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wine + cheese.

Happy Thanksgiving week!  Who's ready? This weekend was all prep at our house with recipe selection and a late Friday night grocery store visit to avoid crowds.  Oh, so worth it.  As I've mentioned before, I really love this holiday.  A whole day reserved for eating, drinking and enjoying family ...

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lifestyle. ·

the container store.

One of the greatest things about living in a growing city like Des Moines, is the excitement when a large retail chain finally decides to open a store in our community!  I was thrilled when The Container Store reached out to me to attend their blogger preview party this week.  Before their grand ...

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style. ·

lace it up.

If you're following my Instagram, you know November is a busy month at our house.  Between traveling, our anniversary, my birthday and ordinary life, the month keeps flying by.  But, we've settled down a bit since getting back from Toronto, and I am officially planning for the holidays. On that ...

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lifestyle., style., travel. ·

toronto: part 2.

There were two places that stuck out to me right away when I started researching top things to do in Toronto - the St. Lawrence Market and the Distillery District.  Both revolving around food and shopping.  Weird. Unlike our Toronto Islands escapade, we obeyed online reviews about spending a good ...

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toronto: where we stayed.

When looking for a place to stay while traveling, there are a couple of priorities my husband and I have.  Location and good reviews.  We want to be close to most, if not all the attractions we plan on seeing and we don't want to get there and be disappointed in service, the room, etc.   The main ...

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