The Simple Sisters

Every girl needs a drill

For Christmas, my mom got me and Marissa matching clocks. They say “Kensington Station” on them, so it’s a little reminder of a trip we took to London last fall. So last weekend I finally got mine placed on the wall in my kitchen. I had a friend helping me out, and we got tools from my [...]

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The De-Clutterer-er-er

As I mentioned last week, after I went on a pretty big cleaning stint, there were a few areas that needed to be de-cluttered on my first floor. This weekend, I took care of business and got those three spaces clutter free. Here’s the before and after….. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER Overall these tasks aren’t incredibly impressive. What I’m so pleased about [...]

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My menu for the week

I’ve been reading Jane Maynard’s blog “This Week For Dinner,” for a couple of months now. A dear friend linked me to it, and I’ve been grateful ever since. It’s great inspiration to do meal planning. I’ve been successful at it here and there, and the times that I do it, I am very happy. I [...]

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The Clean Up: In Pictures

As I talked about in my last post, I spent a good chunk of my three day weekend cleaning the house. Some things were highly overdue… Like cleaning the down stairs cat box. It had gotten so bad, that my best bet was to just buy a new cat box. That’s a great example of how not [...]

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