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Scrapbook Scribbles 12 – Texture
We all love the sense of touch. When we see something, we want to touch it. We want to feel if it is hard or soft, rough or smooth.
By adding texture to our layouts, it makes people connect with it
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What Is Perfect Toast?
If there ever was such a thing...toast is toast, right? Wrong! Here I sit being educated once again by the internet. I thought toast was, uh, toast. Doesn't matter what kind of bread...if something goes into a toaster, it comes out toast! Personally I love toast. Toast anything.
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Time to Spring Ahead: Daylight Saving Time
Move your clocks an hour ahead at 2AM Sunday and change smoke detector batteries! Well at least set them ahead before you go to bed...Lori said I really don't have to get up at 2am to do this...:) Here are a BUNCH of facts about Daylight Savings Time:
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Brad Paisley Offers Moving Tribute to Cancer Victim
Here's a great reason why country artists loved so much by us!
Brad Paisley Offers Moving Tribute to Cancer Victim - The Boot.
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How To Save On Gas As Prices At The Pump Climb
Have you noticed the climb in gas prices the past couple of weeks? It's going up so fast that even government reports can't keep up with it. This morning Colleen and I gave you info on how NOT to save gas...here are some ways TO SAVE...
The AAA fuel gauge report is a great source to check.
Here are more ways you can keep your quick drive to the store or the annual family road trip from costing you a small fortune:
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7 Worst Supermarket Rip-Offs
What do you buy at the grocery store? Anything on this list that you use? Some eye opening items here. Especially the cereal! And bags of chips that seem to only have a few chips in them? What's up with that? Check this out!
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5 Health Reasons To Not Quit Coffee
I just knew it! There had to be some redeeming quality to drinking as much coffee as I do every morning! :) Brew up another pot!!!
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Scrapbook Scribbles 11 – The Power of Three
The rule of thirds is a basic design principal. Photographers use this rule to divide a rectangular space into thirds both horizontally and vertically. This creates nine smaller rectangles and four points where the lines intersect
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It’s Nat’l Frozen Food Month – Storage Life of Frozen Food
How long do you keep your frozen foods? Do you actually clear out your freezer every few months or just leave stuff in there? I'm the one that goes through ours and "tosses" stuff out...
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The Unseen Taxes That You Pay Every Day
So the old joke says that nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. It seems like taxes continue to go up and up, no matter who "promises" they won't in Washington, right? We pay tax on darn near everything... I found this story to help illustrate how the tax burden can be spread around, consider the "tax trail" on a few common daily items:
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Oklahoma Puppy Survives Euthanization, Will Now Get A Home
We all love our animals! They are family. This little guy was euthanized, declared dead and left in a dumpster, but somehow a three-month-old puppy is alive and now has whole new future ahead of him.
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Tax Time – Are You Ready
Have you filed your income taxes yet? Getting anything back or do you have to pay? I'm split in two again. Not only federal, but this year I have to file Montana AND California state income tax! UGH!