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Christmas is always a big deal during your young adult years, and when you have young kids around the house. The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years turns into a massive celebration while the family eats you out of house and home. However, the older your children get, the less they are bothered about […]
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Whether you are a new parent or a seasoned veteran on parental affairs at this point, you put tons of love and time into your kids. This is often at the expense of friendships and certainly with regard to health and wellness. Many a parent has scoffed at the idea of a work/life balance as
[contentblock id=2 img=gcb.png] Culinary Teas makes a wonderful house blend aptly named Good Mood, that wakes you up and uplifts your mood. The Good Mood blend consists of organic cacao nibs, which are peeled and broken cocoa beans, the raw material of chocolate. They contain a natural mood enhancer called theobromine and create
Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted with removal or restrictions in libraries and schools. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of the Banned Books Week celebration is the fact that, in a majority of
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old oak table with three drawers. It was made by my husband’s great-grandfather to house linens for a dining room. I’ve repurposed it as storage and the top holds two paper cutters, a typewriter, the telephone, the pencil sharpener, and …
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My favorite ways to recycle junk mail and magazines is by making mixed media art projects such as junk journals, altered books, and collages.
Into the Woods is the title and theme for this assortment of short stories, poems, essays, music, and one walking meditation. Each piece is unique in tone and genre and the result is that the collection captures the fascinating, frightening, fun, healing, and fantastical wonder of time spent in the woods. The twenty-six
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Welcome to my Stop on the Fabulous Fall Hop Remember to scroll down to the bottom to see all the other blogs and their great prizes. You can enter them all. The Crossing Place Giveaway 2 Winners Each receives a $15(US) Amazon Gift Card & a digital copy of The Crossing Place Open
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Shari’s Berries has created punny little love notes to use this Valentine’s Day! With Valentine’s Day around the corner, you might be starting to wonder what special thing you can do to show your love. Romantic getaways, fancy jewelry, and expensive dinners are all wonderful gifts, but sometimes small gestures mean just as
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Finishing a fiction book is a massive undertaking that will give you rights to pat yourself in the back incessantly. Congratulations, you’ve just finished the first half of the journey. Now comes the hard part of editing and getting it ready for publication. The best gift you can give yourself at this point is to
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A holiday pastiche from the authors of Mindful Writers Retreat, sure to light your festive candles! From a Thanksgiving snowstorm that mends old feuds… to the family misunderstandings that fuel new ones… a quirky elf and some romantic stardust will get you ready to go Over the River and Through the Woods on a journey
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The FTC just released new disclosure guidelines for online influencers. These apply to anyone and everyone who does any kind of advertising on any form of social media including blogs, videos, and live streams. Here is a video the FTC put together to help explain the guidelines. See below for more information including examples of
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