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WINTER OIL DIFFUSER RECIPES

I’ve been diffusing my essential oils non-stop at StoneGable. I love their beautiful, real scents! They make my home smell amazing and lift my mood! Essential oils have so many practical uses, especially during the winter. Today we are focusing on how to make our homes smell clean and cozy and scrumptious! And these blends help lift our mood during the short winter days! I have six new printable winter “recipes” for you to keep on hand and use over and over this winter!

picture of a laundry room with a drying rack and a denim apron and blue and white tea towels hanging from it. This laundry room is neat and not cluttered

DECLUTTER YOUR LAUNDRY ROOM

I have a small laundry room and if I am not very very careful it can get quite cluttered and disorganized. Does your’s get easily cluttered too? I tend to stash things in there that don’t have a home or I stash things I just need to “hide” temporarily. It’s easy to shut a door and forget the laundry room until we can hardly get in it to do what this room was created to do… wash and dry our clothes! Today let’s talk about how to declutter your laundry room and keep it that way!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS DEAR FRIENDS! MAY THE AUTHOR OF CHRISTMAS LIVE IN YOUR HEARTS AND HOME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. AND MAY YOU FIND COMFORT, PEACE, AND JOY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON! LOVE, YVONNE

HOW TO STORE CHRISTMAS DECOR WITH NEXT YEAR IN MIND

It’s hard to be organized when putting away all the stuff and fluff and glitter and shiny things when Christmas is over. I’ve tried for years and years to find an easy system to sweep my house clean of every last trace of tinsel and have it all ready and waiting for next year. Yes, those big blue bins are great for cramming away Christmas into when it’s over but it sure makes it hard to find what we need the following year. And it is hard on our stuff! There has to be a better way! And there is…

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Joy at Christmas- let's look at the 4th Sunday Of Advent's special meaning

CELEBRATING THE 4TH WEEK OF ADVENT- JOY

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays are ways we all express greetings to one another during Christmas. But merry and happy don’t really adequately express the true feeling we should be experiencing during this season! Of course, it’s not bad to wish people a merry or happy Christmas but the emotion behind those two words fall so short of what God wants us to experience. Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent. Today, let’s ponder on the true meaning of joy at Christmas.

10 THINGS TO DO NOW FOR CHRISTMAS NEXT YEAR

NOW is the time to start getting ready for next Christmas! I know the BIG DAY has not arrived this year but there are lots of planning we can do and things we can make and pick up to have merry and not harried Christmas! I’m making a list and checking it twice and doing what’s on it early! Here’s my top 10!