Farm Life!

Well, we are trying to sell our house. (If you know anyone wanting to move to the central part of North Carolina let me know) We are making the move to Farm Life! 50 acres our in the country raising emus, cows, dogs, cats (hopefully adding miniature donkeys and goats), along with lots of vegetables! Everyone is excited about making the move! The kids start their new schools on Monday. It will be quite a change for them. My 13 year old will now have almost as many kids in her 8th grade class as she has now in her entire middle school. The 16 year old will be fine once he learns his way around a much large school as well. The little one get to stay where she is, so she is disappointed. We have her in a Christian school which happens to be on my way to work. The "farm" is my family homeplace. It is where my great-grandparents, lived, my grandparents lived there for a while, and I grew up there. I am so excited about my kids having the opportunity to experience this life now too. My hope is to blog each day about how progress is going both with selling the current house, and fixing up the farm house, as well as how everyone is adjusting. I have lots of projects I want to work on in both houses, so I will post as many as I can get done. I also hope to add recipes and more. Please spread the word and help me get my blog off the ground! I am so excited about our new adventure and can't wait to dive into the Farm Life!

Be sure to check out my webpage: paisleytrading.com and my Etsy page. Have a blessed day!

JaAnna

Christmas craft - Tile Coasters

This was my Christmas project for all of the grandparents this year. I usually make something with photos of the kids, because, what else do you get grandparents?! This project was super easy! I bought a bunch of ceramic tiles for $0.16 each. I have Sharpie markers in all colors. I used the metallic gold to outline the edges of the tiles to give them a finished look. Then I baked the tiles for 30 minutes at 350 degrees to set the marker. I sized my pictures in Photoshop and printed on my inkjet printer. I spread a thin layer of Modge Podge on the tile and then placed my photos on the tiles. Then I put a thicker coat of Modge Podge on the photos covering the entire tile, making sure to squeeze out any air bubbles. After that coat dried I put another coat and then a third after that one had dried. Lastly I put 4 small felt circles on the bottom in each corner. Done!

I hope everyone has a great, crafty afternoon!

JaAnna

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Back to Life...

Happy Wednesday! It's been tough getting back to work and school this week after the long Thanksgiving weekend. We had so much fun on our camping trip. I took our Christmas card photos while we were there along with photos for our friends that were with us. The girls enjoyed the photo shoot! We ate dinner outside (in the freezing cold) each night then warmed up around a blazing campfire! We rode bikes and watched movies. It was a lot of fun. But now its back to reality. Spending the rest of this week trying to get caught up on laundry. I am also frantically cleaning my house as we have our first showing this Friday. I am so excited. We are ready to get moved to the farm! Everyone pray for us as we go through this adventure, please. Thanks so much!

Have a great afternoon!
~ JaAnna

"The Lord will work out His plans for my life - for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don't abandon me, for you made me." Psalm 138:8, NLT

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Happy black Friday!

Happy Black Friday. I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. We enjoyed a huge meal with family and friends while camping for the weekend. It was 39 degrees as we ate dinner outside last night. Then we say around a very warm fire while the kids played. I am so thankful! Now I am enjoying black Friday by sleeping in, eating, and sitting around with friends. No shopping on the agenda! I do as much shopping online as possible and throughout the year. This year we are making a lot of homemade gifts. This weekend one thing that is on the agenda is taking photos for our Christmas cards. I will gather up our three kids and their friends and we will take pictures. Later we will all gather back for another big diner together and campfire later.

I hope everyone enjoys this Friday whatever you decide to do. If you are shopping online hop over to paisleytrading.com and check out my necklaces and goats milk soap. They make great inexpensive gifts.

Blessings,
JaAnna

Apple Surprise, Pink Zebra & monogram necklaces!

I'm going to start out with a recipe today. I created these last night and they were a big hit! I started with 3 cans of crescent rolls, rolled 2 out together where they formed a rectangle; then drizzled them with caramel, sprinkled on some sugar and cinnamon, then added a handful of miniature marshmallows and topped with a few apple slices. Then I pulled the 4 corners together and pinched them together to seal and put them on a baking sheet. Lastly, I poured melted butter over them and baked at 350 for about 15 minutes. Serve warm and top with vanilla ice cream!

After dinner, my sister-in-law brought us our goodies we ordered from her. She is a Pink Zebra rep. Pink Zebra sells "candle bits". At least that is what I call them. They are highly scented little bits of wax. You can mix scents to create your own aroma. The parties are lots of fun and we came up with some neat ideas and "recipes" for candle scents. This was my recipe. I went home and tried it in my burner. It smelled really good!

I will provide information to order the Pink Zebra stuff at Paisleytrading.com and in the blog soon.

I hope everyone has a blessed day!

JaAnna

PS... Go by my Etsy page and check out the monogram necklaces. These make great Christmas gifts!!!

Relaxing Sunday afternoon....

The craft show went great yesterday! It was a first time event so not the largest crowd, but went well anyway. I sold several necklaces, took some custom orders and gave out lots of business cards! Hopefully some of those will turn into orders as well. We also gave away a gift basket containing a necklace, a "sippy" Mason jar, a hair bow, homemade sugar scrub, and some oils from Back Creek Suds and Scrubs! The winner of our gift basket was Kimberly Canoy. Congratulations! Thank you to everyone who came by and to the Randolph/Asheboro YMCA for hosting this great event. I know it will continue to grow and be a huge success!

We enjoyed a wonderful church service this morning, with a very motivational message to view our job or school as a mission field everyday. Everyday we have the opportunity to be God's hands and feet (and voice) wherever we are. If we look at our job or school in that light, it makes the day seem much different.

I hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing Sunday afternoon!

Blessings,

JaAnna

Paisey Trading Co.

Ready for the craft show!

Well, we are set up and hopefully ready for tomorrow. We will be at the Randolph/Asheboro YMCA tomorrow from 8 am until 4 pm. We are giving away a couple of gift bags and a basket, so come by and register! We would love to see you! There are 90 vendors set up and it is community day at the Y, so there is something for everyone!

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening & enjoy your weekend!

Blessings,

JaAnna

www.paisleytrading.com