• Happy Halloween!

    Holidays make me nostalgic and I find myself remembering how I celebrated it when I was little. My dad used to hate Halloween and would give us lectures about how it’s a holiday that “celebrates evil.” I thought that was so silly. To me, Halloween was holiday solely for playing pretend – which was my

    Continue Reading
  • Weekly Money Check-Up: 10/31

    Weekly Money Check-Up is a weekly series on My Pretty Pennies. To participate, fill in the blanks in the comments section, or post it on your blog and link below. If you do post it on your blog, please credit MPP and link it back here. Thank you for participating! 1. The most I’ve spent

    Continue Reading
  • Weekly Money Check-Up: 10/24

    Weekly Money Check-Up is a weekly series on My Pretty Pennies. To participate, fill in the blanks in the comments section, or post it on your blog and link below. If you do post it on your blog, please credit MPP and link it back here. Thank you for participating! 1. The most I’ve spent

    Continue Reading
  • Have a fabulous weekend!

    It’s getting chillier and I can’t get enough of the bright blue sky against the changing leaves. This weekend my plan is to find the perfect oversize sweater, update the blog a bit, crochet a granny square (just one perfect square, that’s all I ask), and start on some Christmas shopping. What are you up

    Continue Reading
  • Small Town Charm vs. Big City Luxury

    I’m not sure when my small-town love began. It may be from those Christian romantic novels I used to read where the bad guy always seem to be from a big city. Perhaps it was all those Hallmark movies on rainy Saturdays I watched—the ones where the heroine moves to a small town and ends

    Continue Reading
  • Autumn Decorating

    One of the many reasons I love this season is decorating. I love buying pumpkins and gourds and filling my home with jars of candy corn. In fact, my sister and I were talking about how autumn decorating is so much fun because there are so little opportunities for decorating in the summer. I have

    Continue Reading
  • My first NASCAR Race

    Last Friday I drove to Charlotte and went to the NASCAR Nationwide Series race with my sister and brother in-law. I got the tickets through work so we were able to go to the pit to see the cars and garages before the race began. I also had no idea how loud races are! (You

    Continue Reading
  • Weekly Money Check-Up: 10/17

    Weekly Money Check-Up is a weekly series on My Pretty Pennies. To participate, fill in the blanks in the comments section, or post it on your blog and link below. If you do post it on your blog, please credit MPP and link it back here. Thank you for participating! 1. The most I’ve spent

    Continue Reading
  • Happy Weekend

    The weather here is windy, chilly and perfect for the middle of October. I am heading to Charlotte today for a NASCAR race (what what!) and have a few other fun plans up my sleeve that I will share next week. Take time this weekend to hug someone you love really, really tight. Have a

    Continue Reading