Simple Side Dish

Wanted to share a recipe I have made a couple times. Hubby loves and I do mean LOVES rice and this one he really loves! It’s very easy to make and fast to!

Really and truly you could probably make a meal out of this by just adding some small pieces of boiled chicken if you’d like to have a whole meal. I would have to have a piece of cornbread with mine though. ;)

 

Broccoli and 3 Cheese Sauce with Rice

I use brown rice because it’s healthier for me, but you can use white rice if you prefer. Brown rice takes longer than white rice to cook. I usually cook more than what I need for this meal because hubby loves the rice so much. Cook about 1-2 cups of rice. You may not want as much rice as I put in ours. You may only want 1 cup. Try it both ways and see which one you like best.

Then get you a 24 oz. size of Green Giant Broccoli and Three Cheese Sauce. It’s the bag you steam. Go ahead and stick it in the microwave and steam it.

When it’s done and sit as long as the recipe on the back of the bag says to do, mix it with your rice.

Hope you enjoy this recipe!

Treasure In the Making

Well this would should be really fun!

My sister remarried her 1st husband and he has a daughter from another marriage. I hate to call children step children! So I’m not going to do that! Anyway she is getting married shortly and needed a home for beginning her new life. I WISH I had thought to post before pix of it but didn’t think to!

Well let me back up, you wont know what in the world I am referring to!

Stephie’s (young lady to be married soon) her step Dad does repair work and he acquired this trailer. Stephie is going to fix it up for their home and it’s a neat trailer! I am SOOOOOO excited for them!!!

Anyway this place was just left after the tree limb went through the roof and her step Dad, Dad and future hubby are going to fix it. From the looks of the trailer it was like time stood still after the tree limb went through the roof because the lady just left things as they were in there.

There were lots of stuff in it along with furniture etc. Lots and lots of stuff in it! It's just so neat for them to be starting out their new life with so many things that make a house a home! You would not believe the clothes, shoes, and magazines this lady had! There was a 55 gallon bag of shoes! Anyway I went over to help them on Monday and we got a truck load that was over the cab of the truck out that day. Then they got out another large truck load the next day.

I talked to my sis last night and they were shampoo-ing carpets and washing down the walls. I will probably be going back today so maybe I can get some pix if she doesn’t mind me sharing them on here.

I love seeing the before and afters of things like this turning into a treasure. That is sooooo much fun to see the after shots!

OK got to run….. more to continue on this subject later. :)

OK update on the place. They are really working on it and they're putting the porch on as of last week. Even started putting on some of the skirting as well because the part where the porch goes needed it's skirting. All this came with the trailer which is soooo cool. When we, my husband and I got married we bought a trailer and ours didn't come fully furnished with all the things you need to start out a new marriage. So I know how hard it is to get the things you need and that's why I am just so excited for them and they can make this place their own and fix it just the way they like which is also really cool. I wish them all the best in the world for the most happiest marrage ever!

Bargains

Well I did it again! Well let me back up there just a little. ;) God and I did it again! I KNOW very well where my blessings come from and am always in mind of it. So with credit where credit is due, He helped me find this bargain as well.

I’ve been wanting some of the wide blinds for our house for quite some time and finally found them a couple weeks back. As you know I love to shop the thrift stores and found these, the whole buggy load was 5 bucks. They were all tangled up but I knew I could get them untangled and I bought them. There were like 15-20 blinds in this buggy!! The guy that donated them told the store he had paid over 500.00 for these blinds. WOW and I’m soooo excited to have gotten them! God is SO GOOD AND AWESOME and I might add, He is good ALL THE TIME! :)

 

Dining room pic….

We finally got them up over the weekend with my sisters help. We’ve still got to put up the little valance things that cover the hardware and metal part of the blinds.

I want to take the curtain rod holders down but I haven’t done so yet because I will have to touch up the paint when I do take them down.

Dining room pic…….

My plans are to repaint the kitchen and dining room. When I painted the dining room this color I decided it was much too yellow for me. And like I usually do, it takes me quite awhile to decide WHAT I want to do when one of my projects doesn’t go the way I had it in my head. But I have decided I am going to tone down the yellow with some white so it will have a tint of yellow.

kitchen pic……

and last but not least, the back door one……

I wound up with 6 blinds that fit these windows and 2 more that fit the living room windows. I have 4 windows in the living room and will have to find 2 more for the other two windows. So that’s not even 1.00 per blind for the ones I got. I gave my sister several of them and she and her husband put up one very long one over their wide dining room windows. It also looks VERY good.

THANK YOU SIS for all your help!! I LOVE YOU!

Rose

Beach Bedroom Roman Blinds

Well I finally got those roman blinds made for our bedroom a couple weeks ago. Then just realized I hadn’t even shared them with you all. They were fairly easy to make but just took a lot of time.

I am leaving the printed swag for right now because I should have made the blinds just a little wider so you couldn’t see around the sides of them. I can fix them I think.

I am going to starch some battenburg lace I have and hand stitch it on them here and there to dress them up a little. Then I want to use a battenburg lace dust ruffle on the bed.

I wanted it to be really dark so when I sleep late it will be dark in there. Then when I want light I can raise the blinds. I sandwiched some of that darkening fabric in between the layers of cloth.

I made a few boo boo’s along the way but now I know how to do it now and will be making 4 for the living room as soon as I can. This should help keep the rooms warmer in the wintertime. Next time I make them I will put the darkening fabric all the way to the edge and not following the directions on that because it really needs to be all the way to the edge.

I am really enjoying the wall color. It makes the room so light and airy and have decided I would like this beach look all through out my house. lol