Is there anything better in the fall than warm homemade apple dessert?! All that rich coziness, paired with ice cream and your favorite...

I hope you and yours are having a fun summer filled with cozy pretty things. It's been HOT in the Phoenix, AZ area, where we live. +119F...

The view out our kitchen window has been glorious this spring. I love the simple majesty of palm trees! My husband Steve tells me that...

I have been offline for awhile as we have been busy doing super exciting things like fixing our Master Bedroom toilet that broke in the...

How's your home office looking/working out these days? DISCLOSURES In my earlier lifetime I developed and taught paperwork/information...

How do you like to "do" Christmas? One of the fun things about Christmas I think is seeing how families, towns, cities, and countries...

It's time for another dollarwise DIY home project! Right after the pandemic started, our dishwasher quit working. Permanently. Good...

Oh my, even in Arizona I can feel fall in the air so I thought it was time for some homemade muffins! I jokingly call these "faux"...

DISCLOSURES While working on my new website, I perused lots of files on my computer and found many letters from readers that I had saved....

I've always smiled at this quote: "I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a...

April brought flowers to our little cottage home -- indoors and out! But here's our secret: they are all faux. Yep, after years of...

DISCLOSURES I had half of a can of black beans in the fridge so I decided to make homemade enchiladas. I saw a few recipes online but...

My book publisher has recently retitled my Small Space Organizing book/eBook as Maximizing Your Small Space and they also gave it this...

Whether you live in a small home or a large one, the basic reason that some homes look and feel peaceful, calm, cozy, and orderly is...

I don't know about you, but after all these intense pandemic-drama past months, I think we could all use a high-end spa day of pampering...

Does the over-the-top commercial glitz and expense of the Christmas season ever wear on you? Call me Grinch, but sometimes it does me!...

Steve and I have been streamlining our little cottage home since January 1 or so. We do this on a regular basis, but once a year we...

Have some plain white cabinets in your home that need perking up? Try decals! They are such a fun and dollarwise way to do a little...

Before I get back to sharing more food-pantry-strategy with you, Steve made our homemade recipe for veggie lasagna the other night and...

I promised to share with you how we transformed our blah utilitarian carport into a pleasant Secret Garden at-home-vacation-getaway, so...