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Spring Cleaning: Cleaning a Ceiling Fan
I am working my way through a Spring Cleaning challenge with an amazing group of organizing and cleaning bloggers. They send me an email each morning with the challenge for the day and I have been...
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Pecan Cinnamon-Chip Scones
As I was growing up, I don’t think I ever tried a scone. My first experience with a scone was at Oxford when a friend of mine and I decided to find out what this “tea” thing was all about. I...
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Shared Girls’ Closet Reveal
Oh, my! I am so excited to share our recent overhaul of the closet in what is going to be the girls’ shared room. I say going to be, because we are still hoping to transition them soon – it has been...
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#HouseProud in So. Cal. #ChampionsofHome
We are in the midst of a remodel of our home. In other words we are falling back in love with our home. We have owned our home for the past seven years and I have to be honest with you, the...
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Maple Angel Food Cake w/ Maple Icing
My mother-in-law loves anything and everything maple. Her favorite line from Elf is, “Is there sugar in syrup?” “Then, YES!” We just had a birthday dinner over at our house for her and so I thought I...
View ArticleDIY Knockoff Chainmail Lamp
We had a mishap a little while back with the lamp in our entry way. It got broken. It happens – no big deal. And our entry way is relatively dark, requiring a lamp for when guests are over, so they...
View ArticleProper Care and Maintenance of Granite
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The Builder's Wife Shares I was committing some serious sins against my granite countertops in my kitchen without even realizing it! They were seriously...
View ArticleThe Seven Year Itch – A NEW link-up
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series The 7 Year Itch A short time after my husband and I got married, I was invited to a designer’s workshop at a friend’s home. She had just finished an amazing...
View ArticleMenu Planning Resources for Busy Moms
I am really a good cook….really I am! But I have lost my mojo since having kids. I just don’t have the energy to be creative in the kitchen every day. And I also have trouble finding the time to...
View ArticleCreating a Layered Look for Shelves
We are in the middle of a remodeling project in our living room that has (of course) taken much longer than we were expecting. But we are starting to really see things come together and are almost...
View ArticleHope for Homemakers: You said there would be hope
This entry is part 32 of 32 in the series Hope for Homemakers As though I could be any less than real with you, dear reader, it goes without saying that I have been neglecting a very important part of...
View ArticleBack to School, Back to Normal
We don’t have kids that are school age, but we kind of get into a summertime groove around here like we do. You know, the groove where dinner is a fast and loose proposition. A barely planned, if...
View ArticleThe 7 Year Itch – Inspiring Ideas
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The 7 Year Itch I can’t believe it has already been a month since the last 7 Year Itch update! This summer is almost over for us and it was so fast! I am...
View ArticleHope for Homemakers: Setting Priorities
This entry is part 33 of 33 in the series Hope for Homemakers If we want to get organized and feel more free to love and laugh in our lives, the first thing we need to is set priorities. They are the...
View ArticleHope for Homemakers: Avoiding Empty Pursuits
This entry is part 34 of 34 in the series Hope for Homemakers Last week, we talked about the first step in Saying Goodbye to Survival Mode: prayerfully setting and focusing on our personal priorities....
View ArticleJust Desserts: Coffee-mate with a #LatinTouch + A GIVEAWAY
One of my favorite things in life is a morning cup of coffee. In fact it has really become a necessity for me. I just don’t feel right before I have had my coffee. So, when Coffee-mate offered to...
View ArticleCooking with Kids:Pumpkin Cinnamon Chip Cookies
One of the items on our fall bucket list was to “boo” some of our friends. Have you ever been “boo”ed? It was so much more fun than I thought it would be! And since “boo”ing our friends was on our...
View ArticleSimple.Home.Blessings. knows laundry tips
We got your laundry here! The endless supply of washable items is a thing to behold in this house. With the daily messes and spills that go along with having two little ones and the general use of...
View Article#Clutter Free Journey, Kitchen (Week 3)
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series #ClutterFree Journey Wow, we have really made progress in our Clutter Free Journey this past week! I was kind of not expecting to have a lot of things to get...
View ArticleKeeping an Orderly Master Bedroom
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series #ClutterFree Journey I have been on this crazy de-cluttering mission I am calling my Clutter Free Journey (check out the other posts here) and it has been...
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