How to Tell if it is “Good” China
You’ve probably heard either someone say in real-life or in a movie “fine China” or “she brought out the good China”; I never really stopped to think about it before ...
Home Care
Recover Breakfast Room Chairs
The chairs in our breakfast room have survived the drippings from two drooling, spilling, spaghetti throwers, sticky hand wiper baby to toddlers. My hope is that the kids are now ...
The Advantages of a Junk Drawer
We all have it, we all don’t want it…it’s the, dare I say it, dare I admit it??? THE JUNK DRAWER – I here the psycho music music I write ...
Sink Disaster Averted
Next to my craft room is a well used bathroom that is often neglected from my cleaning sprees. The sink has been used to clean paint brushes of oil paint, ...
Select Blinds – Fantastic Customer Service
I’ve heard that bad customer service gets told repeatedly and that good customer service is only told to like 5 people; my experience with Select Blinds was just so GREAT ...
Use Honey to Stop Allergies
Me: “Honey?” Ben: “Yes, Sweetie?” dripping with sarcasm. Me: “No, pass the honey…:)” geez Recently I went to the doctor because during a 3 day visit to New York the ...
Spring has Sprung – my favorite EASY flowers
I love spring and fall. In an Alabama Spring the weather ranges from fierce devastating storms to calm warm, sunny days. The morning I took these pictures, it was 67 ...
Coughing at Night? – Rest Easy
Guess what time the kids get sick, fever hits or wake up coughing. Always, ALWAYS, between 1 and 5 am! Fever we can handle with Tylenol or Motrin’s help. Throwing ...
Hide that Powerstrip in 3 Easy Steps
Need a little space or get annoyed with how visible power strips can be? You can hide it in 3 easy steps. All you need: A little Velcro Power Strip ...
Year of Organization – So MUCH To Do!!!
My New Year’s Resolution is to organize my house. Um yeah – the house…:) I’ll take my time with it, after all I have a whole year! But I definitely ...
Tonight we could’ve lost it all.
Tonight we could’ve lost it all, had it not been for God and a non-toxic cleaner. Tonight I came home from a little shopping and found Ben pretty upset – ...
A Pinterest Do – Better Smelling Mattress PLEASE!
One day my son is going to regret me writing this…but it’s true… LilMan doesn’t seem to care that he wets the bed at night – I get the image ...
Charlie – Family Dog
Today we said goodbye to Charlie, he had been with us for almost 11 years: we loved him and miss him terribly. It was not an easy decision to make: ...
Charlie – Family Dog
Charlie has been with us for 10 years, his birthday is February 1, 2001. He is now “geriatric”, he has lost his eyesight over the the last couple of weeks, ...
Organized Chaos! Where dreams come true.
My Work (and play) Room I’m always amazed when I look at Better Homes and Gardens Organized Craft rooms and fellow blogger’s craft rooms – I don’t know how they ...
Hey I'm Stephanie of Grinning Like An Idiot. Grinning Like An Idiot is me whenever I do something that makes me happy, whether it is sewing, painting, vacationing, a funny interaction, just life in general. 
