Here is a warm blast from the past for TBT, as in “old postcards,” if you will, from our trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. These postcards would have been to my son, who was taking care of our Kitty while we were away. NUEVO VALLARTA Dear Kev, Our hotel is actually in Nuevo Vallarta, where hotel upon hotel lines the…
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It’s junk revision challenge time again, and this month our theme is organization. Let me just say that I’ve got so many areas that need to be more organized, I wasn’t sure where to begin. But the room most in need (at least my stomach tells me so) is the kitchen! I did a quick inventory in the kitchen. What…
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Well, the holidays are over, but for some of us that only means that we now a few loonnnggg, cold months of winter staring us in the face. Many of us like to get busy cleaning, organizing, and de-cluttering and that is a great place to start, but I always like to try and celebrate this cold season, if even…
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As I look back on some of my favorite diy projects from 2015, I’m happy to see that many of the pieces completed before the move transitioned quite well into our home albeit with a new function in several cases. It was worth it to keep plugging away at furniture makeovers, even while in moving limbo because it was especially…
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I’m so glad I didn’t toss out an old tartan fabric lamp shade when we were moving because, as it turns out, I found a handy way to upcycle it into a gift basket. This one is pretty easy to do. I made mine in one afternoon. How to make an upcycled lamp shade gift basket As I mentioned, this…
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