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  • Entertaining Essentials For Hosting At Home

    We all want to host well in our homes but it is difficult to do anything well when you don’t have the proper tools.  The more I entertain the more thankful I am that I’ve invested my money wisely in useful, multi-functional entertaining essentials for hosting in my home.  Recently I’ve found myself in the…

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  • How to get rid of popcorn ceilings as easy and clean as possible diy tutorial

    HOW TO GET RID OF POPCORN CEILINGS

    Sure you can live with a popcorn ceiling, but if it’s driving you crazy this easy, step-by-step guide for how to get rid of popcorn ceilings is for you! For many of us living in the midwest popcorn ceilings are something we’ve inherited with our homes.  I know it’s just a ceiling but I hated…

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  • DIY BOXWOOD WREATH TUTORIAL

    Last year I got on a serious wreath crafting kick.  Why wreathes?  No idea.  Obsessed?  Yes I was.  I started with deco mesh, and to pat myself on the back, got pretty good at it.  So I made like a million.  (FYI I have only 1 door that accommodates a wreath.)  Then I made two…

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  • Green Master Bedroom

    You know how they say that the master bedroom is normally the last room to get done? In my old house that was certainly true. And even when we did ‘do’ it, the room never felt really complete to me. Moving into our current home was much harder than I realized it would be and…

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  • Why I didn’t blog in December

    I launched this blog in January of last year. In my heart I’d been writing it for many years (and indeed did write a blog sporadically elsewhere) but I knew it was time for me to get serious and DO IT if I ever was going to. My baby goes to kindergarten this year and…

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  • First World Problems: What to do about my living room curtain rods

    I moved into our house 2.5 years ago and there has been one thing hanging over my head since day 1:  our living room curtains. Our home was the model home for our neighborhood.  From what I can gather that meant that it was professionally decorated and that it got some extra features (most of…

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  • Easy ways to decorate for valentines day on the cheap using what you already have includes 3 free printable banner links

    Easy Valentines Decor

    When it comes to the smaller holidays, like Valentines Day, I am all about the K.I.S.S. method of decorating – Keep It Simple, Stupid (also, did you know that the US NAVY came up with that acronym?).  In fact I really don’t own that much holiday specific decor for Valentines Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter,…

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