From the monthly archives:

July 2010

This Caught Our Eye

July 28, 2010

If you are of a certain age you’ll remember receiving presents wrapped in newspaper (or if you were really special, the color comics.) Here’s a DIY on how to make your own gift bags from newspapers. Recycling at its finest! Is there any shapewear out there that helps you look thin and is also comfortable? [...]

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Summer BBQ Fun – with Yummy Coleslaw

July 26, 2010

Well, the summer is going along swimmingly here at our little slice of paradise. It’s hot and sunny (as most of you know that’s my favorite kind of weather), my summer projects are slowly but surely getting finished, and last night for Sunday Supper we had a rollicking good time. By the end of the [...]

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Four Essential Gardening Tools

July 25, 2010

Do you start out every spring in a burst of gardening enthusiasm only to have it diminish by late July? Me, too. By this time of summer the idea of going out in the heat to weed and prune does me in. I have one of those gardening buckets with the canvas belt strapped around [...]

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This Caught Our Eye

July 21, 2010

Clean really dirty household items at the car wash. Do you ever get hung up trying to figure out how you are related to people? This nifty chart on Wikipedia helps you figure out who your cousin once removed is. Getting eaten by mosquitoes while sipping cocktails on your patio? Try this! (It works for [...]

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Radiolab – A Science Treat for Your Ears

July 19, 2010

I don’t have any music on my iPod. Not a single song. Instead, I love listening to the spoken word. Needless to say, I am an NPR freak. In the car, in the shower, at night when I can’t sleep – it’s NPR that gets me through the day. The advent of podcasts changed my [...]

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Maximize Garage Storage Space

July 16, 2010

In the past two months I’ve been through two major garage reorganizations. The first was my own, a double car garage. My original objective was to relocate my son to the basement from his upstairs bedroom. This, for reasons I’m still scratching my head about, turned into reorganizing practically every room in the house and [...]

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This Caught Our Eye

July 14, 2010

Want to know the best glue to use to stick things together? Check out this highly useful little site, This to That. Bookmark it! Want some fun floral gift tags for summery gifts? Download this free template and tutorial from Eat Drink Chic. Do you like maps? Not road maps but unusual maps . Maps [...]

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Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

July 13, 2010

Being an anti-clutterbug, my photo dilemma had me frustrated for a while. I LOVE photos of the family, but ours were all over the house, on every horizontal surface, in all different types and colors of frames. I kept on seeing the frames, not the photos. For some people (probably most everyone but me) they [...]

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Replace Your Food Storage Containers

July 10, 2010

Recently I got fed up with my Tupperware (food storage containers, Gladware, whatever you want to call it.) I was trying to match a lid to a container, threw my hands up in exasperation and decided it was time to do what all good mothers of college students do – give it away to my [...]

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Moving on a Budget

July 9, 2010

Joan and I were interviewed recently by Susan Johnston, a writer for Mint.com (a popular personal money management site.) Susan wrote an article for Mint’s blog about how to move on a budget. She found us because of our book, Organize Pack Move: Strategies and Money-Saving Ideas to Simplify Your Move. Joan and I got [...]

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