It may be August, but it's not too early to start thinking about holiday fundraising at your kids' elementary school. And a holiday cards fundraiser, where the students draw the images for the cards, may be the perfect complement to your annual fundraising plan. Here's how it works...
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Planning a Holiday Cards Fundraiser
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STEP 1: Arrange an afternoon for students to draw holiday images. The images should be simple line drawings with lots of white background.
For Christmas ...
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2022 Newburyport PTO Kitchen Tour Fundraiser
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the 20th Annual Newburyport PTO Kitchen Tour & Tasting in Newburyport, Massachusetts. This was a fundraiser to benefit the Newburyport Public Schools (grades preK-8) and I am thrilled to announce they raised over $30,000 with this amazing event!
Event organizer, Dorene Olsen provided us with a few preview images last week which you can see in THIS post; yet these photos were a very small slice of the 9 gorgeous homes included on ...
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20th Annual Newburyport PTO Kitchen Tour Fundraiser
This Saturday, July 30, 2022, from 10:00 am-4:00 pm the Newburyport Massachusetts PTO will be hosting its annual Newburyport Kitchen Tour & Tasting.
UPDATE: Also view the article I wrote following the Newburyport PTO kitchen tour HERE
[View THIS post titled 2022 Newburyport Kitchen Tour Fundraiser to read more about the full event as I toured these beautiful kitchens.]
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This kitchen tour is the perfect opportunity for you to view the work of coastal community craftsmen ...
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The Best Watermelon Cumber Salad!
Watermelon is my absolute favorite food! It's sweet, refreshing, and crunchy yet melts in your mouth. It's tastes like cotton candy but way more delicious and healthy. I eat so much of it, I'm not quite sure I could make it through a summer without watermelon. So how is it that it took me so long to discover watermelon cucumber salad? But now that I have, I now make the BEST watermelon cucumber salad every week!
I am not kidding when I say... you HAVE TO try this salad!
It's sweet, ...
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How to Paint Waxed Furniture
Every so often I get a little surprise in my workshop. This week it was discovering that this long 9-drawer dresser I was planning to refinish was coated in a clear wax. And for those of you that have been following along, you know that you cannot paint over wax. So here's a tutorial on how to paint waxed furniture; or shall I say... how to remove that wax and paint the furniture.
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A friend asked me to paint this pine dresser so that it matched the decor in her new home. She was ...
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My Favorite Blue and White Area Rugs on Amazon
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In my quest to find new rug runners for our kitchen & hallway, I've also been watching for larger blue and white area rugs in case we decide to take up the wall-to-wall carpet in our bedroom.
A girl ...
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On our fifth day in Lake Tahoe, we were all invited by our host to attend her wedding at Valhalla in South Lake Tahoe - an events location for arts, music, meetings, and weddings about 30 minutes west of South Lake Tahoe. This is the final post in the Lake Tahoe series. Enjoy...
If you missed Parts 1, 2, 3, or 4, you can view them here:
Lake Tahoe Part 1: The Mega MansionLake Tahoe Part 2: The BearsLake Tahoe Part 3: The Water's EdgeLake Tahoe Part 4: Emerald Bay & Eagle ...
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Lake Tahoe Part 4: Emerald Bay & Eagle Falls
Are you enjoying the posts of my recent Lake Tahoe trip? To spend the week with a group of women entrepreneurs in an mega mansion at Lake Tahoe really was an incredible and motivating experience. In this Part 4 of 5, you'll see the breathtaking photos of our drive up the mountain to Emerald Bay and Eagle Falls.
If you missed Parts 1, 2, or 3 you can view them here:
Lake Tahoe Part 1: The Mega MansionLake Tahoe Part 2: The BearsLake Tahoe Part 3: The Water's Edge
On Day 4 of our ...
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Have you been following along for the past few days as I share my recent trip to South Lake Tahoe, California? If you missed the first two posts about this recent business trip, you can see the mega mansion we stayed in in Part 1 and the bears in Part 2. Today, I'll take you down to the water's edge of Lake Tahoe.
This business trip was a retreat for fourteen like-minded women entrepreneurs. Our days were filled with inspirational and reflective lectures with lots of downtime to get to ...
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Lake Tahoe Part 2: Bears…Oh My!
In Part 1 of the Lake Tahoe posts, I showed you the 17-bedroom mega mansion we stayed in while on a business trip in South Lake Tahoe. Today in Part 2, you'll see a bit more of the house and the bears... oh my!.
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This is my bestie Dorene who attended the Tahoe business trip with me. You've heard me talk about her before. She is a branding expert and owner of Savory Insights. Dorene (and her two sisters) are like sisters to me so I was super excited we could experience Tahoe ...
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Lake Tahoe Part 1: A Mega Mansion in South Lake Tahoe
Happy Memorial Day! I just returned from a week-long business trip at Lake Tahoe and could not wait to share this incredible experience and the magnificent views with you. There's so much to share that I'll be breaking into down into a few parts so I can share with all of the postcard-perfect photos. Let's start with the actual house we stayed in at the top of the mountain - a 17-bedroom mega mansion in South Lake Tahoe, CA.
Fourteen woman from New England, Nashville, ...
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How to Add a Wire Rack Shoe Shelf to Your Closet in 5 Minutes
If you have wire shelving in your closet, you can easily add additional racks for increased storage and a cleaner, more organized closet. As a matter of fact, while cleaning our master closet today, I added a wire rack shoe shelf to our closet in just 5 minutes. Let me show you how...
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It's May and it's when the weather officially turns warm here in New England. May also means the change over of clothes. You see, here in New England we may have four seasons, but we have two ...
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