Saturday Suggestions: Inspirations for Your Weekend

 

This has been one WILDLY unexpected week. We’ve had all sorts of adventures – some good, some a bit frustrating – and we are quite excited for this weekend! We are particularly looking forward to some warmer weather and sunshine. I’ve actually started planting and look forward to finishing it and enjoying some pretty flowers. While I do that…here are some fun finds for your weekend!

Are you walking through some hard stuff right now? I have some friends who have just such a road, and the minute I read Ann Voskamp’s post a few days ago, I sent them the link. She so eloquently says the things I’d been fumbling around trying to say, and it was a blessing to have the words to share. Maybe you need to hear them today too, so I’ll just leave them right here. (BONUS: Ann also has this beautiful post about love – from the perspective of a mother. I know Mother’s Day is not an easy day for everyone, so choose for yourself if this is something you wish to read, but I submit to you that the love she talks about isn’t just a mother’s love. It’s really about the kind of love all of us should show to one another!)

I am really thankful that when we moved to our lake house, some previous owner had planted a few things in the landscaping in front. While I am great about planting annual flowers in pots each year, I’ve never learned too much about perennials. I’m keeping this post for my own reference, but I thought I’d share it with you too! I wanted to hang onto it because Ann, the blogger, lives in the same zone I do, so if these plants work for her, they should work for me, too!

This YouTube video shows a GORGEOUS small guest bedroom transformation to become an Anne of Green Gables-inspired room. It was so beautifully done. Even if you don’t want to watch all the process part (though it isn’t terribly long) you should go watch the reveal. I’d stay there! (BONUS: Speaking of YouTube…whilst having a little personal concert in my kitchen a few days ago, I ran across this song by LordSong…called Lord of the Dance. What a powerful reminder of the whole message of Jesus’ life in one song!)

I do love a good trifle (both for taste and presentation) and this lemon trifle looks like a winner in both categories. Ryan and I both love lemon desserts, especially in the summer, so I’m keeping this on the list of things to try. How about you? Lemon and/or trifle fan?

If you need a fun last-minute idea for something to take to a Mother’s Day gathering, check out these adorable fruitflowers! These appear to be easy to make and are so, so cute. They would be cute at summer picnics or gatherings, too!

If you’re feeling adventurous, you could try your hand at living in a caboose. (It’s like The Boxcar Children in real life!) Could you do it? I don’t know that I’d love the bunk beds…but I think they’ve done a nice job with the space!

This week I went through my utensil caddy and got rid of items I don’t like/need anymore. Not all my cooking utensils fit in the caddy, so I also have a drawer with the rest. I want to go through them all, make sure my most used items are in the caddy and continue purging the items I no longer need.

Something else I should probably look through again? The coffee mug collection. We try to go through it every couple of years and curate our mugs! (If you’re not a coffee drinker, it might be tumblers for you!)