All week my fellow bloggers and I have been celebrating the season with spring inspiration … from decor to recipes. Today we’re hosting a Spring Linky Party for you to link up your own spring projects … or simply visit the links for even more spring recipes and decorating ideas. And we’re offering a big…
Would you like to win a $300 Pottery Barn gift card? I know I would! Since I truly appreciate each and every one of you who visits my blog, I’m happy to offer giveaways from time to time. The entry form is at the end of this post … you can perform just one of…
When it comes to comfort food, pasta is right up there on the top of my list! There are so many ways to make it … so many things you can do with it. I don’t really have a favorite type of pasta. I love them all. I recently discovered this One Pan Linguine Recipe…
I’m new to Instagram and thankfully for friends like Liz at Liz Marie Blog, I’ve been motivated to jump on the Instagram bandwagon! Liz and Emily at Everything Emily created a weekly Instagram Hop for you to link up and meet new instafriends! Follow the simple steps below and have fun! Please read carefully over the…
Today I’m thrilled to be part of a group of bloggers that are giving away a special Valentine’s treat … a $1,500 Carnival Cruise Gift Card to use toward a cruise of their choice! There is no expiration date on the gift card, so you can use it whenever you want to plan your vacation! How cool…
You know, I’ve never written specifically about money saving tips, but a lot of my blog posts talk about decorating your home on a budget. I love primping my home but I’m not one to spend tons of money just to make my home pretty. I shop flea markets, consignment shops, thrift stores, and bid…
Christmas has always been a magical time for me, and today I’m so happy to share Christmas decorating ideas that put the sparkle and magic into your home. I’m joining 15 other bloggers to bring you a Christmas Extravaganza that runs December 9th-12th. You can see the full schedule at the bottom of this post…
Can you believe there are just two-and-a-half weeks until Christmas? Yikes! I haven’t even started my shopping yet because I’ve been busy decking the halls! This week I’m excited to be joining 24 other bloggers for “Creating a Handmade Christmas” which started a couple days ago. You can see the full schedule at the end…
Are you enjoying All Hallow’s Eve? I don’t really do a lot of decorating for Halloween, but this year I lucked out with the best Halloween decoration ever! No, it wasn’t a flea market or Ebay find. It was something I found outside. Something that gives you warm fuzzies! Something that doesn’t spook you but…
A slight chill in the air and the turning of leaves into riotous colors means it’s time to take the family out for some apple picking in Illinois! Several farms in the area are dotted with red and golden apples weighing heavily on trees lined in neat little orchard rows. One such orchard is just…
When I was a teenager I thought someday I’d move away and live in a more exciting place than the Chicago suburbs. High school and college graduations came and went and I found myself putting down roots back in my hometown. Eventually I moved a further tad west toward the country and have learned to…
This is just a quick post to say I’m honored to be featured over at Kris’ blog, Junk Chic Cottage. Actually, I was featured on Saturday but I was at the Country Living Fair in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend (I’ll be sharing photos and more on that later this week) and couldn’t share this…
Would you like to learn how to make these simple DIY tissue paper flowers? Today I’m sharing a very easy tutorial over at Live Creatively Inspired. I had seen some fancier flowers made from script tissue paper in a local boutique but didn’t want to spend $6 apiece for them. So I looked online at a…
This week you can enter to win a $275 gift card to your choice of Home Goods, Target, or World Market! A group of fellow bloggers and I got together to offer a lucky winner the giveaway to win this amazing gift card to one of these 3 stores. If you win, you pick the…
One of my favorite ways to unwind and get away from it all is to escape to the country. Lucky for me, we live on the fringe of the Chicago suburbs so it doesn’t take long for my little red Yaris to reach the rolling farm fields. But what I love most is walking or running…
If you’re like me, you love to decorate your home but you’re constrained by a budget. For 10 years I was a single mom but I figured out how to buy my own home and decorate it without spending a lot of money. After re-marrying, I had more money to spend but found I wasn’t…
