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Innovative Ways to Improve Your Home With Plastic

Innovative Ways to Improve Your Home With Plastic Infographic

If you’re a home owner, then you will be fully aware that renovating a home can be extremely costly and rather off-putting. A lot of preparation and planning needs to go in to the renovation of a home, meaning you’ll be spending time and money somewhere along the line in order to ensure everything … [Continue Reading...]

Quick Tips For Sprucing Up The Exterior Of Your Home

As a homeowner, you will want to make sure that you are doing everything that you possibly can in order to spruce up the exterior of your home. This will improve the curb appeal of your home, which means you will enjoy pulling up to your own house more than ever before. You might even notice that … [Continue Reading...]

What Every Man Should Know About Giving Flowers

It’s been said that the way to every man’s heart is through his stomach, which is why a woman who can whip up a great meal will always be able to attract a good man. For a women, however, the key to her heart is to give her something exquisitely beautiful, like a bouquet of fresh flowers. Men who … [Continue Reading...]

Comfort Food Ideas For Your Wedding Menu

When it comes to choosing delicious comfort foods to include as part of your wedding menu, there are some things you'll want to know. First, not every food is appropriate for formal affairs. Some comfort foods are simply too costly to make large batches of, while others are too messy for people in … [Continue Reading...]

Healthy food alternatives

This wonderful infographic will take you through some of the best healthy food alternatives that you should most definitely take under consideration. Some miso soup from Clearspring would be a great alternative from the usual sandwich, it's not only a lot tastier but it is also so much better for … [Continue Reading...]

On Our Table

Pepperoni and Cheese Balls and Bread with frozen dough

cheese and pepperoni bread

We bought the store out, so we decided to make our own! Super G. decided that since we always seem to buy up all of the pepperoni balls at the grocery store, that we should start making our own instead. Pepperoni Balls are the easiest things to make -- all they are is dough, pepperoni and cheese. … [Read More...]

Chicken Noodle Soup with Fresh Homemade Egg Noodles

I wasn't planning on posting this chicken noodle soup recipe, hence the horrible quality cell phone photos!  Once the family tried it, though-- we decided it was probably one of the best soups I have ever made!  Which means I had to share it so I would remember just how I threw it together!  The … [Read More...]

Berry Morning Breakfast Crisp Recipe! #YayOats

Berry Morning Breakfast Crisp

Since I was a little kid, oatmeal has been a common breakfast dish. I have always loved eating oatmeal in the countless ways it can be prepared. From my memory of Dad's stove-top cooked hot Quaker® oatmeal with cranberries to my favorite oatmeal raisin cookies, oatmeal has always been there to fuel … [Read More...]

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Home & Garden

diy rustic wheel herb container garden project

DIY Rustic Wheel Herb Garden How-To #MiracleGroProject

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Gardening should be fun!  I love to … [Read More...]

my weekly menu board

DIY Photo Frame Menu Board with Fellowes Saturn2 95 Laminator

I know I have been saying it a LOT, but it is almost time for our kids to go back to school! Nine more days until the big day! We have been getting … [Read More...]

Family Moments

Dinosaur Park 1988 - Rapid City, South Dakota

Dad and The Giant Dinosaur :: Throw Back Thursday #tbt

I have wanted to participate in Throwback Thursday for a while now, but I always forget! Not today! I dug out some old photos and hope to remember to … [Read More...]

recipe book from a mini photo album

Preserve Memories with a DIY Photo Album Recipe Book #CanonPIXMA

This is a sponsored conversation inspired by the Canon PIXMA MG7120. All thoughts and opinions are genuine and 100% my own. For more information on … [Read More...]