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We bought a home!

My husband and I are officially home owners! After much consideration about what would be best for us, where we are at in our lives, and what we still want to achieve in the near future we decided on purchasing a manufactured home that is located in a manufactured home community. While it was great not to have to worry about much because maintenance is handled by the landlord. These last 5 years renting our apartment I found myself wanting a lot of what I just simply couldn’t do in our apartment. Now we again have the freedom to curate our home to our needs and have the ability to upgrade it as we see fit. Also, living with white walls for the last 5 years has driven me batty. Seriously, something so trivial as not having paint on the walls has bothered me to no end. Oh and sweet…

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Plus size gal in a tiny house; sharing my first time experience and vulnerability

The insecurity was so real I had this serious inner turmoil going on around if I really could fully experience a tiny house. I really wanted to experience smaller, more sustainable living but at the same time I felt I had to wait because I was too fat. At 300lbs I decided, I’m not sure why, that I couldn’t do these things until I lost the weight. I guess the reality of not being able to go on the harry potter ride in universal last year hit me kinda hard. I was too fat for the ride, the first time I’ve ever experienced this. So I felt like my obsession with tiny houses and off the grid living  was a little out of reach. It seems entirely ridiculous saying it now. Then one day I said F..k it. I booked a tiny house that was only an hour from me…

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Amazon December holiday shopping gift guide

Most of this list is very budget friendly items under $100, even the more expensive tech options are still good in comparison to other sites. As always I suggest doing your homework for your online shopping. I love amazon because I can compare their sellers and with Amazon prime two day shipping is a breeze. Here are some of my favorite finds this season on Amazon. I have a feeling that a number of these will show up as deal items in the coming week! Perfect amazon gifts for the men in your life The Beard bro – For the ultimate beard trimming guide this little tool packs a of style for a clean cut look that even barbers are using! BeardScape beard and hair trimmer – If you know someone in the market for a beard/hair trimmer (or just needs an upgrade) this little wireless guy is a dream. It includes…

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Minted custom stylsh journals and planners

Minted has a wide variety of paper and party products as well as many art prints. But my favorite items are the journals and planners. You have the ability to customize not only the cover, the inner cover but the style of paper used and even the amount of different sections within it. Journals Minted has a wide assortment of styles when it comes to their journals. You can customize messages, add photos, choose the kind of style you want the paper to be. For example my journal I got grid paper where as the journal I got my little sister was lined. For someone who loves to write I think these are a fantastic gift because they are so customizable. Planners The planners are really brilliant, I purchased a weekly planner because I preferred a more detailed look on the calendar but there is also an…

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4 Minted Holiday Gift Ideas

Hey all! So I come from a family where giving a gift card is practically a sin and some years originality runs low on gift giving. I recently stumbled across a site called minted.com when I was searching for places that make custom Journals since my little sister loves to write. (You’ll see a review on that in the near future) Which brings me to my second point, if you are looking for custom items minted has quite the selection of printed items from cards and envelopes, art, journals, planners and even fabrics. Holiday Cards For the holiday cards(Which if you order today you’ll receive them by Friday the 19th) You can also get 10% off and free shipping using code: HOLIDAY10. These cards also come with matching envelopes and FREE recipients address printing. You don’t even have to worry about handwriting anything if you don’t want! This basically means…

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6 Eco-friendly Gifts for Mom this Mother’s Day

We’re all a little eco-conscious now that Earth day has recently passed so let’s apply this into our gift giving a little. Buying gorgeous gifts that are also made from recycled material can be a fantastic way to sustain the environment and still appease our gift giving hearts. 1. Here’s a gift that I purchased for my own country loving, mason jar obsessed mother: Over at Willow Stained Glass shop you’ll find some gorgeous blue mason jars flattened down. You can use it for a variety of thins like a spoon rest, change holder, votive holder, soap dish, butter server and the list goes on. At $12 this recycled gift could be talk of the table. 2. If mom is a cosmetic loving gal you should definitely check out Tarte Cosmetics. You should be able to find them at your local department store or online at tartecosmetics.com their products are not only…

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10 Resources for creating & designing your blog or website

I could easily make a list of 100 Resources but I wanted to keep  this to 10 points/tips and resources for all of your creative, coding & design needs. Some of the points even have lists of resource links of their own! The truth is when you are a blogger you need to know a lot of different aspects including PR, Social Media Marketing, SEO, Creative Writing, Researching, Interviewing, Photography, and some basic aspects of web design among many other aspects. Hopefully this list helps you in some way. Learn to code for Free with these Tech Books Color Picker // Learn the codes for your favorite web colors One of my favorite places for color inspiration Design-Seeds Blogger code snippets to beautify your blog 5 Steps to build a better blog Psychology behind language 50 various blogging tips Another lovely Resource List 58 Ways to get noticed as a…

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Illustrations with shapes

Why have I never done this before… scratch that, why haven’t I done this since I was little and using MS paint back on my stone age computer? I made this all with shapes and distorted them to fit what I was looking for. I’ve always told myself I can’t draw people. People are too complicated. I suck at drawing hands and here I go making a person without having to draw a thing at all. It was actually really fun and I think I’ll have to try this more often. (PFT show’d myself huh? That’s what I get for being negative. HAPPINESS! wait… I’m not sure how that applies.) I always found art to be very therapeutic and since this week has been very gloomy in my efforts to celebrate my cousins life in her passing. I just can’t jump into celebrating life, even if she was such an…

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Friday’s Favorite Finds #2

LessMilk.com I honestly think I came across this before but never the less Thomas is creating simple (and I say simple loosely) games using HTML5 and Javascript EVERY WEEK! Seriously this is going to be on my bucket list (more like before I’m 27?). Check out the games he’s created so far. Super fun and nice to see the progress. Darby Smart DIY Boxes I came across this site by accident. I think I was looking something up about some DIY I wanted to do and somehow wound up on this epic site. This is perfect for people who want to have some crafts to do as a beginner. Not everyone has the skills to just go out and grab stuff and make something from it so this is a great way to get your feet wet dabbling in many random trades and see what you like to do. They update…

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Intuos Creative Tablet Unboxing & first impressions

So I saved up all of the money I got for Christmas and got myself a Intuos Creative pen & touch tablet from Wacom. For anyone who’s spent hours trying to draw with a small trackpad or mouse you know my pain and frustration. So my goal for the year was 2 big purchases. 1. A tablet to make my work easier and a new computer exclusive for work. I’m one down! So let me tell you how awesome this is… its super awesome! Coming from someone who has never experienced the use of a drawing tablet (Seriously I don’t count drawing on my Nexus. ) Wacom has multiple sizes to choose from but since I tend to write and draw with wider strokes I figured a medium would be the perfect size for me. (They have a small version for under $100!) What I didn’t realize until I started…

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