Lemon Sugar Scrub Recipe + Printable

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Sugar scrubs make great personal gifts throughout the holidays or throughout the year, really. Although there are so many delicious smelling scrubs available at various department stores and boutiques, I like to make my own so that I know exactly what is included. I knew my Lemon Sugar Scrub would be a great gift to Read More

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Children’s Advent Calendar Printable {Free}

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I absolutely love Christmas! It is without a doubt, my favorite holiday. I just love everything about it. The smells of Christmas trees, cookies baking, and cooler weather in the air. The sights of bright Christmas lights, houses decorated in their holiday best, and stockings hung by the mantle. I love the sounds of Christmas Read More

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Harry and David Tower of Treats Giveaway

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Gift boxes would start arriving around Thanksgiving and continue on until right at Christmas. Daddy would give boxes and boxes of presents to his clients throughout the holiday season and, thankfully, he’d also receive them. Later, as I was responsible for marketing for a mid-sized company, I was also responsible for sending gifts to our Read More

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My Favorite Things :: Favorite Cookbooks of 2012 + a Giveaway

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2012 has been filled with wonderful, gorgeous cookbooks – many of them from people I am proud to call my friends.   The Pioneer Woman Food From My Frontier | Decorated Cookies by Bridget Edwards | Desserts in Jars by Shaina Olmanson Cake Pops Christmas by Bakerella Cooking Light Real Family Food | The Picky Read More

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Nashville :: the show

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One of our favorite places to visit for a long weekend getaway has always been Nashville. It’s a city full of great history as well as fun entertainment for the whole family. I noticed a commercial on ABC the other afternoon for a new show with an upcoming pilot by the same name. The show Read More

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Downton Abbey Addiction

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  For the past two years, I’ve heard rave reviews of Downton Abbey, on PBS. It definitely looked like a show I would love, but I was dead set against falling in love with another show that I’d pine for when one season ended until the other. As a matter of fact, we’ve just succumbed Read More

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Party Like a Dog

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Have you ever had a dog birthday party?   Yesterday was this sweet girl’s birthday. Lady is my nephew’s (the same nephew in the much-loved wedding portrait) Labrador that we’re dog sitting for a couple of weeks. It just so happened that she is hanging out with us here at the farm on her birthday Read More

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17.

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  17 years. Mercy, they sure have flown by quickly! It seems like just a year or two ago that the Mr. and I were all dressed up in our wedding day best, excited to see what our lives together had in store for us. My bouquet in hand, my father walked me down the Read More

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Family Photos : What were they thinking?

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My Daddy’s parents didn’t smile in photographs and looking back at photographs of their grandparents and great-grandparents, it seems like they were carrying on a family tradition. But, their photographs draw me in even more than if they were. This past weekend, I invited my aunt, uncle, and my cousins and their families to our Read More

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Porch Pillows and the Vet

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    We came home from our RV trip with the plants on my porches looking even better than before I left them. It sure is odd how I can baby them each and every day while we’re in town, yet they never look as full and as lush as they do when we leave. Read More

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