Saturday Suggestions: Inspirations for Your Weekend

 

Good morning! Happy Saturday of a long weekend to you! I’m so looking forward to this weekend, and I hope you are as well. Maybe you’ll have extra time to read/watch videos, and if so, I have just the links for you!

I think I’ve told you before that I dearly love looking at floor plans for houses. It was a hobby of mine growing up, when magazines used to carry floor plans. I’d tear out my favorites, put them in a file folder in my file cabinet (because what teenager doesn’t have her own file cabinet??) and dream about the day I’d have my own house. I have my own house now, but I still love looking at fun floor plans. I’ve noticed my tastes have shrunk significantly. I used to pick out three story Victorians and now I love something that looks a little more like this.

I’ve shared, once or twice before, a YouTube video from the “Darling Desi” channel. Her storytelling in video format is such a refreshing change from the typical content creators. In this video, she redecorated her bedroom and embraced all the 90s things most of us have just thrown away: an old, boxy TV,  landline phone, actual DVDs. It was so much fun to watch. If you need a half hour of good storytime, give it a watch!

Sometimes when we travel, we stay in hotels, and sometimes we stay in Airbnb rentals. Anymore, unfortunately, hotels are cheaper, so we are returning to those, primarily, but whenever do get to stay in a short term rental, I always love exploring the home itself. We’ve had some definite favorites over the years. One of those was in Louisville, and while we didn’t fall in love with the city itself, we loved the cute little carriage house where we stayed. We remember declaring it felt like the kind of place we could actually live in, even though it was small. I stumbled upon this floor plan of a house that reminds me a lot of the layout of that Airbnb, and it’s still so cute. I still think we could do it. It would take some downsizing, but we could do it!

I dearly love a good object lesson, as you might know if you have ever heard me speak! Yvonne’s object lesson here is so good. It’s one she presented to her kids to teach them truths about what they allow themselves to think about, but honestly, I’m confident we can all benefit from the wisdom of this little lesson!

Summer is here! I’m declaring it. I love a white skirt in summer, which reminds me – have I ever told you my white skirt debacle? I had one in high school and wore it to school one day. I looked down halfway through the day and there were giant holes in the front of my skirt. I had apparently leaned against some skirt-eating chemical during our Chemistry lab and destroyed my skirt! Now I can’t think about white skirts without thinking about that. Anyway. That was a side story for free. 😊 What I really want to tell you is to check out these outfit inspirations to accompany a proper summer white skirt!

I am excited that our garden is FINALLY underway, and I look forward to seeing produce ripening out there! Jami writes here about vegetables that are easy to grow and some that are not. I concur with the ones I know about! While I haven’t planted everything on her easy-to-grow list, the ones I have (most of them) have done well for me, except for last year when nothing did well. I haven’t tried any of the not-so-easy-to-grow except the peppers, and it is true that those usually give me some fits. How about you? Any of these work for you?