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Image of Ultimate Guide to Multi-tasking with Vinegar PDF

Something free! Is that why you clicked through? Just for the record, if you did, I don’t blame you one bit. I’m in the same boat. If it’s free, I’m potentially interested in whatever it is (though this can be incredibly dangerous for someone with [...]

If You’ve Broken Your New Year’s Resolutions Already . . .

A Dream is Just a Dream

Seriously guys, New Year’s Resolutions are generally worthless. They’re made with the best of intentions at the start of each new year, but they last an average of six days before they’re broken or forgotten in the busyness of day to day life. Six days. [...]

A Practical Guide to Gifts That Mean Something

Craft Inspiration from Pinterest

Lately I’ve become a bit of a Scrooge where the Christmas season is concerned. I get so fed up with the incredible amount of consumerism, greed, and waste that comes as a result of a commercialized holiday. Do we really need those cheap, plastic trinkets [...]

Almond Pasta Salad & Thoughts on Hospitality

Almond Pasta Salad

I feel compelled to tell you a story. A story that has absolutely nothing to do with Almond Pasta Salad. A story set on an island somewhere in the Pacific. More specifically, a coffee shop in the sunny South Island city of Nelson, New Zealand. [...]

The Secret to Great Blog Design

The Secret to Great Blog Design

There are lots of great tips I could share with you about website & blog design (which I will do, don’t fret!) But really there is one big secret to great blog design. Blog design that is creative, unique, easy to navigate, and memorable. In [...]

Birthday Post: 26 is the New 20

Birthday Muffin

26 today. What? How did that happen? Wasn’t it just a few years ago that we stepped into a new century and I was singing along to the Backstreet Boys? 25 Didn’t seem to be a big deal. A quarter of a century. Pretty cool, [...]

What if the Homeless Had Food?

Homeless & Hungry

Or I guess the question I really want to ask is, ‘what if the homeless had food that was good for them?’ Don’t get me wrong–I love what homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and food banks are doing. They want to make a difference and help [...]

Homeless, but Eating Like Kings

Homeless, but Eating Like Kings

That’s what we are! Homeless. Or I suppose the term would more accurately be house-less or apartment-less. Just one step closer to the other side of the world. Less and less holding us back. Moving out of our apartment posed some interesting dilemmas: What to [...]

A Raccoon Stole my Cell Phone

A Raccoon Stole my Cell Phone

No. That is not a metaphor. No symbolism or hidden meaning. For real, a raccoon stole my cell phone. How, you might ask? Well, one beautiful spring day Drew and Lori packed up their camping gear and hit the road to the Savage Gulf State [...]

Cabbage Flower

Cabbage Flower

Otherwise known as what happens when you leave a quarter head of red cabbage in the back of the refrigerator and proceed to forget that it exists. Usually neglected foods turn a poopy shade of brown and go soggy (and smelly). But instead of curling [...]

Tractors are Sexy

Tractors are Sexy

Oh Blog, how I’ve neglected you! There is so much to catch up on, I’m simply feeling overwhelmed. Where to start? To begin with, I finally bit the bullet and bought a VitaMix! But I don’t regret a single penny I paid (rather like my [...]