Decorating

Selective Seeing Sees Beauty Everywhere

I hope you enjoy this Home Life Special Edition. Trust me, you donā€™t have to live in a custom home to make use of these articles. Not at all! We aim to…

Decorating Tips From a Pro

I didnā€™t grow up with a mom who decorated our home. It wasnā€™t until I was taught to sew that I learned about a world of color and texture. Suddenly it mattered…

Crafts and Fun

Take some time for creative crafting to get you in the mood for the fall and winter season. Include your kids and it turns into a time of making memories. Set them…

refreshed living space

Refresh – Renew Your Living Space

Whether you live in an apartment, a house, or a room, your living space should inspire and encourage you. It needs to be a place of rest and refuge. Hereā€™s how you…

orange peel, cloves, cinnamon

ā€œScentā€-Sationalize Your Home!

I amā€¦ ā€¦a minimalist, ā€¦chemically sensitive, ā€¦on a budget! But I still like my house to smell good! Uplifting smells do more than smell good. They lift the spirits, they increase brain…

Christmas decorations

Memory-Making Simplified!

As a mom, I want to make the Christmas season the best for my kids! This includes making cute homemade crafts, going to all the special Christmas programs, having the house totally…

Christmas ornament drawings

Memory-Making List

A few simple things to do with kids during this Christmas season are: Reading all kinds of Christmas books from the library driving around to look at Christmas lights (walking or taking…

Christmas tree illustration

No Christmas Tree? No Problem!

Make it a family project to draw a tree on colored paper and then tape it to the wall. Find a large, bare branch and tape ornaments onto it. Tack a long…

stencil finished

Stencil It

It started with this thing (see photo) I picked up. I liked the shape of it. So I traced it on regular paper. After cutting it out, I traced the pattern onto…

curtains

Hanging Curtains in 5 Simple Steps

I recently helped my daughter Alyssa move into her first place ā€“ a shared apartment, with her bedroom in the front. Three long windows facing the street meant that we needed to…

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