Hello dear friends! Can you believe how fast summer has been flying by? Even though school will be starting back next week in our area, summer weather will linger on for at least six more weeks, so there is still plenty of summer fun to enjoy. With that in mind, I asked several blogging friends to join me today for a Summer Celebration Blog Hop! You will find links to all of the talented bloggers’ fun summer posts via the links at the end of this post. To get this celebration started, I am sharing some late summer garden treasures. Read more

Hello dear friends! Today I am sharing the cutest little “free thyme” basket that I quickly put together using a free basket I scored at an estate sale this past weekend, planted with some thyme from my own herb garden. So far it has rained every single day of June except two, and one of them was this past Saturday. It was such a nice summer day which began by shopping my friend’s parents’ living estate sale and then coming straight home and getting to work on a couple of makeovers on the treasures I found at the sale (before the rain started up again!) Read more