Catching Up...........Day to Day Life! :)

Hi Everyone!

First off I want to say thank you for being so patient and understanding of my blogging break! It was MUCH needed! :)

And now.........I'm back (I think:) 

Well, Life's been really busy since I last checked in here!

We've been/done/happened

1. Gone to my Grandparents house over Labor Day Weekend

2. My Grandparent came home with us afterwords for a few days

3. My Birthday!!! :) 

4. Three other siblings Birthdays

5. The Missionary Fair at Church (This past weekend)

6. School started for my siblings. (in August)  

What's coming up........

1. FALL!!!!!!

2. Church Campout!! Yay! :)

3. Grandpa and Grandma coming again!

4. Garage Sale? 

5. Friends Birthdays

6. Sweater Season!!!

With everything going on I'm not keeping up very well with all of the chores/and other

 things I'm supposed to be doing :( 

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I would love your prayers that I would be more faithful in my walk with God

(With everything going on it hasn't been at the TOP of my list like it should

 be.......I'm trying to change that this week)

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Thanks for stopping by!

~Wholesome Joy~ 

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A Dog & Some Geese.... A Sherlock Tail (Tale) :)

Hello!

Sorry about the Blogging break! With having a garage sale, and prep and clean out 

from + Attending a conference life's been REALLY busy! :) 

One of my brothers had a Birthday recently and for his birthday activity we went to

 a park.

(The word we includes Sherlock, who you might remember:)

Now this park ALWAYS has a LOT of geese waddling around, and to Sherlock they

 looked like a lot of toys to chase (Or maybe chew toys? lol) 

(Above Picture)

My brother had just gotten him out of the car & he had just seen the Geese!

 (Can you tell he was excited?)

This is what he saw! 

(What dog wouldn't get excited about seeing that! :)

As soon as the Geese saw him they were all waddling as fast as they could toward the lake.

(For good reason!)

Sherlock kept trying to pull my brother into the lake! He WANTED these birds! :)

Can I have them? :) 

He looked so sad when he couldn't! :D

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When you all comment today I would love to see captions for this last picture!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

~Wholesome Joy~

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Church Picnic and Garage Sale...My Week! :)

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are having a great week so far! 

We had our church picnic yesterday and it was a blast! AWESOME!!!!! 

But that combined with the fact that we are starting our Garage Sale TOMORROW means that sadly I will be absent this week :( 

(Above)

A dragonfly I was able to get a picture of at the playground yesterday :) 

Cattails at the park!

And closeups of the Cattails! 

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I hope you all have a lovely Fourth of July!

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~Wholesome Joy~

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My Fun Fall Outfit 2 (Burnt Orange and Cream)

This is the outfit I wore to church yesterday!

I was looking for a outfit that looked fall-ish but was still cool and summer-y 

(sorry about my strange words :)

It was supposed to be in the eighties and sunny! 

(It turned out to be a BEAUTIFUL day by the way!)

I chose this Orange dress because it's Linen which is nice and cool!

I didn't want to wear brown or black with it (it would look to winter-y (sorry) :) 

so I decided on cream!

I LOVE these shoes! I think I found them at a church garage sale for about $1.00?

They are Italian leather and SO comfortable! 

They are also size 38 (if you know anything about European sizing! :) Which BTW I don't)

Don't you LOVE all of the fall leaves in our yard? !!!

By the way, the reason the bottom part of my hair is SO messy is this is about 2:30 in the afternoon and I fixed it at 8:00 in the morning + I stood outside at church for about 1/2 an hour :( Oops!

The earrings were a gift from Mom & Dad on my last Birthday! :)

And the necklace was also a gift from them (Christmas two years ago!)

P.S. This is an old picture (just about Christmas time last year)

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1. Dress; American Living; 100% Linen! Gift

2. Shirt; Designers Originals; Cotton. Garage sale $0.50

3. Shoes; Spring Step;  Made in Italy! Church Garage Sale $1.00

Necklace; Gift from Mom & Dad

Earrings Gift Again from Mom & Dad! :)

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I hope you all enjoyed My Fun Fall Outfit 2!

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Thanks for stopping by.........I hope you'll come back soon! 

