Recipe Name Binder Book

OK folks, we all have to admit that we do some kind of cooking, or baking. I love to bake. I also love to cook. But I live with a very picky eater. So trying new things in our home comes with much trepidation. You all know that look you get when you put something new in front of that picky eater. That facial expression that you just want to slap off their face. (I am not a violent person by nature) but don't give me that look of I just threw up in my mouth when you haven't tried the food yet. However on a good note 2 of my 3 boys love to try new things. So I found this awesome recipe binder book while reading one of many blogs I love to peruse.  So I bought one for each of my sons and am filling recipes from my mom and my own that I have adapted for them. So many times one of them will ask or call long distant to find out about a recipe they had growing up. Ta Dah this will do the trick. I plan on giving it to them for Christmas and every-time I come across a another recipe I will just send it to them in a sleeve they can slip into their book.

I love the neutral  color of the book

Love this for my family.

What it looks like open.

I found the dividers at the store and will be adding the sections for whatever the category. 

Great sleeves for you to eventually add more recipes.

My personal recipe book..that is older than the hills. Are hills old? Yep in my world they are.

This is my book that I have collected recipes for years in. It is dirty and well used.

I hate my writing

I so hate my writing!!!
However you can see I do bake by the mess on the pages.
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I think these would be great for a shower gift or wedding gift to the new couple. I know I would have loved one myself. Unfortunately my mother-in-law would not share any recipes with me. She called them family secrets. I have ONE recipe from her, that I begged for her to give me since it was her son's favorite dessert and I wanted to make him happy. But it was like pulling teeth, so sad. Plus it broke my heart that she refused to share any others. I will not be that kind of mother-in-law I want to share it all, after all I can't take it with me and if it brings joy to those around why not share?


The place I found these were called
www.zazzle.com/recipe+binders

               I hope you all have fun recipes to share with your                            

                              loved ones over the 4th!

                                        Have a great safe day!

                                          It's hot and in the 90's here.

                                                       Cheers

                                                          Shel! :)

DoubleTree Hotel Room

Here are a few pictures of our hotel room. 1st off I loved the colors. The room was a nice size for us. The bed was so comfy. When we got there the hotel had a bottle of California wine for our anniversary in the room. Yes I opened that baby right away after a 4 hour flight it was warranted. LOL 

I wanted that picture so bad.

The view from our patio. The marina. So lovely.

There is that dang awesome picture again.
I want...

Isn't this so lovely?

If you get a chance to get there.Visit this lovely area. You don't have to stay at the hotel but you should check out the marina and the great walking trails that are there.
I can't say enough about how lovely the area is.

Have a great happy day!
Cheers,
Shel

Cliff House Fort Bragg California

The other half of our trip we stayed at the Cliff House Hotel in Fort Bragg California. It was an amazing hotel with million dollar views. I am not a good one for staying in hotels. First off I am a horrid sleeper and I prefer my bed. However we had a ocean view and every night we fell asleep to the sound of the ocean. So lovely. The place was very sound proof. There were quite a few guests and we heard nothing. One thing that bothered me was there were someone either above or below us smoking and the smoke would waft up in through our patio doors making us close them to stop the smell coming through the whole room.  If you  are not a smoker you know what I am talking about.  We stayed on the second tier on the right second unit with a patio view overlooking the ocean. Amazing views all day long.

Here is our hotel from the Cliff House restaurant.

                                   What we saw from our room in the morning.

Every morning the coast guard went out.

                       This is a view from our room

                                           This is how our evenings ended

We went for a walk to the ocean and took this picture off one of the large rocks.
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If you ever get a chance to get to the area check out this amazing place.
I will be sharing more things we did on the trip in the near future.

Cheers,
Shel
p.s. Happy almost the week is over day!

Pinterest love

       

                         Who loves Pinterest? 
                                  I do I do!  
          (she jumps up and down like a nut job)


                                            


                                            


                                               




          I love everything about it...I love the sayings.... 
                                           
                              



            Oh, do not get me started on the food....
                                           
                                                                             


                  All the DIY ideas to last you a life time.

