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Or any of these!!! They use old, reclaimed items from houses that are in disrepair. They salvage the materials and build new tiny houses!!! Love the mission. http://tinytexashouses.com/category/tiny-houses/

Yes! You beat me to it. I was totally going to suggest this. I have all sorts of pictures from this blog pinned to my Pinterest board. The Tumbleweed "Whidbey" design is my favorite, and I love what she's done with it!!!

Whoa! I bought a marble-top table at Goodwill for about $10 last year, and the wood was a mess. I painted it a mossy green, but now I want to paint it glossy black!!! Love!

OH, and I'm not one for fixating on calories, either-- this app tracks all nutrients (fat, sat fat, carbs, fiber, protein, sugar, etc) that I try to keep in balance. Much better to see your breakdown of calories so as to better the healthfulness of your intake :)

My family is in love with two different (super easy!) icebox pies, both of which are poured into graham cracker crusts (store-bought or homemade) and chilled in the freezer til set.

Key Lime: 1 tub cool whip, 1 can sweetened condensed milk, and lime juice.

Chocolate: 1 tub cool whip and 1 (large) melted Hershey's Symphony bar.

Not having lime juice, this week I made the first recipe but added a creamy stout beer. Frozen beer pie. Does it get any better?

I am going to buy #5 right now. LOVE LOVE LOVE! And according to the website, made by the same family that's made them for 80 years!!! HAHA!

Oh, Aunt Peaches, you've moved?!?! What happened to all your stuff? We are currently facing this dilemma: we LOVE our home and have filled it with everything lovely and quirky and perfect for that place, but now that we are moving we feel the need to start over in a new place (with the exception of our most precious, heirloom or memory-filled pieces). Did you take everything? or just your favorites? and how did you make it all work in a new place?

We take this ideal a step further and decorate almost exclusively with functional items: the wall-fillers in the dining room? floating shelves with our anthro bowls and fiestaware dishes, a baker's rack with our stemware, and a little wooden shelving unit with our collection of colorful mugs... in the den? our guitar, ukulele, and mandolin pop off of the green wall with their glossy wooden bodies... in the kitchen? aprons and reusable grocery bags on teal hooks, and oven mits above the stove... in the bedroom? a handmade coatrack covered in scarves, bangles, and hats.
We hate accumulating "decorations" except for very precious items (a ceramic plate from Spain, wedding photos and a portrait of our baby- er, dog) and therefore have chosen to fill our empty spaces with items that are both beautiful and used all of the time. Why should we hide our awesome dishes or the guitar we play daily? Also, this maximizes storage in our tiny little place. And it's cheap!

This reminds me of two important decorating rules that I had to learn by experience:
1) Never pick a color by its name! We painted our entire den "pumpkin bread" because my husband is obsessed with pumpkin and the swatch looked like it would bring out the right shades in our retro couch. I painted all through the night, unable to see the color in good light, and the next day I really kicked myself. It was like a haunted house-- an eerie, dark glow all the time!!! We have since repainted.
AND 2) Just because paint looks AWESOME somewhere (like "tranquility" blue in our basement! so perfectly retro!) does NOT mean it will look great in another place (like in our sunroom-- all the light made it look way too icy blue and not nearly as Tiffany's.) Use those swatches, and when in doubt, buy the $3 sample jar!