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Letter from the Editor – May

Happy May Day. I wanted to start off by letting you all know how much we have been blessed by you, our readers, each month who come to the site, read our posts, leave comments, and give us inspiration. God has blessed each of us as writers tremendously and we know that everything He does or asks us … Read More

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Using Furniture to Maximize Storage in A Room (Part 2) {Guest Contributor}

What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to your home?Mine is the lack of storage. We have these beautiful grand rooms with zero space to store our accumulation of “stuff”.One way around this is by adding furniture. It doubles as decor and storage. As I mentioned in my last post, I … Read More

Using Storage To Maximize Furniture _ Pure & Simple

Using Furniture to Maximize Storage in A Room {Guest Contributor}

I was watching HGTV the other morning while drinking coffee. The designer (Genevieve Gorder) brought in a piece of furniture to balance out the room. The family proclaimed, “We love the chester drawer because we can store all kinds of stuff in there.”I almost spit out my coffee and I could … Read More

Cleaning

Non-Toxic Cleaning Solutions

Well it is officially Spring Cleaning Time!!  Wooooohoooooooo!!  {Can you hear my super excited tone????  Just kidding}Since we have just celebrated Earth Day and it is still the time of Spring Cleaning, I started thinking about all of the seemingly dangerous commercial cleaning products.  … Read More

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Charity Awareness: RUN Wild 5K 2013

1 Peter 4: 10 --"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms."According to God's Word, we are stewards not owners.  The beginning of the book of Genesis talks about God creating the world which indicates that … Read More

Earth Day

Earth Day 2013

"The Earth is the LORD’S, and everything in it.   The world and all its people belong to him." ~Psalms 24:1~ Spring has sprung and Earth Day is coming up.  It's Monday, April 22nd, 2013. It’s a great time to share with our children the importance of caring for what God entrusted to our … Read More

Organizing Memories with Shadow Boxes _ Pure & Simple

How to Organize Memories Using Shadow Boxes {Guest Post}

I am an advocate of displaying what you love. You want to keep everything from your children’s ... well childhood. I encourage you to do something with the items you keep. If you throw it in a box along with everything else that you feel is “special”, then I hate to tell you that it must not … Read More

TCM Service Project

The Charlotte Moms April Service Project Announcement

Sorry for the delay in announcing which What If Everyone service project we will be participating in. Here it is!!!!!We hope you've signed up to attend the WIE rally with us, each TCM volunteer will receive a little gift from us to wear at each Service Project you participate in. If you haven't … Read More

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Charity Awareness: March of Dimes – April, 2013

Last year I shared this picture of my nephew born at 30 weeks!It's hard to believe that my nephew will be 18 years old this July!!  However, the moment my sister went into early labor was very scary.  I am so happy that March of Dimes exists to help continue research on helping babies, … Read More

Globetrotters

Harlem Globetrotters 2103 Review “You Write the Rules” World Tour #GlobieFamily

March 23rd at 1pm my husband and I took our son and his friend to the Harlem Globetrotters "You write the Rules" game vs Global Select. It was held at Time Warner Cable Arena. Here are some pictures from our experience:Overall I was very happy with the show and that my son enjoyed it. The "host" … Read More