Best Last Minute Mother's Day Gift for the Procrastinator! A Grammy Mouse Home PortraitFree Mother's Day Cards & Printables to help you celebrate Mothers Day with your Mom! We searched the web for some Free Mother's Day Cards & Printables that you can embellish and personalize to make your Mom feel special this Mothers Day. We found these 20 free printable … [Read more...]
Best Moist Strawberry Rhubarb Bread Recipe
First we need Rhubarb and Strawberries for our Bread - Timing is everything! I love making this strawberry rhubarb bread recipe. One of the earlier plants that comes up in my garden is my rhubarb. I'm not sure what variety it is but its a special plant to me. When we moved here to northern Maine from New Hampshire, my dad gave it to me to bring with me. It was divided from the … [Read more...]
Make an easy Easter Egg Tree!
How to Make an easy Easter Egg Tree a family tradition to share with your kids! We can thank the Germans for the tradition of the Easter Egg Tree. They have been decorating trees with colorful eggs for centuries. No one is quite sure about the reasoning behind the Easter Egg Tree or exactly when the tradition started. It may have begun as a secular practice with pagan roots … [Read more...]
House Portrait – Perfect Gift for the Person who has everything!
Stumped for the perfect gift for an Anniversary, Birthday, Mother's Day or Christmas???????? Try a House Portrait by Grammy MouseIn my other life (before blogging) I am a folk artist. My style was Americana/Primitive and over the years I have been very successful at it. I have had my work published as limited edition prints, licensed to greeting card companies and the … [Read more...]
10 Free 4th of July Subway Art Printables
4th of July Free Subway Art Printables to liven up your Independence Day Celebration Here is a collection of 10 Free 4th of July Subway Art Printables to use to help add a little more detailing to your 4th of July décor. I love using printable Subway Art to add those subtle details to my holiday decorations no matter what the season. Its a great use of frames that I pick up … [Read more...]
The Living Scarecrow – A Real Halloween #TrickOrSweet
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TrickOrSweet #CollectiveBias Halloween.....it's all about the fun, the tricks, the treats, and the spooky scary stuff. As a kid, the scary stuff was the most fun for me and I have those memories to this day. We lived in the country so we had to" trick or treat" along a country … [Read more...]
4th of July Patriot Pie – Apples, Blueberries, Raspberries – Yum!
4th of July Patriot Fruit Pie - incredibly delicious with a red, white and blue touch! I always make this recipe on the 4th of July and it's afamily favorite all summer long. But in July the berries are abundant here in Maine, so all the berries are fresh and yummy. And those delicious, fresh juicy berries make this pie the yummiest, plus you have the fun of picking them … [Read more...]
Memories of Dad – The Important Life #LessonsFromDad
 This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are my own alone. #LessonsFromDad #CollectiveBias Life Lessons from the Most Important Man in my life When Father's Day and Mother's Day come around I spend the day with my parents memories as they are both gone now. My husband, who lost his parents to a horrible auto accident in his … [Read more...]
Free Frameable Easter Printables
Frameable Easter printables help get me in the mood for Easter! Today I am working on frameable Easter printables hoping they will get me in the mood for spring and Easter. If I look out the window, thinking Spring and Easter is a stretch. Here in the Maine Northwoods we have lots of snow on the ground and it hasn't started melting yet. I'm talking 6 feet of snow on our … [Read more...]
Minute® Rice Blueberry Rice Pudding helps relieve holiday stress!
When Minute® Rice asked to write this sponsored post and share two of my labor saving holiday recipes with you, I was so glad for the opportunity. I LOOOOOOVE Christmas!!!!! I love the colors, the smells, the decorations, the happiness, and of course, the presents! But it's a lot of work. So much preparation goes into that one day and I've done a lot of Christmases by this … [Read more...]