I helped a friend move this passed weekend. Needless to say, there has been a lot of moving in my world lately. Some people are quite prepared when moving and have all their stuff packed days or weeks in advance. Our plan was a bit more last minute, but there were three items that I found to be very useful…
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The days were numbered for my ironing board cover. You know, it was faded, slightly torn, didn’t fit as well as it used to. Kind of like my favorite old concert tee shirt, but without all the fond memories. The bones of the ironing board were still good, so I just wanted to re-cover it in like the easiest, cheapest…
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If I was going to the moon and could only take one dessert, it would be something with apples, cinnamon, brown sugar and butter. Sorry chocolate! It’s apple pickin’ season around here again. My siblings and I always try to make it out to one of the apple orchards to go apple picking. If we don’t go apple picking, we…
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We can all sing the Happy Birthday Song again. Did you hear? The powers that be decided the other day that the Happy Birthday Song can be sung by anyone, at anytime, in any place, at no cost to any of us…at least for now. This past spring, however, when we were celebrating my friend Deanne’s birthday at a local restaurant,…
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I had been standing in the furniture section of my local thrift store staring at my choices for a coffee table makeover. It was one of those times when I knew darn well they didn’t really have what I was looking for, but my stubborn, unrealistic self wanted to believe that if I stood there long enough, what I wanted…
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