Saturday Suggestions: Inspirations for Your Weekend

 Good morning, and happy Saturday! Hope you have had a good week. Ours has been full and busy – and I will tell you more about it tomorrow! For today, I’m excited for my Sabbath, and while I enjoy that, here are some links for you to check out.

The world’s longest yard sale doesn’t fit into my schedule for this year, but because we live relatively close to the route, I have to keep this on my radar for a future year. Have any of you ever shopped any stretch of this? It sounds absolutely delightful to me!! Hey Ryan! Want to put this on our 2026 calendar??

It’s been almost a year since our friends came to stay with us for the Solar Eclipse party, and their daughter gifted us one of the plants she’d grown from propagations. It has done really well over this past year and I decided I needed to learn to propagate to help keep it healthy and to share it with others! I found Amy’s tutorial, and it turns out she has posts on a variety of plants, so if you want to learn how to propagate what you have, maybe she has a post for you, too! (BONUS: And if you have a lot of indoor plants, how cute is this plant stand with grow lights?!?!)

Ryan and I have added a lot of wooden items to our kitchen over the past five years: cutting boards, rolling pin, spoons, spatulas…so stumbling upon this tutorial about how to care for and condition the wood was really helpful. I’d like to keep adding this material to our kitchen, and I want to find ways to make it last for the long haul!

Starting back in our Kokomo days, I found myself drawn to the look of houses that had well-placed outdoor lighting. I remember one particular house that sat across from a couple of fast food restaurants we frequented, and when we went at night, I always remarked about how I loved the look of the lighting against the house. There was nothing overly spectacular about the house itself. I mean, it was a nice house and well-kept, but it wasn’t an amazing house. But something about the lights shining against it at night seemed to level up the look, and I loved it. I’ve continued to be drawn to homes that have pretty landscape lighting. I spent some time reading through this Better Homes and Gardens article that gives all kinds of tips and info on outside lighting, because I’d love to add some here at our home!

If you have kids or grandkids and need some ideas for celebrating a Christ-centered Easter, here is the ultimate list of ideas. Activities. Coloring pages. Recipes. Books. So many ideas. I’m sure you won’t need or want all of them, but my goodness, it should be a fine springboard for getting started! (BONUS: And if you don’t need ideas for kids, but you want the cutest, simplest table setting idea, look at this from Ann’s blog. I think this might be my most favorite Easter table ever!)

You’ve heard me talk about our friend Brent Vernon, who travels full-time in concert ministry. He’s also a gifted author and illustrator. AND Brent is a ventriloquist! This week he posted a blog about how ventriloquism works. It’s fun to read about things I don’t know how to do…and if you think so too, give it a read!

                I haven’t done this one yet, but I’m sharing it here, so I remember to do it. I need to go through our kitchen and weed out things we haven’t used in a long time. Some things need to go entirely, and others just need to be moved farther away from the main hub of the kitchen so things I use more often can have a prime spot! Maybe you can join me in a kitchen-cleaning party of your own!

                Speaking of kitchens, this also a great time to make a note of things you want to keep an eye out for this summer – on sales or at sales. Need some new measuring cups or dishes? Make a list and keep it handy for when you’re out and about!