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Weekend Links

by Aimee
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Clever Uses for Everyday Items in the Kitchen :: HGTV.com ~ Featuring a few tips from yours truly. Tequila Spiked Guacamole :: A Thought for Food ~ Brian and I share a love of tequila; I can’t wait to make his version of guac! It’s happening at my next Girl’s Night In. Grapefruit Pound Cake [...]

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Giveaways

Queen for a Day giveaway 2012

by Aimee
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Welcome to our second annual Queen for a Day giveaway! Today we’ve got six gift baskets full of treats to celebrate the mom in your life (maybe that’s you!), just in time for Mother’s Day on May 13. Mothers are selfless and make a lot of sacrifices – both daily and over a lifetime – [...]

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Introducing….Simple Design!

by Aimee
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Spring is the season for blooming and Simple Living Media is flowering and flourishing right along with the cherry blossoms and the wildflowers. I’m incredibly excited to announce that Tsh and Arianne have partnered together to launch Simple Design! It is the sixth sister site to Mom, Kids, Homemade, Homeschool, and of course, Simple Bites. [...]

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Organization & Productivity

Planning what to grow in your backyard vegetable garden

by Shaina
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When we first purchased our own home, my first thought was that I finally had the chance to have a garden, a space all my own to do what I wanted. It took a year before the raised beds were in and ready to be planted in the spring – and plant them I did. [...]

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Pantry & Spotlight Ingredients

Spotlight Ingredient: Spinach (Recipe: Spinach Ricotta Shells)

by Aimee
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As the Dowager Countess innocently inquired “What is a ‘week-end’?” on Downton Abbey, I too have experienced my days merging together into one blur. However, I haven’t been idly sipping tea and sacking servants, rather I am so immersed in the routine of feeding-burping-changing-bouncing Clara, that most days feel the same. We’ve passed that six-week [...]

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