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Easy Summer Salads & Homemade Muffins at Our Cottage Corner Cafe

This easy and budget-friendly summer meal is sure to have you dining alfesco!

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Fave Dollarwise Home Products & Tips

I like my home to run efficiently and I also like it to be cozy, comfy, and attractive. Did I mention that I like to do all that on a...

Easy Fall Home Decluttering, Decorating, & Fun Foods Tips

Is there anything better in the fall than warm homemade apple dessert?! All that rich coziness, paired with ice cream and your favorite...

Easy & Affordable Ways to Add Cozy Cottage-Style Charm to a Ho-Hum Kitchen

I hope you and yours are having a fun summer filled with cozy pretty things. It's been HOT in the Phoenix, AZ area, where we live. +119F...

Adding Dollarwise Curb Appeal to Your Home + Indoor Spruce-Ups + Patio Makeover Paradise

The view out our kitchen window has been glorious this spring. I love the simple majesty of palm trees! My husband Steve tells me that...

Wine & Roses or Whine & Toilets?!

I have been offline for awhile as we have been busy doing super exciting things like fixing our Master Bedroom toilet that broke in the...

Home Fix-its: Don't Let Your House Hurt You

Do you have something(s) in your home that could hurt you? Not good, and time to do something about it! In our home, it was doors. ...

Our Dishwasher Space Turned Storage Cellar

It's time for another dollarwise DIY home project! Right after the pandemic started, our dishwasher quit working. Permanently. Good...

Making Your Home Feel Like YOU

DISCLOSURES While working on my new website, I perused lots of files on my computer and found many letters from readers that I had saved....

Exciting Small Space Book News!

My book publisher has recently retitled my Small Space Organizing book/eBook as Maximizing Your Small Space and they also gave it this...

Our Secret Garden Carport Patio Makeover Reveal

I promised to share with you how we transformed our blah utilitarian carport into a pleasant Secret Garden at-home-vacation-getaway, so...

Good Little Thanksgiving Things

Soon we'll be celebrating the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday so I thought I'd round up some dollarwise Good Little Things to help us all...

My Favorite Things Lately

I have decided to start a new series here on my new blog called My Favorite Things Lately, with links, so that you can check them out for...