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Name: Holyoke Home
URL: http://www.holyokehome.com/

Name: Young House Love
URL: http://www.younghouselove.com/

Such great tips. I am a STRONG believer in only buying what you love and dream about. If its too expensive but you love it enough... save save save!

I totally agree with all of those ideas. My "house warming" gift to myself is always a new duvet set. It brings a new life to a new place! And scents (my preference being candles) and plants to freshen the air really do make a house a home.

But I find, the best way to go about making a house a home is just to make memories there. It takes time but its the best!

I have a handy step by step how-to right here for the one piece sham. http://temporary-nest.blogspot.com/2010/06/diy-project-pillow-sham.html

As for trim, if you go to the fabric store and pick up the corded trim, it will have a tape on one side of the cord. For the novice sewer, once you have your big square piece for the front, baste the cording to the perimeter with the corded part pointing into the center of the square (so the tape is where you will be stitching and will line up with the edge of the fabric.). Once basted, you can stitch the back pieces over it. It will look like a little sandwich: front piece, cording tape, back pieces. When you finish stitching it all together, and turn it inside out, you'll have the cording as trim. If you feel ambitious, you may want to try using the zipper foot that came with your machine to get your stitch line closer to the cording. If you have any other questions visit my blog and you can shoot me an email! Happy sewing!! :)

I think it's all well and good if you and your family would like to live in a shoes-off home (I grew up in one) or if you live in a country that it is customary, but I think if you're having a soiree, you are probably making other out-of-the-ordinary sacrifices anyway. {Like perhaps moving some furniture around, or leaving out special hand towels or soaps for guests.) And you will most definitely need to clean up after the party anyway, so why not let people be comfortable with shoes on. My thought is, I want my guests to be comfortable, with or without shoes but sometimes as the host you have to sacrifice.

I'm lucky that my landlord actually changes the wall to wall carpeting between each tenant. (or so he says) And it sure smelled like brand new carpet when i moved in for a few weeks! Ugh but now I've got a couple of area rugs down with a few more to come so its nto so bad and getting better but... man, every day I wish they were hardwoods. :( However if I had those lovely ones above, I would jump for joy daily! :)

I second serialsquares' idea of a frosted window film.

Impossible for Ira Glass to get on anyone's nerves.

They have some of these on the website already and I am DROOLING over them. They are all going on my amazon wishlist pronto.

im right there with abbyt. totally just brightened my day! Thanks for sharing!