Life, Family, and Home - Simplified & Sweetened
After seeing so many cute crochet hats and other items on Etsy and elsewhere online, I’ve been wanting to learn to crochet myself. Recently I received a great book to help get me started: Simple Crocheting: A Complete How-to-Crochet Workshop with 20 Projects
Several weeks ago, I highlighted some of my favorite items from Decorativ, a site which deals in affordable contempoary furniture and decor, offering stylish and affordable items from top manufacturers at 40 to 70% off retail.
Today I’m looking at some of their living room furniture. The living room is where a lot of us spend the majority of time with the family, and it is also the place where guests will spend most of the time in our homes. For this reason, I tend to spend more time making sure our living room always looks great.
And because the living room is the center of the house, the furniture and decor in this room really say a lot about you and serve as a foundation for the mood and atmosphere of the entire house.
Today I’m continuing my theme of breakfast recipes for this month with some homemade muffins that I make. This is actually a pound cake recipe, but last year I started dividing the recipe up into one bundt cake and a dozen cupcakes/muffins. And as it’s a fairly light cake, it makes for breakfast time treat. It would go great with coffee or a big glass of milk! Hope you enjoy!
As fall approaches, you may be thinking of doing a little redecorating. Just a few simple touches here and there can really make a difference. For lovely selections in lighting and decor for your home, check out Valley Lighting. They have a number fine styles and brands available, and you can find everything from simple to eleborate and classic to contemporary. [Read more…]
Welcome to Friday Favorites! After linking up, be sure to check out all the great giveaway we’ve got going on right now! I’ve got a fun tank top giveaway from Ruffles with Love, and there’s also a $25 gift certificate from The Paper Plume.
My $50 Amazon Giveaway is still open for another week, and I’ve got a brand new giveaway for a sweet Raggedy Ann Doll from Aurora.
I’m excited to introduce you to Ubokia Everywhere. With uTrust, Ubokia is the safest way to buy online. After two years of development, the site was launched in November of 2011, and has since grown to over 200,000 members.
Ubokia is the largest and quickest growing “want-centric” ecommerce platform out there. Unlike Craigslist, Ubokia allows the buyers to post a “want” in order to connect you with a person who has this item you want. (This means no more searching for the item you want, because the sellers will come to you!) [Read more…]
I’m really excited about this week’s review and giveaway. As a kid one of my favorite dolls was a Raggedy Ann, so I was thrilled to see that Aurora’s latest toy line is a Raggedy Ann & Andy collection!
I love cereal bars! They’re great for breakfast on the run and perfect for school snacks and lunches. After looking up and finding a few different cereal bar recipes, I decided to create my own!
These have a perfect mix of chocolate, peanut butter, and honey that everyone should love, and to make them even better I topped them off with M&M’s! Hope you enjoy! [Read more…]
In the past I have used a bulky vacuum cleaner along with a dust buster, and I’ve been wanting something to replace both of these. Regular vacuums can be very heavy and inconvient to lug around; plus it gets annoying dealing with the cords and having to constantly plug and unplug. And dust busters aren’t exactly fun to deal with either, as you have to bend or kneel down to use them.
But I’ve just discovered something that makes cleaning your floors a breeze! I’m talking about the Rowenta RH8559U1 Cordless Bagless 18-Volt Stick Vacuum Cleaner
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