One of My Most Popular Blogs

The Cupcake Block by Sandra Leichner
I adore this block!!

I was reading a blog post about the most popular blog posts that you have written. 

I decided to check again to see which one's that I've done that consistently have gotten 

the most attention.

I have had over 23,560 page views and thought it would be fun to check. 

That's really not very many viewings compared to 

many blogs out there. 

One of my posts that gets a lot of views is 

"My wedding day was the most unhappy day of my life."

It is viewed by people from all over the world. 

The last person visiting that blog post was from Mumbai, Maharashtra. 

Which tells me that there are a lot of 

unhappy brides out there in 

the hinterlands. 

And if you know me you know that I immediately went 

to Google to check this place out. 

Wikipedia says that it is also known by it's former name 

of Bombay India and is the most populous 

city in India 

I have a feeling that Aunt Kate was very sad because of a different

reason than the women from a crossed the world that 

read this story. 

She was sad because she hurt her father. 

Her mother had died and she had been the mother in the home. 

It was time for her to move on as we all must but this is what she said;

"But it almost broke my father up. If it had been my funeral he couldn't have felt worse. When congratulations were in order, he shook Jim's hand and said, with tears coursing down his cheeks, that Jim had taken the best spoke out of his wheel. It almost broke my heart and I would have given anything to have reconciled my father to my leaving."

I feel her pain don't you? 
I never wanted to hurt my father, ever. 

As I'm sure you didn't either.  

Love,
Grammy T.

Orange Pull Aparts and Orange-Marmalade Rolls

Orange Pull Aparts and Orange- Marmalade Rolls

I've lost all of my pictures so I am updating this recipe. I am going to send you to another page of Pioneer Women's and you will have two recipes and they are both amazing.
 

Well I was perusing over my blog today and checking the blogs I love and came up with an awesome ones to share. Here where I live orange sticky rolls are a favorite and we get them from Shirley's Bakery in Provo. So when I saw this recipe for pull apart bread and then saw Ree's take on orange pull apart bread I knew we had a winner. At least for the folks where I live. I would leave out the raisins but you can find the recipe and all of the pictures here.

Thank You Ree.

Orange-Marmalade Rolls

Whenever I sew I watch recorded episodes of The Pioneer Women and I find that we eat lots better when I do. :) 

And see the Smucker's jam makes it very simple. 

Easy Peasy!! 

Love,
Grammy T.

Therapy Bags with Instructions

The other day I needed to come up with a little gift to take to a breakfast , gift exchange get together. At first I was stumped and then I thought of something I could make that I hoped would be appreciated and that I could use what I had on hand already to make it.  "Therapy Bags". You know the bags filled with rice that can be heated in the microwave for a minute or so. I had scraps of cute flannel. I had rice. And I had fun essential oil fragrances that I could add. Tadahhh. Therapy bags. 

You can buy them here but....Why?

So here are the instructions:

I cut some flannel that when folded in half would go around the neck. I cut some flannel that when folded in half would make a rectangle to go on the back or tummy. I stitched two sides and left the top open. I put scented rice in the top, filling it a little less than a half full of scented rice and then turned the seam to the inside and double stitched the top down. 

When my gift as opened it was appreciated and loved!! It was Happy for me giver and happy for the receiver.  

Scents to add: Lavender, ylang ylang, orange, rosemary,
etc.

And what about this Monster Bag:

So Cute!!

MONSTER BAGS

Here is another idea with pictures on how to make them. They are for the feet and look to be very nice and cozy. 

See the Feet Idea here.