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Gathering Together Celebrating Thanksgiving 2025

Gathering Together Celebrating Thanksgiving 2025. Friends don’t you love to hear the crunch of fallen leaves as you walk, deliberately shuffling your feet, just so you can hear that wonderful sound and watch the leaves flutter around you? It brings to mind plaid blankets, flickering candles and dancing campfires as God has provided this special…

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Entertaining | Fall | Seasonal | Table Settings | Thanksgiving

Elevating The Everyday…Enjoying The Present.

My dear readers, I am sure you have heard the term….Elevating the Everyday. OK…I am not going to get all philosophical here… or maudlin… or try to tell you how to live your life. Hey, why not grab a cup of whatever and let’s talk a bit… just you and me… ….and no one else. …

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Entertaining | Fall

Butterscotch Brownies And Mitford Snowmen

You might ask what do Butterscotch Brownies and Mitford Snowmen have in common. Picture this…It is an overcast, crisp afternoon and you are curled up on the sofa with a book from the Mitford book series in hand and a steaming cup of hot tea in the other. And sitting on the nearby table beside…

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Autumn Retro Par-tee Snack

I know you remember the Chex Mixes…There are so many variations out there dating way back into the 70’s and beyond that. You have made them or at least eaten them at one tine or another in your life time. Well, I am going to show you another version if you haven’t already tried this…

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Easter | Entertaining | Seasonal | Spring | Table Settings

Color Me Blue

Friends…..I love blue, hence the title Color Me Blue. I love the blue of my favorite sports teams. The Royal Blue of the Kansas City Royals (baseball) and the Bright Blue of the Kansas Jayhawks. (college football) I love the blue of Blue Skies and my Blue Heaven. I love Blue Velvet, Blueberry Hill and…

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Entertaining | Fall | Recipes | Seasonal

Another Fall…Another Turned Page…in New Mexico

To begin this post, I have to turn the page back in this ‘book of Life’ that I am living. Back to the Land of Enchantment…New Mexico and how my Mexican Pottery tablescape for today came about. First I want to clarify that New Mexico is a state. You might be surprised to know that…

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Makin’, Bakin’, Tastin’, and Heat-Breakin’…

Makin’, Bakin’, Tastin’ And Heat-Breakin’….. Dear ones, I hope you are staying cool in your neck of the woods. Here in SW Florida, it is HOT!!! The all-time high temperature at Tampa International Airport was broken on Sunday when the thermometer hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous record had been 99 degrees in June 2020. …

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Entertaining | Faith | Fall | Halloween | Holiday | Seasonal | Table Settings

Is Black The New Orange?

Is Black the new orange? Well, sometimes it can be and as I struggled to come up with new and different table pieces, I decided to find inspiration from a table I set several years ago. As I assembled pieces from my stash…I realized I did not have a lot to work with….when I finished,…

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Entertaining | Entertainment | Movie Reviews | Travel/Entertainment

The Secret’s In The Sauce!

Do ya’ll like fried green tomatoes dipped in a wonderful creamy dipping sauce?? Perhaps you have seen the movie with the same name. ‘Fried Green Tomatoes‘, not dipping sauce. LOL The synopsis: “Kathy Bates stars as an unhappy wife trying to get her husband’s attention in this amusing and moving 1991 screen adaptation of Fannie…

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Fall | Football | Seasonal | Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving AND Football!!!

Thanksgiving and football go together like mashed potatoes and gravy, that is if you are a sports fan…and we are in this house. We are Football fans AND Thanksgiving lovers. So this year, I decided to not focus on a beautifully appointed Thanksgiving table, which is always amazing. Of course we are always thankful…and not…

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Confessions - Over the Hedge | Travel | Travel/Entertainment

Pop Ups And Why Do I Fall For Them?

Stop popping up at me! No, not you my dear readers, but those crazy pop ups that appear in my “feed” and interrupt my reading of very, very, very important Google articles. Example…see the top three pop ups I encountered today, while attempting to read a news feed. Ok, I confess, maybe “Top Ten States…

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Italy: Remembrance of A Special Train Ride …

Picture this: Italy. Tuscan hillside! The Captain and I on our honeymoon! Sigh….. Keep picturing….. The train, …much like the Orient Express, (only much cheaper)…. and we are in a tiny sleeper cabin. There is a small portable table with two plush seats on either side beside the large window. It reminds me of an…

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