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Artful Blogging Feature: and an extra copy
I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day. Mine was celebrated at home with a beautiful petite cake, but later my spouse took me, my two sisters, and our kids for Chinese. In the past, I've...
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Artful Blogging Give Away
Congratulations! My daughter entered the names on a wheel app and spun it! I have two copies of Artful Blogging to send to my friends! The first goes to Susanna at Mantelilaakson! My Almond Valley The...
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A Kitchen Refresh
It has been awhile since I painted my kitchen, actually several months back! I always wanted to paint the natural wood, but could not decide on a color, but one week I decided to go for it. I painted...
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Heartsease: Fabulous Functional Pretty Finds
Heartsease (noun): free from stress and anxiety. My goal to create an uncluttered home … a home and environment that has less stress and anxiety caused by misplaced objects, clutter, and leftovers....
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Christmas Decor Prep Reviewing Last Year
It's not yet decorated here. That celebration will wait until Thanksgiving evening. But I'm thinking about it! Last Advent, it was a faint touch of reds and blues with fresh greens. And since I am...
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Christmas Home 2018
Welcome to my Christmas home 2018! The year could not end without inviting you to see our home as in years past. The first few photos are Thanksgiving, but could easily be Christmas dinner day or eve....
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Merry Christmas 2018!
Our nativity is built mostly piece by piece by my mother and later my spouse, and my daughter. A little teenager fun last night! Madeline 3 Our library. It's a little jewel box and fancier than the...
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An Office in a Nook
This is the office in a nook. Created in a corner of a giant armoire, a window, and an unused door on a porch; the desk often just has flowers or plants here. (This door goes to the third bedroom. I...
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Creating Swedish Style Cozy in the Living Room
Toward the end of the holidays, I decided I needed to clean out the pieces in my storage that I would not ever use in this home. I felt it was time. Logically, it made sense to have a smaller storage...
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Orange Season Here
It's orange everywhere here! Orange is not my favorite color, but I sure love this shade this time of year. It is citrus season! The tree branches are bending, and it such a happy feeling to know we...
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My Best Brussels Sprouts Recipe
I wanted to share one of my recipes today, and it's my own! My daughter loves these, and it's vegetarian. I've been making them for a couple of years now, and I think this is my best version. They...
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March!
A month has passed. Where did it go? I've been working in my garden and touching up the outdoor furniture. The sun really wears the color fast here. So our black iron chairs are getting a new coat,...
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May Flowers
I've let almost two months pass by here, because I have not much to say. I simply eased into a spring of tending garden, sprucing this vintage cottage with paint and some small projects, and enjoying...
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Three Sweet Things
I have three things for you today: a recipe, a welcoming idea, and a link to a story on the power of kindness. First Here's an easy recipe. It's oatmeal made with oat milk. It's a hearty, dryer...
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Sharing 3 Ideas for June
I blog less these days, but do so for those that prefer this platform to others. Thank you for reading. Here are my three things for June. First The first photo is the front porch. My spouse loves to...
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New Post April 2020
I have not written here in awhile. But with everyone home with their children or maybe even grand-children, I have had some ideas to share. But rather than write them here, I will give a preview. If...
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A Lemon Tart Recipe
Everyone feels and reacts differently in these times. For me, being busy is helpful. On weekends, I watch Lost in Space via antennae. True vintage TV! I laughed when Dr. Smith said to Will, “don’t get...
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Some thoughts and a Recipe
As I begin to assess these months, I begin to wonder how I will look back on this lockdown?Found distraction.Found moments of creativity.We unstuck this window!Then there were the emotions. In the...
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A Desert Chicken Coop in the Arizona Desert
“Are you going to name your chickens?” I received this question multiple times and truthfully, before I acquired chickens, I did not attempt an answer. But when egg-shaped orbs of downy, yellow puffery...
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Repurposed Armoire Six Steps From the Kitchen
It’s sweltering in the desert, yet each morning, I sit in the garden sipping chilled cacao from a French glass, listening to sizzling cicada, while observing our chickens scratch and excavate the...
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Madhatter Tea Party! 2021
Many years have passed since the publication of Alice in Wonderland, but why is Alice, and the Madhatter, and other characters still so endearing? What might Lewis Carroll have observed about humans...
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Preparing for the Holidays
Our home is in Casa Chic Magazine in Europe decorated for Christmas, and you can read it digitally on Readly. I took the photos but the people at Casa Chic made the story board and wrote the story....
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Decorating for Christmas 2
This is the other image for the Casa Chic magazine Christmas issue in which our home is featured. It is an Italian issue; so to read it, I think it is only available in a digital format.As I said...
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Christmas Decorating Days 3 to 7
Simple changes for Christmas.The angel now holds a string of stars and tucked into the bookcases are a Madonna and a snow globeand a little deer banner and some other little reminders.Over here ,just a...
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Christmas 2021
This year, I decorated a main tree and a bunch of simple little trees... in baskets and urns and buckets and coffee pots... but most of all, I love this cut tree on the porch: dusted branches with the...
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