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Turn Your Child’s Art Into a Beautiful Memory Book

My eldest daughter is now in Kindergarten and the preschool days are behind her. Sniff, sniff. I kept every scribble, every restaurant coloring place mat, every Froot Loop necklace in a box. A BIG box. I love her art! I celebrate her art! Someday I’ll have to give that giant box to her, plus another 10, full of elementary school art. And then there is the awkward junior high art… and those boxes will most likely sit in her garage until she has to tearfully throw them all away because she’s moving to an apartment in New York. SO sad.

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Tips for Avoiding School Picture Day Disasters

School picture day is close at hand, just in time to get good pictures of the kids to give out to relatives at Christmas. Like many people, I have been a victim of terrible school pictures Im talking about the images that would have been made into Internet memes if the Internet had been around back then (okay, the Internet was around, but no one knew how to use it).

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Simply Beautiful Dried Oranges

I have the sweetest little Christmas décor idea to share with you. It makes me giddy just thinking about it, because it’s super easy, inexpensive, good for the environment and BEAUTIFUL! Today, I offer you dried oranges. There are a gazillion potential ways you can decorate with them. Tie them to garland, hang them as […]