We had a wonderfully warm sunny day yesterday and I was able to open up the windows and let some much needed fresh air into our home. Have you ever noticed how after months of such a cold winter, the air in the house seems to become stale? There is a very simple solution to improving the air quality in…
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This has been the coldest, snowiest winter I can remember here in coastal Virginia. And to make it worse our weather has been in perpetual tease mode. One day it is sunny and 70, the next it drops to below freezing and snow! This bi-polar, erratic behavior is about to make all of us jump ship and head to the…
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Move over Martha, a new hostess with the mostess has moved into town! I am so happy to introduce Heidi Rew from Parties for Pennies to you all! She is a party planning blogger with the most amazing, creative, and delicious ideas and is conscious of your budget! I encourage you to follow along with Heidi on her blog and…
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When you chit chat on the phone, do find your self mindlessly scribbling swirls and waves, curly-cues and spirals, zig-zags and dots, or lines and patterns on scrap paper? If you do, then you are most likely a doodler! My mother-in-law, and hubs have both been diagnosed with “doodleitis“, and hubs has passed this doodling addiction down to my oldest…
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When I was a child, I lived far back in the forest, on a Lake Michigan beach front home. It was the most wonderful place on Earth in my young eyes. This is where I found my fondness for white paper birch trees. Now, we didn’t have many of these right on our property, but down the beach a few…
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