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Family :: Creating Magical Holiday Meals Together
The holidays provide the perfect opportunity to spend quality time together making yummy holidays meals. It is such a wonderful time to pass down family recipes and have your kids help out in the kitchen. Just this past Thanksgiving, I had my daughter help me make the infamous green-bean casserole that my mother use to make every year. It is funny, because as a kid I didn’t really like this dish but now I absolutely love it! We ended up using Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom with garlic (highly recommend) and steamed the fresh green beans before we baked the casserole (also recommend doing this for a minute or two). I…
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Dwell :: 7 DIY Holiday Centerpiece Ideas
Are you hosting friends and family this holiday? Why not add in some little extras to the table to make it even more special. But don’t worry, we found some ideas that won’t break the bank! Most of these items you might already have in your home! Here are some fun ideas to try out and enjoy this year! Create a Snow Village: Love this idea! I just picked up some inexpensive glass containers at Marshalls and was planning on doing something festive when I came across this Pin on Pinterest. The kids would absolutely love to see this! Would make for a fun activity at Christmas…
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The #Cube is a Living Canvas for Instagram Photos and Videos
I was contacted by the nice folks over at Konnect Labs and asked to try out their new product #Cube™. I was intrigued because it is a digital Wi-Fi touchscreen photo display/viewer for Instagram, and the #Cube™ allows you to stream your favorite photographers, chefs, bloggers, friends and family and of course your own photographs. Instagram is probably one of my favorite social media platforms out there because it is all about the photo’s and I love seeing pictures of yummy food, beautiful sunsets and of photo’s from close friends and family! #Cube™ speaks to the enormous popularity of photo-sharing sites such as Instagram by enabling the socially connected…
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Dwell :: TIDY to the Rescue!
A few weeks back I received an adorable mailer from a new company called TIDY. I love this concept and just had to find out more about this cleaning service that provides house cleaning options for busy families. For example, if you want a cleaning person to only tidy up one or two areas in your house before your next party – they will do that for only $40. I like that the services can range from a quick pick up to a very intense top-to-bottom cleaning service where everything in your home is dusted off, cleaned up and sparkly when you come home. I wanted to find out…
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How Tidying Up Can Change Your Life
This post contains sponsored content. While living and working in Japan years ago, I was introduced to the concept of Wabi Sabi which represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The spirit of Wabi Sabi is based on a simple set of ideals adopted from nature such that it is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Wabi Sabi implies a modesty of soul that allows one to see and appreciate the simple and the common. In this spirit, I have worked at bringing in my home things that make me happy when I look at them. I enjoy having scented candles lit even during…
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DIY Modern Holiday Decor Ideas
This weekend we are working on decorating our home and front porch in all things Christmas! But this year, I feel like changing it up a bit and only putting out things I really, truly love. I picked up a book at the store the other day called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japananse art of decluttering and organizing by Marie Kondo which I plan to do a write up about soon. But one of the things she writes about is to make sure you only have in your home things that bring you joy. Luckily, she provides tips to do this, but it stuck with me…
