Philly Cheese Steak

4 Dinner Rolls

8 oz. thin sliced roast beef

½ cup sautéed onions, green peppers, mushrooms

4 slices of American cheese

Preheat oven to 350. Split dinner rolls and place cut side up on ungreased baking sheet. Divide roast beef and vegetables evenly onto dinner rolls, and top with cheese. Place sandwiches into preheated oven and heat 5-7 minutes, until cheese melts.

Clutter Busting Challenge March 2018

I didn't really purge anything this month. I did collect the things that needed to be taken to someone or dropped off for donation. I visited my oldest daughter and dropped things off. I collected a few things that my younger daughter needed donated and I did it for her. My youngest son purged his bedroom and I dropped of 3 garbage bags for donation. I dropped off 2 sets of his old glasses and 1 set of lenses to the Lion's Club drop box at the eye doctors office. I dropped off a few computer things to my oldest son from my younger son. All things that needed removed from my home but belonged to my young adult children. I was happy to lighten the load. We are painting the living and family rooms along with refinishing the floors, so everything is being shifted around. Every room in the house is affected including the basement. Although we're rational minimalist we still have to have places to put 2 rooms and 2 closets worth of stuff. Thankfully, the house doesn't look to bad considering. We're using the exercise room as the living room for now.

I'm not counting any of the items because they didn't belong to me, although they did leave my home. I had previously counted the things going to my oldest daughters cause they did belong to me. I was suppose to drop them off in the fall and didn't get around to it.

My youngest sons donations. I forgot to take pictures of the other things. The back seat of my car and trunk were full.

Handmade Teddy Bear Books

I made Teddy Bear themed books for my grandchildren. I used an old Teddy Bear calendar from 15 yrs. ago. along with printed pages, scrap scrapbook paper, card stock, contact paper, yarn, tape, and stickers. I laid out manila file folders, taped them together, and accordion folded them.


This is the book folded up before adding anything.

This is the book laid out ready to work on. I used 3 file folders for each of their books.

I laid everything out on the table to get an idea of what I wanted for a layout. My granddaughter's book on one side and grandson's book on the other. I wanted each book to be similar in layout.

My granddaughter Arileise's finished 1st side, along with my grandson Richard's items collected on the opposite side of the table.

















My granddaughter Arileise's finished 1st side, set up to show the accordion folding.

My grandson Richard's finished 1st side, set up to show the accordion folding.

Ham and Cheese Biscuits

2 1/2 cups biscuit mix

1 cup milk
1/2 cup diced ham
1/2 cup shredded cheese

In a bowl, mix together the biscuit mix and milk. Fold in the ham and cheese. Drop large spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

March 2018 Reading List

I didn't start a new book this month, I finished up the one from February called Carolina by Yvonne Lehman. There are 4 whole books in the one book. I read 2 of the stories last month and the other 2 this month. I guess I haven't been in the mood to read as much lately. I've been crafting a lot the last 2 month though. I went ahead and created this post since I wanted to share my St. Patrick's' day tablescape.

Coloring Cards: Colorful Blessings

I bought these boxes of inspirational cards last July when my husband and I were on our Silver Anniversary trip in Pennsylvania. They were $3.99 for each box at Walmart. The box that I'm working on coloring is called, Colorful Blessings. I have Creative Expressions, Psalms in Color, and Proverbs in Color too. I've colored 21 cards so far and got 23 to go. I've been coloring them when the mood strikes. I've left 5 so far in public places for people to find. I left 2 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania at restaurants. I've left 3 in Bellefontaine, Ohio 2 at the Mary Rutan Health Center and 1 at the Mary Rutan Hospital. I forgot to take pictures of all my finished cards before I released them.

 Colorful messages to bless a heart, soothe the soul and calm the mind.

Color these delightfully detailed cards and use them as bookmarks, reminders cards or note cards to share God's love, peace and joy.

They come packed in a sturdy, portable lidded box.

44 Biblically Inspired Coloring Cards
Box Size: 4 1/4" (w) x 3 1/4" (h) x 1 3/8" (d)
Card size: 4 1/4" (w) x 3 1/4" (h)
One-Side Printed Extra-Heavy Card Stock
Not Size Suitable as Postcard Mailing


















I've been signing them after I finish coloring them.


















These are the markers that I bought at Walmart for $4.50 to color the cards. They work really well except the brown is a bit too dark and covers the print line a bit too much to me on the patterned sections of the card.

18 double-ended markers
Water-based
Non-toxic
Smooth coverage
Each marker has super tip and fine line tip

These are the cards that I have finished and still have.

This is me in July 2017, releasing a card at Around the Clock Diner, in PA.

I have one card displayed on my bird cage memo board in my little office.

Living Room Renovation: Part 3

The progress on the living room renovation so far. We've got the walls puttied and have started to sand. We've sanded the floors but they need one pass with a finer grit of sandpaper. We did end up having to replace the belt sander and hand sander. The ones we had were very old and stopped working soon after starting.

It's gone a bit slower than we wanted. We had planned for both the living room and family room to be finished by Easter. It looks like the living room will be done but the family room will have to wait until after Easter.


Our Living Room.

The current state of our Family Room. This stuff will be moved out soon.