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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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Balancing the Laundry Load Experiment with Wisk

Welcome to the Balancing Beauty and Bedlam Laundry Lab. We had a blast becoming regular savvy scientists and doing our own laundry experiment with one of my biggest enemies.... I invite you into my home to see some of the stains that we needed to tackle. I have my own...

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It's Not Just About the Cooking…

It's Not Just About the Cooking…

Day in and day out, we desire to instill character in our children. Day in and day out, it's a challenge that is worth it. I reflected on my time  in the kitchen this past week, and realized that the hidden life lessons found together cooking are often those that just...

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Hampton Hotel Chain of Friends "Free Weekend"

Hampton Hotel Chain of Friends "Free Weekend"

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hampton Hotels. All opinions are 100% mine. Over the next two months, I will be doing a few quick over night travels, which means staying in a variety of hotels, with many different amenities and price points. Last...

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Yard Sale Finds…for the yard

Yard Sale Finds…for the yard

Moving to the country was never a dream of mine, and I would have scoffed if anyone had tried to tell me this is where I'd be living when I was "all grown up." I am a suburban girl, born and raised with all that it entails. Friends that have been reacquainted with me...

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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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