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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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How To Make a Snow Ball Wreath

Make a statement on your front door this winter by creating a snow ball wreath. These frosty snow balls will shimmer in the sun just like the real thing. It won’t matter whether there’s snow on the ground or not, you will have the perfect winter accessory for your front

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Jackie Rouse

Make This Holiday Season One to Remember

By Jackie Rouse – Tis the holiday season once again. And while it is always enjoyable visiting with and entertaining family and friends; this year you may feel the need to do something new, something different, something extra special. If that is indeed the case then hopefully the following suggestions

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Welcome to Home and Garden Thursday

4th Week – Thrifting We’re at the end of October and knocking on the door of November, the year is quickly coming to an end! So much to do these next few days and weeks. I hope you all are well – especially those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts

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Ciao Chow Linda

Butternut Squash Bread Pudding

The headline is a misnomer. I should have called it Butternut Squash, Mushroom, Sausage and Kale Bread Pudding. But that was a mouthful – granted, it’s a good mouthful, but too long for a title of this recipe. Anyway, it’s that time of year when butternut squash is abundant —

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Thistle Cove Farm

Car Tips

You’ve got jumper cables…right? Jumper cables have always been a staple in my vehicles, even when said vehicles are newish or with low mileage. You never know when you can do someone a kindness by using cables to jump start their car battery. Since April, I’ve run the car battery

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Jennifer Cote

Chicken Alfredo: Fast and Easy!

By Jennifer Cote – As I researched “Chicken Alfredo Recipes” online, a common keyword was “Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo Recipe”. Translation: This is the recipe everyone wants. And no wonder—most of the online “Olive Garden” style recipes call for a whole cube of cream cheese (on top of the cream

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Denise Biggins

The Betty Vanity

This makeover is so me. I. love. it!!!! It’s old school glamour, with a hint of rock and roll bling. I could just see an Hollywood glamour girl primping at it. Honestly though, I really didn’t give this a huge transformation. It was so underwhelming, it didn’t even warrant a

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Denise Biggins

How to Restore Scratched and Worn Wood

Every time I look through a Pottery Barn catalog, I always find myself scrutinizing the details. Noticing how and what is staged in their photos, regardless of whether or not it is an item for sale! Lately, I have been loving the wood boxes that they show in a room

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Ciao Chow Linda

Frittatine

These appetizers get the award for cuteness. And they taste great too. It’s a simple frittata made with spaghetti and cooked in a mini-muffin tin, then topped with a little pesto and tomato sauce. A friend named Diana found these on the blog “Foodalogue” and offered them at a recent reception.

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Manuela

An Autumn Treat – Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

Aren’t you ready to bake and eat all things pumpkin! I know I am! I have been on the search for a healthy pumpkin oatmeal cookie recipe for the past few months. In my search for the perfect healthy pumpkin oatmeal cookie, I’ve eaten some really dry cookies and some

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Vicki Norris

Re-envision

By Vicki Norris – The Norris household at Dream Acres is being re-envisioned. We’re starting with the downstairs. The carpet was twenty years old; it had to go. There wasn’t a budget for the wide plank reclaimed barn wood floors of my dreams (sigh), so we settled for painted subflooring.

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A Delightsome Life

Pink is the New Orange

Pink Pumpkin Patch is debuting a natural pink-skinned pumpkin all across the country this October! These pumpkins are perfect for your Fall Cottage decor! They come in various sizes and are perfect for your table’s centerpiece, as a jack-o-lantern, or an outdoor accent. I called around and found that our

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Clayzmama

Put On Your Cape and Try These Superfoods!

Want vitality? Need a little weight loss here and there? Well, climb aboard the Superfoods train! Some foods can be described as healthy, then there are those that are super healthy! Salmon can safegaurd the heart. Avocados can lower cholesterol. And berries? They are loaded with antioxidants that fight cancer!

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A Delightsome Life

Pansies and Pumpkins

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. It is gorgeously overcast today. The birds are singing and the squirrels are chasing each other up and down the trees

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Janelle Maiocco

Canning Tips

By Janelle Maiocco – Unofficial Canning Tips A little too frequently, I find myself standing mindlessly in front of my open cupboards and I am staring—perhaps even glaring—at my shelves. I glance suspiciously at the cans and condiments, boxes of dried beans and rice, jarred salsa and tomato paste, hot

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Clayzmama

Seasonal Eating…

Since produce is available to us year round, it can be difficult trying to understand what is actually in season and what is not. Of course you should always look for ripe, fresh fruits and vegetables, however you might want to check with your local grocer to see what is

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Ali Katz

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Seeds

Most people that were around in the 80s and 90s can sing that little diddy in their head! I never had a chia pet, but I can assure you I wanted one and thought they were ridiculously cool. Although many things have changed since then, such as my makeup, the

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Freezing Eggs & Other Money Saving Ideas

I’m always looking for ideas that will help me stretch my dollars. So yesterday I spent a little time searching the internet for useful tips and came across some sites that I thought you might enjoy checking out. Maybe there’s something new that you haven’t thought of doing. I know

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