Soft Industrial Style

One of my favorite decor looks is a softened industrial style. While I'm not into sharp lines and stark rooms, I love a touch of toughness in a room. Like the blue jeans I wore in high school with ruffly, silk blouses, having a warm, inviting comfortable room with...

Alternative Storage Uses for Spice Racks

So, you've got a fabulous spice rack in your kitchen. But did you ever think of alternate uses for the clever, stylish inventions? Home Office Storage A wall spice rack is perfect for convenient storage for small office supplies. Use them to keep tacks, paper clips,...

Hurricane Season is Coming

Living in South Florida for ten years, we soon became acclimated (no pun intended) to the wild weather. The first week we lived there, we had a torrential downpour that dumped 12 inches of rain in 24 hours. In Utah, where I grew up, average rainfall is 16 inches…per...

Self Pity

Mom's wisdom: Don't waste your time feeling sorry for yourself. Don't belittle yourself. Never forget that you are a child of God. You have a divine birthright. Something of the very nature of God is within you. The Psalmist sang, “I have said, Ye are gods; and...

Eating the Cake

As I write, I'm sitting in the gorgeous Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City. I just finished speaking on “Monetizing a Blog” at the Story@Home Conference. Now that's all well and good, but I'll save that story for PopCre.net. What I want to...