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September 5, 2018
Decorate Your Walls With Love!
Decorate your walls with love. (Disclaimer: I received free product for showcasing the canvas art in this post. However, the opinions expressed here are my honest and true personal opinions). The walls in my home are decorated with the people and things I love! As an introvert Home is one of my very favorite places to be. Sometimes I pull into my driveway after a long day, look at my house, and think, “I love you!” The fact that…
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April 1, 2018
Beautiful Silk Plants from Commercial Silk Int’l
Silk Plants I’ve always loved to garden and be outdoors. Over the years I’ve had a few impressive gardens and some pretty spectacular (for me anyway) harvests. But until recent years, my houseplants never reflected my green thumb. I often forgot to water them and finding time to repot them was nearly impossible. I spent many years, while my children were young and life was even more hectic, feeling stressed and ashamed every time I’d look at my scraggly, parched…
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November 26, 2017
Deck the Halls ~ Unique Christmas Decorations!
Deck the Halls ~ Unique Christmas Decorations! It’s time to decorate for the holidays!! Just in time, here is a collection of Christmas Decorations for your home! There is something for every room in the house – everything you need to Deck the Halls this holiday season! I hope you enjoy these fun finds! If you’d like to have any of the items featured here for your very own, you can click on the title or photos below and you’ll…
Posted in Hearth and Home, Holidays and Seasons | By LoriGraceH
October 11, 2017
Time Saving Cleaning Routine for Busy Moms
Time Saving Cleaning Routine for Busy Mums This is a guest post written by Sophia Evans of Tidy London Cleaning. There is no escape from housework whether you spend long hours in the office or run after the kids. In both cases your free time is limited and usually, when you get home piles of unfolded clothes, dirty dishes and scattered toys are welcoming you. You either say to yourself it is what it is and get to work or…
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April 20, 2017
10 Signs Your Cat Might be Sick
Cat Ki-gi, Butterscotch, a feral kitten that had some kind of a neurological or muscular disease (but no name), Christopher, Daphne, Neo, Sadie, Calli, Oliver and Kassie – those are all the cats that I’ve owned or cared for in my lifetime. I was a baby when my family owned Ki-gi (whom I am proud to have named). I was so young then I don’t remember what became of him. Butterscotch was an outdoor cat who ultimately (long story) died…
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April 17, 2017
The Kitten in the Road
Kitten in the Road It was a late summer evening in 2006. We had four teenagers still living at home, two cats, two red eared slider turtles and an assortment of aquarium fish. We were having a building remodeled to house our small private school and the hubby was working a swing shift job. This particular evening we were planning on going over to see the progress on the building as soon as my husband got home from work. But…
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September 29, 2016
Cute Scarecrow Craft
Scarecrow What’s more fun than a Scarecrow in Autumn? These friendly, cheerful fellows are a fun symbol of my absolute favorite season – Autum, with it’s crisp cool air and beautiful fall colors; I love it and I love scareacrows! I have several to decorate my home. I get them out in September and keep them up all the way until Thanksgiving. In October I add some Halloween decorations, then in November I put those away and Thanksgiving…
Posted in Crafter's Corner, Hearth and Home, Holidays and Seasons | By LoriGraceH
December 3, 2015
Vintage Christmas Ornaments
I love Christmas Trees that are decorated with a huge assortment of ornaments that have happy sentimental stories to go with nearly every one of them! Growing up, my parents had that kind of tree and now I’ve had my own tree for almost 30 years and it’s full of ornaments that have their own stories to tell. A few years ago, my sisters and I inherited our parent’s old ornaments that we’d hung on the tree year after year,…
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September 24, 2015
Makeover for Welcome Bear
On our front porch stands a wooden bear holding a sign that says “Welcome.” I first found him at The Quilted Bear and thought he would be a great Christmas Present for my dad. He fit in perfectly with the oak brush and pine trees in the yard of my dad’s home nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains and he stood proudly on my dad’s front porch for many years welcoming visitors to his home. When my dad…
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August 24, 2015
15 Sounds Outside My Bedroom Window
On one of the first warm Spring days this year my husband opened our bedroom window about 3 inches. It’s now August and that window has remained open since that day. As I lay on my bed the other night listening to the sounds coming through that window, I reflected upon the fact that there had been many an evening that I had done that very thing. I made a mental list of the multitude of different sounds I’d heard…
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July 21, 2015
Repainted Welcome Mat
A few years ago I had the deck of my home rebuilt. The old one was ancient and rickety and had to be replaced! The new deck turned out beautifully and so of course, I just had to buy new chairs and planters and things to decorate it. One of my favorite deck decorations was a welcome mat that had the word “home” on it. It was painted with kind of a rustic look and I thought it was…
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June 22, 2015
The Fire that Wouldn’t Go Out!
So many people are enjoying camping and summertime barbecues and fire pits and such right now that I decided it’s a good time to remind everyone how important it is to completely extinguish your fires before leaving them unattended! We’ve had a little private school for years and we end each school year with a field day of fun and games and food! One year after all of the competition was over, we barbecued hot dogs using “just light the bag”…
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April 1, 2015
Display Your Treasured Family Heirlooms!
Display Your Treasured Family Heirlooms! Where are your family heirlooms? Is your grandmother’s cookie jar stashed away in the cedar chest? Is the end table your Uncle Fred built gathering dust in the garage? Displaying treasured family heirlooms can add beauty and character to your home décor. Items that were made by, or that once belonged to your parents, grandparents or other family members hold sentimental value as well. Pull them out! Dust them off! Display them in your home!…
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