How I Spent My Summer Vacation ~ By Exquisitely Unremarkable

It's September! Can you believe it? I most certainly cannot. Although truth be told it's been a very long, action packed summer around here. Perhaps you noticed that I only posted once a week this summer, as opposed to my normal two.

Perhaps you noticed that I was not crafting or decorating as much, I was more often reflecting or pontificating. Perhaps you noticed that my link party list has dwindled to almost nothing, that partying is just not my thing anymore.

Perhaps not?


Well, either way, it's all true. Blogging took a back seat to the lazy, hazy, days of summer. They were days filled with sun, surf, sand and a very sick mother, who requires round the clock care, being moved home from a nursing home. Wait. What? That doesn't really sound like fun. Well, guess what? Yeah. It wasn't...

Focus On What's Important

...but the rest of it was fun. We stay~cationed, we swam, we shopped, we fished, we watched movies until the wee hours, we baked, ate ice cream, took long family drives in the dark, talked and we laughed. A lot.

It was just all squeezed in and around my mother's move and I think it made all the fun stuff even more enjoyable and precious.

Don't Mess With Mother Nature

Either way, my sweet mother, who cried every single day at the nursing home, is home with my sainted sister, surrounded by family now. It is really, really hard, but good overall.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Needless, to say, I just did not have tons of time to whip up, revamp or rearrange. It was just not a priority and I didn't want to fill up my Exquisitely Unremarkable pages with...well, filler.

Jazz Up A Wreath With Letters

Super Easy Skirted Table

During that time, I was nominated by the lovely Julie at Julie's Lifestlye for a Liebster Award. I was so very touched by the gesture. Of course, my family obligations prevented me from acknowledging it at the time, but if you would like to see my answers from a previous Liebster post, you can see them here.

You should also check out Julie's blog. She is a master at crocheting, a great cook, posts awesome make up reviews every Monday and has a cute dog! Plus, she has nominated some other fabulous blogs that you should check out.

I Got Glam

I would also like to thank the many ladies out there who asked me to participate in the DIY Tour Around Blogland. Again, I was unable to commit, but I was immensely flattered by the invite and enjoyed all of your pretty posts.

Your warm messages of support really made a difference on some very dark days.

My Tablecloths...Rescued From The Trash

Well, that's it, that's what I did over my summer vacation. As a former teacher, September always seems to be the beginning of so much more than just fall to me, never truer than this year.

I'm hoping to get back to my normal two posts per week and I am itching to start crafting and decorating again. Which is a really good thing, because my mom is still waiting for her handmade Christmas gift from last Christmas!

Vintage Tea Cup Party Favor...And A Mystery

 Oh boy, here we go again...knit one, knit one...

What did you do on your summer vacation?