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Turning 50 And My List of Fifty Awesome Things I Did to Celebrate-Part One

Lifestyle, Uncategorized · January 17, 2020

Turning 50 and the List of 50 Awesome Things I did to Celebrate-Part One
I turned 50 just over a year ago and I decided to embrace the BIG 50 by making a list of 50 Awesome Things that I wanted to accomplish during the year. I finished the last of the 50 things on my 51st birthday on New Years Eve, 2019. I’m sharing the list of what I did and a little bit about each item on the list. This is a long post so I broke it up into two parts. I hope that those who come upon this post are inspired to live your best life and go outside your comfort zone. Many of the things on the list were fun and exciting, some were challenging, some were outside my comfort zone, and some were acts of service and helping others. Overall, it was one of the greatest experiences of my life and I’m so glad I stuck with it and pushed myself to do so many different things. The photos are not the best quality so my apologies for that in advance.
The List

I ended up with more than 50 things on the

Christmas Home Tour 2017 – A Blue, Ivory, and Green Christmas

Decor, Holidays, Home, Home Tour, Seasonal Home Tours, Uncategorized · November 22, 2019

Christmas Home Tour 2017 – Blue, Ivory, and Green Christmas
Welcome! Today I’m sharing all the decorations from our first Christmas at our Highland, Utah home. In our Christmas Home Tour 2017 – A Blue, Ivory, and Green Christmas, we share all the details below. We have a lot of blue in our decor so I used varying shades of blue, ivory, and green in my decor. All the sources I am able to link will be at the bottom of the post.
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I filled a metal container with faux greens and flowers and added two wreaths to the front door.

We added a painted pine cone pick and blueberry picks to the wreaths, then added light blue ribbon tied in a bow. I hung the wreaths with silver command strip hooks. Once you attach the hooks, let them sit for about twenty minutes before you hang the wreath.

The Living Room Tree

We layered green cedar picks, faux blueberry picks, an white frosted hydrangeas and wired them together to go on the

Green, Gold, and White Thanksgiving Tablescape

Dinnerware, Entertaining, Holidays, Tablescapes, Uncategorized · November 10, 2019

Green, Gold, and White Thanksgiving Tablescape
One of my favorite things to do is create a beautiful Thanksgiving tablescape where we can gather as a family for Thanksgiving dinner. I thoughly enjoyed creating this Green, Gold, and White Thanksgiving Tablescape. I think this one is one of my favorites!

The Place-setting — Mixing Green, Gold, and White
I like to layer different plates, chargers, and placemats to create a more dramatic look. The top plate has a green pumpkin painted on it and it matches the green plates I had recently purchased.

For the placemat I used this hyacinth placemat to add some different texture to the place-setting. The charger is one of my favorites as it goes with so many different place-settings.

The green plates are one of my most versatile sets of dishes. I’ve mixed them with white and silver, green and gold, green and white and I may even use them with red for a Christmas tablescape!

I also used my gold and white

My Award Winning Chili Recipe

Main Courses, Recipes, Uncategorized · October 30, 2019

My Award Winning Chili Recipe
My homemade chili is as comforting as comfort food can get! This recipe has won many church chili cook-offs and for the first time ever, I’m sharing this recipe with you! I hope you love this award winning chili recipe as much as I do.

What Makes This an Easy Recipe?
What makes this award winning chili recipe so easy is first, it’s a one pot meal so clean up is minimal. Second, there are a handful of seasonings and ingredients and minimal prep time. Third, you just have to stir the chili while simmering every so often and it’s done in just over an hour. No pressure cooking dry beans!

The Ingredients

For my favorite house made seasoning salt recipe check out my friend Holliday’s recipe. She makes her own seasoning salt blend and I love it!

My Award Winning Chili Recipe

Award Winning Chili Recipe

This homemade chili recipe has won many

Green and Gold Fall Harvest Tablescape

Decor, Dinnerware, Entertaining, Tablescapes, Uncategorized · October 28, 2019

Green and Gold Fall Harvest Tablescape
One of my favorite times of year to decorate and create tablescapes is Fall. There are so many beautiful colors to play with and pumpkins seem to come in all sorts of colors, sizes, and velvet! Who doesn’t love a velvet pumpkin?!! This Green and Gold Fall Harvest Tablescape if full of dark green velvety pumpkins, beautiful faux flowers and some of my treasured dishes.

I love adding other elements in the dining room to compliment the tablescape. You can never have enough velvet pumpkins so I added more brown colored velvet pumpkins below this beautiful wood sign from Teal Barn Signs (link for this sign is at the end of the post in the slider with photos of items). To add some color to the space below the sign, I put some of the leftover flowers from the garland centerpiece in a galvanized tin bucket and set it on an old antique crate.

The Place-Setting
For the place-setting I used my

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