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10 iPhone Apps With Help For Cleaning Your House

In today’s busy, always-connected world, few mobile devices are as popular or as powerful as Apple’s iPhone. It’s no secret that the iPhone can help you streamline your professional life, boosting productivity and maximizing your efficiency as you work. In addition, there are also a wide variety of apps in

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Under 200-Calorie Chicken Broccoli Frittata

By Meredith Kimelblatt – It’s a New Year, and for many people this means a whole new set of healthy-living resolutions.  Eating healthy, getting more exercise and starting a diet are three of the most common resolutions out there, but are also all ones that many people give up on

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Jennifer Cote

These New Year’s Beans: Lucky or Just Plain Good?

By Jennifer Cote – If your New Year’s Resolutions include healthy eating, make it easy on yourself by packing the freezer with a few emergency meals you can depend on in a fix. It’ll be easier to stick to those resolutions when the stomach’s growling and the clock’s ticking, if

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Top 10 Hostess Gifts

With the holidays upon us, party season is in full swing, and you likely have found yourself scrounging around before a get together for an appropriate gift to give the hostess. While buying a gift for a good friend who is hosting a party is easy enough, things get a

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Meredith Kimelblatt

Holiday Eating – Lightened Up

By Meredith Kimebladt – The holiday season is known for a lot of things—crowded malls, cookie exchanges and lots of family time are all popular holiday hallmarks. But when it comes to Christmastime, comfort food tops the list of holiday traditions. From comfort food-filled family dinners to holiday potlucks, good

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Food
Janelle Maiocco

Your Christmas Cookie Plate

Each year I get to rub my hands together and giggle like a madwoman, while thinking about the festive over-the-top plate of cookies I am planning to bake. Flour and sugar flying, the whirring of my mixer, dog-eared pages in my favorite cookbooks—I can see it all now. Oh and

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Bringing the Word In: “Scripture Cake”, Healthy Style

By Jennifer Cote – When a friend suggested that we make “Scripture Cake” for our church’s Annual Women’s Christmas Dinner, I jumped at the chance to research the subject. Some date this cake back to the late 1700s; a few versions were published in the 1800s. It was also known

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Shopping Extravagan​za

Christmas shopping time is here!! ETSY is the online marketplace for some of the most talented artists in the world. For this season of shopping — I’m sharing with you some ETSY shops that belong to readers and followers of my blog, as well as some of my own personal

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Prudence Lay

Christmas Presence

By Prudence Lay – Christmas is just around the corner. Does that strike a chord of gladness in your heart or do you hear the melancholy tones of somber funeral music playing in your head that sounds like “oh no, oh no, hear we go, here we go”? My prayer

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Ciao Chow Linda

Cranberry Squares

Looking for something sweet and seasonal that comes together quickly and tastes great? This cranberry cake fits the bill. My neighbor Polly gave me a slice of this a while back and I could have sworn it had almond paste in the recipe. But no, it’s almond extract and the

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Jennifer Cote

Visions of Sugar Plums, and Flaming Rum

By Jennifer Cote – “Frazzled Housewife” is almost becoming a foreign word. With the convenience of fast food and store-bought items that require minimal preparation, we can spend very little time in the kitchen. If a special event comes up, we can call the bakery department of most any grocery

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Instant Knitification

It’s that time of year, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere to cozy up to something warm. I’ve a hankering to learn how to rug felt and would love to take a class from Nicole Chazaud Telaar at Festive Fibers…that woman rocks! One little big problem… she’s in

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Home Cooking with Sonya

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cookies

Do you ever have days where you need a reason to keep putting one foot infront of the other? Something to look forward to? A light at the end of the tunnel? My husband needed that yesterday and I responded with what I knew he needed. A cookie that would knock

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Home Cooking with Sonya

30-Minute Chicken Noodle Soup

Brrr..is it cold here! We’ve got your typical crisp fall-like weather..bright and sunny but seriously cold! I’ve been baking to warm the house up and I jotted down an electric blanket onto my christmas list..I soooo need one of those! Soup has been on the menu a few times each

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Weathered Cabinet

I never got my Halloween decorations out this year. Too much going on, and no inclination I guess. I’ve been really busy getting furniture pieces done, and this is the first of 3. I’m getting better at not leaving pieces behind, and then having to go back and hope that

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Kathy Howard

Pumpkin Cranberry Bread and the Bread of Life

By Kathy Howard – I found this recipe about 20 Thanksgivings ago on the back of a can of Libby’s pumpkin. It’s a family favorite and a holiday tradition. I often double the recipe to give bread to neighbors. I love bread of all kinds. My family’s favorite muffin is

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Janelle Maiocco

Thanksgiving Side Dishes & Recipes

I love Thanksgiving side dishes. Beyond the turkey, it is the Thanksgiving side dishes that dot the table-full of yummy food. It is the side dishes that everyone especially women over 50 crave and eat too much of, have fond memories for and dare not re-invent. Nostalgia is tucked into

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Holiday Decorating on a Budget

Life & Beauty Weekly: Happy You By Catherine Ryan for Life & Beauty Weekly – ’Tis the season to deck the halls with boughs of holly — and icicle lights, inflatable Santas, tons of ornaments and other trimmings. In these money-tight times, decorating can put a real strain on your

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Is Your Home Ready for Winter?

With all the time spent inside during the winter, it pays to make your home a healthy sanctuary. All it takes is a handful of small changes to help protect yourself and your family against viruses and toxins, as well as boost immunity and well-being, says Dr. Frank Lipman, director

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Jennifer Cote

Harvest Season Begins

By Jennifer Cote – It seems to come as a package deal with the approaching holidays: Planning menus, arranging dates, organizing parties. One thing I don’t want in that package: A stress-induced frenzy from biting off more than I can chew! So I keep notes of all the best time-saving

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