Having A Yard Sale

Considering having a yard sale next weekend because it is our communities "festival" and I think there will be  a bit of foot traffic.  However, it is a HUGE job, I don't even have that much stuff and already I'm thinking OY, also it's hard to let something go you know you paid quite a bit for. 

There's the ever present tug of war 'do i want to go through the hassle to try to sell this on Ebay?' or... 'should I just throw 25 cents on this at a yard sale to get rid of it and save myself the hassle? Decisions, Decisions.

On the up side, I have been have a good time redesigning spaces, both at my mothers and my grandmothers homes.  Both have a lot of miscellanious stuff around and can benefit from some reorganization. I should have taken a 'before'  and 'after picture' but I didn't really think that through.  Here's an after of my mom's living room I think it looks great.  We found that factory cart for SUPER cheap when compared with the ones on restoration hardware's website.... ($1,200) and up  All of these things she had laying around her house but not displayed and/or displayed poorly. Now we are making strides in the right direction.  As an aside, in the future, I will do before/after pictures... much better I promise.

Also I finished my table I posted about before, I will take pictures and share that soon :)

The little things.

This is what unemployment does to you.  Not only have I become obsessed with dance shows such as Breaking Pointe, Bunheads, and So You Think You Can Dance, but I found myself looking forward to Tuesday nights because my favorite shows, What Not To Wear, and now Teen Mom is on.  It was a little sad, MTV has been advertising Teen Mom for a few weeks and I though 'Oh, goody I have something to do, something to look forward to." Yikes Right?

Well As Promised Here's a cheap and easy Cabbage roll recipe

Stuffed Cabbage

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes

Yield: 4 to 5 servings

Serving Size: 2 cabbage rolls

• 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup chopped yellow onion
• 1 medium head (about 2 pounds) green cabbage
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1/2 cup cooked rice (white or brown)
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 can (16 ounces) tomato sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13- by 9-inch pan with cooking spray or oil.

In a medium skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.

In a mixing bowl, combine the beef, cooled onion, rice,  and salt. With the stem side of the cabbage leaf facing you, place a scant 1/3 cup of the beef mixture in the center of each cabbage leaf. Fold the bottom edge over the mixture and then fold the sides over and roll into a tidy packet. Place the cabbage rolls, seam side down, in the prepared baking dish.

In a bowl, mix together the tomato sauce, broth, and paprika. Pour evenly over the cabbage rolls. Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour.

This is the table I got for 15 Dollars at our local Habitat for Humanity Restore, I'm going to refinish this table and make it Fantastic :) I can't wait, plus it will give me something to do on my time off.

I have been working hard at finding a job, got one rejection today but also applied to 6 jobs 4 at a temp agency and the other two at various local places.  Hopefully one will call me. 

I will post a new recipe tomorrow I'm going to try to make cabbage rolls for the first time. Hopefully my first foray goes well... :)

I encourage you to see if you have a local Restore location. I wish I would have known about all this when I first started working on our home. There are so many neat things to get and to refinish from there.  Especially if you need anything such as Tile for any pinterest projects. :)