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Adding Character to Your Home

Oops, I Did it Again!

Oh my, friends. I have gone and started way too many projects at once. During cold and flu season. Right before the holidays. With a one and four-year-old in the house! What was I thinking?! I wasn’t. I was all hopped up on Fixer Upper reruns I watched while I

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Telling Your Story

Amanda Answers Your Questions

I invited readers to email me questions about anything and everything. Here’s a few of the most frequently asked questions with my answers. If you have others you’d like me to answer, send them my way! Q: What exactly is your job? A: I get it. People don’t understand what

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Our Stories

My Husband and Subway Tile Have My Heart

I love my husband. You can read all of the mushy reasons here. But beyond that stuff, there’s the weirdness of our relationship or rather, the freedom to be weird, that keeps me starry-eyed with this man of mine. The thing is, we are total opposites. We don’t make sense

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Cheesecake Hour Confessions

It’s 5 AM and I’m wide awake. Being a Golden Girls fan, I think of this as the Cheesecake Hour; that point when you wake up in darkness and you have to snack the worry away. I don’t have any cheesecake. Instead I have a horrible barking cough and a

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10 Lessons I’ve Learned From Southern Women

I come from a long line of obituary readers. The kind of women who sip black coffee while reading each and every life story, all the while shaking their heads and saying things like Lordy, Lordy. And sometimes, if it was someone who died in an especially tragic way, they’d

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