Good Monday Everyone From Simple Chit Chat

Good Monday to all of you from Simple Chit Chat! I do hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July, and a gorgeous week too! I don't know about ya'll, but I sure have not been having much energy to do anything lately. I unexpectedly took a week away from my shops, and working with my blogs too. Shame on Me! But, it felt good to do, and I think it was actually needed too. 

Not really much happening my way. It has been sunny, warm, and some days humid. I am watching the calender, and know that soon fall will be here which also means here comes winter. I really truly am not ready for winter. We got such a late start with summer I would like to see it last longer here. Sometimes I wish I lived further south to be able to do more with a bit warmer climate. Oh, well, such is life, right?:)

I enjoy having my shops with Ecrater, and Etsy too. Once in a while I will dabble with Ebay where I did first start selling online back in 2004. This week they are running a special of all free listings, no limit, and so I am trying my hand at that. I have most of the week to myself, and hope I can get it filled up there for a variety of things. Good way to clean house. With all of the changes there I have had to spend some time redoing my pictures that I use for there. More work, but hope it works out for me too. 

Well, it's Monday, and I do wish all of you a sweet day. Have a wonderful week my Chit Chat friends, and see you again soon. Till the next time . . . . 

Welcome Everyone to Simple Chit Chat

Welcome Everyone to Simple Chit~Chat!

Whew! It has been a while for me to stop by here. Not that I haven't been around, but I guess been spending more time with my LilacsNDreams Home page, shoppe page, and working a bit with my website too. I get things arranged, think I will be happy with them, and then all of a sudden I decide changes are needed again. Nothing big, usually minor, but still not completely fulfilled with how everything is done yet. Also, I try very very hard to keep a regular schedule of postings on my home page too. When you get a chance, check it out some time. Remember it is always great to hear from you too. 

WOW! The weather has really been something lately hasn't it? We couldn't get winter away from us fast enough. It seem to have dragged out, but now it is gone, and we are dealing with tornadoes with severe storms. Gets comfortable during the day, but at night sometimes it gets a bit cool yet. Looks like spring will drag out a bit too. Then, all of a sudden the hot weather will be here, and before you know it we will have winter again...urgh! Sorry, nothing against the snow everyone, but I so feel like a change with warmer weather longer during the year. Sure would be nice:)

Well, here it is a new weekend, and tomorrow is already the first of June! Wishing you all a super weekend. Have fun, enjoy, and be safe!:)

Happy St Patricks Day to Everyone

Happy St Patricks Day to Everyone who visits, is passing by, or wanted to stop in to say Hi. Hope all of you have had a great weekend, and a super irish green day!:) Take care, enjoy, and have fun everyone.

Happiness is Friday Come Visit Simple Chit Chat

Happiness is Friday! Come Visit With Simple Chit Chat.

Hi there, and Welcome to Simple Chit Chat everyone! Glad to have you stopping by, and sharing your time with Me. 

Wow! Where does the time go around here, right? Seems like yesterday I was just working with my blog, and leaving posts with all of my pages here. Geesh! Have a lost track of time around here, or what?:)

The beginning of the year has been kind of a rough start for Me, and my family. We Dad passed away, husband had an issue with his job, and such long stories for me to share with you. I could write a book! We did have one good thing happen so far. On Valentines Day February 14, 2013 our son graduated from his Army basic training in South Carolina. We were able to be there to share his special time with him, and surprise him with other family members attending too. He was not able to be home from the army for my Dad's funeral, and this was something we all wanted to do for him. My Dad would have been proud as he too had retired from the Army, and was proud to see our son in uniform before has passed. 

We are now at the time of year where it is time for winter to be over, enough of the snow, enough of the cold, and so impatiently anxious waiting for spring to officially be here! Seeing everything bloom again, everything fresh, opening windows at home, mowing yards, being outside to paint things, and just the beginning of things new again. Hopefully that will soon be here for us all. 

