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Get Organized: Blog Planner Printables

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*Author and House of Rose Contributor - Darci from The Good Life. Somehow, it’s only taken me 6 short years {insert complete and total sarcasm} to realize that I need to plan ahead a little with regards to content for my blog.  Just this past week, after waking up at the crack of dawn to crank

Blue Ombre Birthday Party

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Blue Ombre Birthday Party

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It began when I could not, for the life of me, come up with yet another boy birthday party theme. After three boys and 10 birthday parties between them all...I was outta gas. In fact, I thought about just throwing my hands up and going with no theme at all. Until. Oh yes, until I decided a

Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop #20

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Welcome to the Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop. Uh oh, y'all. This week the food posts took over. Must be something about summer that makes the chefs shine on. And makes my booty just a tad bit wider. Errrr.

Sprucing Up The Living Room

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Entertainment Center Decorating Ideas

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I'm actually cracking up at myself because as I type this post {that has been in draft for well over 2 months}...I realized that I have already changed the layout of this decor on top of the entertainment center YET again. I do not have decorating A.D.D. I do not have decorating A.D.D. I do not

Never Miss An Opportunity To Celebrate Your Child

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Hold me. No, really hold me. Because I feel like fainting every time I entertain the idea that I am now the mother of a 6 year old. SIX. Do y'all agree that something changes when your baby turns six? I felt like sending him off to Kindergarten was hard, but he was still my baby. Kindergarten

Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop #19

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Welcome to the Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop. Another week, another set of amazing projects. I'm on a mission this week to re-paint my home office. I'm blaming one of the projects linked up from 2 weeks ago on this diy headache. I should have known that all of this cool built-in furniture in

Your Blog Is Enough {World Domination Summit Recap}

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From the second that my husband suggested we attend the World Domination Summit I was apprehensive. I remember looking at him and saying...."So, who exactly is dominating the world? Me and you?" Strange. But, before I could say "I like when other people dominate the world and we just sit back

{Adoption} Just Want I Needed

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I sat down at my computer last Friday morning {just like any other morning when I begin my work day} and I started to write my next blog post on the entertainment center makeover. womp womp womp. As I began writing, the words just weren't there. So I thought...I'll take a break and browse

Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop #18

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Welcome to the Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop. I'm back from Portland, Oregon {World Domination Summit} and we experienced some of the most amazing restaurants. Y'all didn't warn me that Portland had fantastic food. So, of course, this week as I was browsing all of your top-notch

Starting a Blog: Experiencing a Change

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You know what's so cool about blogging? It's that YOU can blog about recipes, diy projects, home decor, fashion, adoption, parenting, security guard training, bunnies or race cars...and it works. Well, the security guard training, bunnies and race cars don't work for me. But they work for

{Recipe} Homemade Strawberry Butter

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My neighbor called me and asked me if she could borrow some butter. Except when I showed up at her door with margarine...she looked at me like, "That ain't butter sista!" <<insert embarrassed neighbor who doesn't do a lot of cooking>> I didn't even know what "real" butter was