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Join Us: Deck the Halls Holiday Workshop at the Becoming Cottage

Bring your Merry and we'll make Memories as we turn our hearts towards home, decorate wreaths, create beautiful bows and leave inspired. Join us at the Becoming Cottage on...

SO EASY: Brownie Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

This Ice Cream Sandwich Cake is one of my favorite Go-To desserts especially during the summer. If you omit the brownie crust, it can be finished in ten minutes from start to...

I Have Apologies to Make: Infertility

I've laid awake at night scrolling through decades of apologies I’ve needed to make — instances when I didn’t know the unintended pain I’d inflicted or when I didn’t understand...

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Fabulously Fun Care Package Ideas

Fabulously Fun Care Package Ideas

One of the long standing jokes in our family is of my mother's first college care package to my older brother. You need to remember, this is long before constant communication through cell phone and social media, so a care package from home was pure gold. The package...

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Meal Time Magic: the Joy of an Unexpected Blessing

Meal Time Magic: the Joy of an Unexpected Blessing

Make Family Meal Time a Priority Gather Together over a Shared Meal The Importance of Family Meal Time Laugh More, Laugh Loud Creating Ambiance through Candle Light around the Dinner Table Gathering together around a shared family meal is an intentional measure that...

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Tasty Tuesday Parade of Foods

Tasty Tuesday Parade of Foods

Next week when you come to link up for Tasty Tuesday, you'll see a whole new look here at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam. I've spent the last few evenings going through hundreds and hundreds of posts and re-categorizing them for easier search-ability and organization. It...

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Free Spring into Fragrance Gift Pack from Right@Home

Free Spring into Fragrance Gift Pack from Right@Home

(I think that these have reached their quota. Wow, they went fast.) Two great freebies today: All You is giving away 30K bottles of Seventh Generations Dish Soap...Enjoy some of it by signing up here. Next, sign up to receive some great Spring Cleaning Products. If...

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How to Buy at an Auction

How to Buy at an Auction

A live auction experience is just pure entertainment. At twenty years old, I was drawn into my first auction with no knowledge of what to expect. Knowing that I needed furniture for my sparse, college apartment, and this college town didn't sport any thrift stores, I...

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Stuffed French Toast Casserole with Fruit

Stuffed French Toast Casserole with Fruit

Stuffed French Toast Casserole Regardless of how many mouths I have to feed, there always seems to be a few pieces of left over bread discarded, with new loaves opened. Yes, no regards for finishing the last loaf. I never get that. Do the kids not see those last few...

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It’s Gardening Time: Starting Seeds Indoors

It’s Gardening Time: Starting Seeds Indoors

It's hard for me to think about gardening when it snowed in NC today, and yet it was 80 degrees just last week. But even with crazy weather, every one can get a jump start on gardening season by starting their seeds indoors. One of my friends inspired me to stop...

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As a mom of five blessings and full time family manager, Jen has learned to balance and embrace both the beauty and bedlam of every day life. Her practical, yet tangible, lifestyle ideas encourages others to open their eyes to a “living on less” mentality with hundreds of ideas on living a full life on less money.

She lives it, and invites you along for the journey.

Jen Schmidt

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