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Easy & Affordable Ways to Add Cozy Cottage-Style Charm to a Ho-Hum Kitchen

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...

Adding Dollarwise Curb Appeal to Your Home + Indoor Spruce-Ups + Patio Makeover Paradise

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...

Wine & Roses or Whine & Toilets?!

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 to Become Queen of Your Paperwork

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

Streamlining Christmas Decor: Merry Christmas From Our Little Home

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

Our Dishwasher Space Turned Storage Cellar

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

Fall Faux Muffins + Baked Apples & Pears

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"...

Making Your Home Feel Like YOU

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....

After Christmas Organizing & Storage Helps

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...

Blessed by Blooms & Happy Easter

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

Easy Cook-at-Home Enchiladas

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...

Exciting Small Space Book News!

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

New Home Products + How to Measure for a New TV

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...

Dollarwise Pampering & Wardrobe Organizing Tips

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...

A Simpler Old-Fashioned DIY Christmas

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!...

Quick Tips for Decluttering & Relocating

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...

How to Add Charm to Plain White Cabinets

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...

Easy Lasagna & Champagne!

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

Our Secret Garden Carport Patio Makeover Reveal

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

Our Carport Becomes a Secret Garden Getaway

I hope you are having a beautiful May so far, complete with your favorite flowers! Steve and I have started a new home project recently,...

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