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I love Spring so much! I just love seeing the new, green leaves and plants, beautiful flowers, and baby animals! And the colors of Spring are just so happy! I am excited to share with you a fun collection of amazing Spring crafts, recipes, DIYs, and more from many of our outstanding members in the Social Fabric community. I know that you will enjoy them and hope that you can create some new spring memories for yourself View Post
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and the natural home remedies in this post are not to be used in place of medical advice. It may surprise you to learn that just fifty to one hundred years ago in this country, our grandparents and great-grandparents would have been able to name and identify a number of natural home remedies for common ailments. Your great-grandmother may have told you that View Post
Three Layer Very Berry Dream Cream contains affiliate links We have had some success in growing strawberries in the past, but blackberries are our big backyard berry producer. (Figures, since I've heard that blackberries grow wild and are even a nuisance to some people.) We have found that if we pick them right when they turn from red to black and keep them in a bowl on the cabinet for a few days, they're View Post
How To Throw The Ultimate Soccer Party contains affiliate links Soccer season is winding down for us, but we still have a few games left. Soccer is such a popular sport because it is fun and even the youngest kid can do it. Our three year old feels like a rock star on the soccer field. How exciting it is that he is finally able to play soccer like his older brothers! View Post
I received product and/or compensation for this post. Includes affiliate links. All opinions are mine. I don't know why or how, but I completely missed the Tangled movie until a year or so ago. The traditional story of Rapunzel comes alive in this well done movie. The boys and I really like it! Tangled Before Ever After was just released on DVD and the new Tangled series is on the View Post
There is so much to learn when you are new to backyard chickens. Often, if you have been a city-dweller for most of your years, you will find yourself amazed at simple facts that most country folks take for granted. If you are a backyard homesteader in suburbia you may find as many opinions on roosters as ordinances against them. It all boils down to the most basic of questions, Do you need roosters for your View Post
This Beard Boss post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Weave Made Media® & Remington, but all opinions are my own. #weavemade #RemBeardBoss http://my-disclosur.es/RgFrEH Waking up and getting ready for work is hard for most adults. Late nights, kids waking in the night, noisy birds that love to tweet at the first hint of sunlight...all of these things disrupt our sleep and make View Post
Of all the food that my family loves, there are two things I can count on everyone to be excited about: nachos and tuna fish. No kidding! My kids gobble up tuna salad with crackers like nobody's business. And nachos are a treat that everyone loves, too! I wanted to add protein to the traditional nachos, but I wanted it to be easy. Enter Wild Selections Albacore Tuna. Easy, fast, View Post
The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. I always love seeing pictures of Easter baskets on Facebook and Pinterest. We have never done Easter baskets for the kids, because I have always felt it was "filler" stuff that the kids would not care about the next day, but then I got to thinking. What if we filled View Post
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #LuminousWhites #CollectiveBias Vintage Coffee Pots I am a big fan of upcycling old items to add something "new" to our house. I recently was able to gather a few vintage items from my grandmother's old house. It is a special way to remember her and also to put to use the things that View Post