Hey, thanks again for sharing your time with Simple Chit Chat everyone! Was great seeing you all again, that you found me here, and hope to see you all again soon. Don't forget to visit other pages with my Blog, and you can click here to start on the first page with LilacsNDreams, or just click that lil old tab at the top of the page here too. Take care, have a wonderfully Happy Friday, and a gorgeous weekend too! Later . . . .    #LilacsNDreams

Smile for Friday and Let the Weekend Start Here

Smile for Friday, and let the Weekend start here!

Hello everyone, and glad to see you dropping by! Here is another weekend, and hoping ya'll enjoy it too. Time has really gone by for me lately. How about you? I sure hope everyone enjoyed their christmas time, and the new year has started off well for you as well. 

This Christmas will be one that I will remember, and the new year has also started off with a bang for me as well. To make a long story short it revolves around my Dad, hospitals, airlifting, and back home into hospice care. Loving life day by day, and taking things as they come. Making memories, and cherishing them. 

It has been cold here, how about where you have been? I really truly had hoped I would not still be living here, but then again....they say things happen for a reason too. Day by day, and see what the future holds. 

Hope this finds everyone doing well. If you would like to stay more updated with Me, follow a bit more, please drop on by my Home page tab above. Feel free to visit them all, leave comments, and most of all....say Hi so that I know you visited:)

Thanks for sharing your time with Simple Chit-Chat, and hope to see ya'll again real soon. If it gets warmer out then there shall be more to talk about I would think, right? Right now it is just sitting around the house, trying to stay warm, and doing odds and ends, here and there, and that sort of thing. Anyways, thanks again for stopping all. Take care, and see you again soon. Toodles.......

Happy Holidays From Simple Chit Chat

Happy Holidays to All from Simple Chit Chat!

Hi, and nice to see you here! Hope this finds everyone doing well, and enjoying the holiday season that is fast approaching for many of us. Have you done a lot of shopping this year? I haven't done quite as much as we generally do, but have enjoyed what I have done as well. This year I am home by myself preparing the house for family that is coming home for a few days during Christmas, and while hubby is driving truck up and down the road too. 

So, I decorated the house outside. Not as much as I generally do, but have done it to make it still look nice. Inside the home I have decorated as well. No big tree this year. Just 2 small ones so that I can make sure we have room for everyone that will be here. Our house is smaller, cozy, but sometimes I still wish our living room was bigger. Although it is much easier to keep up when it generally is only me at home too. 

I have been busy crafting a few things, working on my listings for items to sell, I clean messes up, and then turn around making more messes. I have boxed things to donate, make room, and before I know it I am going through things again, and have made another mess to contend with. This weekend it sounds like it could get a bit nasty out on Saturday. Urgh! That is living in Iowa. Some days I dream of the south, and hopefully that will come in the future for us yet. Till then this is what we have. 

Anyway, with that happening this weekend I should be able to spread things out on how they get done with picking things up, organizing things, reboxing things, and making room for more chairs for company that will soon be here. I still have a few more things to do with holiday shopping, but am fortunate to have quite a bit of it done as well. Whew! I really hate to rush to get things done, and so I must keep moving forward with things. 

Well, I hope this finds everyone doing well, and enjoying all the festivities of the season. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and I hope others are able to enjoy it as well. Thanks for sharing your time at Simple Chit Chat, and hope to see ya'll again soon. Take care, have fun, be merry, and enjoy the season everyone! Toodles......

Happy Veterans Day, Remember Those Who Served and Are Serving

Happy Veterans Day, Remembering Those Who Served and Are Serving

Hello, and Welcome to Simple Chit Chat everyone! Glad to have you stopping by, and visiting with Me today. This weekend is an important time to remember, and to give thanks by recognizing Veterans Day. Please remember our veterans who have served, and are still serving our country, and protecting our freedoms. If you see a veteran please say Hi to them, and maybe tell them Thank You as well. Seeing their face of recognition would sure make their day. 

Thanks again for visiting with Simple Chit Chat everyone, and see you again soon. Take care, and . . .

                               HAPPY VETERANS DAY!!

Trick or Treat, Halloween Festivities, Fall Holidays

Trick or Treat, Halloween Festivities, Fall Holidays is upon us all. 

