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The Frugal Homemaker

Your guide to turning your house into a home... one DIY project and yard sale find at a time

Simplify…bathroom cabinets

January 25, 2012

This week the space on our simplify project was the bathroom – specifically bathroom cabinets and drawers.  I have cleaned out my cabinets in the last few months so they weren’t that bad.  But they could always use some re-organization and cleaning 🙂 Here’s before/after pictures of the drawers and cabinets. My drawer My under […]

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LOVE… is in the air and on the mantel {Valentine’s Mantel}

January 24, 2012

Ok, so yesterday I sort of confessed I was having the winter blues.  Well, you know what I found the cure! Scrub your bathroom literally from ceiling to baseboards for 3-4 hours till it is sparkling clean (you know so clean that it makes you open the door again and look in and smile cause […]

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Guest post: How to prep a week’s worth of dinners in 1 hour!

January 19, 2012

Yes, you read that right, a week’s worth of dinners  prepped in 1 HOUR!  I am excited to have my friend Renee, from Living, Laughing, and Loving, sharing her amazing menu planning and prep method today.  I think you will be inspired!  And it could help you simplify your time and life as well. ———————– […]

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P52: Made “ours” with love

January 13, 2012

So this weeks theme for the P52 project (1 photo each week for a year) is “Made with Love.”  I had originally thought I would do a craft item or a meal I prepared for my hubby, but after my two blogging friends Christa and Laine posted adorable pictures of their newborns those seemed sort […]

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12 Home Goals for 2012

January 12, 2012

So I hope you are not getting tired of all my goal posts.    It just seems that this is a theme in my life as well as others this year.  I have already been working on my goals (I have read one book, working on cleaning out clutter, have found some ways to minister […]

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Books I plan to read in 2012

January 4, 2012

So along with being inspired to set goals in 2012, I have been inspired and challenged by my friend Christa at Brown Sugar Toast to set a goal to read this year.  I LOVE to read!  Growing up, my aunt (a school teacher) used to give me 10-15 used books from a series like Nancy […]

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Goals for 2012

January 2, 2012

source Happy 2012 to you!  Hope you had a great weekend ringing in the New Year! So a new year usually brings the dreaded “New Years Resolutions” – you know the “no chocolate in the house, lose weight, exercise” kind that we hate to do!   So did any of you make any New Year’s […]

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Some more 2011 highlights from Pinterest

December 30, 2011

So I was browsing through Google analytics the other day when I was looking up the top posts of 2011 and found some more interesting facts from my site that I thought I would share. Pinterest was the top referrer to my sight!  Wow, gotta love Pinterest and all the inspiration!  And the fact that […]

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Top 10 posts of 2011

December 28, 2011

  Can you believe that Christmas is over?  Which means 2011 is almost over, and 2012 is almost here!  Wow, where does the time go?? I thought it would be fun to recap some of the top posts of 2011.  I have only been blogging for a few months (first post was on Sept. 28th) […]

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Christmas 2011 recap

December 27, 2011

This post is going to be a bunch of pictures recapping Christmas at our house, the days leading up to and Christmas day, so get ready for picture overload!   Making Christmas cookies with the nieces… Gingerbread cookies and decorated cookies ready to be put in gift bags         Took some cute pictures […]

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Hi!  My name is Christina . . .

I love doing simple, frugal things to make our house feel like HOME! Come learn along with me how to have a beautiful home on a budget.

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