~Wholesome Joy~

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Re-purposed Jeans Tutorial. Part 1

    Hi Everyone! This is a project I did last winter (that I am FINALLY getting around to posting :P) I am one of those people that have a hard time finding pants that fit right,
    Between the fact that all of the designers out there that apparently think we all have weirdly shaped bodies and the fact that I don't wear things that are shrink wrapped it can be really hard to find things! So sometimes you just have to work with what you find. Okay, so I found a pair of jeans at a (where do you think?) a Garage Sale! That looked like they would fit OK and I was needing some more  before winter, (plus they were nice dark jean and I thought I might be able to use them for something else if it didn't work)

    I got them home and tried them on..........they were to short! WAY too short! Well the nice thing about these jeans were they had a big cuff on the bottom hem that I could let out, so I did, and the result was.............. they were a little bit longer but still not long enough!

    Oh, one thing I didn't mention was that these jeans have no back pockets and instead have a second set of pockets on the side (which is just were I don't need them!)  and they were VERY annoying!

   So I decided  to re-purpose/redo them!
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      Today I will just be showing you how I did the pockets!
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The first thing I did was sew up the extra pockets on the sides and take out the inside part of them (getting rid of a lot of bulk on the sides)

I also liked this because of the stitching on the sides! 

After sewing up the outside I went back in and cut out the pocket 

from the inside. 

This is not cutting out the whole pocket

 (I forgot to get pictures of that :(  Sorry)

There were little strips of dark denim inside the pockets that I saved 

for another project that I will be showing you at a later time!

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I hope you all enjoyed this and will come back for Part 2! 

I will show you how I fixed the cuffs to make it longer!

I hope you have a great weekend. :)

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~Wholesome Joy~

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My Garage Sale Finds!

Hi Everyone! 

I'm going to share my garage sale Finds from a few weekends ago!

(Disclaimer)

This was an unusually good Garage Sale day 

(there are lots of times we go and I don't get anything) 

And most of the time things don't just fall into our laps! lol!

#1

This is a talbots Pure Silk Dress that

 I got for $.50 at a church sale

(I couldn't find anything wrong with it)

#2

$.50

This is a Linda Matthins New York which

 I think is just a J.C. Penny brand.

It still had the tag and looks to be brand new!

#3

I got this skirt for free and am planning to 

eventually turn it into a purse

(I love dark denim!) 

#4

I picked up this little bag for $.10 

It's is brand new condition!

 #5 And #6

These Kenneth Cole Reaction flats were $1.50

I've been looking for some Black flats and 

God provided them at just the right price!

(Not to mention they're adorable! lol!)

And this Rosetti Purse was $.50

(I LOVE the long shoulder strap!)

#7

And Now for the FUN of the day.......................

This is an ADORABLE little ducky that I got for $.50 

It quacks and opens and shuts it's mouth! I LOVE IT! 

(P.S. It's for the church Nursery)

Grand total for the day was  $3.60!

Thanks so much for joining me!

And I hope you all have a great weekend!

~Wholesome Joy~

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What Happened This Month?...........May

Okay I've decided to start a new kind of post on my blog, it will be (hopefully) at the beginning of the month and will be about all of the interesting things that happened the last month!

   So without further ado.......here is the first one!

This month we.........

 1. finished homeschool for the year
 2. celebrated my sisters 13th birthday

 3. had a HUGE garage sale (for 5 days)

 4. planted our garden

 5. took a trip for Memorial Day

 6. did our spring house cleaning (well most of it!)
 7. our backyard has been overrun with little tiny frogs (this is one that my brother is holding)

 8. some of the summer flowers are blooming yay!

 9. I got a early birthday present........way early as in my birthday is in September! (it was so fun!)

(Which I LOVE! Thanks so much girls! :)  )

10. Our strawberries are ripe!

11. And the Blueberries, Blackberries and peaches are ripening

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A Week In Pictures!

I'm back! We finished the garage sale on Saturday and we are so glad it's over! So here are the highlights of this last week. We got TONS of stuff out of our house!

                                                             My "little sister" turned 13 :)

These are pictures of the decorations for her birthday

 (and they were purple NOT blue like it looks like in this picture!)

                              and we had a great Sunday full of fellowship with other believers.
                                 

This is one of my favorite sights of

summer.......clothes on the line again!

Another storm on the horizon.....

And more flower pictures! (pink! :) )

And our life is getting back to normal!

Hence this blog is getting back to normal!

 

 

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