Welcome to Simple Chit Chat page at LilacsNDreams everyone! Happy to have you drop by, and check in on things. Where did this summer go? Just like a whirl wind, and here is fall again. Rain, cooler weather, leaves falling, preparations for winter time, etc. Before we get to the end of the year we have some holidays that we will celebrate, and have fun with too. 

I would like to wish everyone a Happy Halloween, may you have fun, and may you be safe too. I feel odd for not decorating this year. Generally I am a big decorator when it comes to the end of the year, and the holidays. Things in the yard, things around the house, and things inside the home too. But, not this year. Getting a house back into order from all the work done. Cleaning, wiping, rubbing, sweeping, dusting, rearranging things, putting things in order, etc etc. I have also spent some time putting a few different pieces together from thrifted items to offer with my shops at Etsy, and Ecrater. Sometime visit so that you can see what I have done so far, and know that other things are also be ing worked on to be added in as well. It's fun, and I enjoy doing it too. 

Well, I hope this finds everyone doing well. Hoping for good weather for everyone, and that those that have been effected by Hurricane Sandy that you are doing ok too. Thanks so much for sharing your time at Simple Chit Chat everyone. Take care, and see you again soon. Toodles........

Good Bye Summer and Hello to the Fall Season

Good-bye Summer, and Hello Fall!

Hello, and Welcome to Simple Chit Chat everyone! Wow! Where did the time all go to? One day it was nice, warm, sunny, yard sales, flea markets, and etc. Now, we are headed into Fall, and say good-bye to Summer for a few months. Darn! I had high hopes of getting some things done this summer. I got quite a bit done, but some things are not fully completed quite yet. I did a lot of down sizing of things, selling of precious items, and was trying to make things easier for us to move. The intention was to be moving across a few states down to TX which I was really looking forward to. Longer days of warm to thrift with, be creative, lil bit easier to paint with, and just enjoying things. 

Well, Hubby has come back home, left his job, and fell in love with the house all over again from some of the remodeling that has been done. So, he has been helping me to get some things done that needed completing with painting, cleaning floors, and moving some things back into place again. At least the house is getting back into order, and feeling more like home again. Still things to do, and then to prepare for him leaving on Monday with his new job. But, it is moving along. 

I know many like this time of year, and I am seeing many busy with creating things for the upcoming Holiday. Also, for the upcoming season. Many great things being shared out there, and I do enjoy all of it as well. 

Hey, thanks so much for sharing your time with Simple Chit Chat everyone! I enjoy the visits, and the company. Make sure to say Hi so that I know you were here, and I can hop over to visit you as well. Take care, and see you all again soon. Toodles everyone!:)

Wishing All a Happy Labor Day Holiday

Wishing All a Happy Labor Day Holiday!

Welcome to Simple Chit Chat, and glad to have you dropping by. Wanted to drop on in here, and let everyone know I was thinking of them, and wanted to wish you all a Happy Labor Day. Be safe with all you do today in festivities, visiting family and friends, your participation of things, and just everything that you will be doing. Safe travels to all of you. See you all again soon. 

           Happy Labor Day Everyone!!!

 

Good Morning Bloggers and Blogland Happy Monday

Good Morning Bloggers, and Blogland! Hope everyone is doing well, and your Monday has a good start to it!

Many places have had schools start, or are getting started. Vacations are pretty much over for everyone, and summer is changing seasons into fall soon. I know I should like fall as many others do, but I enjoy summer time. When you live up North unfortunately, you do not get many months of summer. I like to visit Thrift Stores, Yard Sales, Garage Sales, go junking, and searching for unwanted treasures to have things to do during the winter months. It just seems like we have spring, summer gets started, and then it is already over with. Here comes fall, and soon the cold again. 

Sorry, not trying to be down about it, just get them feelings sometimes when the seasons are fixing to change for us soon. Anyway....I hope ya'll are having a wonderful Monday, and that you have much success with all you plan on doing today, and this week. 

Don't forget to visit with my shops over at Ecrater, and Etsy when you can. I have been adding inventory to them, or moving some inventory into those shops. Been having some descent runs with them, and want to try to keep it up.  Also, take some time to roam around with the pages on my Blog. Visit my LilacsNDreams home page, and also visit with my LilacsNDreams Shoppe page too. See all the tabs at the top.

