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Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread

Warm moist slices of bread filled with sweet strawberries and swirls of cream cheese. This bread is so tasty and so easy to make you’ll want to make it over and over again. Hi everyone! This is Andrea again from Cooking with a Wallflower. And I’m super excited to share my latest recipe with you. Over the summer, I saw so many recipes for strawberry bread. Each one looked amazingly delicious. So when I had a pound of ripe strawberries sitting in my refrigerator, I knew I had to make bread with them. But I wanted to take the tasty… Read More

Dining Room Makeover, Part 1 – Board and Batten Tutorial

In my entryway makeover post on Monday you probably noticed that we had also done some work in the dining room. I’m still working on the makeover but today I’m going to share how we added a little drama to the room, with this board and batten tutorial. I’m also giving away a HomeRight paint sprayer so make sure you read all the way to the end! We had board and batten in the entryway of our old house and I LOVED it! I love how the bright white boards catch the eye and demand your attention. It’s a great… Read More

Entryway Makeover with BHG!

I’m excited to show you my first makeover using the Better Homes and Gardens products available at Walmart. In our new house (I know we’ve lived here for a year but it still feels new) we don’t really have an entryway. When you walk through the front door you pretty much walk into the main floor of the house, which is completely open. With as often as we have people over I was thinking it would be nice to at least “fake” having an entryway, an entry that really welcomes our guests. On my trip to BHG in Iowa, I… Read More

Our Family Name Sign – a Ballard Designs Knockoff

I’m in the middle of doing a makeover on our entryway because up until now it has been boring and bland. I’m having fun decorating around the door but there was a big blank space above the door that was driving me crazy. The old owners had a metal design up there but it wasn’t my style so it came down on the first day, and has been blank ever since. A few weeks ago I was searching through my Ballard Designs magazine and found this wooden sign and fell in love. However I’m super cheap and wasn’t about to… Read More

Budget Back to School Mantel

Hey, everyone! It’s Lauren from Mom Home Guide and I am still so excited about being a contributor here at Ask Anna! My kids go back to school today — it’s their first day of middle school! So, I’d thought it would be fun to dress up our family room’s living room mantel for back to school. This is actually the first year I’ve attempted to create a back-to-school mantel, so I’m ahead of the game this year! (Surprisingly!) I’ve been scrambling to shop for my kids’ back to school stuff and organize their backpacks and back-to-school gear, so I thought I’d make it easier on… Read More

“ABC” Printable Typography Poster

Hey, it’s Krista again. I’m gonna keep this short and sweet – with a freebie downloadable treat at the end. If your life has been as crazy as mine lately, your to-do list is probably longer than the day so I won’t keep you too long. My oldest little guy started school a couple weeks ago. He is loving Kindergarten! He comes home everyday and tells me all the things he’s learning. They’ve been focusing on letters and he’s learned about putting the letter sounds together to make words. He loves writing words, actual words, on our little chalkboard. We’ve… Read More

How to Keep Rugs from Slipping

Today I have a quick and easy tip for you! I love having rugs in my home but I hate it when they slip and slide all over the floor, it makes me crazy having to constantly adjust them all the time! So today’s quick tip is how to keep rugs from slipping. It’s actually a really easy solution and you’re going to wish you’d thought of it years ago, or at least I did when I discovered it! Here’s what you need: Command Picture Hanging Strips (Edit – I recently found these, which are even better because they’re made for… Read More

How to Pack an Organized Diaper Bag

With just 5 weeks before our impending arrival, I thought it would be the perfect timing to share some tips on how to pack an organized diaper bag. We are planning to take our diaper bag to the hospital with us for delivery “just in case” we need it on the way home. With our first child, I used a regular bag for a diaper bag. It seemed like a good idea at the time, because it was one less thing to purchase. It worked just fine, but with the second baby on the way, I watched diaper bag sales… Read More