"Longaberger 1995 Hostess Sewing Basket with Garden Splendor Liner, matching Garden Splendor Padded Lid, 3-piece stacking Protectors, Product Card and original inspection card. This basket was only available to the Hostess of a $500 show."

My sewing basket to this day is a Longaberger I bought when I hosted a party around 1995. It has a green fabric floral lid and liner that goes over the edge. I still love it. 

I have a basket on my desk and another small one on my office door. 

I think that's all I have. Mine all have liners so they have lasted very well. 

They are beautiful baskets with fun memories. 

https://youtu.be/vQ6e1hM6saM?si=zwNzqZxvPkazWcpS 

It's so nice.

So quiet. 

It's hard to put a price tag on peace of mind and peace in your daily routine. 

One, I simply want to be off social media. (I don't consider Telegram social media the way I use it.) 

Two, almost any time I posted anything on Gab lately I had to delete and block people for vile comments. It wasn't like this in the past and it has gotten steadily worse. I'm sure it's deliberate by people there working to ruin/take down the platform, but I'm tired of dealing with it. 

Three, the platform is no longer fun. Torba has made so many changes to it over the past few years. Each time, people left. 

Four, there is just so much negativity and black-pilling on there. Many of the most prolific accounts (primarily men BTW) consistently doom post and usually take the least charitable view of anything to do with the current POTUS and administration. I'm just tired of it. 

There are other reasons, but those were the most significant. 

So I had to collect what I wanted to save on there. I finally finished that today and deleted it. 

I realize it's been very quiet around here on my website, but if you only knew how much work I've been doing behind the scenes both in my personal life and my online work. I'm really pleased with the decisions I'm making and where I'm heading. 

Has anyone else made an social media changes lately? 

(Disclaimer: I cannot recommend in any way, shape, or form Karen Swallow Prior who is mentioned in the first post.) 

Sense and Sensibility and the Bible: Part 1  

Sense and Sensibility and the Bible: Part 2

I think Sense and Sensibility has overtaken Pride and Prejudice in my ranking of Jane Austen stories. I love Persuasion as well. 

How else could you use this idea other than for little cars?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Feb00A6-r_Q?si=qpREKATOMPhUdPjc  

All those years on the edge of poverty so that I could homeschool the kids were most definitely worth it all. As I see so many kids from broken families come into the office, I've realized that my kids weren't disadvantaged at all. They had two married for life parents who gave them as much stability as possible. They had the best life could give them—a mom and dad who loved each other in spite of hard circumstances and sometimes hard hearts, who were selfless and selfish and discouraged and hopeful, who trusted that somehow, some way, the LORD would provide. He did. He has, in many ways, restored what the locusts have stolen.

https://harvestlanecottage.blogspot.com/2026/03/summing-up-childhood.html  

https://t.me/aquietsimplelife 

I have other random accounts to delete (Locals, etc.) that are on my list as well today.

The only two I have left are Gab and Telegram

I have zero desire to delete Telegram. It's my favorite. 

I am struggling the most to give up Gab. There's so much information available on there that I can't easily find anywhere else. But I also get mad every time I get on there because there is so much brutal truth available there. 😜