Fall Decorating {Mustard}

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  At the end of each season, it seems like I’m ready to tackle major home improvement projects around our house from painting, decluttering and reorganizing, rearranging spaces, to bringing in decorations for the upcoming season. Seasonal catalogs and magazines are flooding my mailbox lately and I’ve loved leafing through them for ideas and items Read More

How to Keep Onions

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My nephew’s football team was selling 25 pound bags of Vidalia onions a few weeks ago as a fund raiser for their team. Of course I snapped them up, thinking of all the delicious dishes I could make with 25 pounds of onions. And then they were delivered. Did you know that 25 pounds of Read More

Mingle Monday {I Made That}

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Welcome to Mingle Monday! Every year for Easter since I was a little girl, we’ve always dye dozens of eggs in a multitude of beautifully hued eggs. I remember the grandchildren would always wait inside as my Grandparents would head outside to the hide the egg for the big hunt. Once the eggs were all Read More

How to Make Your Own Seedling Pots

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  Making your own seedling pots is a great afternoon activity for the entire family and a wonderful way to get children excited about gardening. With a stack of newspapers, a can or water bottle, and a few minutes, you’ll be ready to add your potting soil and seeds before you know it.     Read More

A Back Porch Herb Garden

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  I absolutely love cooking with fresh herbs – they enhance the flavors of an otherwise ordinary and even bland tasting dish and make it shine. Before we moved to the “farm” as we like to call it, we lived in a subdivision where the yards were about as big as a postage stamp. It Read More

Organized Living :: Taming the Junk Drawer

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Do you have a junk drawer? They really are a great thing to have, except occasionally, they become so over run with junk that you have no clue what is in that black hole of a space. I have to admit, I have more than one. And sometimes, they just need a good ole taming Read More

Organized Living :: Tips and Tricks :: Designate a Space

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Welcome to another week in our Organized Living series where we’re sharing all about getting a bit more organized. We’ve covered a lot in the past three weeks and I am certainly enjoying hearing about your projects, tips and tricks, too! So far, we’ve discussed: Home Information Center and How to Establish One in Your Read More

A Southern Snow

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We’ve certainly enjoyed the snow we’ve had this week. But if you know much about snowy weather in the south, you know it is not the soft, powdery stuff you see on the ski slopes. We get a great deal of ice. And when we have snow and ice, we grab a sled and hit Read More

Organized Living :: Create an Information Center for Your Home

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Does your family struggle with where things should go in your home? A place for keys, batteries, cell phones, and the never ending amount of mail that shows up every day without fail? Well, mine did. It seemed like it all would end up on my kitchen counter or the dining room table. No matter Read More

New Year’s Day Superstitions

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I grew up in a family with a legacy of deep-rooted superstitions. An inordinate amount of them, too. Not just the eat greens and peas on New Year’s Day, those are rather mild in consideration. With Irish great-grandparents with customs of throwing salt over your shoulder, never standing with just one shoe on, and always Read More

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