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
Blue and White area rugs! We have been slowly adjusting the color scheme in our home from creams and reds to whites, blues, and some greens. Each time something needs replacing, we use it as an opportunity to move closer to this overall lighter and brighter, high-contrast color scheme.
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.
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Lake Tahoe Part 5: Valhalla
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
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Lake Tahoe Part 3: The Water’s Edge of South Lake Tahoe
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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Favorite Finds on Amazon – May 2022
Happy Mother's Day everyone! It's time for another Favorite Finds on Amazon roundup for May 2022. Recently I've been shopping for clothes, shoes, and bags for a business trip. This was the first time I had to create a capsule wardrobe where the items mix and match and can be worn different ways. It's actually taken a lot of focus. See how I create my travel capsule wardrobe and maybe treat yourself to something nice for Mother's Day...
Note: Half of the items I purchased on Amazon and ...
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Favorite White Bookcases for Bathrooms on Amazon
One of the best accessories we added to our master bathroom was a white bookcase. The tall shelving unit fills a large empty wall, provides a place to display colorful navy blue towels, hides the extra soaps and shampoos, and I love the contrast of the bright white against the dark navy blue wall. So today, I wanted to share a few of my favorite white bookcases for bathrooms on Amazon.
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The white bookcase in our master bathroom was a curbside find. A neighbor and friend down the ...
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Natural Wood 3-Drawer Dresser
Natural wood is beautiful. Naturally-aged wood -- that look you get at Restoration Hardware -- is next-level stunning. It's that piece of furniture that looks like it just came out of a 150+ year old home in Europe and will last another 50 or 100 years. That's why it was my goal to figure out how to re-create a naturally-aged finish and it's become one of my specialties. See a sample on this natural wood 3-drawer dresser...
Natural is always better than artificial. You can see the ...
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