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Adding Character to Your Home

How to Tell Your Story Through Your Home’s Decor

Want to learn a secret that writers know that will make you a better decorator? A good story shows rather than tells. How does that apply to decorating? Well, if you’re like me and you live in a builder-basic house that started off with beige walls, oak cabinets and uninspired

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At Home

Health Insurance — Ways to Help You Save Money

Being an independent contractor, I am responsible for my own health insurance as well as the rest of my family. The process of choosing health insurance and an overall healthcare “strategy” for your family can be overwhelming. At least it was for me. I have been round and round in

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Soulful Stuff

Five Must-Read Books for Spirited Girls

Every night, without fail, Ada lifts a stack of books over her head and drops them next to me. “Only five books tonight, Mommy,” she says, reciting her favorite line from her favorite bedtime story, Olivia. She grins, waiting.

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Gatherings & Good Eats

The Paleo Diet: Honest Reflections

This month I celebrate three years of being gluten-free. I say “celebrate” but who really celebrates never eating pizza again? Yes, I feel much better these days but I had to relearn how to eat. I mean, I basically teethed on cat-head biscuits as a baby and thought all things

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At Home

Christmas 2015 Blogger Tour of Homes

Christmas is just around the corner but there’s still time to make your home merry and bright! Here’s the complete 12 Days of Christmas Tour of Homes hosted by Evolution of Style. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy inspiration that’s just a click-away.  Tomorrow we’ll be hosting a link

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Adding Character to Your Home

Seven Rainbow-Hued Kitchen Cabinets

One of the questions I get the most is how I painted my kitchen cabinets with chalk paint and how I chose the color. Color is of course a personal preference and from experience, sometimes what we *think* would look good, turns out looking less than what we imagined. I

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