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How to Find the Best Deals on Ebooks

This post was created in partnership with BookBub. All opinions and thoughts expressed are completely my own. How to find the BEST deals on ebooks! Even tons of really awesome free options! If you are a reader, you NEED this in your life! Anyone who knows me knows how passionate I am about reading. Reading is one of my greatest loves in life, what I love to do to unwind at the end of a long day, and the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks me about my hobbies. One of my life’s dreams was to have a “library” in my home (which we finished earlier this year) and one of my favorite nights of each month is when I get to go to book club with my friends and laugh and talk and eat and discuss our latest reads!
I love reading almost everything! From science fiction, to self help, to young adult novels, to historical fiction to romance to memoirs, I love it all! The only real challenges that accompany loving to read as much as I do are selecting books that are worth my time and not spending all my money on them! Haha. I recently discovered BookBub and I am obsessed with it! It is a completely FREE service that allows you to select your preferences and enter favorite authors etc. and then they have experts who curate lists that fit your tastes of great ebooks that are worth reading! Plus, you wanna know the best part?! They are always $3.99 and under! I don’t know about you but it is a lot easier for me to take a chance on a new book or author when it’s super cheap to download, and I have already found a few new favorites through BookBub that were completely free!

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DIY IKEA Hack Headboard

This IKEA hack headboard is SO easy, and under $50 to make!

I know it might be silly, but this little headboard in all it’s budget-friendly glory is probably my favorite thing in my house right now. I mean, it’s striped for heaven’s sake. Anyway, let me explain what it started as. This is a $20 desk top from IKEA. It’s called the Linnmon and it comes in a few different colors. When we first bought it, I made this desk from it:

Ikea Hack DIY Desk under $60!!!

The desk served me well for about three years but we decided to make my office/craft room into more of an extended family room with toy storage because TOYS WERE EVERYWHERE, so I no longer had a place for the desk. I had been wanting a headboard for my guest room for a while and one day I decided to measure the desktop to see if it would fit. Low and behold, it is the exact right size for a Queen mattress! [Read more…]

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Make Ahead and Freeze Breakfast Wraps

Make Ahead and Freeze Breakfast Wraps are stuffed with sausage, cheese, eggs, and veggies and are the perfect fast and healthy breakfast for busy mornings!

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Hi everyone! Amanda here from Old House to New Home sharing the perfect recipe for busy back to school mornings. I know it is still July, but within just a few weeks, we will be packing those backpacks and sending the kids off in the mornings! I am going back to work full time and my daughter is going to kindergarten, so I know we will be rushing around every morning to get out of the door! I don’t want anyone to skip breakfast, so I will be sure to keep a pan of these make ahead and freeze breakfast wraps in the freezer at all times! [Read more…]

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Easy Crunchy French Toast

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Special K. All opinions are 100% mine.

Hey friends! I am so excited about today’s post! Remember a little while back when I hinted on Instagram about doing some filming?! Well I finally got the finished product back and I’m so excited to share it with you guys today! Being filmed (and having my family filmed) is definitely not in my comfort zone, but it ended up being easier than I thought it would be because we love these Special K products so much! It’s just natural to want to share things that you love with people you love and I really am passionate about Special K‘s #ownit campaign and their products. You ready for the video?!

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Family Reunion Ideas and Tips

Just a couple weeks ago (the first weekend in July) we had a family reunion for my husband’s side. The crazy thing about it is that we pulled this thing together within three weeks of finding out that everyone would be in the place at the same time. This rarely happens, because we are all spread across the country  – in Utah, Texas and Alabama. We live in Houston, and since everyone was traveling here I wanted to make sure that it would be a fun and memorable weekend for everyone.

My mother-in-law came here early so she and I planned most of it together. I have come up with a few tips and ideas that I’d like to share because while it may seem daunting to plan for a big group of people – it doesn’t have to be complicated. Of course, all of the planning will depend on your family; how big a group you have and what they like. We had 19 total. [Read more…]