Thanks so much for sharing your time with Simple Chit Chat now. Hope to see ya'll again soon. Take care, and have a most wonderful Monday!!

Happy Happy Hump Day to All in Blogland

Happy Happy Hump Day to All in Blogland! Hope ya'll are enjoying your Wednesday so far. Thanks so much for visiting with Simple Chit Chat today as well. 


Believe it, or not I have been around here, roaming around a bit, and have been staying busy with working out a schedule for my main blog of LilacsNDreams, and also working with my other page of LilacsNDreams Shoppe. In between that been trying to work on getting some listings done for things I am selling, clearing out inventory to make room, downsizing things a bit for us to make a long distance move, and you know. Things like that. 


Here we are another week 1/2 gone already. Weekend almost here, and where is the time going to? I have not gotten all done I had hoped to so far. Working on it, and doing things bit by bit as I can. Hitting a few thrift stores, some yard sales, and looking for some things that maybe I would consider bringing home too. Some things I pass on...regret it later too. Other times I have found some things worth while too. 


Well, time for me to shoot out the door again. Run into town, get some refills on things, pick up son from work, and then home to put feet up, and chill again. Hope this finds you all doing well, and enjoying your summer so far. I wish you all way, have a wonderful day, and come back to visit again soon with Simple Chit Chat. Take care till then everyone.

Welcome to Simple Chit Chat Blog Page at LilacsNDreams

Welcome to Simple Chit Chat at LilacsNDreams Blog. Great to have you visiting with Me today!

WOW! I had forgotten I was working on this page, redid the background design again....never can make up my mind....LOL:) So, how ya'll been? Anything exciting to report before the wonderful 4th of July Holidays is upon us? Where is this summer going already! I have sooo many things to finish up on, and things to get done, and hopefully if I do things right....move when it has cooled off just a bit. Not sure about that yet, but time will tell, right?

Hubby's boss man thought maybe....just maybe he might of found out about a home that we might be interested in. Not sure yet, and not sure if it is available either. Don't know all of the specifics....but I am intrigued, and kind of hope it could be something good, and a possibility for us. Time will tell I guess, right?

I haven't been doing too much of anything lately. Cleaned off a few pieces I wanted to repurpose the other night, and then had to leave to run our son around....no license for him right now. Naughty boy:) Anyway, pieces sitting there, it is really hot out today, and maybe I will get them glued now. Would be nice to get done, and do a couple of extras added to my list....customer bought a piece, and employees at work are enjoying it. So....thought I would put together a couple of others to resemble that piece, and see if they would be interested. 

I have been to a tag garage sale last week, and just left one again this morning too. I was sooo expecting more with them, but they are new in this area, and this is a small town too. I have found a few good things, nothing drastic, and nothing big to interfere, or burden me more with packing either:)

I suppose, trying to play catch up on a few other pages, got some items weighed, measured, and now to get those listed for sale too:) Hope this finds ya'll doing well. Have a wonderful enjoyable happy and fun 4th of July everyone!! Be safe! Thank You for visiting with Simple Chit Chat today!:)

 

Happy Memorial Weekend Bloggers and Blogland

Hello Bloggers, and Blogland! Happy Memorial Weekend All!

Thanks for stopping by with Simple Chit~Chat. Glad to have you swinging through. This is to wishing you all a wonderful weekend. Enjoy, have fun, and please be safe. Also, I ask that you please remember those who are fallen, and those fighting for our freedoms of today. Pay tribute to them....they deserve it, and need to hear it from us as well. 

Off we go to having our weekend of relaxation, family, friends, and places to go and people to see!:) Ya'll take care now. Enjoy, and be safe! 

HAPPY MEMORIAL WEEKEND from Simple Chit~Chat!

 

Strawberry Banana Milk Shake is a Great Treat Hmmm Good

Strawberry Banana Milk Shake . . . Hmm, Hmm, Good! Yepper, it is that time of year when I love my fruit even more. Sweet, juicy, and I like having a treat of a Strawberry Banana Milk Shake now, and then too. Making it at home is great, but sometimes I compromise....being on the run a lot....and I stop some where to have one made too. So refreshing!:)

This picture is not one of mine, but was found with Google Images. 2 Shakes were pictured, and I wanted to share with you:) It's Monday, and I hope all of you are having a super day! Been running all day, but am home relaxing for a bit, and catching up with ya'll before I leave again. Just gorgeous out, and love this time of year!

