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A high chair for Amelia (my thrift haul)

by Kara

One of my Mother’s Day treats over the weekend was time by myself at the thrift store. Wonderful! (And, does my husband know me well, or what?) I picked up some more frames for my growing family gallery and I also came across a treasure: a high chair! We’ve been using a simple plastic travel [...]

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Flashing back to my own childhood

by Kara

Arianne over at Simple Design has started a fun link-up for sharing our thrift store purchases, Thrift Haul. Second-hand shopping is one of my favorite hobbies (if you can call something that is also a necessity a hobby, and I think you can). As I mentioned yesterday, we’ve been spending quite a few weekend mornings [...]

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Helping these walls to talk (however imperfectly)

by Kara

It may be because I am finally starting to come out of my post-baby fog. It may be that it is Spring. I’m sure that Pinterest has something to do with it. I suppose it could simply be that the recent sunshine pouring through my windows revealed all the dust and the drab. Whatever the [...]

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Tips for Creating a Child-Centered Space

by Amanda

The following is by contributor Amanda Morgan of Not Just Cute. With spring creeping in, I often get the urge to start reorganizing and redecorating. With Tsh’s Project Simplify on top of that, there are many of us who are or soon will be swooping in to reclaim and renovate our kids’ spaces. But as [...]

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Project Simplify: Kids’ Stuff – my “After”

by Kara

The following post is by editor Kara Fleck. Well, here we are: the end of week one of Project Simplify, Kids’ Stuff. How did you guys do? My “Before” and “After” If you remember, here is my “before” (and thank you kindly to those of you who reassured me it really wasn’t that bad of [...]

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