I was overwhelmed to experience a milestone in the shop this week! 300 sales!
Y'ALL thank you so so much for all of your support of my shop over these years!! I wish I could express how much each sale from my shop has meant to me over these past years since I first opened my store. It truly is such a beautiful blessing to be able to create. Thank you so much!
To celebrate I wanted to host a special giveaway of a unique Thanksgiving Junk Journal that I made for this occasion!
One person will be randomly chosen to receive this special Thanksgiving Junk Journal! This "Happy Thanksgiving" junk journal features approximately 75 pages of vintage paper, washi tape, quality scrapbook paper, ephemera, vintage ephemera, and ribbons. This junk journal will create a treasured keepsake for a lifetime from this Thanksgiving season!
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Hurry! The giveaway closes tonight!!
Thank you again for ALL of your support of my shop! Each of you are truly a blessing to me!!
Do all vacations have to be about sun and fun? Sometimes you have to break away from the norm and just take a holiday slow. Traveling doesn't have to be stressful, you don't need to make up a big checklist of all the things you want to see and do. Maybe that's why taking life slow on your travels will often mean heading out in the countryside.
Shacking up in a local bed and breakfast you can rest easy in a bed that feels like home and regularly enjoy home cooked meals too. Lancaster PA is just such a town, where you would be the odd one out if you took things too seriously and rushed everywhere. Here, life is supposed to be taken at a leisurely pace. You're surrounded by fields of corn and wheat, along with lakes and rivers. Here are some ways to relax in a place that begs you to drop all your worries.
Something to Take Home
Since you are in a rural town, there’s something you should look to take home with you to remind you of your adventure. What better item to take home than one you can eat? Go outlet shopping to the Good Food Outlet Store where you can buy Golden Barrel pancake mix, the Pennsylvania Dutch Shoo-Fly pie mix. There are syrups you can buy made from local produce such as raspberry, blueberry and honey flavors to choose from. Various oils for cooking and glazes for meat are also sold here. Some of the items you simply can’t get anywhere else so you might want to stock up on something you like.
Some Time Alone
When you’re taking it slow and just unwinding, you may not want to go out to eat. However here in Lancaster there are restaurants that give you your alone time. This means space and quiet, which exactly what John J Jeffries offers you. Here you can chow down on some grass-fed beef dishes, a mixture of healthy salads with hard-boiled eggs and pesto, as well as late not coffee and wine to pass the evening.
Lancaster is just one of those rural towns that begs with you to take life slow. Take a calming walk during the day to clear your mind and formulate your thoughts, buy some foods that will remind you of the town before eating in a local restaurant that respects your privacy at the table.
Enjoy travel tips? Check out more cozy adventures and travel ideas and tips on the blog by clicking HERE!
Looking for some books on Lancaster? Check out some of these books to help plan your next trip!
Lancaster Travel Guide
Hiking Guide (includes Lancaster area)
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As a couple, travel is one of the greatest ways of getting out and seeing the world and sharing in new adventures and experiences together. There are plenty of great chances for enjoying and indulging when it comes to the right sort of romantic getaway, and it may not necessarily be what you think. These are some of the best suggestions for travel ideas if you are a couple looking for a romantic getaway today.
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Safari Trip
You might be surprised by how much romance can be found in an intimate safari experience. As a couple, you could choose to take a private safari trip and take in some of the stunning sights and sounds of the African plains. Seeing some majestic creatures in the natural habitat, and taking snaps of beautiful surroundings beneath a golden Sun is enough to make you think of the Lion King music swirling in the background. Instead of a Safari trip, you can also take your romantic getaway a notch higher with a long and exotic road trip.
Take a City Break
Make sure you do as much as possible to enjoy a city break together - this is one of the best ways to have a romantic trip. Choosing somewhere like Rome for a stunning city break is one of the best ways of spending a long weekend. The Eternal City has such rich culture and history, not to mention amazing food, and the beauty of the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain.
