer might catch me off guard if I don't have anything cool to wear! So my first step was to clear out all my winter clothes (mostly just heavy sweaters), my Fall clothes and things to get rid of! Turns out I had more in my closet then I thought!

 I ended with quite the line of empty hangers and a large bag of items to YardSale this spring!

I have a few more items to add for summer which you'll get to see tomorrow! Until then, happy Spring cleaning :)

Spring Tea

We had a lovely lunch at the CPC Spring tea last Saturday, Hope and I served our guests a large salad with a few toppings, dinner rolls and pound cake with strawberries for dessert! It's called making a lovely (+filling) lunch on a budget ;)

It was so much fun to work with Hope and plan what to serve, how to present our table, and of course, doing the shopping which is always fun!

The dishes also helped save us some money and time, they are from a huge collection I have in my hope-chest! We dug out 8 of each piece and washed them up, I enjoyed being able to share them with everyone!

Here are some of us...

 left to right: Megan (a good friend), Helayna, Hope and Myself...looking funky in the hat I know!

Needless to say, as you could probably gather from my blog is that I LOVE tea and all that goes along with it, and this Spring tea fit right in the mix of it all!!

Happy Weekend!

I'm off to a have a hopefully lovely day at a Spring Tea with my Mom, two sisters, and friends! My sister, Hope and I are hosting a table at the tea so I will have lots of pictures of our dishes, menu and decor choices on Wednesday :) Come back to see!

And tomorrow will be a wonderful Sunday starting with Morning Church service and then lunch at our house with a family from Church!

What are your plans for the weekend? Whatever they are, I hope you have a wonderful and safe time :)

Happy Weekend friends!

Welcome April!

So glad to see we are in the month of April now!! As they say, don't count your chicks till they hatch, however I am so glad to see Spring hopefully just around the corner so I thought I'd give April a big *welcome* party :) So without farther ado...

*Welcome nice crisp, bright mornings!*

*Welcome beautiful sunshine!*

*Welcome Summer-planning!*

*Welcome muddy puddles!*

*Welcome Spring colors!*

And {*drum-roll please!*}...

Good-Bye snow!!!