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books

Telling Tales of Dusk: A Poetry Book

May 1, 2010
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Happy May Day! (Giveaway is Closed) Southern women have a way of relating to each other and that might be because there is just something about being raised a Southern girl.  We can identify with so many of the same things. That’s the case with Terri Kirby Erickson’s new poetry book, Telling Tales of Dusk.  [...]

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So Long Insecurity with Beth Moore

February 11, 2010

If you haven’t heard yet, Beth Moore has a new book out, So Long, Insecurity and she’s doing a book club reading on her blog, LPM Blog, so if you’d like to get the book and join in the discussion, click on over for the details. She started a roll call for everyone to add [...]

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Making a Family Home Book Review & Giveaway

January 29, 2010

You’ve all heard of the Slow Movement, haven’t you?  Slow food, slow textiles.  Well, this is a book about the slow home movement and I’ve got a giveaway for you. Click over to my giveaway page for all the details!  Be sure and leave your comment over there, it won’t count on this post! If [...]

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An Observation on Books

January 25, 2010

Recently, while cleaning in the library, something jumped out at me from my hubby’s book collection, all stacked up nice and neat.  Oh, I kid, we don’t have a library.   This is the upstairs guest bath, which hubby has taken over and this is the cabinet with pretty glass doors that is perfect for containing [...]

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Good, Better, Best

December 16, 2009

If you like antiques, click on over to my giveaway page for a fun book review and giveaway!  And even if you don’t particularly like antiques, you might like this one. ************************************ I was also asked to do a book review of this book, The Girl on Legare Street, but since I haven’t finished it [...]

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Discovering Home with Laurie Smith

November 30, 2009

Like many of you probably did a few years ago, I watched Trading Spaces when it was all the rage (is it still on at ALL, or just reruns?) and Laurie Hickson-Smith was my favorite designer on that show.  It was a riot to see what all those designers were going to come up with [...]

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Honey, it’s all in the Shoes

July 22, 2009

When I got an email asking me if I’d like to participate in an online book tour reviewing a new book by Birmingham’s own, Phyllis Norton Hoffman, and the subject is shoes, I was all over it! I mean, I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a lifelong shoe addiction. Guilty as charged. I [...]

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Redeeming Love

September 13, 2008

Have you read Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers? If you have not and I think I was probably one of the only one who hasn’t…..go and get it! My good friend, Vicki, in Atlanta has been after me forever to read this book and she finally loaned me her copy. It was so, so great…a [...]

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Lynette Jennings: No Compromise Decorating

February 27, 2008

Our home life is an assembly that speaks of blended lives. Choices made from love.” – Lynette Jennings (click all pics to open bigger for details & text) I have long enjoyed watching Lynette Jennings when she had design shows on several years ago. I’ve lost track of what she is doing now, but don’t [...]

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Snow Days and Good Books

January 19, 2008

Look what old man Winter brought our way today! I know this is not a new thing to many of you, but those of us who grew up in the South aren’t very used to seeing the white stuff around here. It’s a novelty for sure. From the news reports, just about the whole state [...]

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Bloggy Blessings!

July 18, 2007

I didn’t know when I started blogging last February just how y’all would become near & dear to me & such a part of my life. I have met some of the nicest, most wonderful women since I began this great adventure called blogging. I really had no idea what I was getting into & [...]

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Presentations: A Passion for Gift Wrapping

July 11, 2007

Have you ever picked up a book or magazine that made you feel totally inadequate?? I was in the library recently & saw this new book on the shelf, Presentations: A Passion for Gift Wrapping by Carolyn Roehm. I love looking at pretty pictures, so thought I’d bring it home & browse through it. And [...]

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