Busy Weekend!

 

Since it is now early Christmas with not much longer to go, I have been busy finding interesting stuff to write about Christmas.  While I am still looking for more gift giving homemade food recipes, I am tired of looking at all those sweets.  It is torturing me since I cut out sugar from my life.  But my discipline has been excellent.  I still have those canned refrigerated cinnamon rolls in the fridge and although I think about them, I have not made any.  The recipes are tempting me to make them!

Funny thing about my neighborhood . . . we have traveling chickens and some very vocal roosters.  The hens cluck along with their babies.  Don't laugh, but I enjoy them very much.  They have been around since before Kiki passed away.  She would look at me like to say "what is that noise?"  When they are traveling through my yard talking to other chickens, I think of Kiki.  Missing her like crazy.  I'd give anything to have her and The Captain back with me.  This house is so empty without them.  The cycle of life is maddening at times, yet so wonderful at the same time.

I've got gardening on my mind.  That explains why I am starting to post more stuff on Subtropical Gardening.  Looking forward to my container gardening.  It is awesome to have desires again after none at all.  The healing process is entering another grief phase which makes me very happy.

By the way, I am enjoying some new music for me . . . French love songs.  Check them out, I love it!

Listed below are new blog posts . . . check them out!

Happy Early Christmas everybody :)

NEW BLOG POSTS

Gina's Italian Kitchen

Butter Pecan Cookies

Ree's Chicken-Fried Steak with Gravy

Homemade Spice, Seasoning and Gravy Mixes

Key Lime Cake

Easy Fudge Bites

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Air Fryer French Fries

Pie Crusts - Everything You Need To Know 

Chicken Dumpling Casserole

Seafood Mac and Cheese from Kardea Brown

LaBelladiva

Ways to Make Outdated Wood Cabinets Look More Modern

Real Touch Evergreens are the Upgrade You Didn’t Know Your Christmas Décor Needed

Subtropical Gardening

Keep Your Flowerbeds Weed Free

Holiday Cactus Growing Guide

When & How To Bring Ferns Inside For The Winter

Love Christmas Cactus? 10 More Unusual Houseplants You’ll Adore

Happy Autumn Update

 

Autumn hit Tampa three days last week.  It was quite a surprise to get down to 38 degrees one night.  I hate the cold and would like to enjoy a mild autumn that brings cooler temps and less humidity.  Not an early winter!

Yes, I know I am spoiled with awesome Tampa weather and some of you guys are dealing with snow already.  Some people like the snow, but I can't relate at all.  I wouldn't know what to do living in a snowy climate.

I've been obsessed with posts to my food blog.  Honestly, I miss cooking and am slowly getting back to preparing meals for one, but it is not fun.  I'm working on it and hope to learn to love it.

My workaholic nature has brought me to being behind the computer way too many hours and loving it again.  I'm grateful I have found something that makes me happy again and I'm like a kid with a new toy.

I'm extremely active on x/Twitter joining others in retweeting each others posts.  If you are interested in joining me and bring more people to your website, blog, online store, events, promotions, etc., go to https://x.com/GinaAlfani and simply retreat one or more of my posts and I will retweet yours.  You will automatically be picked up by other retweeters after I retweet yours.  

New updates to my blogs follow . . .

Yes, I'd like to go back in time.

NEW BLOG POSTS

Gina's Italian Kitchen

Puff Pastry Cream Horns

Drop Dumplings for Soup

Pecan Pie Bars With Shortbread Crust

Ten smart kitchen storage ideas and DIY projects

Hot and Spicy Hush Puppies

Southern Sausage Balls

Sandy's Tasty Pasta Meal

The Ultimate Shrimp and Grits

Red Lobster Crab Alfredo

Chocolate Walnut Strudel

Subtropical Gardening

Late fall is the most important time to mulch your flowerbeds

Grow Ginger As A Houseplant – And Have Fresh Ginger All Year Long

Why is my poinsettia losing leaves?

Overwintering perennials and shrubs in containers

LaBelladiva

Drawstring 8-Pocket Jewelry Pouch

Craft Room Organization

Refashioned Flip Flops

My Florida Paradise

Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse

Fabulous Frugalista

Holiday Shopping Mistakes to Avoid This Season

How To Save Money on Black Friday

Peace Love Happiness

Renewed sense of aliveness through gratefulness

Humor and Laughs

New Seatbelt Design

Spring is here!

The arrival of spring has got me all excited about garden projects.  I've written about some of those DIY projects in my gardening blog, Subtropical Gardening.

DIY Hypertufa Plant Containers

DIY Concrete Garden Hands

Awesome Container Gardening Idea


Check out the bird cage that was turned into a plant container from the Empress of Dirt!  Click here to go to an excellent article on other ideas for unusual plantings.

The front fence is in the process of going up and will be embellished with a row of beautiful and colorful bougainvillea.  Finally . . . privacy and no trespassers!


Some other blog posts . . .

Peace, Lovc, Happiness
Dealing with a toxic relationship
Keep Your Goals on Track

Gina's Italian Kitchen
Triple Layered Strawberry Cake



We are celebrating the new season with a Spring Sale at Crows Nest Jewels.  Use coupon code SPRING17 . . .

Political happenings are keeping me glued to cable news! Hopefully the beautiful spring Florida weather will lure me away :)

Hope you are experiencing beautiful spring weather in your part of the world!