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Surprise Inside Birthday Cake and a Palace Pet Party

Yesterday my baby girl turned six. It’s cliche to say but time really does fly! We celebrated her birthday this weekend with a Palace Pet party, at the skating rink, and my first ever surprise inside birthday cake! I’m going to show you the cake first because I’m excited with how it turned out. I am Baker is one of my favorite bloggers and because I love to make cakes I am always blown away by her incredible creations! One day I want to try one of her harder cakes but for this cake I went for the quick and… Read More

The Quickest Way to Clean up Kitchen Messes

One of my favorite things about my job is getting to learn about new cleaning products. A couple years ago I did a post for Bounty and was introduced to the Bounty DuraTowel, which quickly became my new favorite paper towel and is now the ONLY brand of paper towels I buy! So you can imagine my excitement when Bounty emailed me this year and asked me if I wanted to be a part of the Bounty Quicker Picker Upper team, um, heck yeah!!! Yes, I am totally a cleaning nerd that gets excited about getting to work with new… Read More

How to Clean Silhouette Blinds

It’s Friday again (woo-hoo!) which means it’s time for another great cleaning tip. Today I’m going to show you how to clean something it took me 20+ years to finally do. In the house I grew up in we had Silhouette blinds and I always wondered why people would buy them because they seemed impossible to clean. Fast forward 20+ years later and we moved into our current home, which, of course, has Silhouette blinds on some of the windows. My first thought was to just take them out back and burn them but then I decided that wasn’t a… Read More

How to Clean Upholstered Furniture

I have been getting a jump on my Spring Cleaning this year because I have been working through a major de-cluttering project. While I have been getting rid of so many things, it has been natural to deep clean everything as I go. I was working in my bedroom last week and I remembered that I needed to clean my blue upholstered chairs. We recently purchased a leather sofa and inherited a leather library chair for our living room and they have taught me lessons about how much dust and dirt collects on our furniture on a daily and weekly… Read More

Our WHITE Paneled Ceiling!!!

I know a white ceiling isn’t something people get really excited about but my post today is all about my white ceiling! Let’s start with a nice before picture, which will explain why I’m so excited! Remember this picture from my entryway makeover post? And here’s a good one from right before we moved in. Yeah, that’s a lot of green! It was bad! What I want to know, is who paints a ceiling green?! Well anyways, we moved in about 19 months ago and the ceiling has driven me crazy every. single. day. You can’t ignore it because it’s… Read More

My Favorite Steam Mop & a Giveaway!

Thank you HomeRight for sponsoring this awesome giveaway! Welcome back to another week of “Love to Clean”! Last week I shared all my favorite cleaning products, what I’m currently using to clean my home, and today I’m hear to share why I’m naming the HomeRight Steam Machine Plus as my favorite steam mop. Make sure you stay ’til the end because I’m giving another one away! It’s actually not quite accurate to say “my favorite steam mop” because the HomeRight steam mop is more than a mop, it’s a SteamMachine! A couple weeks ago I showed you how it… Read More

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Bark

Semi-sweet chocolate with crushed freeze dried strawberries. Slightly sweet and tart, this chocolate covered strawberry bark is the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day. Hi again! This is Andrea from Cooking with a Wallflower. I’m back this week to share with you a recipe just in time for Valentine’s Day. Who doesn’t love those gorgeous chocolate covered strawberries? Especially during Valentine’s Day. But I find that they don’t last too long. Sometimes the strawberries get soft underneath the chocolate. And if you receive a bouquet of chocolate covered strawberries, you probably should eat them soon. So! Why not use freeze dried… Read More

The Safest way to Clean and Prevent Mold

One of the downfalls of buying an older home are the old windows it comes with. Our last house was built in 1965 but the previous owners had replaced all the windows, which was amazing, but in this house we didn’t have the same luck. All the windows in this house have broken seals, some of them leak and some of them don’t even close all the way! We know we’ll have to change them all out but we’re avoiding it since it will cost us a small fortune to do it and there are so many other changes we… Read More