Woohoo! While I'm away enjoying my R & R, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce today's guest poster Hugo! I for one am loving this article because I have *the smallest* lot on my street. I live in a historical district that was built long before roads and garages, and even before the [...]
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Remember that conference I went to a while back? Well, one of the coolest things about it was that at breakfast we were served toast with mini jams. Oh no, not those plastic squares of jam you get in a diner. These were in teeny tiny glass jars! Needless to say I stuffed a [...]
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I love antique stores. I rarely buy anything because everything in them is usually too rich for my blood, but I love looking. One of the trends I've been seeing has to do with hanging reclaimed windows as art. Its really a beautiful touch, a worn, paint peeling window becomes an impromptu picture frame, or [...]
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Throughout my childhood there were 2 notable holidays that I looked forward to. Christmas because, well- PRESENTS! And Easter. Why? Because after my mom got me all gussied up in some itchy uncomfortable dress and hauled me to church, I got to go to Grandma's for Easter dinner and an egg hunt. It was the [...]
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Honestly, I don't like to eat Peeps. The whole sugar covered marshmallow doesn't really appeal to me as much now as it did when I was a kid. But boy, I still think they are the cutest thing. I love seeing them all nestled in their cellophane at the store- and I love letting them [...]
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I love pinterest. I do. But lately, it had been getting me down. There were all of these beautiful rooms and bedrooms, with soft colors and classy decor that kept catching my eye. Why is that sad? Because my bedroom is sad in comparison. My hubby and I moved in to this rental house built [...]
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Well, a couple of days ago I was inspired by the "Imagine the Impossibilities" challenge. After reading what it was all about, my first thought was of my wedding scrapbook. You see, I've been married some time now, and I haven't even STARTED this book. I bought it 2 years before the wedding (it was [...]
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When I was a teen, I went though a candle phase. I collected anything I could that was funky, weird, and made of wax. Looking back at some of my favorites (a psychedelic tie die mushroom and a faux egg,) its hard to imagine candles as anything other than tacky. These, however, are an exception. This weekend [...]
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Even as I'm writing this, I don't know if this is a tradition that is unique to my family. For some reason, every New Year's Eve, we have Root beer Floats. Sometimes its just regular root beer, sometimes its the special kind you can buy in glass bottles. It's pretty much the only time of the year we [...]
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My mother tells this story about how her father used to demand the kids eat breakfast before opening any presents. And it couldn't be cereal, it was bacon and eggs- a REAL breakfast before ever a present was touched.This story she tells came up every year. Why? Because she used it to segway into threatening [...]
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Can you believe its only SEVEN DAYS until Christmas? I can- because I'm surrounded with Christmas Countdowns. I might have gone a little over board this season. Usually I create one, maybe two renditions of a countdown for a holiday. I do that because different people like different things and well, I like making them. [...]
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