My Crazy Life as a Farmers Wife

Land That I Love...

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday is just around the corner, and we're looking forward to a day spent celebrating our great nation. My heart is full when I think about all of the sacrifice that was made along our country's road to freedom...and I am indeed grateful for the beautiful place which I can call home and for the freedoms which I enjoy here. We finally got our Independence Day decor displayed on our front porch...so we're ready for the holiday festivities!

Apron Hooks...

I *adore* vintage textiles, fabrics and linens. One of my biggest collections is vintage aprons. I think I have about 50 of them. I love the soft old printed fabrics...they just don't make the fabric like they used to...and I love the way the fabric aged and faded with time, giving it the well-loved appearance. I have several hooks on my kitchen island where I display about 6 of my favorite aprons, but I wanted more space to display them (rather than keep them hid away in a drawer). I picked up a few hooks and had David screwed them to the end of my cabinets, and now they're loaded with some more of my favorite aprons...the pretty prints and colors make me smile :)

Christmas Goodies...

NOTE FOR THOSE COMING FROM PINTEREST: I took down the link to the snowman popcorn template. The template was a free online template that I downloaded back in 2010. I originally had a link here to the template, but a woman who licenses the orginal artist sent me a nasty email saying I was having copyright infringement by linking to her free template! CRAZY!!! I linked straight the the freebie by the artist, so I'm not sure how that was copyright infringement! In fact, to date, I have sent over 200,000 links to her website, but I guess her licenser didn't understand how the internet works, and that I was actually promoting and helping the original artist! Too bad for her that she will no longer receive ANY links from me. Sorry if you wanted the link and connected from Pinterest :(

I can't believe it is only 9 days away!!! The kids just have one day of school left, and then they're all mine for two weeks! We have some fun activities planned that we're looking forward too! Here is a peek at some of the Christmas cheer around our house...

and a few fun Holiday ideas we have already tried out:

Christmas Stained Glass Jello...we made it for Lily and Kate's preschool treats...