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Easy DIY Wood Frame for Canvas
Custom framing is beautiful but it is also verrryyy expensive. I recently made a larger painting on canvas for our home and I knew I wanted to make a simple frame for it. Around the same time, we finally decided what we wanted to do on the blank wall of our entryway-...
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How to Make An Instagram Worthy Charcuterie Board
Technically, a charcuterie board is a platter full of just meats. Charcuterie is just too fun of a word to not say so from here on out I will refer to any type of meat and cheese boards as charcuterie boards. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk about how...
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List of Must Watch Not So Scary Throwback Halloween Movies & TV Episodes
Anyone else out there not like the scary/creepy parts to Halloween?? (I love candy, so that's my number 1 favorite part of the holiday!) I'd much rather watch funny movies or shows that relate to Halloween during October than scary ones. If you are familiar with...
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How To Keep Your Summer Glow – Favorite Products to Keep Your Tan into Fall
It's no secret that Summer is my favotite season. The reasoning is a mixture of several things but two BIG reasons are the warm beach days and getting tan. I am half Armenian and fortunate that I get a nice tan in the summer. When I am tan, I feel better about myself...
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Lake Vacation Outfit Ideas
My family and I have been fortunate to go to Deep Creek Lake my entire life. It's located in way western Maryland- about 10 minutes from West Virginia. It's up in the mountains (mountains to us on the East Coast) and is the largest lake in Maryland. There is also a...
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San Francisco in a Weekend
Last year (2019) two of my cousins, one on my mom's side and one on my dad's side, one living in San Francisco, CA and one living in Santa Rosa, CA, were getting married, one in August and one in October. I had never been to San Francisco or Northern California...
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Easy Summer Date Night
Summer during COVID has been a weird time. We are fortunate to still going to the beach every weekend with minimal crowds but outdoor dining has made spontaneous dinners and happy hours impossible. Happy hours have crowds that we don't really feel like being around...
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How to Shop Online Without Overspending
Shopping online probably seems like a no brainer. You go online and search or go directly to a store and browse. But what happens when most of those 'shopping trips' result in impulse buys?? (Yes, kinda like running into Target for one thing and coming out with a...
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Recent Home Decor Purchases
If you aren't aware, we bought our first home in August 2019. It was a great house bones wise and the previous owners took great care of it (like they would vacuum their crawl space and now my husband does that lol) but it was just really outdated and not our style....
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Santorini, Greece Travel Guide – Hidden Gems
Santorini easily became our favorite desitnation the minute we were there. My husband and I traveled there in September of 2017 and it was actually the first time, my husband had ever been to Europe. We decided to head to Athens and stay there for 2 nights and then...
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