Our Girly Girl

Last week was one awful week!  I started it teaching a 10 hour class on mental illness. I’m not sure if it was me, the group, or the subject, but the class really bombed.  I got a few horrible reviews and that always makes me feel terrible.  There were many positive reviews, but I had [...]

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Visiting a Dahlia Farm

Welcome blogging friends on your tour of beauty from The Inspired Room!
The last day of summer started out cold and 43 degrees.  As the sun climbed higher in the sky, the day warmed up and I decided to  visit a dahlia farm I found on a drive this weekend.  Jim’s Dahlia Farm is in the [...]

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Summer Project: Bathroom Remodel

Now that summer is almost over, we look back and remember special moments.  Most people remember laying by the beach, vacationing, family barbecue’s.  This summers memory for us was remodeling the bathroom.   My husband took  a week off of work, and we put aside around $1,500 for the project.  Work at his job got busy, [...]

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Good Apple Pie

“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness”- Jane Austin

September is apple season, and my husband would have to agree with Jane Austin that apple pie is a part of happiness.  I got a great recipe from Pam over at Stamping with Serendipity last year. She found it in an [...]

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Playhouse Makeover

Erin had been wanting a playhouse for her two little girls. She was looking through craigslist one day when she found a free playhouse. It looked old and neglected, but she had the creativity and vision to see it not as it was, but what it could become.

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Adventure in Seattle

I felt so bad for my husband.  They were behind at work, so he spent this labor day weekend working.  I was bummed until I decided  to go see  my son and his girlfriend  in Seattle.  It was a blustery cloudy  day with just a hint of fall in the air.
Seattle is a unique city.  [...]

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Potato Cheese Soup: Comfort Therapy

I got this recipe years ago from a childhood friend and it became my kids favorite “comfort therapy” food.

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Suddenly September

“One morning I go out to pick wild asters and suddenly it is September at Stillmeadow.  I think the first sign is the smell of the air, like wild grapes and windfall apples.  I know fall is here, although the world is still green with summer.  And I feel an urgency to gather in all [...]

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