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This holiday gift guide for the home chef or cook includes practical kitchen must haves that make for a perfect Christmas present for the one you love! Gift Guide for The Home Chef or Cook Hubby and I both love to cook and we’re in the kitchen quite often together. Most times, a kitchen gadget or appliance really hits the heart for either of us! Whether you know someone who loves to cook, or who is a real foodie at heart, this gift guide is for you, to make your holiday shopping that much easier. Related: For The Coffee Lover –...

Click here to read Build Your Own DIY Toddlers Busy Activity Boxes – Free Tutorial on Hands On As We Grow® Build a quick go-to independent activity for your toddlers at home with a busy boxes. Learn the basics with this easy DIY busy boxes tutorial from Alisha. I love busy boxes! They help my kids stay engaged when I need a few uninterrupted minutes. Busy boxes are great go-to activities for that treasured “I need to get stuff done” time. Or simple those moments when Mommy just needs take a break to read a book! This simple tutorial will...

We are rolling right along with room tours from the mid-century home we’ve been working on for the past year, and today’s tour is the living room! Like most of you (I bet), we spend a large percentage of our time in the living room. It has our TV, fireplace, and is set up to be the centrally located hub of the house, as well. This room was not a quick fix by any means as we had to do some major ceiling repair on the vintage combed ceiling panels, fully replace a crumbling tile floor (sharp edges and loose...

Most people celebrate their 26th birthday with a fancy dinner and maybe a cake, but speech- language pathologist Nusaiba Ally (who moonlights as a vintage seller) bought a house. Having grown weary of their shoebox apartment in Queens, New York, she and her husband, Amrit, swapped the borough for the suburbs—Nassau County, Long Island, to be exact. Being closer to family was the motivating factor, but they can’t deny that the extra square footage has done wonders for their growing family (the couple celebrated the birth of their daughter, Kinza, in July). There was nothing outwardly special about the property....

Looking for creative gift ideas for toddlers & preschoolers in your life? We have lots of recommendations for open-ended building sets and toys, along with puzzles, games ideas––and of course, art supplies too! This December, we wanted to put together a gift guide of creative gift ideas for toddlers and preschoolers. This is a period in kids lives where imaginative play begins (and takes off)! Play is arguably their most important “work” and here are some of our personal favorite gift ideas to foster creativity in young children. We are featuring stocking stuffers and creative gift ideas that are open-ended––things...