A Hope Chest Without Quilts!!? What hope chest would be complete without adding a quilt (or two)?! Quilts have been around for many centuries, and have brought much comfort, love and protection to all who have made and/or own them! Every handmade quilt has a story and wonderful memories behind every one! Any time my [...]
Filed under: Christian Living, Practical, Random, Scripture, friendship, miscellaneous, sewing on May 19th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
If you are like my mother and I and LOVE to cook and bake with fun gadgets and things to help cooking be a little bit easier at times, Here is a giveaway that is the best one yet! Over at THIS blog, a lady is giving away two Kitchen Aid Mixers! The trick is [...]
Filed under: Kitchen, Random, friendship, miscellaneous on March 8th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I am so sorry I did not get this article up sooner! We have been quite busy over here and (I am sorry to say) almost forgot about it!!! I hope you enjoy this weeks hope chest article! Heirloom Stain Remover Recipe Don’t you just hate it when you get a stain on one of [...]
Filed under: Practical, Random, miscellaneous on February 10th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Aprons, Aprons, Aprons! I thought that this week we would look at one thing that all young ladies should put into their hope chest but even be wearing it now and that is an apron! I know at first when the thought of aprons came to me at the age of about 13 I thought [...]
Filed under: Family, Practical, Random, friendship, miscellaneous, sewing on February 1st, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Heirloom Pillow Cases Hello everybody! I thought that this week I would share a couple pictures of some of my heirloom pillow cases that I have in my hope chest, and some I even am using now! Pillow Case 1 : This Pillow case above I hand embroidered about 3 to 4 years ago, and [...]
Filed under: Practical, Random, miscellaneous, sewing on January 26th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Filling Your Hope Chest Part 4 Today I will discuss the last 2 ideas for filling your hope chest : Recipes : You will always want to keep those cherished family recipes safe and well organized so a couple ideas on how to organize those special recipes are : Binder : I have a special [...]
Filed under: Practical, Random, miscellaneous, sewing on January 19th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Filling Your Hope Chest Part 3 Today I will be discussing another idea for filling your hope chest…….. Place Settings : There are so many choices when it comes to place settings, so I thought I would just list a few ideas to get you thinking! Go Practical & Inexpensive : Is it practical, and [...]
Filed under: Practical, Random, miscellaneous on January 11th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Filling Your Hope Chest Part 2 Today we will be discussing another idea for filling your hope chest with lovely, practical, useful, simple things that make hope chests so wonderful! *Please know that my lists are not exhaustive nor mandatory. Something I think is essential for my hope chest may not be practical or useful [...]
Filed under: Christian Living, Kitchen, Practical, Random, friendship, miscellaneous on January 5th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Ideas For Hope Chest Contents Part #1 For the next few articles, I will be focusing on what items you can put into your hope chest. This will be so much fun as I share some of the items I have in mine, and give you ideas for yours. So here we go! Books: A [...]
Filed under: Christian Living, Family, Practical, Random, friendship, miscellaneous, sewing on December 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What Is A Hope Chest? Part #2 This week we will be focusing on the second question “What is a hope chest meant for?”. The chest itself was usually a hand crafted labor of love from a young woman’s father of brother. The chest could also have been a special gift handed down from mother [...]
Filed under: Family, Practical, Random, friendship, miscellaneous on November 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
