Lifestyle
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How to mostly stress free host Thanksgiving (if you are doing most of the cooking)
Ok, this is for my ladies who love to do it all – you want to host Thanksgiving but also want to cook everything and have found all your favorite recipes and don’t want any deviations because you know they rock. Or if you are like me, have come from decades of family Thanksgiving dinners that were chaotic at best, with everything but the mac and cheese and turkey coming from a box. And there is nothing wrong with that. Stauffers stove top just happens to be one of my biggest comfort foods, and probably for that reason. However something changed one year when I was broke and couldn’t afford…
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How we turned a cheap table from Amazon into a conversation piece
How we turned a cheap table from Amazon into a conversation piece This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure can be found here. Everything we used to complete this task can be found here (except the paint) Before we started this short endeavor, we knew we had a color we wanted to use in our kitchen for our counters under the island. They are currently black; we want to paint them this beautifully calming “Monet blue” from Behr. While figuring out the best (cost effective and good looking) we decided to give the color a try on a smaller piece in our home. I decided to replace the incredibly large couch…
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Cleaning out our freezers | Making room for our pig!
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases We are getting a whole pig this winter so we are trying to clean out some freezer space. We aren’t going to buy another one since we have plenty of freezers and space. But I have tallow and bones taking up a large space that could be on a shelf in my basement. So I have been slowly but surely processing throughout the weeks. One of our freezers has a freezer max system in it, and let me tell you, it is one hundred percent worth. It. We have a half of a cow in our chest freezer and this is…
