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The 2020 Ultimate Homemaking Bundle Has Arrived!

The 2020 Ultimate Homemaking Bundle sale has ended. The good news is that the Ultimate Bundles Group continues to offer different bundles throughout the year (and occasional flash sales on previously offered bundles). If you don’t want to miss out on future bundles, click here to join my newsletter list, and I’ll make sure you’re the first to hear when future bundle sales go live! It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the arrival of this year’s Ultimate Homemaking Bundle! This post contains affiliate links for your shopping convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking… Read More

Why I’m OBSESSED with Indoor-Outdoor Rugs (& Where I Buy Them)

Learn why I’m obsessed with using indoor-outdoor rugs all over my home…and my favorite places for snagging unique and inexpensive ones! When we have guests over to our new home for the first time, the topic of our area rugs usually comes up. You see, I’m a bit pretty darned infatuated with bold, geometric rugs. More specifically, I love to use indoor-outdoor rugs. Let me take you on a mini-home tour so that you can understand the full extent of my obsession. This post contains affiliate links for your shopping convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking… Read More

House Showing & Open House Checklist for Sellers {Free Printable}

One of the most stressful parts of selling your home is prepping for showings and open houses. Download this comprehensive Open House Checklist to streamline the process. Looking back on the home selling process, I am incredibly thankful that our house sold in just a few days, since I can honestly say that if I had to keep my house in “show ready condition” for weeks (or months!) on end, my head would have exploded. If you’re a first time home seller, be forewarned…preparing your home for an open house (and even a simple one-buyer home showing) is downright… Read More

Staged to Sell: Pro House Staging Tips for Sellers

Sell you home quickly and for more money by following these house staging tips from a former pro home stager. I was so gung ho about kicking off this new blog series about the home selling process. Then, immediately after I hit “publish” on the first post (the one about completing all of those pre-market cosmetic improvements), everything in the world went haywire with the pandemic. Given the context, I decided to pivot during the last few weeks and focus instead on content that could be helpful to y’all while we started to deal with our new normal (e.g., tips… Read More

Pantry Inventory & Freezer Inventory Trackers – {Free Printables}

Download this free meal planning printable set (including pantry inventory & freezer inventory trackers) to stretch your food dollars and minimize trips to the grocery store. So how are you holding up friends? Life is certainly surreal right now. I hope that you are safe and healthy and most importantly…at home. I’m hanging in there and continuing to count my blessings, as I know we are in a much better situation than so many others. We’re now starting our fourth week of sheltering at home. Navigating this crazy time has included a bunch of changes in our day-to-day routines. One… Read More

8 DIY Home Projects to Tackle When You’re Stuck at Home for Awhile

Stuck at home for awhile? Turn the challenge into an opportunity by tackling those DIY home projects that you’d normally never have the time to complete. Be productive and feel in control again…while making your home more appealing! I sincerely hope you’re hanging in there…staying healthy and sane during this insane time. Remember all those times you wished that your list of obligations and appointments could just disappear for awhile so we could stop feeling like a chicken with your head cut off? Well, here we are. In a world where just like that, the dry-erase calendar of our life… Read More

How to Work from Home Successfully: 5 Things You MUST Do

New to this whole Work at Home gig? No worries. Let’s talk about how to work from home successfully. You CAN do this! It’s March of 2020. It’s the understatement of the century to say that there are currently A LOT of changes happening in our world. One of them is a massive increase in the number of people who are now working from home. Maybe one of them is you. You may have discovered over these past few weeks that being productive isn’t quite as simple in the home environment as it is when you’re working at the office…. Read More

Stuck at Home? Tackle One of these Organizing Projects!

Stuck at home for an extended period of time? Turn the challenge into an opportunity by tackling that home organizing project that you’d normally never have the time to complete I find myself equal parts anxious and grateful. We chose to self-isolate starting almost two weeks ago now, in an effort to avoid unknowingly spreading the virus in our community. Our kids’ schools are closed for at least the next month, but we’re sure it will be longer. My husband has also been working from home for almost 2 weeks. Dramatic schedule changes are always a challenge. BUT, I’m choosing… Read More

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