Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is almost here again, even though I type this on Fall Back Sunday with the sun sinking low behind the orange leaves on the trees outside. I am struck by how different this year has been for us with Garrett in Kindergarten at a public school.  For four years he attended a sweet little church…
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You GUYS!Â
I did it!
I completely conquered my fear of public speaking and made that stage my oyster. This past weekend I stood on this stage at the Country Living Fair in Atlanta and gave my presentation without a stutter or a stammer or even a shortness of breath. I’m still floating on Cloud nine…
 Let me give you a glimpse of what a big deal this was for me.
After semi-successfully stumbling my way around Photoshop CS5 and Elements for a few years, I finally came to a point where every time I went to edit my photos I would look at my computer screen like this….
You know when you get wind of a certain event and you just KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that it’s going to be the very best thing since sliced bread? That’s how I felt as soon as I heard about the Chapel Market that The Lettered Cottage was hosting in Pike Road. Based on the crowds I had seen at a yard sale they hosted with Rhoda a few years back I knew this was going to be HUGE. And man, was it ever.
The doors opened at 9:00 am, and when I arrived at 8:30 there was a line wrapping around the building and down the street waiting to get inside.
There is a part of me that loves living in a traditional red brick house, because I get to decorate this stately front porch with pumpkins and mums every fall. The symmetrical part of me cannot get enough of this perfectly aligned fall porch decor with yellow mums and stacks of pumpkins lining the stairs. There is something so regal…
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