Hey, thanks for dropping by Simple Chit~Chat page for LilacsNDreams! Appreciate it, and don't forget to say Hi, or leave a comment also. Love hearing from everyone, and sharing in what ya'll are doing too. Take care, and see you again soon. 

 

Welcome to Simple Chit Chat Blog Page at LilacsNDreams

Welcome to Simple Chit~Chat Blog Page at LilacsNDreams! Happy to see you here, and visiting with me today!

Well, now, if you have landed here you have found me threw search, maybe my old blog page that is directing here, or you are dropping in from my Home Page here at LilacsNDreams. However it happened I am happy to see you!

It has now been about 1-1/2 weeks since my incident happened with the old blog which help to create this New Blog. What a week it has been too! Did you know that my old blog has now become active again? Yepper! Just happen to do something that took me there, and I was able to sign into it. Don't like the email addy being used for it...not the original addy I first started my blog with. But, oh well, I have this new blog that is coming along greatly, and have enjoyed working with it, and tweeking it in a few places too. 

I won't be using my old blog since I have this new one. But, I did spend time yesterday changing the URL addys on the pages I had with it to come on over here. I am not all computer literate, and worried about trying to do any kind of redirect with coding, and such. Not knowing enough about it I did not want to attempt it, and make a mess all over again. So, I just went to all the pages with the old blog, and changed the addys to come over to here when they are clicked on. My domains are directed here, and Life is good again. Just the starting over is a bit nerve racking, but it will come in time like all things do. 

Can you believe next weekend is Memorial Weekend already?! Where is this time going, and where is spring going to? Here is to wishing you all a wonderful day, and thanking you so much for visiting with Me today at Simple Chit~Chat. Glad you stopped by, and hope to see you again soon. Till the next time my friends....Toodles.

 

LilacsNDreams Simple Chit Chat Room Come Join In

Hello, and Welcome back to Simple Chit~Chat page with LilacsNDreams! Glad to have you visiting with me today. 

Whew! What a week so far! Painting to do in upstairs of house...need to finish it. Will have to mow the property again this weekend. And...been working on my Lilacs blog a lil bit each day. It is not fully done yet, but it is getting there. I am happy to say with 3 days my views are slowly climbing on my home page. Putting the word out about the New blog, the issue, and hopefully it gets around to everyoe seeing it, and some of my past followers will find me again too. 

Google told me that my stuff would be issued for review for reinstatement...but not holding my breath. I think someone knows they made a mistake, and this is one time they will not fix it. If I had more of a definite answer to what happened to make this mess....I would appreciate it. But, looks like that won't happen either. 

I did get on one site that my blog posts go to upon posting them. I can go back through the archive there, and get some of my past posts. So, hopefully this next week I will get started with that too. 

Hope ya'll had a Happy Hump Day! Thanks for visiting with Simple Chit~Chat, and see you again soon everyone. Take care. 

 

Simple Chit Chat New Blogger Page With LilacsNDreams

Hello, and Welcome to my Simple Chit Chat room! Glad to have you here, and so happy that you are finding me too. 


For those who might know, and those who do not know.....Due to some technical issues late night last night I have lost all of my blog I have had since 2009. Trying to contact someone with Google for review, and to reinstate it is another thing. No one to talk to, just putting your questions and problems out there, and hoping maybe to get an answer. Well....sorry....I cannot sit around, and wait like that. Got people to see, people to meet and greet, and a schedule to work with:)


So, here is yet another page to my blog that I had before. My main blog page of LilacsNDreams can be visited with more updated things, and links to everything too. I am just sad that I have to do ALL these pages all over again as I will never find some of the things I had, and of course how I had some things worded too:(


Any questions about anything, don't be afraid to give me a holler now, ok? Glad to have you here, and bear with me as I am constructing all of my pages again. Take care everyone, and see you again soon!:)