Like many of you I find myself with an ever-growing family and forever looking for ways to expand space, seating, etc…. One of the areas I desperately needed more space was my dining table on my screened in porch. I have the typical oval iron patio table you can get almost anywhere – Home Depot, Lowes, etc. – that…
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DIY: Refinish A Chest In Five Hours For Less Than $40.00–Including The Chest!
When I suddenly needed a dresser for my guest room for my son’s girlfriend, who was staying with us for a while after graduating college, I thought at first I’d buy those plastic bins with the drawers in them to go inside the closet. But, after seeing that they cost anywhere from $20.00 to $40.00 for three drawers and…
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Tips For Your Next Pre-Rapture/Wedding Celebration
Okay, so I know we all had a good laugh and lot’s of fun with the whole rapture prediction. A few of my friends were getting together for cocktails before attending a wedding for a dear friend of ours daughter so we decided to combine the pre-wedding moment with the pre-rapture moment. It made for a great theme actually…
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Time Flies: Happy Anniversary
Time really does fly by and no more so than when there are children in the house and special events that mark the passage of time. All moms out there know the tugging of the heart at certain stages along the path of life and there’s nothing more impactful than your child getting married. This post is to celebrate…
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A Little Book With Our Wine Club: Chapter 3
This month’s book club was at my house. Our book was an older book by Anita Diamant called, “The Red Tent”. It’s a fiction book based on the female character from the Bible named Dinah. So, of course, before we sat down for the discussion we poured ourselves a glass of wine. We grabbed our appetizers – goat cheese…
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Prom Time Fun!
It is such a fun time and such great memories when high school prom time comes around. Not just for the teens, but for the parents as well. My daughter recently attended two proms. One for her high school and one for another high school. She had a couple of girlfriends over to get ready for her own high…
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