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How to Make Fabric Rosettes {Guest Post}

Hello everyone! My name is Melissa and I blog over at The Happier Homemaker sharing lots of DIY Crafts and Decor. I’m so excited to be here at Ask Anna today while Anna is enjoying a much-deserved vacation. Today I’d like to share with you a fast and simple tutorial for how to make fabric rosettes. The supplies are simple: a hot glue gun and fabric scraps. Here I have used the end of a remnant 44″ long cut to about 1-2 inches wide. This is not an exact science, feel free to experiment with different lengths and widths of… Read More

6 Habits That Keep Your Home Clean

This is Christine from i Dream of Clean and Spring Cleaning 365. I’m so excited to be joining Ask Anna today to talk about a few habits that will help keep our home clean! Ready? Me too! Do you feel like you’re constantly cleaning your house? Picking up toys? Washing the dishes? I know cleaning can sometimes feel like a never ending battle! Thankfully there are a few habits we can incorporate into our routine to keep the mess at a minimum and keep our home tidy. 6 Habits That Keep Your Home Clean 1. Go to sleep every night… Read More

Gluten Free Salted Caramel Brownies

Hi friends! This week I am on vacation, visiting my friend Renee, in Washington. I have some awesome guest posts scheduled for you this week and I know you will enjoy them! We are starting the week off with a de-li-cious recipe from my friend Sarah. Hello there! My name is Sarah and I LOVE to bake delicious gluten free treats! I have a new gluten free blog and it is truly a dream come true to share my most favorite recipes. Come on over to Sarah Bakes Gluten Free Treats and bake with me sometime! Here is a… Read More

How to clean Nail Polish out of Carpet

How to clean nail polish out of carpet is probably the question I dread the most from my readers, which is why I’m just now getting to it. I’m totally confident in my ability to get most things out of carpet but nail polish is the one thing I’ve never had experience with. However after figuring out how to get nail polish off hardwood floors, I was feeling a little more confident and I thought I’d give it a try! I decided painting nail polish on the carpet in the house wasn’t a great idea so I cut a piece… Read More

A Vintage Barn Wedding

I’m going to keep this short and sweet because I have a lot of pictures to show you! This Saturday, August 11th, I had the privilege of decorating my friend’s wedding. I was a little anxious because I’ve never decorated a wedding, other than my own, but I knew that she trusted me and had full confidence that I could bring her vision to life, so I was also really excited. But I knew I couldn’t do it all on my own so I called in my awesome assistant, Monique, and my best friend, Heather. They were both awesome and… Read More

Teaching Kids about Money (Follow up Post)

I wanted to do a follow up post to my post “Creating a Chore List for Malea” because I’ve had quite a few people asking me how it’s working and how she’s doing with all her new jobs. I can honestly say that she’s doing great! She has totally taken ownership of her jobs and I can tell that she is proud of herself at the end of the day when she gets to check off the jobs she completed that day. I knew turning some of her regular “chores” into jobs would make it easier to get her to… Read More

How to Clean Nail Polish off Wood Flooring

I get asked questions about how to clean nail polish off of things all the time! I have gathered the questions and I thought I’d try to tackle the a few of the most commonly asked questions, starting with hardwood & laminate floors. Question: I am wondering if you know of any way to get nail polish off laminate flooring? My twins decided one day to dump a bottle on the floor and smear it around. I found it pretty quickly, but it dries so quickly that it is just a big mess. I have to cover it with a… Read More

Blueberry Infused Vodka Lemonade

I found this delicious recipe for blueberry infused vodka lemonade via Pinterest and I knew I had to make it! A few weeks ago we had a girl’s night and I thought this was the perfect cocktail for our summer girl’s night! Here’s the recipe if you want to make a lot of blueberry infused vodka {if you only want to make 2 servings see the original post). Ingredients Large bottle of Vodka {I got mine at Costco}1 1/2 cup fresh blueberries1 cup frozen blueberries1 1/2 teaspoons sugar1 can frozen lemonadeSliced lemons {garnish} Directions * Poor the fresh blueberries into… Read More