Decorating ideas

                                           

Hair ideas

                          Hair ideas up the ying yang


                                                
                                Classy clothes ideas

                                                   
                                                                                                      
                              And some not so classy!




                                                     

                                        


                           Awesome v-cay ideas.


There is a plethora of things to see on that awesome site. Sometimes hours go by just like that (snap of my finger sound). Is there something on there you esp like? For me it would be the food section. I love to cook..not eat so much but love the baking ideas they have. However I do really love the DIY section as well....ahhh it's a toss up on those two things.


I do not own any of the pictures I just popped on here, they were all from the Pinterest.com  site. 




                       Hope your week is going great so far!
                                           Cheers,
                                            Shel

DoubleTree Hotel At the Berkeley Marina

While in California we stayed at the

 DoubleTree 

By Hilton

At the Berkeley Marina

                 Here is a morning stroll at 5:30

                                Quiet, peaceful, serene, reflective 

The water looked like glass.

We had a wonderful breakfast and went for a walk at 9:30. Same place different look. See S.F in the back ground? So lovely.

Our room over looked this lovely place. It does cost a tad more but it is worth this million dollar view.If you stay go for a walk around the marina there are crazy views. 
                   Enjoy the rest of your weekend!                                       Cheers                                         Shel

Our Barn

Our Barn

 

                      I am madly in love with our barn. I have HUGE plans for this beautious red building .
 (Not sure if beautious is a word or not, if not, then it should be).
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We are considering making it a wedding venue...and VRBO. Weddings on the far left and VRBO on the right where you see the windows. When we decide on doing it I will be documenting the whole process. We just had the barn leveled and the cost was nuts. So we can imagine what the whole project will cost. My head hurts adding the numbers up before we even start.

Right now we use it as storage. Actually 3 generations worth of things are stored in this lovely building. I will be showing you the inside soon. Crazy sweet inside. We are going to be cleaning this summer then I will feel it is photo ready to share.

Here is the back of the barn, we want to put a 12 foot deck off the back with patio doors an huge windows overlooking our Christmas trees. Yes we grow Christmas trees on our farm. I have fun pictures coming your way on that.

I love silo's to, recently I was reading a article about them disappearing around the U.S. since farmers do not use them the way they did in the past. I began to  notice that it was true when we travel you see less and less of them standing. So sad since they are wonderful structures.
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The bottle art structure hubby did for me. It is welded rebar and blue bottles that I pick up when I find them. It is sturdy, we live on top of a huge hill with some major winds. It has survived our cold and snowy winter winds as well. 
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I draw and design things I want done around the farm and he just magically makes it happen. Love that man! The little wooden structure below he did for me because I wanted a path to the back of the barn. It was a major mess when I started but I am whipping it into shape.

This is a new hosta garden I am working on. It is a work in progress but it is coming along. I will show you more pictures of it soon.

I want to start taking pictures of barns as we travel. Old ones not the super cool, sweet, cost to much money ones but the old dated ones in weird shapes, colors and sizes. Wisconsin is lucky to have fantastic farms to photograph. When we were in Calif I was amazed when we went to an area along the ocean how many old barns there were.


                                                    HAVE
                                                         A
                                                   GREAT
                                                WEEKEND

                                                 CHEERS,
                                                   SHEL

Things about California That Scares me....

Reading this....

And this....

                                                      Then this....

Then this again up close.

Then seeing people on the beach by the sign that had a shark advisory...

JAWS....

But being Califorians they acted like they did not have a care in the world. I wanted to go screaming up and down the beach flapping my arms everytime I saw a munchkin getting close to the water. But then I would look like the lunitic.

OH WELL.....
 I would have saved them from JAWS!

Yes I am afraid of the water.

All because of the movie JAWS.

I am a 53 yr old woman confessing that to you.

That was the reason all of our kids took swimming lessons at a young age. In my day parents never did that. And to this day I am still scared of water.

Well not all water...a kiddie pool is ok if you don't splash me.

We have a yellow lab and she hates water to. I think my vibe rubbed off on her. People tell me it is not normal for labs to not like water.

Well it's ok in my world.

Right My Bell, Amanda, what ever your name is on certain days?

Have a good one!

Cheers,

Shel