Author: lisabongean
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Canning tomatoes
About every other year I make my mother come over for a day of canning tomatoes. I love to be able to make chili, lasagna or almost anything with our canned tomatoes. I am trying to eat healthier and this will help with fresh tomatoes that we know what all is in the jar! I…
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Holy MUM!
Do you see this MUM! I planted it last year. It was a nice one from Memorial Florists and it has quadrupled in size. I know people have stated that i must have dead bodies in my garden for fertilizer because my plants always seem to be bigger than usual. I guess it must be…
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off to madison…
Here is one of the new quilts we will have for the madison show… I am sorry it is sideways…it is not when I insert it..but anyway Sue made and quilted this Bonnie Blue quilt design herself. It is a nice big quilt called Aunt Nellie”s wedding quilt. So hope to see you at the…
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Little Posies-2009 Summer Freebie Quilt
Here is “Little Posies” It is a very simple quilt. I know lots of you doing wool applique might not be experienced quilters so I thought we would keep this design as simple as possible. I used “instant antique” on all of my light fabrics. This give the quilt an all over aged look and…
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Honey Mustard Layer Salad
Here is the recipe as promised. I found a recipe for a layered salad made in a beautiful glass bowl. I don’t like ham and salami on my lettuce so I changed a few of the ingredients and made my own dressing for it…so here is my version. Jeanine liked it so much she packaged…
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boating fun!
We had a wonderful weekend boating! Our first outing since Nick’s many surgery’s…My brother, Mike and his family joined us for their first day on their new boat on Saturday. Here I am with my 1 year old niece Addison. Saturday night we watched the Packer game with our “dock” neighbors and few other…
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michigan treasures
Here are my treasures from MI. I found them at a great antique shop in Marshall MI. Grannies Attic. Terry was very helpful and she has a huge store filled with everything you could want. I collect this pottery below…I call it “peasant pottery” cause it is alway affordable and i just like it. I…