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How to Edit Photos For Free

by beth September 18, 2009

I am start­ing to fig­ure out to edit pho­tos for this blog and just because I’d like to have more pol­ished pho­tos of our fam­ily mem­o­ries.  I don’t have the abil­ity to buy a pro­gram to edit pho­tos right now.  I would love to get Adobe Pho­to­shop and learn it in more detail. I have […]

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Cooking for the Family on a Budget: Resisting Shiny Ball Syndrome

by beth September 6, 2009

Pic­ture Cour­tesy of www.bigfoto.com We’ve been try­ing to stick a bud­get for our gro­ceries and my back to school refo­cus on health will again be an essen­tial part of that.  Our stay­ca­tion this week­end in just another way to pro­vide a lot of options to reduce costs–like camp outs, cook outs, & find­ing inex­pen­sive local […]

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Homemade All Natural Kitchen Cleaner & A Scented Vinegar Spray

by beth August 6, 2009

Mak­ing an All Nat­ural Kitchen Cleaner Ingre­di­ents You need: Bak­ing Soda Lemon Essen­tial Oil One Shaker You will want to take ¾ full of a cup of bak­ing soda. Put it into a bowl. Once it is there then mix the bak­ing soda with 20–30 drops of Lemon Essen­tial Oil. After you get it all mixed […]

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NY Times: It’s No Longer Necessary to Spend a Grand to Wipe Tushes

by beth July 15, 2009

I was doing some back read­ing of arti­cles I book­marked last week & in my cue was a New York Times arti­cle, For First­borns, Sec­ond­hand Fits the Bill. I had book­marked it to read because I am look­ing for arti­cles to give my stu­dents when school starts back up.  I’m try­ing to find some that […]

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