Summer fresh Salsa

I want to share with you my mom's and my refreshing salsa recipe. It's a great recipe because you can change it up however you'd like. :)

Originally we doubled this, but it was just WAY to much, It would work for a family reunion or graduation, AND of course if you have any of these things growing in garden USE them instead of the canned veggies.

In a large bowl mix your diced stewed Italian tomatoes, white corn, black beans, pinto or any kind of bean.

wash and dice up 4 peppers, its nice to use as many colors as available for the effect.  I add one hot pepper (your choice) because I do not want it to hot.

I add lots of cilantro because its my favorite. (optional also)

and as much "fresh" lemon juice as you'd like.

wallah.... use your fave chip and enjoy.

kitchen makeover

My super sweet fiance Jimmy helped me dig in the heels and get the kitchen made over. I'm about to share the old and new pictures....PLEASE don't judge to harshly, at the time the mustard yellow was kinda cool, not really but I thought it was then. :( My house is very small, more cottage sized I guess but it was in the budget at the time and in one of the best school districts for my three kiddos. Needless to say, the word "outdated" best explains it. It has been fun fixing up and changing slowly. It feels good to look back and see the differences. OK.....are you brave enough to look?
here goes...

old sink and counter...

new sink and tiled counter...

old ...

new...

new...

We used Martha Stewart "light Strokes"in  Twig for the rest of the walls. love it!

and I'll leave with a photo of Melina, Jimmy's baby niece that we LOVE so MUCH! We took his dad out today for Fathers Day to "Cracker Barre"l and got to see the baby too! We get her for a week soon, I can't wait. :)

new samplers finnished!

Hello everyone... just wanted to share photo's of the two samplers I finnished. I purchased the sampler patterns from "Pineberrylane" I LOVE her work, Check it out if you dont already know it.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!

~Blessings Connie