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Toilet Paper Roll Pumpkin — Easy DIY Fall Decor

August 4, 2022 by Dagmar Bleasdale 17 Comments

Make these toilet paper roll pumpkins in just minutes to decorate your home for fall! It doesn’t get any easier and inexpensive, just use some old T-shirt or fabric to wrap them with. Check out the tutorial.

Toilet Paper Roll Pumpkin

Oh, yes — it’s time. The stores are filling up with fall decor, and there is a telling nip in the air here in New York: fall is just around the corner!

If you checked out my fall home tour, you saw these no-sew fabric pumpkins I made.

I promised you the easy tutorial for them.

Maybe you don’t have the budget to buy fall decor, or you love to make easy DIY projects — then this one is perfect for you!

These cute DIY pumpkins take five minutes to create, and they are made with toilet paper rolls! [Read more…]

7 Easy Farmhouse Thanksgiving Table Decor Ideas

July 25, 2022 by Dagmar Bleasdale 18 Comments

In this post you’ll find ideas for easy farmhouse Thanksgiving table decor. I absolutely adore styling tablescapes. I’m constantly adding pins to my tablescape Pinterest board for inspiration, and I just love to create them myself. Remember the coastal Thanksgiving tablescape I styled for the HomeGoods blog?

I wouldn’t mind having an excuse to design a tablescape every week.

Here is a roundup of 7 Thanksgiving table settings with a farmhouse or cottage flair. I especially like them because they are super simple, yet so pretty.

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DIY Dreamcatcher With Ribbons and Upcycled Doily

July 5, 2022 by Dagmar Bleasdale 3 Comments

What can you make with an embroidery hoop, ribbons, and a doily or piece of lace? A beautiful, unique DIY dreamcatcher!

DIY Dreamcatcher

Since I have plenty of all of these supplies at home, I made some unique dreamcatchers recently.

Pinterest was so thrilled about them that they asked me to create a live show to show you how to make three easy dreamcatchers! Here is the link to that show!

Dreamcatchers were originally introduced by some Native American cultures. It is usually a handmade willow hoop with a woven web and may also include sacred items such as feathers or beads.

Here is a bit more info to honor the origin of these beautiful dream catchers:

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Blueberry Greek Yogurt Cake With Flaxseed Recipe

June 25, 2022 by Dagmar Bleasdale 5 Comments

Start the day with something healthy and yummy! Just add Greek yogurt to your cake recipe — I made this healthy blueberry Greek yogurt cake for breakfast, and it was delicious.

Healthy Blueberry Greek Yogurt Cake Recipe

Blueberries and yogurt — a healthy cake recipe with fruit and extra protein? I’m in!

I just bought blueberries, and when I looked at the list of ingredients in the recipe, I saw that I had all of them at home to make this cake this morning.

My son and I like to bake, but this is the first time we’ve baked together to make something for breakfast. [Read more…]

Extreme Couponing for Organic and Non-GMO Food

June 10, 2022 by Dagmar Bleasdale 13 Comments

Saving money is now even more important that we are all dealing with the impact of Covid-19. In this post I show you that couponing for organic food is totally possible and share other tricks of how I save money on groceries.

Unless you are wealthy, you are probably dealing with the economic fallout from COVID-19. With unemployment skyrocketing and an impending recession, many people are looking to cut costs.

The good news is that extreme couponing for organic, healthy, nourishing food is possible! I’ll show you how.

I regularly save a ton of money on food. A while ago, before I started staying home because of Covid-19, I saved $76 on my trip to the grocery store. I bought mostly organic, natural food and still saved that much.

How did I do that?

You have to get pretty creative, but you can do this as well. Here are all my tips for grocery shopping for healthy food in the store.

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If you can’t or don’t want to shop in the store right now, like me, save on online shopping by signing up for Amazon Prime to get the best selection, faster shipping, and the best deals on organic food online right now!

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Toilet Paper Roll Pumpkin

DIY Dreamcatcher

Healthy Blueberry Greek Yogurt Cake Recipe

Create a beautiful home on a budget!

Thank you!

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