Hire a Yacht
Make sure you hire a yacht together, and you can have a more opulent and luxurious experience. This is a great way of getting away together as a couple, and having some quality time. It will cost quite a lot, but a yacht charter in the South of France is certainly something to aim for and the perfect way of getting the right degree of romance back into your relationship today.
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Be Adventurers
Being adventurous and taking adventures you might not ordinarily have taken is very important. You have to make sure you think about what you can do to improve the way you are doing things together. You should make sure you think about the different ways of having active and adventurous holidays. For instance, you might like to climb a mountain together. The phrase - darling, let’s be adventurers springs to mind. By being adventurers, you can get closer together as a couple.
There are loads of wonderful and diverse travel ideas that you can choose from, and it is important to make sure you make the most of this. If you can use the ideas on this post as a starting point, you will be able to have some pretty amazing times together as a couple. It is so important that you do as much as you can to have a memorable and unforgettable travel adventure today.
Looking for additional travel ideas and tips? Check out THIS page here of tons of travel tips!
Looking for additional travel ideas and tips? Check out THIS page here of tons of travel tips!
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It is honestly hard for me to believe that this series of posts is coming to an end next week as this trip was such an amazing and beautiful experience that it has been so delightful to recap and share about on the blog! As I finish up the posts from our time I hope that it has been an inspiration and an encouragement to dream, plan, and take a trip to this area of the world! Later next week I have a very fun and special announcement so stay tuned later on next week as I conclude these Alaska Road Trip posts!
Today I am excited to share pictures from our drive along the beautiful Seward Highway that we did as we drove back from our Winner Creek Trail Hike that we did in Girdwood to Anchorage. We had driven this exact road to get down to the Kenai Peninsula (from the Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge to the Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge in Cooper Landing) just a few days before this but due to the fact that it was extremely rainy and overcast we didn't take as many pictures going to Kenai Peninsula as we did on the way back.
The drive on the Seward Highway (specifically from Anchorage to Kenai Peninsula- so the Turnagain Arm Drive) begins with an absolutely breathtaking start. I feel like these pictures don't even do it justice - the absolute raw beauty that we experienced and saw as we drove.
Every turn just brought a beautiful view and many times I just gasped at the beauty as I drove around another bend. This was truly an amazing drive that I can't recommend enough!
Thank you so much for stopping by and reading about this beautiful place today! Happy Monday friends! I hope y'all have a wonderful day and start to the week!
PS- If you are curious about the specific details of the road trip that we took throughout Alaska or if you are planning a similar road trip (or just want to see and dream about visiting the beauty!) I hope the information below is helpful. You can read all of the posts from the trip by clicking on the links below:
Chugach Mountains: // Eklutna Lake//
Girdwood: // Winner Creek Trail //
Homer (Kenai Peninsula) Area: // Homer Spit // Homer Lighthouse// Bishop's Beach //
// A Brief History of Homer //
// A Brief History of Homer //
Thompson Pass Area: // Thompson Pass Area Video //
// Worthington Glacier Ridge Hike// Worthington Glacier//
// Among the Alaskan Fireweed on Alaska 4-S: A Beautiful Symbol for Hope in the Hard Seasons of Life// A Brief History of and Drive on Alaska 4-South of the Richardson Highway//
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Area: // Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge//
"12 Things to Do: For Yourself, a Loved One, a Spouse, The Parents, The Children & The Caretakers Dealing with Chronic Health Conditions During the Holiday Season" E-Book
October 28, 2018
This book is the 2nd book in the Chronic Grace E-Book Series (the first, 12 Things to Pray, released this past Spring) and is for those a heart and desire to practically meet those struggling through the confusing and difficult road of a chronic health condition. Often people want to do something, but feel at a loss, especially during the holiday season. While this book doesn’t address every idea of what to do and is not a "formula", it is a good "jumping off point" for those wanting to do things for themselves or those whom you love that struggle with chronic health issues & their loved ones this season.
