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Baby It’s Cold Outside: 3 Tips For Indoor Photography

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Photography Tutorial

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I LOVE everything about the magic of the holiday season.  That is, until January 2nd rolls around and I’m immediately ready for spring. Winter in Chicago seems to never end.  Sunset at 4:00 in the afternoon, wind so chilly that you don’t dare bring

Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop #38

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Welcome to the Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop. As I was working today I started to think about something. TOMORROW is exactly ONE YEAR since we have been on the approved wait list with the Philippines for our adoption. ONE FULL YEAR. Twelve months. That's a huge step because when we began

I Like Being Me Again

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Bright Lipstick - Fashion

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Holy cow y'all. I have fallen deeply in love with bright lipstick. This is such a new thing for me. For 32 years {yes I'm 32-shhhhhh!} I have worn nothing but lipgloss or nude-ish lipstick. No color. Color was scary. And trashy. And BRIGHT. For goodness sake it was BRIGHT. I had this

How to Improve Your Guest Posting Strategy by 1716%

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Guest posting has been one of the key attributes of growing my blog over the last five years. When my blog first launched in 2008 I managed to spew out over 30 guest posts in about a 90 day period. That was on top of writing regular content for my own site 3-5 times per week. #hustle I

That’s Enough For Me

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I'm sure it's not surprise to you that when my family of boys ask me to go hiking I give them the... "Really?????" look. Yea, I'm not the hiking type. In fact, I'm more of the let's go shopping type. But it just so happens that I now live with 4 people that are the opposite gender than me.

Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop #37

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Welcome to the Inspire Me Please Weekend Blog Hop. We started 1st grade basketball this week. Can I just say I miss Kindergarten basketball? When it was less intense. Less competitive. Less demanding. AND less consuming. I'm not ready for the rat race of kids and sports. I want my kids to enjoy

{Fashion} My Love For Stripes Continues

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FASHION STRIPES

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It's no secret that I love stripes. LOVEEEEE stripes. Always have. There was a period in my wardrobe life that just about every other shirt in my closet had some form of stripes on it. :/ After writing the fashion post for Pinterest Told Me To...I started to realize that it was fun to

D&R 013: How to Stand Out of The Blogging Crowd

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I read somewhere that over 100,000 new blogs start every single day.  Insane! With so many new blogs starting up, how do you get your blog to stand out from the rest? Getting your blog to stand out can be tough, but not impossible. In this week's podcast we share how were able to make our blogs

Our Favorite Things: Blogger Gift Guide

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Our Favorite Things: Blogger Gift Guide

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Welcome to Our Favorite Things: Blogger Gift Guide! A few of us have gathered up our favorite things to give away and YOU have the chance to win them. the busy budgeting mama | jenny collier | the mom diggity | just a girl and her blog | house of rose view from five two | blue eyed bride |

Music To My Ears {Instagram Dump}

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I'm currently editing blog posts and photos with MUSIC playing. If you know me at all then you know that this is a huge step for me. HUGGGGGE. I mean, if I'm EVER doing anything {working, editing, writing, breathing - ha} I need peace and quiet. I've always been jealous of the