My friends know that I am about as low maintenance as they come, and you are about to meet two ladies who help me stay that way.  That’s right, I’ve recruited friends to give us tips on simplifying your beauty routine, and I am SO excited to share this one with you!  We are going […]

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Here are some of our most-used recipes in my recipe binder!  I hope you enjoy this recipe round-up! It is very rare for me to follow a recipe exactly.  Sometimes I’m missing an ingredient, and other times I simply think a tweak or two sounds better.  I’ve made my notes below on what I’ve done, […]

Inside: Organizing recipes in a binder, recipe binder categories, what to do with recipes from a cookbook, and how to handle the loose paper recipes you haven’t tried yet.   You normally think of paper clutter being in an office or from kids’ papers from school, but if you enjoy cooking and exploring new recipes, […]

Our paper has been a total mess lately, and I’m so excited to get things back in order again.  I recently polled my Instagram followers and learned that the paper category is where most people struggle!  I wasn’t too surprised because paper is one of the only things that inundates our home daily!  When you […]

All of your little habits each day make up your life.  Woah!  That can be pretty eye-opening!  It’s true.  So many things we do in a day are strictly done out of habit, and we end up doing those things hundreds or thousands of times per year.  Because of that accumulation, all is well if […]

After Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, those gift lists are starting to look a little crazy, right? Maybe you aren’t even sure what you bought?! I created this gift tracker out of necessity! I have a long list of people I buy gifts for, and I often shop for items for my […]

As soon as I learned my 10-year-old would be doing school from home three days per week, I knew we would have to create a virtual-day routine. Getting back into the school routine after summer is hard enough, and I knew if we weren’t careful those at-home days could feel like an extension of summer […]

Does anyone else treat the time around late August and early September as the start of a New Year? Maybe it’s my lasting love for school supplies or my need for crisp fall air after a hot, sticky summer, but I am more energized and refreshed this time of year than in January! I love […]