Chelle Ellis

This may not be a big deal to most of you. HOWEVER: for four years I have been using a flash light to search through the four cabinets that make up my pantry. So a couple of weeks ago, I...

A lot has happened in the past six months towards freedom and momentum for long awaited improvements on Sadie. Kenny had both of his hips replaced in September and December of 2021, respectively. This time last year, he started having...

I'm sure you remember Frankie, she makes quite an impression! She isn't quite a year old yet; with our vet's estimation, we think she was born mid to late November, 2020. Still learning about the world around her, this week...

This month has been trying. I promise that I haven't changed this blog to become merely a cookbook, but for August of 2021, it will have to do. While it would give me immediate satisfaction to unload all the negative...

Kenny and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago on June 23rd. We didn't want the day to go by unceremoniously, so we made plans to wake up in Key West, Florida, on the 23rd. In...

Three and three quarter years after we bought our big old house in Coldwater, we FINALLY have the home we moved from in Southaven, fixed up and ready to sell. Why did it take so long, you ask.. the list...

Almost four years ago, I made my first "frankenlamp", and if you have followed my blog you have seen that term thrown around quite a bit here. Over that time, I have collected parts to build many frankenlamps, with parts...

Please welcome Frankie, the newest member of our family. She started out as "Shelley" because she is a tortoiseshell kitteh and has a franken-leg (and part of the other) from an orange tabby. That may actually make her a torbie,...

We have returned to the Southaven house to continue work on the floors to get the place ready to put up for sale. It's been a long Covid-19 year filled with much Covid-19 drama, that I won't bore you with.....

You may remember the original Frankenlamp table bridge lamp I made a couple of months ago, as described in my blog post here. Well, I had a change of heart in the design of that lamp when I FINALLY found...