101 Things I Hate About Your House by James Swan with Carol Beggy

Subtitle: : A Premier Designer Takes You on a Room-by-Room Tour to Transform Your Home from Faux Pas to Fabulous  Stars: ***** Summary: 101 ...

Fresh beet juice & coconut milk? In an ice cream recipe?

I love food!  Ethnic food, comfort food, vegetarian food, and pretty much any GOOD food.  Over the years studying natural health on the way ...

Quick easy weight loss tip....

There are so many special diets, diet pills, food plans to order,  you name it.  But this simple trick is free and easy.  I should say easy ...

New Year New Reads Giveaway - Over $300 in books split into 5 prize packages

My other blog Callista's Ramblings is host to a giveaway hop devoted to books. The giveaway is over there but I'll be reviewing the...

I now know one Dutch word, woonwinkel

Woonwinkel (say that fast three times) means home shop in Dutch, and it's also the name of a local home store in downtown Portland.  O...

GET HEALTHY! Easy single serve smoothie packs & recipes

Now that it is the beginning of a new year we are able to refocus on our health.  I spent the first week of  this month blogging on housekee...

housekeeping - simplified

The theme of this last week has been on getting organized in the home in a doable way so that even the busiest of us can manage it. I gave ...