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How to Make a Simple Family Slideshow

I spent a lot of my Monday last week working through the mountain of images that had collected on my camera this past week.  I started out by going through all the images to sort out the good ones and place them in appropriate folders.  I don’t spend a lot of time editing pics, but […]

3 Things About Photos

I wrote about my gift to my family in December.  I made a photo book of our year together.  It took me most of a weekend to do it, but we love it!  I’ve decided to start doing more of these instead of printing photos and putting them into albums.  I’m trying to cut down […]

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How to Get Organized for the Holidays

In order for me to truly be able to enjoy all the special moments of the holiday season, I do my best to be as organized as possible in advance of December 1st.  This affords me a couple of things: 1.  The ability to find things that we need quickly 2.  To make good choices […]

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Mastering the Weekly Shop

I am often asked about weekly menu planning for my family.  This is a long question to answer and it could vary greatly from family to family.  Menu planning has been a life saver for me.  It has evolved as my family has grown and the kids’ eating has changed as has their afternoon and […]

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Stash Your Scarves

Before I show you this super simple way to organize your scarves, I want to start by saying that the whole goal of A Bowl Full of Simple is to inspire you to try simple recipes, simple style ideas + simple organizational ideas to make your family and home life healthy, beautiful and well, simplified. […]

Desks + Bulletin Boards + Burlap

Back to School Series – Desk Organization This summer I have been working on giving my kids’ rooms a re-fresh.  We had a few different needs come up in our house that led to all these little changes.  Before, our two oldest shared 2 built-in desks in the family room.  It came time to give […]

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On an Organizing Roll

I cautioned when I was organizing all my kids’ school work that one thing led to another. Here is one more example of that crazy organizing roll I’ve been on! It all started with the school work project and kicked into full swing when my oldest was away at sleep away camp! It was almost […]