Elevate Your Life

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We are like rubber bands. When we grow and progress in any area or get past any obstacle in our lives it is like we are stretching to new heights. We’re stretching beyond our limitations. Once we’ve stretched, learned and gained the wisdom from those experiences we can never go back to the previous shape. [...]

12 Quick Decorating Tips to Add Some Style to Your Home

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If you don’t have the time or the money for a full home renovation, here are 10 quick decorating tips to add a little excitement and style to your home: 1. Wallpaper borders: You don’t have to paint or fully cover walls to add a bit more interest. Try wallpaper borders. They come in a [...]

Smart Homemakers Make Smart Choices to Save Money

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Being a smart homemaker means you are also a smart consumer. We all love to save money, some more than others from extreme couponers to bargain hunters. There isn’t one right or wrong way to be a smart consumer and a smart homemaker. Some may not think about it, but did you know you can [...]

Productive Homemakers

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Productive Homemakers Ebook Ideas from marriage, to gardening, to working online, we cover many ideas in this ebook to help you to become a productive and successful homemaker. This ebook features articles previously featured on the Homemaking-Cottage.com‘s Deluxe Edition. This ebook includes articles such as: Meat and Potatoes – Slow Cooker Salisbury Steak Cozi Helps [...]

Come Home to the Simpler Life

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Come Home to the Simpler Life Ebook Enjoy enhancing your homemaking skills, especially those lost through the years. Read. Discover. Enjoy This ebook features articles from: “All Things Feminine” themed ideas previously featured on the Homemaking-Cottage.com‘s Deluxe Edition. Read articles written to enhance your home and family. Discover new and delicious recipes. Enjoy the support [...]

Ownership: Part of the American Dream

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“Property is the fruit of labor-property is desirable – it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Property and other forms of ownership is part of the American dream. While it may [...]

2011: A Year in Review

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There is something that I love about new beginnings. As we reach the end of the old year 2011 and get ready to welcome 2012 I have been doing a lot of reflecting over my life. 2011 has been a very good year, but also a year filled with intensity and trials. There has been [...]

Three Ways to Bring More of the Outdoors Inside

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With the hectic and draining schedules most people live these days, it’s truly a wonder many of us are able to get outdoors at all to spend a little time in the fresh air and afternoon sun. Instead, many of us spend hours dawdling away at work desks behind computer screens, sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic [...]

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The Color in the Season Reminds me of the Beauty in my life

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Letter from the Editor: Rich red, bright gold, deep brown: the main beautiful colors against a beautiful blue sky. The beautiful colors in the fall remind us of the color we can find in our everyday lives.  I used to dread the coming of fall knowing that what was to come after all the splendid [...]