Tips n Tricks for a Beautiful and Organized Home

Many people may think of September as the beginning of Fall although it can still be quite hot in most of the country, which definitely doesn’t give you that wonderful Fall feeling. It also tends to be such a busy month with the long Labor Day weekend and then you jump right into the first day of school. Of course, many people don’t have the luxury of the whole summer off, or people like teachers, for instance, have already been at work for some time getting ready for that first day of school - we have a lot of teachers...

How many of you use a holiday planner…..shout out to my Facebook friends from House and Holidays Plan - Get Organized Community. The men and women in this group strive to have every holiday decorating and entertaining detail planned and scheduled months in advance. I guess I’m more of a week-before kinda’ gal, and although I do stress over holiday planning for months in advance, that apparently doesn’t count, in fact it’s counter productive. If planning doesn’t come naturally to you either, do yourself a favor and go online to search for Holiday Planners, you’ll find a ton of options...

Summer heat, summer sounds and summer smells bring back such vivid memories for me. In some cases it’s just the flash of a familiar scene, but others I can recall in great detail; I love that! I can remember hanging out in the front yard for hours every evening with all the neighbor girls doing cartwheels and handstands that ended in backbends….if I did that now I’d be in traction for days! I also have fond memories of weekend barbecues at Grandma’s and all the cousins would play till what seemed like very late into the night. One of my...

My husband and I started collecting ornaments when we inherited many from our parents and grandparents shortly after we got married.  We felt a responsibility to protect those heirlooms for our family to be.  That was in the late 80’s when there were no such things as ornament storage boxes; they simply didn’t exist.  So my hubby Steve, a life-long tinker-er had to solve that problem.  He’d always enjoyed arts and crafts - another inheritance from my beautiful Mother-in-Law Henri - so creating a functional ornament storage box wasn’t his only objective, it also had to be visually appealing.  Oh,...