Easy Entertaining Tips for a Stress-Free Gathering

If you are hosting for the holidays here are a few of my favorite easy entertaining tips for a stress-free gathering. So prepare yourself now to enjoy your guests and have a wonderful party, rather large or small. Tip #1 Don’t Clean, Do Declutter If you have a room you won’t be using and it […]

Six Amazon Purchases That Changed My Day

I cancelled Amazon Prime this year, so my Amazon purchases have been WAY down, but here are some finds I use every single day.  And every single day they make my life a little better.  Honestly! In fact, three of them are repeat purchases because I added more to what I already had. Colorfulkoala Yoga […]

Market at the Park

For locals (or anyone who wants to come visit me this weekend), my friend Leslie has a booth at the Anthem Market at the Park on Sunday. Rags Resale is selling adorable and beautiful clothes and accessories, if I know her! The flyer with all the details is below. And! The weather is forecast for […]

Bottlebrush Mantle

The bottlebrush mantle I have this year is cute and wintry and doesn’t scream Christmas.  Which has been my decorating goal this year. The retro look of bottlebrush Christmas dĂ©cor caught my eye a few years ago and I picked up a few adorable pieces mostly from World Market.  World Market still sells the trees […]

Winter Quilt – The Look for Less

My goal for this year’s winter bedroom was a cozy look without looking Christmassy.  So time for a new winter quilt, but the look for less. Warm bedding in our house usually goes from the beginning of December through February and I don’t want to change everything out mid-season. So the search began for a […]

Christmas Decorating

I jumped into the deep end this weekend and started Christmas decorating.  Since I like to keep it pretty minimal I had everything finished up by Monday afternoon and the boxes back in the garage.  And some of the sparkles vacuumed up. Roxy, of course, was a giant help.  She immediately started taking ornaments out […]

A Few Surprising Ways I Use the French Press

The Keurig is my go-to for making coffee these days.  The French Press got relegated to the back of the cupboard.  But then, I got inspired, and here are a few surprising ways I use the French press. With so many of my items hitting the donation bin, one thing I’ve kept is my French […]

Digging Out the Old Bread Machine

Recently I came across a fool-proof bread recipe for the bread machine and thought what the heck.  So I dug out the old bread machine from storage and took her for a test drive. Like everyone else, we bought a bread machine back in the day.  And we used it.  Or rather, hub mainly used […]

Cozy Late November Weekend

Checking in on a cozy late November Saturday morning and wondering what you’re doing this weekend. Shopping?  Christmas decorating?  Eating leftovers? Things are low-key in our home this long weekend. I have undecorated autumn and am not ready to put up any Christmas dĂ©cor yet.  So it’s a little bare.  But I know myself.  If […]

November 2023 Potpourri

I don’t know about your neck of the woods, but around here?  Around here things are already gearing up for the holidays.  Let’s chat about it for November 2023 potpourri, shall we? A lot of really fun activities are popping up and I want to take advantage of every one of them.  Especially if that […]