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My Home Office Chair #WordlessWednesday
This is the chair that awaits guests in my office. It was discovered by my good friend Margarita Ibbott, who has an eye for these things. I think I need her back here again to help redo some of the other rooms in this house actually. She is a fellow blogger and a professional organizer, but she has a lot of style and an eye for colours too. So, when it is time to get some new furniture for the living room I am likely to call on her for her input and even if I don’t, she is likely to find a way to help. It is possible there…
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Pass the Gravy – A Canadian Thanksgiving #Giveaway
It’s time for Canadian Thanksgiving. Yippee! Now pass the gravy. We have so much to be thankful for this year. In fact, if you live in Canada, I am pretty sure you all need to be thankful for the gift of geography and how blessed we each are to be living in a country so rich with resources. After my recent trip with World Vision Canada, I can tell you my perspective on gratitude and life in general has changed dramatically. Canadian Thanksgiving is a great time to share your home, your heart and a beautiful meal together. But before you get to that there’s a fair bit of work…
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Office Chairs That Work #InkscrblrATWork
This is the second post in a series about decorating my new home office. Thrifty Mom Media headquarters is now almost 100 % complete. I have maybe two more things to hang on the walls and I am still hunting madly for some drapes that are the right size and colour. Then it will be complete and all will be right with the world. The final office space BEFORE Office Chairs – now resides in my daughter’s room I have been a freelancer for several years and so I have worked at home in one capacity or another for easily 13 years now. Until very recently I paid very…
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Home Office Decorating #InkscrblrATWork
Months ago we moved to a new home. If you read this blog at all, then you know that we moved to a lovely new neighbourhood and we have a pool and super neighbours. We had some of that in our old neighbourhood, but our house was a bit too small for my family, and it was most definitely way too tiny to contain a work space for me. My social media consulting and blogging business grew fast and had taken over my old house. I needed a dedicated office space. I also needed to do some Home Office Decorating. The before picture of my home office space I hoped my…
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I Am A Decorating Dork #wordlesswednesday
I am a decorating dork. True story. I don’t have that gene. It is, in fact, a wonder I can match my own outfits. So, occasionally my gal pal Margarita Ibbott of @downshiftingpro gives me a ring on my iPhone, or a message on Facebook or a DM and hunts me down to say: I found your chair. I found your picture. I found exactly what you have to have for your wall in the front hall. This loosely translates to come and meet me at the store and bring your money. So today, I discovered Urban Barn, where she had found my chair. I will share my chair later…
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Soon, My Pretty #WordlessWednesday
The snow has finally melted here. This will be my summer view. This is a Wordless Wednesday post.
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Signs and Hearts – #WordlessWednesday Linky
Do you believe in signs? It was, in fact, Valentine’s Day when we took possession of our new home. As we were moving some boxes in, scoping out the rooms, my youngest daughter hollered: “Mom, come quick!” This was on the rooftop of the house across the street. My youngest girl said: It’s Grandma. She’s been painting in the snow. I have been moving through the last few months healing, but the physical and emotional challenge of moving from the house where I could literally picture my Mom in every room was a hard hurdle to get over. I had no qualms about leaving that house for a newer one…
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Five Jobs Kids Can Do When Your Family Is Moving
Kids can and should help when moving. After all they are part of the family and moving is a massive undertaking. So why not get them involved. We found several easy ways to get our kids involved and invested in the process of moving to our new house. It’s no big secret that our family is moving. I have been writing about the process for weeks and getting prepared to move for months now. Finally the countdown is on. On Valentine’s Day weekend our family will move out of our first home and into one that will give us a bit more space to grow. We are very excited…
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My Two week countdown: On The Move
Two weeks to go!! This weekend marked the two week countdown to our moving date. It’s been awhile since I posted about our move here and life has been crazy busy in 2014. So, I thought I would share an update. This was us back in October getting ready for moving day with family. This is what my week looked like last week – warning, it isn’t pretty. Two weeks left to go and the packing is starting to worry me. Nobody else seems to be taking much initiative at this point in my house and honestly it’s making me irritable. As matters of finances often do, the details of…
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My #FinishPowerAndFree Experience and a Freebie
There are some brands I am diehard committed to. Tres Semme hairspray, Sunlight liquid dish soap, Tommy Hilfiger polo t-shirts, Jelly Belly jelly beans and Finish. These are my tried, trusted and true brands that provide real solutions, or reliable results for my family. They are integrated into my life and my shopping experience. I don’t swap them out for anything, for any reason, ever. They are untouchable. When my darling husband and I were younger, we would always opt for the cheapest shopping experience. We bought a lot of No Name products. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn’t. As soon as we got a dishwasher we cycled through a…