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First Impressions versus Last Impressions

They say first impressions are most important. That may be true in many cases but when it comes to your house; I believe that last impressions will be most impacting. Ever walk into a house and feel like you’ve entered something out of a magazine? You may be impressed by the furnishings and decor. But by the time you left, you had no interest in ever coming back. Or have you ever entered a home where it looks a bit out of order and messy, yet at the end of your visit you can’t wait to come back? What you … Continue reading →

Comfort Versus Style

In home decorating, there is a constant battle between comfort and style. Sometimes what feels good doesn’t look good, and what looks good can feel horrible. To find a balance of both comfort and style when the two fight so ferociously against each other is quite a feat. Comfort is easier to achieve if your home is a bit laid back and casual and much harder to achieve in a formal atmosphere though it can be done. Over the years, I have found that my personal style has relaxed a bit in an effort to make my home comfortable. Here … Continue reading →

Things to Know About Attachment Parenting

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Do you practice attachment parenting? This type of parenting has become somewhat controversial. Those that practice it seem happy with it. Those that don’t often choose to share their opinion that this parenting style will somehow harm children (years later). Ultimately, it is up to each parent to decide what parenting style works best for them and their kids. Attachment Parenting is a parenting style that has eight principles to it. Each parent has a lot of leeway in how they interpret those principles and how they put them into action. Prepare for pregnancy, birth, and parenting – Parents remove … Continue reading →

Getting Hand Me Down Children’s Clothing for Free

Used items can make a difference between having something and not having it or being financially secure versus being greatly in debt. When those used items are hand me downs that you get for free, your financial outlook gets even better. Some of my favorite types of hand me downs are baby and children’s clothing. Because children grow so fast, the clothing is often in great condition and style. Plus, outfitting a kid by buying new can get expensive rather quickly. Times that by the number of kids you have, and things can quickly add up. There are a couple … Continue reading →

Football Playoff Party Fun

The NFL Playoffs continue this Sunday as the road to the Super Bowl heats up. Of course, no place is hotter right now than Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the Packers are looking to win back-to-back Super Bowls. I happen to live near legendary Lambeau Field–a.k.a. Party Central–and while I don’t have tickets to the big game versus the New York Giants, I will be partying it up along with the rest of the state’s residents. Only our pre-Super Bowl shindigs will be taking place in the comfort of our homes. If you are planning to host a NFL Playoff party … Continue reading →

Should You Keep That Professional License?

One reason that many home-based professionals work at home is so that they can fulfill the role of stay at home parent. These professionals often find or create home-based work in the same field that they were working in prior to leaving the world of traditional work. When a parent leaves the world of traditional work for the dual career of home-based work and parenting, there are always many things to think about and many decisions to make. One major decision is that of whether to keep a professional license active. If the stay at home parent holds any type … Continue reading →

What Does Your House Say about Your Marriage?

What does your house say about your marriage? Have you ever been into a house and you just know it’s a house filled with love and where the couple is happily married? It may not be the smartest house, it may not always be the tidiest house, and it may not look like a display house. But have you ever noticed with display houses everything is so pristine and perfectly arranged that it’s hard to actually imagine a real family living there? Recently Andrea wrote a blog about if your walls could talk what would they say. On that note, … Continue reading →

If Your Walls Could Talk

If your walls could talk, what would they say? Would they reveal secrets better left untold? Would they smile and say, some really crazy people live here? While there are certainly things you don’t want your walls to tell about you, wouldn’t it be fun to tell about the good stuff? If this puts to mind the thought of painstakingly stenciling words and letters on your walls, you are close. Stencils are great, but leave too much room for error. Unless you are very, very good at stenciling, it can also look about amateur. The newest form of lettering to … Continue reading →

Tall Rooms, Tall Accessories

When I moved into my home with two-story ceilings in the foyer and great room, I quickly found out that my old accessories would not work. Before moving into this house, I had lived in a raised ranch in upstate NY, a New Orleans warehouse apartment, a New York cubicle apartment, and a typical rental house while my home was being built. Nothing I had collected in my travels to my Georgia Mc Mansion (nickname for suburban GA homes) would fit. The problem was everyplace I had lived previously had low relatively low ceilings and so my home accessories were … Continue reading →

Home Editing

How often do you edit? If you are a writer like myself, you edit after every article. You remove excess words. You correct errors. You reorganize and you clean up. The same must be done in our homes regularly. The reasons we must practice home editing is human nature. We live in our space and things get out of order. We purchase new things and add them to what we already have. Before long, our homes get crowded, decorating don’ts just do, and we must clean up and re-arrange to make sense of it all. If you think of your … Continue reading →