What does your house look like from the street? This first impression—or the home’s curb appeal, as real estate professionals call it—boosts your home’s value. Image by acmstaining from Pixabay Your house and garden are vital elements in your curb appeal, alongside the path, the fence, and other features that first meet the eyes of […]
Matching Christmas Pajamas Found at Jane
As part of our large family of ten’s holiday tradition, every person in our family gets a new pair of pajamas to open on Christmas Eve and then we put them on right away and wear them while we play a family game. After that, we wear them to bed and open gifts in our […]
Welcoming Your Baby Home for the First Time
Congratulations, you have a new bundle of joy! And though it feels as if the preparations never end when you’re expecting, most of them don’t actually end until you’ve brought your baby home. You will have a lot to do in the final leg of the journey, as the baby heals and grows in the […]
Why Don’t You Want To Cook More?
We made things too comfortable for ourselves. At an age when it’s so easy to grab your phone and order pizza, why should we still expect people to cook at home? The answer, of course, is that cooking your meals is the guarantee of healthy and nutritious food. However, more and more adults struggle to […]
What To Check For When Renting A House
It can be an exciting moment for us all to move into a new apartment. It’s essential not to get ahead of yourself, and let that enthusiasm get the best out of you. According to pest control experts, cockroaches, mice, bedbugs, and ants are among the most common pest issues most household owners face, and […]
How to Bring a Level of Charm to your Home’s Exterior
It doesn’t matter whether you have a small cottage that is in need of a little TLC or whether you have an apartment that you’d like to inject some life into because deciding what changes to make to your home can be difficult. If you want some help to bring a level of charm to […]
3 Tips for Actually Enjoying Your Home
Humans have come a long way since the days when we lived in caves and in animal-hides tents, as prehistoric hunter-gatherers. These days, our homes are typically highly-sophisticated and technologically advanced places that would put the finest Imperial Roman villas of the past to shame. But it’s one thing for a home to be perfectly temperature controlled, […]
Keep Your Home Safe This Winter
Your home is somewhere you should be able to retreat to when the day is done, and if you aren’t careful, many different things can affect your home in the winter. Obviously, you want to keep your home safe this winter, so it’s essential to keep up the maintenance on your house, but what extra […]
The Best Designers from 5 Categories Compete To Win #TheEtsies
Have you ever walked around at a craft show just to see what creators make and what sells? Etsy is finishing up a HUGE contest right now! It is like a huge craft show of the best designers online! It is called #TheEtsies. My referral affiliate links are below. If you click through and take […]
Art Featured In The LEGO Instruction Manual
How can someone get their art featured in the LEGO® Instruction Manual? It sounds impossible with all the thousands of submissions they must get, right? Well I am proud to say it happened to my daughter, Marissa. Here are the details… This post contains affiliate links. My website is my job, and helps to support […]
3 Ways To Prevent Clogging Your Drain
The most straightforward solutions can often prevent the biggest headaches at home. For clogged drains, it’s about knowing what not to flush down the toilet and what not to throw into the sink. But you don’t have to do everything on your own. This is a contributed post and my referral affiliate links are below. […]
Get Your Best Night’s Sleep
Sleep, that time when your brain and body begins the job of repairing itself after a hard day working, studying or being physically active. If you get the best sleep, you can feel on top of your game, ready to face all the challenges that life throws at you and ready to perform at your absolute […]
Homes and Health: Could Indoor Air Be Poisoning You?
Home might feel like the safest place in the world, but actually, many dangers can be lurking within. From dangerous power tools to chemicals, sharp knives and hot cookers, it’s no wonder more accidents happen at home compared with anywhere else. However, one thing that can be really harmful to your health that many homeowners […]
Pick Yourself Up And Carry On
When we feel like we’re on top of life, everything gets its own momentum. Positivity breeds and good fortune seems to attract better fortune. But as positive as you might be, you cannot prevent some things from happening. The bad news is often nobody’s fault, but still, it’s something that we all have to endure […]