Fields of Basil

With Holy Week approaching here are ways to help our littles.  Looking for a fun craft to add to your church school lesson or perhaps a Len...

It's tea time again. Recently made these for a special event at our parish. It was an extraordinary event and a beautiful time wit...

How to get through Lent? How to get through Holy Week?  I have been asked these questions before, more than once, in lots of differen...

Now if you would like to see how I got to this point click on Part One and Part Two . These boxes are just above the front yard flower...

40 Days-40 Days Lenten Recipes and Crafts! Here is a fun and satisfying craft. Knotting and macrame is coming back to the scene, I re...

40 Days-40 Lenten Recipes (and more) So with Easter/Pascha approaching, a girl's thoughts turn to... the eggs of course. It can...

40 Days-40 Days of Lenten Recipes This has become my all-time favorite dessert. It's Lenten, Paleo (depending on ingredients) and ...

40 Days-40 Days of Lenten Recipes (and Crafts) Need to share and send a shout out to two of my favorite blogs! First let me thank ...

40 Days-40 Days of Lenten Recipes (and Crafts!) Now for something a bit different, being that it is the Sunday of Orthodoxy . I had ho...

Last year, I had a challenge for myself of not only keeping the fast, but also blogging daily for 40 days of recipes, to help share the...

Last year I challenged myself to complete posting daily and offer to you all, 40 recipes for Lent.   My hope was that it would hel...

I picked up this bench last summer at a yard sale.  End of the day and $20, yippee! By now you know my affinty for Anthropolog...

Ok, I love fleece , the way it feels, it brings back a child comfort. Making fleece blankets is so easy, esp. for kids. We've made ...

Wanted to make a paper rose wreath for our beautiful teen niece . This isn't it, but it's the starting point. This wreath was u...

You might remember I recently finished a little project for two important somebodies.   I'm currently working on a few more for a co...

I found this beautiful ring and bought it for my niece. It's a little too big for her to really wear as a ring, so I decided to make ...

Making the slingshot, not as difficult or as costly, as I had initially thought it might be. Used 2 boxes (6 tension elastic exercise ban...

Flag banners are all the rage, for our most recent celebration,  I wanted to add some to the backyard tree line.   Something fun, somethin...