The Power of the Flower: Bring Your Home to Life with Flower Arrangements
Flowers are the one ingredient besides people that make a home feel ALIVE. Have you ever walked into a room that was…
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Ceramic vs Teflon and More: What Is the Best Cookware?
Nonstick cookware: what kinds are the best to use and easiest to care for? What are the pros and cons of ceramic…
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Fern Care: How to Keep Ferns Healthy and Green
Fern care can be tricky. Have you ever watched in dismay as a beautiful, fluffy green fern turned yellow? I have, and…
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Worry Won’t Help Us, But Preparation Will
Many of us have had a lot of changes during the past few weeks because of the coronavirus. I know my family…
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Perfect Christmas Gift Ideas for the Special Man in Your Life
If you are like me, you’re on the downhill stretch of Christmas shopping season and counting down the days until you can…
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My Shortcut to Eating Balanced Meals: Controlling Portion Size
I know people who actually weigh their food before they eat it and go on diets like only-orange and strictly keto in…
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Using Colors to Create Cohesive Interior Design
If you’ve ever seen pictures of my city house, one thing you will notice is that there is a lot of color….
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Essential Tips for Creating a Restful Bedroom
Everyone’s bedroom is different. When the rest of your house succumbs to daily chaos, having a bedroom sanctuary to escape to comes…
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Family Ties That Last: Building New Memories at the Purple Door House
I’ve been thinking a lot about my goals for the Purple Door house, our family’s home away from home. Throughout the renovation…
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Your Home is Your Canvas: How I Found My Personal Style
Things have started getting pretty hot and heavy at The Purple Door! We’ve been knee-deep in some of the home renovations for…
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How to Stock Your Home Away from Home
You know how to stock the pantry at home. But how about at your home away from home, or for a longer…
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Stacy Lyn’s Top 10 Kitchen Tools—Great for Christmas Gift Ideas!
Disclosure: If you purchase any products using the links below, I may be compensated (at no extra cost to you). The act…
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Tips for a Less-Stress Holiday
Now that the holidays are basically almost here, I thought I’d post an article I’ve been meaning to write for a while…
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A Family Builds a Log Cabin
Log cabins remind me of what makes America great—the pioneer spirit, the gray area between civilization and the unknown; in other words,…
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My Home Sweet Home
I’ve been wanting to write this “My Home Sweet Home” series for quite some time now. I’ve been asking myself for the past…
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Confessions: Next Right Thing May Not Be On To-Do List
O.K., I have a confession. My last post, “Just do the Next Right Thing”, truly is a concept that I live by,…
