1. SMART THINGS is discrete - I love the good ol' home feeling when it comes to my house but as we are in this century of cool new toys, I get so excited about every little time saving opportunity.  The Smart Things hub allows me to bring all of the new excitement to my home while only taking up a small amount of space in one of my many cubes. 2. SMART THINGS is easy - The Smart Things app walks you through the process of installing devices and allows you name and organize your devices.  Day to day utilization of the app ...

As part of my September savings, I gathered up some ingredients I had stocked in my pantry and set out to make something I never had before.  Soup. So here it goes.  OK...something else I really don't do is line all of my ingredients up for a picture but since photos are the rage on these blog posts I thought I'd try it and of course, I screwed it up!  See that vinegar in the photo?  It said 'red wine' on it so I grabbed it.  Surely though, I needed the cooking wine, not the red wine vinegar.  The photo ...

                  Buy the digi book here.    Buy the hard copy here. So, you have your story complete and you are ready to edit, but you don’t know where to look. Firstly, edit your work before you send it to anyone else.  When you edit your work, be sure to make sure you stay in the same tense throughout your story.  Also, check to make sure your storyline fits into place.  If it doesn’t, change it up.  Once you are sure that your storyline is firm, check for the ‘juice.’  Every story needs ...

Every year around early fall and also in mid winter, I get the bug to stop spending money.  This is probably because I'm so into my home projects that I go crazy in the warm and sunny months completing as many projects as I can. This summer was no different.  I completely re-decorated my downstairs and also redid all non-carpeted flooring in my house and one bathroom.  While I made sure to never go negative on my spending, I'm ready to go positive for a few months and get that savings back up. Here's what I've done in the past ...

Happy Labor Day everyone! Who's getting up and making some breakfast for the family today? With that in mind, today's post is all about BACON!  MMM  Bacon, bacon, bacon. Childhood Days: When I was growing up, bacon was one of those things that didn't happen very often, and for good reason.  My parents would always cook it on the stove top with one of those splatter shields.  It was a huge pain, literally.  The grease would splatter out of the pan causing little burns to whomever was cooking, the grease would also splatter all over the stove which was a ...