Over the five years I have been blogging, I have shared all of our favorite summer salad recipes  We pretty much live off of salads here in Texas because it’s way too hot for anything else.  I thought today that I would pull them all together on one post, so I can have them all in one place. If you’re…
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I had a palm to the forehead moment last week when I was looking at all of the scrap wood left over from my projects in the garage. Â For some reason, the way the wood and boards of various sizes were laying up against the garage wall, they all looked like oversized trays to me. Â I was thinking; is…
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Summer is the best time of year to really take advantage of all of the great stuff growing around your yard.  You may not think you have the right stuff growing to pull together a summer arrangement but really anything that’s growing can work beautifully by mixing and matching various sizes of glass vases. My yard is so lush right…
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I’m trying out a new feature today called “Weekend Mix”. Â I’m not sure if I’ll do it every week but I have been wanting to share with you guys a round-up of just some little things that I run across online. Â It’s all random stuff that I want to try or that just makes me smile. I hope…
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Have you guys seen this website/online store called Society 6? You may already know about it but I had never seen it before until last week, when I somehow stumbled onto it. It’s so amazing and I am completely obsessed! Â I have already spent hours just looking through everything. Society 6 is one of the coolest ideas because they sell…
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I realized last week that I have never shared all of my home paint colors all in one post. I have always shared my colors as we have revamped a room but I never pulled everything together into one complete palette. Â I always talk about how having an “undertone” color strategy in your home can help make choosing paint colors…
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My neighbor “Crafty Jane” has an amazing sewing camp for the little girls each summer, where the girls sign up for a daily dose of learning to sew from “Miss Jane”. Â Jane teaches the girls how to hand sew and to use a machine and it’s really amazing how quickly the little ones pick up sewing. Â Miss Jane is…
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Summer is in full swing and it’s hotter than hello here in East Texas. We live off of cold salads in the summer and today’s recipe is something I had in my mind for a couple of years but just haven’t found the right time to make until this last week. We love caprese salads and pretty much eat them…
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A couple of weeks ago, I did a huge laundry room organizing project  for the book (the whole laundry room is not in the book). My long-term plan for my laundry room was to build floor to ceiling cabinets all the way around the room but I did this quick revamp and I loved how it turned out. In fact,…
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