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Hello everyone!  I hope that you are enjoying your week!  We have been really busy with family events.  :) When we are busy, I house seems to fall apart really quickly!! I am not sure what happens but we are in and out so much and it’s hard to keep things in line. One of the ways that I try to keep a clean is house is to go to bed with it clean and tidy!   If I take the extra time at night to pick ...

Do you have 10 minutes? In ten minutes, I made several cute, barrettes for my daughter!!! I don’t have great pictures because this was a last minute project.  I keep all my materials in this basket.  I was already in the process when I took this photo, ha!  I wasn't planning on blogging about it but I thought I would after I started.   I just use my hot glue gun.   I use flowers, ribbons, ...

Welcome to Week 10 of our Organize your Life series! If you are just joining in, please link up your blog here so we can all help motivate each other! I am reading and using the book called, Organize Now! by Jennifer Ford Berry, to help me organize my life! :) Are you a magazine subscription junkie? Can you remember the last time you actually had the time to read one of the many magazines or newspapers that ...

We have had the wonderful pleasure of dealing with and observing an abundance of wildlife over the last almost eight years.  Our last house was sandwiched between farmland to the back and natural water to the front as is this house.  However, this house is a bit more rural so we get even more wildlife visits.  When we moved to our last house we noticed swallows building nests under our dock.  ...

With spring here and summer coming, I though you would enjoy this post! :)   The Three Colors You Should Be Eating More Of Remember ROYGBIV? I do. The mnemonic is how I learned the seven colors of a rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Nowadays I use the acronym to represent the colors of food I should be eating. Because nature highlights the beneficial nutrients in fruits and vegetables ...

Years ago we had the wonderful opportunity to visit Parliament Hill during the spring when the crocuses were in bloom.  There were masses of them.  I immediately fell in love with the look vowing at some point to duplicate it at our home.  That was five houses ago and I still have not done this so it will be priority this fall at our new house.  Essentially what you do is grab a handful of cro ...

First Daffodil of 2011April 24, 2011Look what blessed us with a cheery nod Easter Sunday!  The beautiful bright yellow was a much welcomed sight.  The weather was mild as well just perfect for sitting on the dock enjoying the sights and sounds of the water.  I spent a little time puttering amongst the raised beds as well, prepping one for planting and cleaning debris from the herb bed.  As ...

Hello again! I just want you all to know about another chance to try a sample of Basic H! Anna, from Take the Side Street, just did a review and you can enter to win a simple HERE!   Check out some of her before and afters… Go check out her blog and enter to win a simple HERE! Thanks Anna!  :) Have a great day! ...