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Choosing a color palette/decorating style
One of the best things you can do to create unity within your new apartment is to choose to incorporate some sort of color palette and decorating style throughout all of your rooms. Carrying this...
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Garlic Shrimp Scampi Linguine
I originally happened upon this recipe from Julie's Eats & Treats, which I'm mentioning just to be fair although the recipe is actually straight from McCormick. You can just see the goodness that's...
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The Beginner's Guide to Budgeting
Starting out on your own can be a little frightening, especially when you aren't used to paying bills and buying your own groceries. One way to make this less scary is to make yourself a budget. If you...
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DIY Mugs
Have you seen those cute custom mugs before??I decided to make some.Here's everything you need, plus some things you could probably do without:Plain mugstransfer paper (optional)computer, printer...
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no bake cookies!
Ingredients2 cups white sugar3 tablespoons cocoa1/2 cup milk1 stick butter3 tablespoons peanut butter1 teaspoon vanilla3 cups uncooked old fashioned oatsDirectionsMix sugar, cocoa, milk, vanilla, and...
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Saving time.
If you're like me, you hate grocery shopping.And it takes forever.I'll try to scan my list and make a plan and make my way through the store. I try to work my way around the store in a circle and get...
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Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Doggy Cookies
Sometimes you just want to spoil your pet. Or maybe you decided you needed to break a milkbone in half and since it was so tiny you couldn't break it with your hands, you had the thought to do it with...
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Is it Fall Yet?
It's beginning to look a lot like fall on Blog-land, but I'm not ready to let go of summer yet. On the other hand, I'm quite excited about decorating for Christmas.I've been slowly working on my fall...
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Free Printable + Cookie Recipe
Last night, I made chocolate chip cookies.The same chocolate chip cookies that are featured in my kitchen on my chocolate chip cookie poster. If you'd like, feel free to print out my chocolate chip...
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Oh, Paint colors.
I love looking at photos of rooms with perfectly selected paint colors...because I'm not sure if I have ever selected a perfect paint color.In high school, I selected a bold pink to go along with the...
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Years of Halloweens
As I begin to plan for Halloween 2014, it's fun to look back on some of the costumes I've had over the years.I've been a school-friendly Jasmine. This costume was made for me by my aunt.Jasmine,...
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The Cuddly Cabin Throw
Sometimes, you want something. You know you probably don't need it per se, but you want it.But you know you don't need it, so you don't buy it.But then you see it again. And you still want it. You want...
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A Real Person Debates Nail Polish versus DIY Gel Nails
Very pretty....very shiny....just like right after you've gotten them done at the salon. (No one can replicate salon-shiny nails at home and we all know it.)Except...I didn't just go to a nail salon.I...
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The Soap Incident and How I Spend All of My Money on my Dog
This actually happened quite a long time ago, but some things take pretty long before you can actually laugh about them. The day of The Soap Incident was a fairly normal morning—I got up too late,...
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Gel nails, two weeks later.
Last week I wrote you all about gel nails and I thought I'd give you an update on the longevity of them. I have found that gel nails (at least the DIY kind I've been doing) look great for one and a...
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Talking about Dog Food...
The days of treating our pets like "pets" are over. Pets are members of the family now. This means that more pet owners are choosing to closely examine what they choose to feed their dog. Dog food...
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Re: The Cuddly Cabin Throw
A couple of months ago I purchased the Cuddly Cabin Throw and blogged about it. I have had the throw for about 4.5 months. It's been washed, and the fibers kind of fused together (you can see this in...
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Another snow day!
What a winter we have had in Kentucky this year! We've had two separate snow storms that have prevented me from getting into work. I look forward to when I'm actually a teacher and I don't have to even...
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One rotten apple to spoil the whole bunch....
Aftermath of the rainstorm that created bad road conditions yesterdayOne of the reasons that I really dislike watching the news is because the news tends to pick out all of the rotten apples and report...
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On coaching kids & this year's season
I have been a rec cheerleading coach for six years now, coaching six or seven different teams in cheerleading, and usually kindergarten through second graders (but I have worked with the third through...
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