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Freshen Up Friday
Lift your eyes up from your computer and take a look around you at the place where you are seated. Is this a place where you love to sit? Is it inviting? Neat? Organized? Well-lit? Beautiful?...
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Taming the Laundry Pile
Happy Friday, friends! Maybe you love Friday, until you look in your laundry baskets and find them all overflowing with dirty clothes, towels and kitchen linens from the previous week. Now this...
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Simplifying Christmas Prep in the Kitchen
The kitchen is a busy place in most homes during Christmas. In order to keep it fun and not a drudgery, I’ve come up with six ways to simplify your work, so you can still be (L)oven your kitchen by the...
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Refreshing Your Home with Simple, Inexpensive Touches
It’s often helpful at home to look at your house through the Eyes of a visitor. We see the limp, faded dishcloth, the worn-out dish towels and potholders every day and get used to them. We need to step...
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Ten Stress-Reducers for Marriage
For my Family Friday post today, I’m going to share my husband’s great thoughts from his message series of Putting Hope in Your Marriage. These are practical for every marriage – stress or no stress!...
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(L)Oven Monday – Successful Sunday Dinner Finale
Today is the last post for Successful Sunday dinner. I will continue to share my recipes and what I served at my house, but as far as the 1,2,3’s, we’re going to wrap it up and get you ready to dive...
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Adding Spring Touches Around Home
Today’s post will be mostly a picture album of some changes I’ve made at home to turn things from winter to spring!! I love how bright and cheery it makes the house! Ready? The mantle… Coffee Table...
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Chalkboard Pantry Door
Maybe I love chalkboards so much because I taught school, I don’t know, but I do love them in every shape and fashion! I have them in several places in my home, but I recently saw a place for a...
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Family Friday – Mother’s Day Dilemnas
That holiday is approaching. You know, the one where our family bows at our feet, singing our praises for the sacrifices of laundry at midnight science projects aided homemade cookies baked for...
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Five Ways To Reduce Your Grocery Bill
Years ago when I was single and living on a teacher’s salary, I sewed my own clothes,I had pasta dishes for supper, and I shopped yard sales for home necessities. Then when I got married and my...
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Kitchen Pantry Tour
My pantry is a corner closet in my kitchen. It holds all my cooking items, so that would mean ~ Canned Goods Baking ingredients Dry Goods Pastas Rice Flours Grits Oatmeal Sugars Dried Fruits Nuts Teas...
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Summer Date Night Ideas
One day last week, my husband was cleaning out some of his office boxes that had been stored away in our garage when he came across a stack of preserved letters, notes and cards, most of them written...
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Make More Deposits
While waiting in line at the bank, a man developed a very loud case of hiccups. By the time he reached the teller’s window, the hiccups seemed to have worsened. The teller took the man’s check and...
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Keeping Children On the Peripheral
Many homes today put the children at the center of the home. Everything revolves around them, their wants, and their preferences. Of course when you have a baby in your home, you have no choice but...
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Help Other People Love Your Kids
I love little children. They are cute, funny, spontaneous and full of faith. But there are times when that love for youngsters can be tested. A favorite “old story” at our house happened many years...
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Refreshing Ideas for Summer
My blog’s purpose is to refresh women in their hearts, homes, and lives. This week I want to focus my posts on specific ways to refresh you and your home this summer! Here are a list of ideas to get...
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Refresh Your Bedroom
Your bedroom might not be a place you get to spend much time, but when you are in there, it should be a bit of a haven for you (and your spouse, if you’re married). If your bedroom doesn’t...
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Home Project – Wall Decor, Creating Balance
I guess it’s pretty common for homeowners to make improvements in their homes in spring and summer. The weather is perfect for it, and we have lots of daylight in which to work. As I mentioned last...
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Painting an Open Floor Plan
When we moved into our house four years ago, I was so thankful the walls weren’t painted white. They’re a warm ecru. It stands out nicely and every room looks great against the backdrop of that...
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Finishing Touches in My Home Decor
One project usually always leads to another, and then another, but the end result is so great it’s really worth the effort and the hard work! After I finished the painting in my dining and living...
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