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07.05.11

{Home & Garden} What’s your favorite thing in your Laundry Room?

{Giveaway now closed. Congrats "Stacy". Winner was notified via email.} We all have laundry to do. Sometimes WAY more than we would like. I only have toddlers (that seem to run through at least 3 outfits a day each.) I can't even imagine what it will be like when they are all pre-teen girls that can't decide what they want to wear!!! Last year we added on a Playroom and...

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06.28.11

{Home & Garden} New Laundry Love

Do you have kids? OK, then jeans like these should be familiar, right? Seriously, HOW do kids get their clothes this dirty?? (And I don't want to hear from the peanut gallery about my losing my marbles putting my Punks in white! To me, it's actually the easiest thing to keep clean. But it IS like playing Russian Roulette every time they put their clothes on....). (more...)...

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03.17.11

Easy Bedroom Four-Poster Trick!

Part of loving interior design is about being open to seeing things you wouldn't normally, and then falling in love with the design. In fact it shocks me how often I see something so simple and so perfectly easy, and yet it *never* crossed my mind. I have often encouraged people to use a curtain rod mounted on the ceiling for things like hanging extra long shower curtains, or a...

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12.09.10

A Little Something for the Table

If you are anything like me, then you might stress, just a little bit, before company comes for dinner. So many things that you want to have look "just so". One of those things for me is a nice arrangement of flowers. But for some crazy reason, I just don't always have the time to run out and grab one when I need one these days... (I'm really not sure...

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12.01.10

Whatcha got hidden in YOUR dishes??

One of the toughest things for me to get used to once all the Littles joined us, was clutter. (Although lack of time and sleepless nights are pretty high up there too...). But my brain goes a little manic with clutter. I have always been able to deal with the craziness of life, if my room or "home base" was picked up and put together. Yeaaaa, that doesn't work so...

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10.09.10

let the elf do it!

I originally ran this post last October, but being that that was a year ago, and the site has a much different reader level now, I thought this tip might come in handy again. I DEFINITELY need to retake some photos though....I still struggle with night time shots, but I'm pretty sure I can do better than the below now! Here's hoping! Now go out and find an elf to...

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07.20.10

a helpful reminder

Having little helpful reminders are good. Goodness knows with each pregnancy I clearly lost more brain cells than I ever started with, so now I pretty much know nothing, and remember nothing. Case in point, packing for my trip with the girls I made a quick dash out to the car to get something. My running shoes were also outside by the stroller. I put them on the front doormat...

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06.12.10

great pack ‘n go snack!

The day I started shopping at Trader Joe's I think a whole new world opened up to me! (isn't that a line in a movie???) One of my, OK my husband's favorite snacks, (because mine would the chocolate peanut butter cups...just sayin') is the individual packages of almonds. If you can have a snack pack of chips, raisins, and crackers, why not almonds?? The "Just a handful" individual packages are...

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06.11.10

tab it baby ~ part 2

A few months ago, I wrote about my new favorite organization tool that let me make up a project binder just the way I wanted it I use this binder every hour of every day! But what makes this binder work is the awesome removable tabs. I am WAY BEYOND IN LOVE with these tabs... My newest way to use them is in my Flat Belly Diet Family Cookbook. Because...

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05.31.10

back to basics ~ master closet

A few weeks ago I had one of those moments you see in cartoons where the character yells so loud and so long that the whole world around him FREEZES. You know what I'm talking about. When water shooting out of a fire hydrant freezes in mid shoot... The person jumping is somehow suspended indefinitely in his jump.... The world just stops and stares at the source of the yell...

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