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Oven Fried Shrimp - Quick and Easy by artofabeautifullife.com

Oven Fried Shrimp – Easy and Delicious!

Oven fried shrimp is so easy….and delicious. There are a couple of tricks to it, though. So be sure to read to the end. This is a quick, easy, and DELICIOUS alternative to frying. Got a couple of tricks here to make them look just like you fried them in a pan.

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30 Day Declutter Challenge | Surround yourself with beauty because your house should rise up and meet you every day. ~Oprah | Free, Printable Download

52 Simple Ways to Create a Beautiful Space: The Closet

52 Simple Ways to Create a Beautiful Space Challenge for March is…. The Closet.

That’s right folks. We are going in. It might get ugly in there, but we can do this. We’ve got this.

If you are new to the challenge, it started in January, and we have been working on one small area at a time. This is a system for those of us who struggle with organizing and staying organized. This is for those of us who get overwhelmed with big projects. Feel free to jump in anytime.

52 Things is a series of simple projects over the year designed to de-clutter, organize, simplify, and make your life more beautiful. Each week is one simple project designed to concentrate on one small area. A large project can become overwhelming. This often keeps us from even starting. With these small, but very purposeful projects, you will find it easy and feel productive as you take one small area at a time and transform it a beautiful space. These are manageable tasks and can usually be done in a small block of time, but over the course of the year, a lot of little things will add up. Click here to read more and to download the free, printable calendar…

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How to Pray by artofabeautifullife.com

Wow. The Stories of How These Women Prayed Moved Me.

I love when we hear a story of someone’s life, and it touches us in that deep place where it whispers softly. This. Do this. This is how you want to live. These are two stories of two mothers, one setting an example of how to pray, and the other interceding for her 12 year old son who is a gang member coming home at 3:00 AM. I cannot even imagine how Victor’s life would have ended had it not been for his mother interceding for him. Read more on the prayers of these two women…

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30 Day Declutter Challenge | Surround yourself with beauty because your house should rise up and meet you every day. ~Oprah | Free, Printable Download

52 Simple Ways to Create a Beautiful Space: February Challenge

February Challenge: This is a system for those of us who struggle with organizing and staying organized. This is for those of us who get overwhelmed with big projects.

52 Things is a series of simple projects over the year designed to de-clutter, organize, simplify, and make your life more beautiful. Each week is one simple project designed to concentrate on one small area. A large project can become overwhelming. This often keeps us from even starting. With these small, but very purposeful projects, you will find it easy and feel productive as you take one small area at a time and transform it a beautiful space. These are manageable tasks and can usually be done in a small block of time, but over the course of the year, a lot of little things will add up. Click here to read more and to download the free, printable calendar…

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52 Simple Ways to Create a Beautiful Space by artofabeautifullife.com | Free, Printable Download

52 Simple Ways to Create a Beautiful Space

This is a system for those of us who struggle with organizing and staying organized. This is for those of us who get overwhelmed with big projects.

This is my system for the year. Things have gotten out of control over the last few years. I need a system. A simple system to regain control of my space. And because life has been so crazy, I need it to be a manageable system, something that will not overwhelm me or make me want to quit the first month. But it needs to be something that at the end of the year, I will feel more peaceful about my space.

52 Things is a series of simple projects over the year designed to de-clutter, organize, simplify, and make your life more beautiful. Each week is one simple project designed to concentrate on one small area. A large project can become overwhelming. This often keeps us from even starting. With these small, but very purposeful projects, you will find it easy and feel productive as you take one small area at a time and transform it a beautiful space. These are manageable tasks and can usually be done in a small block of time, but over the course of the year, a lot of little things will add up. Click here to read more and to download the free, printable calendar…

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One Word Necklace - Inspirational Jewelry by artofabeautifullfie.com

One Word for the Year

As the new year approaches, this is a time that many of us are choosing our one word for the year. It is when we choose a word, one word, that is speaking to us, calling to us. Instead of focusing on too many things, it is a way of keeping one goal in front of us all year. It could be a word in an area we would like to grow, a way we want to be, a life philosophy, or a goal. Continue reading to find out what my words were last year, and what words are speaking to me now.

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10 Ways to Make Beautiful Resolutions and Goals and Keep Them

10 Ways to Make Beautiful Resolutions and Goals and Keep Them

Are you making resolutions right now for the New Year? It is the 31st, and this is what I will be doing as I ring in the new year. I just started thinking about mine. I am not going to sweat that. I’ve gone into January working on mine. We can do this anytime during the year, whether it’s December or July. It’s always a good time to make resolutions and goals. Goals give us focus. Whether you are setting goals for the New Year, or you are setting goals in the middle of the year, goals give us focus, and when action follows this focus, we create an energy and momentum. This is where the magic happens. This is the place you want to live. Read more on… 10 Ways to Make Beautiful Resolutions and Keep Them.

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