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Week in Review (5-18-13)

May 18, 2013 By Jackie 2 Comments

What's New Good afternoon! I hope you had a great week. Ours was another busy but good week. I have been been busy with my new business, which I promise to tell you about soon, and I am really enjoying it. I am praying that God will bless my business and allow it to prosper. In addition to working (from home), I have been working in the garden and doing my normal household duties. Most importantly, I am having a ball with the kids. They really are at fun ages right now. Yesterday, … [Continue reading...]

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My Garden This Week: How I Built a Potato Tower

May 16, 2013 By Jackie 2 Comments

I have decided to make Thursdays my day to post my weekly garden updates, so let's get started with the first update. My Version of a Potato Tower Last year was my first time to plant regular potatoes. After doing a little research I decided to make potato towers and completed that job yesterday. While I have no idea whether it will work or not, I am hopeful based on a post I read at One Hundred Dollars a Month. Here is what I did to make the towers. Step1: I used some leftover … [Continue reading...]

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Mombo™ Nursing Pillow Review

May 15, 2013 By Jackie 2 Comments

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Comfort and Harmony for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When Julia was a baby I thought it would be nice to have a nursing pillow. I was trying to save money so I made up my own pattern, but I had never even [...]

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7 Gift Ideas for Teachers

May 15, 2013 By Jackie 2 Comments

Did you know that I used to be a public school teacher? I taught for 6 years and this month marks the end of my 11th year being home. I do not regret my years as a stay-at-home mom, but I do have some fond memories of my teaching days. My students would sometimes get [...]

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T-Shirt Produce Bag Tutorial

May 14, 2013 By Jackie Leave a Comment

Have you ever thought about using cloth produce bags instead of the plastic ones at the grocery store? While I prefer to use cloth grocery bags, when I remember, it hadn’t crossed my mind to use reusable produce bags, until now. Today I am sharing a very simple way that you can make your own [...]

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2 Ingredient Strawberry Sorbet

May 13, 2013 By Jackie Leave a Comment

I. Love. Strawberries! Sometimes, if I eat too many, my tongue feels funny. However, that doesn’t deter me from eating them, but it does remind me to slow down a little. I am looking forward to strawberry season and hopefully, in a few weeks, we will be able to go strawberry picking. Today I wanted [...]

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Week in Review (5-11-13)

May 11, 2013 By Jackie 2 Comments

What’s New? I hope you had a great week. We sure did. Even though we have had some rain, we also had some beautiful days to be outside and soak up the sunshine. Thanks to those beautiful days I started planting the garden a couple of days ago. So far I have planted 12 sweet [...]

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Hand Towel Plastic Bag Holder Printable Tutorial

May 8, 2013 By Jackie 4 Comments

Hand Towel Plastic Bag Printable Tutorial

A couple of years ago I shared a tutorial for how to make a plastic grocery bag holder out of a hand towel. That post has been one of my most popular posts of all time. Who knew such a quick project would be so popular? My grandma used to make them but none of [...]

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Week in Review (5-4-13)

May 4, 2013 By Jackie Leave a Comment

What’s New We enjoyed several beautiful days this week and were outside quite a bit. We even grilled out one evening. My husband is the “grill master” at our house. While he doesn’t cook indoors, I always defer to him for outdoor cooking. The last two days haven’t been as nice but we still were able [...]

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You Are Beautiful

May 3, 2013 By Jackie 7 Comments

When I was a teenager I remember thinking that everyone was looking at me whenever we went somewhere. I would often slouch and look down because I thought if people were going to look at me I sure didn’t want them to look too closely at all of my flaws. My mom would always tell [...]

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{Allergy-Free} Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies

April 29, 2013 By Jackie Leave a Comment

When Joshua was diagnosed with multiple food allergies over four years ago it was very hard to figure out what to feed him. Many of the recipes I tried flopped. Over the years I have figured out what works and what doesn’t, for the most part. One of my entire family’s favorite allergy-free desserts that [...]

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Week in Review (4-27-13)

April 27, 2013 By Jackie 4 Comments

What’s New? I guess I should have titled this post “2 Weeks in Review” since I didn’t post last Saturday. I am not sure exactly why I didn’t but, hey, it’s my blog and I guess if I don’t feel like posting I don’t have to. Last year’s drought seems like forever ago considering much [...]

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