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Taking a Peek at My Most Inspired Room
"Creating an authentic home is the slow process of learning to pay attention to what speaks to you and how your home feels to you. It invites you to embrace (and appreciate) the joy found even in the smallest details and improvements along the way." Warm, cozy, lived...
Creative Cooking Saves Money: How are you doing?
Welcome Tasty Tuesday friends to my No Spend, Clear Out, Eat from my Pantry and Garden Challenge Update. If you missed the introduction for it, find out about the Challenge here. I have gone NINE days without buying anything from the grocery store, and it has been a...
Handmade Marketplace: What are Your Crafting/DIY Projects?
It's summer time: days to create, be inspired and relax, right? Sometimes I chuckle when I think that my summer was going to magically open up my calendar to all of those wonderful handmade creations I desired to make and finish? Where have those lazy days of summer...
Frugal Fashionista
For this week's Frugal Fashionista post, I had planned on sharing what I wore every, single day. Yes, a typical life in the world of Frugal Fashion doesn't have to be boring. It can be put together so easily, like this simple outfit. This $1 brown yard sale shirt...
Lessons Learned Through Unemployment – One Year Later
A few weeks ago, my husband casually mentioned, "It's the one year anniversary of signing my employment contract." Wow, how has these last twelve months flown so quickly, when the year before d-r-a-g-g-e-d by so slowly? It's amazing what a little job security will do...
Free On-Line Reading Games for Kids
It's time to enjoy the dog days of summer. Yes, a period of laziness, which for the first few weeks is pure delight, but it's reached the time when those brains need to be working a bit again. Over the last month, I've been scanning the web for some free on-line...
The No Spend, Clear Out & Eat from my Garden Pantry Challenge
Our Fourth of July parties are completed, and I am diving into our Summertime Pantry Challenge, where my goal is to eat from our fridge, freezer and pantry for the month, and share some additional ways to save money on food. I am going to clear out some of the food...
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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.