"12 Things to Do: For Yourself, a Loved One, a Spouse, The Parents, The Children & The Caretakers Dealing with Chronic Health Conditions During the Holiday Season" will be available for purchase on Amazon on Sunday the 18th!
If you’re heading off to Austin in the next few weeks or if somebody’s coming over to visit, you need to have something awesome to do. It is, after all, not too hard to find something great to do in this city - and as long as you’ve taken some time to look around the web, you should definitely be able to map out an unforgettable weekend plan.
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Here are a handful of ways to have a great time in Austin whether you’re trying to impress your friends or if you’re just visiting for the first time.
#1 Go on a distillery tour
Sure, you can always enjoy a wine tour or a simple beer brewery tour, but the distilleries are for those who are looking for something special. While Austin has a lot of great bars, in general, and you certainly won’t have a lack of options when you’d like a drink, the famous Austin distillery tours will go a bit deeper.
You can choose from a lot of different ones as well, by the way, so don’t just pick the first one you find. You can check out everything from sake tours to the regular gin and bourbon distilleries so pick your favourite and make it a trip for a bachelor’s or a bachelorette’s party, for example.
#2 Enjoy a BBQ
What’s a trip to Austin without a great BBQ to enjoy with your friends and family? Besides from having the best and most juicy meat, you can also impress your crew by bringing them over to one of the famous BBQ restaurants in the city; Franklin Barbeque is well-known for its great food - as well as it’s overly lengthy waiting line, while La Barbeque also has a lot of perfectly grilled meat to offer.
Have a look at this article before you decide anything final and keep in mind that you might have to book a table for some of these way in advance. Otherwise, you can just fire up the BBQ at home or in your friend’s backyard.
#3 Catch a wave
Surfing in Texas is actually perfectly possible and without the push of an ocean. The man-made lagoon NLand Surf Park attracts surfers from all over the world but you can easily head over there just to enjoy the view and some of the excellent food they serve.
They have craft beer brewed on site as well, by the way, so there should be more than enough to do for your friends who are not that interested in surfing.
There is, of course, so much more to do in Austin while you’re there but now you have the plan for your first day or two settled. With a variety of live music events at all times, green spaces, and various swimming pools, you will definitely not be bored.
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Happy Saturday friends! Today I am so excited to share with you a baby boy junk journal that I made several weeks ago for a friend who has a baby new grandson! She was wanting to give a special journal to her daughter for this sweet occasion and I was honored and humbled when she asked if I would create something!
If you have been around the blog for even a little bit then you know that ever since I was a young girl, I have always had an obsession with journaling and making things that I own pretty. I love to fill not only my journals, but my favorite books with colorful, unique, whimsical, and pretty ribbons, sweet paraphernalia, and writing that speaks to my heart and that encourages me. I love recording special occasions (I am a huge date person as far as dates being very important to me!). I am smiling as I type this because even right now as I am studying for more teacher certification tests I am making all of my study notes pretty. I will have to show y'all soon!! *smiles*
When creating a baby journal was mentioned I immediately started dreaming of all different ideas. I love recording and creating a keepsake that will last forever for me and wanted to provide the same for my friends daughter without her feeling like she had to write pages and pages of notes during this first year of mommy hood.
So I decided to create a year junk journal that would include highlights of each month, note important dates (like first photos, first words, etc.) and create places where easy pictures could be added along with simple notes to create a keepsake that she would treasure forever.
Baby Z's nursery theme was "under the sea" (isn't that delightful??) so I kept with that theme and chose all different blue and green tones with hints of corals. I love the color combination!
This was such a fun and wonderful junk journal to make (Baby Junk Journals just make my heart smile!) and I am so thankful for the opportunity to create this!
Thank you so much again Stacey for asking me to do this! I hope that this first year of Z's precious life is absolutely amazing!!
Happy Saturday friends! I hope that you have a wonderful day with friends and family!!
PS- If you are interested in ordering a baby junk journal from the shop you can do so through the custom junk journal listing (HERE)! Thanks so much y'all!
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