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Bring Your Home to Life with Vintage Finds
Today’s article is a guest post from Deb Foglia, the blogger behind Seeking Lavender Lane and the online shopping site Vintage Keepers. Deb is passionate about all things vintage, and wanted to share her thoughts on how vintage decor can enhance your home. When decorating your home, you should select pieces that make it a…
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Our Top Sweet Ideas for Celebrating Valentine’s Day
Hello from Farmhouse Style managing editor, Lisa Sloan. Are any of you sweet on Valentine’s Day decorating? Granted, it’s a short holiday, and it may seem like you’ve just packed up the last of your Christmas decor, so why bother? Where I live in the Midwest, the early winter months feature a lot of gray…
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My November Intentions — Be Thankful of the Little Things and Enjoy and Appreciate Life
I have kept a journal on and off since I was in seventh grade. Back then I wrote about silly things, like if the new boy in art class liked me or whether I was going to be able to stay up all night at an upcoming sleepover. When I moved into high school, I…
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Enjoying Extended Family—Reunions, Get-together and Good Old-Fashioned Sunday Dinners
I grew up in an Italian-American family. My grandmother was a true Sunday-gravy-on-the-stove, family-means-everything Italian grandma. For most of my early childhood, we lived in an apartment built above Nani and Papa’s garage in a Chicago suburb. And although we were constantly around our grandparents, we would still love getting together for big family celebrations…
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Digging in the Dirt — Gardening Memories to Cherish
“In spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” —Margaret Atwood. Did you have a vegetable garden when you were younger? Or do you remember going to your grandparents’ farm for the summer and helping pick luscious berries or tomatoes? I grew up in suburban Chicago, so we didn’t have acres…