Not long ago I decided that I needed to reorganize the decorating stuff. I love ushering in the new seasons with little changes around the house. When my Gracie girl was little, she begged me to buy seasonal decorations more than once, but money was very tight. She wanted us to change our home ...
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31 Days to #ASimplerJoy: Decorating Shortcuts
Yesterday, I shared that I like having pretty things better than I like making them. :P I am the person who gets an idea in her head and wants to do it. I know there is a right way to do things and a wrong way...but sometimes there is also a shorter way. So here are some of my shortcuts:
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31 Days to #ASimplerJoy: Creative Process?
Yesterday I shared a quick and inexpensive way to add some fall color to your table. Today I want to talk about the idea od finding shortcuts in your home decorating. Not everyone wants to find shortcuts. I think it often depends on whether you are a Process Person or a Product Person in terms of ...
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31 Days to #ASimplerJoy: Making Fall Decorations
Living in a high desert means that we experience summer, mild winter and spring. We have no fall, no autumn, really. Yesterday afternoon, here in the first week of October, my dashboard thermometer registered 101 degrees. But in my house it is fall. Especially in my dining room.
This year I ...
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31 Days to #ASimplerJoy: Refrigerator Organization
True Confession: This is NOT what my refrigerator looks like.
I can say that my fridge is looking pretty good today; it has had a bit of a makeover lately. But there was a week there when that fridge was a burden that weighed on me every time I opened it I might as well have been carrying it ...
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31 Days to #ASimplerJoy: Family Schedules
By nature, I am a terrible procrastinator. In the past, I have tended to overcompensate for this by being ultra rigid in my schedule. When I started homeschooling I learned that I had to be much more flexible...but I didn't really know what it meant to be flexible, so I started saying "yes" to ...
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