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Facebook All-In-One for Dummies Review

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facebook-all-in-one-for-dummies

Facebook is everywhere now and just about everyone I know "in real life" has taken the plunge and signed up--including my mom and father in law [Hi, guys!]. Though it's become this integral part of most of our lives, there's always more to learn. Things I bet you didn't even know you wanted to know--like "Hiding ...

Modern Version of the Ole Piggy Bank: Virtual Piggy

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Virtual Piggy

One of the things we've struggled with when it comes to Cara is her idea that money is "free"...as in it comes from the money gods in the sky or something. A way we've been trying to teach her the finite quality of money is by having Cara put her money in her piggy bank. How's ...

Fekkai’s Essential Shea Ultra Rich Mask To Repair Hair Abuse

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Fekkai Holiday Promotion sale

[.] My hair hates Alabama. We have hard water and my hair has pretty much given up looking shiny like it did when we lived in Arkansas. Every now and then I'll get lucky and my hair won't look like a Brillo pad but that doesn't happen very often. I cut the build up by using dish ...

Fields & Lane Forester Gardening Glove Review and Giveaway!

Filed Under: Garden, Reviews/Giveaways
Cara thinks my Fields & Lane gardening gloves will make her plants grow.

When I first started thinking about having a garden at our new house, I imagined fertile, black soil. I imagined cool breezes with just enough sun to warm your skin. What I never got around to imagining was hard, red clay and days straight with no sun and potting soil stuffed so far up under ...

Nutrition Possible and Win a $25 AMEX Gift Card

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Walmart Supplement Vitamin Aisle

When my doctor told me to take 60mg of iron, I searched five different stores before I was finally able to find what I needed. At each store, I asked either a store associate or someone behind the pharmacy counter for help. About half the time the person was able to at least find where ...

Holiday Dessert and Drink Pairings: Not As Hard As You Think

Filed Under: Food and Drink, Reviews/Giveaways
Fabulous Brownies

Thanks to Duncan Hines for sponsoring my writing. There's no limit to the baking possibilities, so grab your favorite Duncan Hines mix and Comstock or Wilderness fruit fillings and Bake On! www.duncanhines.com. When it comes to the holidays, deserts and drinks seem to be in abundance. Figuring out what to serve together isn't rocket science and ...

Gold Eyeshadow Or Using Makeup From Highschool Because You’re Chicken is Not Only Weird But Also Gross

Filed Under: Life, Reviews/Giveaways
Me with gold eyeshadow.

Thanks to L'Oreal for sponsoring my post about my favorite beauty looks, tips and tricks! Check out Makeup.com for beauty advice from the experts. Moving is a great way to discover stuff you forgot you had. Clothes, money, socks...makeup. I'm not suggesting you should move just so you can find all the stuff you lost and ...

Enter To Win 25 Free Shutterfly Holiday Cards!

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Christmas card

Shutterfly contacted me this year and asked me to host a giveaway where three of you get codes for 25 free holiday cards. Also, if you're a blogger, you get an extra chance to win 25 free cards--if you don't mind, will you put that you heard about the promotion from my site cause that ...

Cara and Ollie Try Out the Cube Dog App

Filed Under: Reviews/Giveaways, Tech/Videos/Video Games

Thank you to Cube Dog for sponsoring this review. For more information about Cube Dog please visit the Facebook page or download it on iTunes. Tucker and I love to play video games--if you haven't noticed--and we've passed the point where we can play whatever we want around Cara and Ollie. Either the game is too ...

Buy Heather Solos’s Home-Ec 101 Because You’re Dirty

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Home-Ec 101 book cover

OK. Maybe YOU'RE not dirty but your house is. Your clothes are getting ratty. You don't know the meaning of pinch or poach. And you didn't realize any of these horrors until you read Heather Solos's book, Home-Ec 101: Skills for Everyday Living--titled after her wildly popular website. Well now you think you shouldn't read Heather's book because you ...

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