No question about it, Thanksgiving in 2020 is depressingly different. We usually host our whole family and some family friends and this year we can’t do that safely. But just because we aren’t entertaining a crowd doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy one of my favorite parts - setting a beautiful table…
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3 Easy Tips for A Beautiful Wreath
Nothing ushers in the Holiday Season more quickly and easily than a beautiful wreath! Getting a wreath on my front door is usually my first order of business for winter and Christmas decor. While there are millions of variations on holiday wreaths , here are three easy tips for a classically beautiful and elegant wreath…
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Raspberry-Almond Cake
We are stress baking over here, and in case you are in need of some excellent recipes to try for your own stress baking, we highly recommend this Raspberry-Almond Cake…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge Project #OOO Week 5
Welcome to week 5 of the One Room Challenge - challenge being the operative word! This is only my second time participating. I brilliantly picked a pandemic year to jump into this challenge….might as well add a little more chaos to life, why not, right? …
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Simple Ways to add cozy touches to your home for winter
Ready or not, winter is coming…So let’s turn our attention to ways to enjoy the season inside with these tips to cozify our homes…
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One Room Challenge Project #OOO Week 4
Week 4 of the Overdue Office Overhaul is here…whaaat??? Holy cow, I’m going to be working out of this office space soon…This week the cleaning out has reached NEARLY the end and soon it will be all done and clean and ready for paint. It has been quite the archeological dig…I
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Fall Entertaining Ideas
Our outdoor entertaining season is extending into the fall this year…so I thought I’d share some of our easy and safer serving ideas with you…
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One Room Challenge Project #OOO Week 3
Yikes! This is the halfway mark of the Fall 2020 6 week One Room Challenge to redo my office and I’m feeling the crunch! I came across this pinned to a bulletin board during my great office purge of 2020 and it sums up how I’m feeling…
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Color of the Year 2021 Aegean Teal
It’s TIME again! That time of year when paint companies all announce their Color of the Year for the upcoming year. Benjamin Moore, one of our go-to paint companies, released their announcement this week and the color is…
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One Room Challenge OOO Week 2
Well, it’s week 2 of the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge - our Overdue Office Overhaul! or #OOO, and I’m dreaming of running away to a beach…So, what’s happened this week at the ORC OOO? Well, CHAOS. Chaos is what has happened this week. You know how they (whoever “they” are?!) say “it will get worse before it gets better”? Well, I don’t think worse was possible, but we have definitely not arrived at “better” yet either.
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The New Breed of Showhouse
Luxury Designer Showhouse. As a designer, nothing makes me happier than the opportunity to visit a designer showhouse and absorb all that inspiration and creativity…introducing the newest innovation in Designer Showhouses…
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Fall 2020 ORC Week 1 Overdue Office Overhaul
It’s that time of year again…already!! By which I mean time for the biannual One Room Challenge, and the space I’ll be redoing over the next 6 weeks is my home office….well perhaps not so much reDOING as reCLAIMING…
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