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Slipcovered Parsons Chairs for the Dining Room
There have been tears, sweat, and yes, even some blood, while working on this project. I am happy to report that my dining room chairs are complete! After Before I’ve wanted parsons chairs for about a year now, and have been perusing Pottery Barn, World Market, and Ballard Designs to find my favorites. When I realized I couldn’t afford something…
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Chicken Thighs with Caramelized Onions
If you’ve never cooked with chicken thighs, you need to! They are less expensive than chicken breasts and have a great flavor. This recipe turned out really well, and I know we’ll be making it again. My initial desire was to try this recipe, but I didn’t have all of the ingredients on hand, so I had to settle for…
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Baked Brown Rice
Rice is a staple in our household, but I always like to try new ways to make it. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to give brown rice a try. Brown rice hasn’t been on the top of my ‘recipes to try’ list, but I was pretty confident it would be a health benefit to my family. Did you know that…
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Color Choices
Blues and greens have always been my favorite colors, so when we moved into our new home and I began looking through paint swatches at Lowe’s and Home Depot, I came home with oodles of swatches in varying shades of these two colors. I suppose they remind me of the ocean, which is my favorite place to go, so it’s…
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Lime Granita with Pistachio Shortbread
If you’re looking for a refreshing dessert that doesn’t require an ice cream maker, this is the one for you! The tartness of the lime paired with a buttery shortbread is a great combination. Or just make the shortbread to savor with a cup of coffee. We had company this weekend so I broke out the china for our meal.…
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$6 Knock off Pottery Barn Chandelier
Shopping at thrift stores is becoming a habit of mine, and I’m finding that in order to find something I can use, I need to do it on a regular basis. During my last shopping trip to Goodwill, I found six small lamp shades, perfect for my dining room light fixture! I mentioned in a previous post, which you can…
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Decorating Tip: Order a Fabric Swatch
As you know, the dining room is my big decor project right now, consuming every nap time during the day, and sometimes more than that. Thankfully, the bigger parts of the room are coming together nicely and I’ll be moving on to window treatments this weekend. Which brings me to the point of this post: If you’re considering fabric for…
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Pork Medallions with Cherry Sauce (BH&G)
A few weeks ago I picked up a magazine that I spotted while checking out at the grocery store. I don’t normally do this, but this Better Homes and Gardens special caught my eye. It’s titled, ‘garden fresh recipes’. Since we have a garden this year, I decided I could use some inspiration on how to cook some new recipes.…
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“Shoes, and Ships and Sealing Wax, and Cabbages and Kings”
Can anyone tell me where this line comes from? Any literature gurus out there want to explain its meaning? In short, it means covering all kinds of subjects, which is what this post is doing. There are just a few updates I wanted to give you, but wanted to include them all in one post. First, we finally named the…
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Classic Sour Cherry Pie with Lattice Crust
I never wrote down a Summer Bucket List, but a few things were on my mind to do this summer. One of them was to make a cherry pie with fresh cherries. The stores around us have been marking cherries down each week and this week they’re even more on sale, so it must be cherry season somewhere in the…