Becoming a Stay-at-Home Mom, the Hard Way I updated a post from 2016, in the hopes that everyone would know my "story" a little bit better. These days I blog about recipes, my children, DIY projects, and vintage dishes. The journey to becoming a stay-at-home mom is still an important part of Continue Reading
Buying and Selling Household Items on eBay
Selling things on eBay is a great way to get rid of the things you don't need anymore, and acquire the things you do. Setting up an eBay seller's account is simple and quick. The eBay website is generally user-friendly. The way eBay connects with the USPS makes it easy to Continue Reading
Becoming a Holiday Meal Matriarch
For the past eight years or so, we have been cooking Thanksgiving dinner at our house, as opposed to going to other people's houses to eat their food. Once I turned forty I figured I needed to at least know how to cook turkey and all of the trimmings for the traditional Continue Reading
Machine Embroidery-The Agony and the Ecstacy
It is Christmas time again, which means it's time to put the Brother PE 500 to work. Armed with 3 "blank" soon-to-be Christmas sweatshirts, I am ready to go in my little sewing nook and make it happen. I know in advance that my machine will eat at least Continue Reading
The Merging of Thanksgiving and Christmas
Thanksgiving 2012 In the past, the day after Thanksgiving was the official starting point of the Christmas season. Christmas has been arriving earlier of late. November 1st is now the "First Day of Christmas." The Countdown to Christmas at Walmart is posted right after Halloween, at Continue Reading
My Cruise Experience
The Atlantis Resort We just returned from a 5 day trip to the Bahamas. Although I have been on several cruises, I still felt afraid before sailing. The ocean is just so vast. We had to board our ship in Charleston, SC. First of all, it was windy and damp. Secondly, it was dark outside. Continue Reading
Dork Diaries Cake
Today I am attempting to make a Dork Diaries cake for my daughter's 12th birthday (The Dork Diaries are popular books for adolescent and pre-teen girls). I wish that I could be one of those fondant-flipping devas that whip out smooth, picture-perfect cakes. But, I'm not. I prefer to make Continue Reading
About Love My Little Cottage Blog
About Love My Little Cottage As a Christian wife and homeschooling mother of five, I love being a worker at home. As my 5 children have gotten older, I've had more time to scour thrift stores for vintage glass, dinnerware and holiday items to collect and sell in my eBay store Continue Reading
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