It is absolutely key to be on the same page as your spouse when it comes to finances. This topic is often the primary cause of marital stress, but it doesn’t have to be! Get on the same page as your significant other from the get-go, and money will no longer be a sore spot […]
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Happy Saturday, Lovelies! How was your week? I’ve been having a blast this past week! My sister visited over the weekend and made a delicious dinner for us, Jake and I are just rockin’ and rollin’ on our half bath (sad announcement on this to come later, though…), we went to Jake’s work Christmas party
We are well on our way to finishing up most of the flooring upstairs which means pretty soon we’re going to have to make some decisions about our stairs. There are so many beautiful options, it’s going to be so hard to decide! This is the current situation. The carpet that used to be upstairs
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I was thinking the other day about blog content and how I can add value here in my blog posts. It brought me to a realization. All the content that I post here on mrsfancee.com is either created or curated. In order to define the brand and identity of this site, I need to manage how
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Happy weekend everyone! It seems that this time of the year is just the hardest to get stuff done in the evenings. Here in Chicago the sun sets before I even leave work. Is is just me, or does anyone else find it incredibly hard to be motivated when it’s pitch black outside?? Maybe I’m
Yet another room in our home now has curtains! Hooray 🙂 It’s little finishing touches like this that really make me feel like we’re making progress. This was a fairly simple DIY (and the simple ones are always the complicated ones too, aren’t they?) I was inspired by these gorgeous curtains from Design Manifest. I
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I am no longer offering the pdf download containing links to free art prints around the web at this time as it was a limited time offer. But feel free to check out my favorite affordable art prints below. Just click image to find out where you can buy them. Isn’t hard to sift thru
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Welcome to my the first edition of Loving Lately. Sometimes a girl’s gotta share, and this is a weekly column where I share with you the best gems I’ve spied on the web as of late. I’ve seen other bloggers do series like this and realized they are some of my favorite posts! As much
It’s been so long since we’ve talked reno!!! So, I think it’s time to catch you up 🙂 Slowly but surely, we are progressing on our house projects. Over Christmas break we were able to get a few things done and prepped for a few others. In the flooring department, we finished two upstairs bedrooms
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This is the final post in this Decorating for your Personality series! Last, but not least, we are taking a look at the ISTJ (Duty Fulfiller). This the last post in a sixteen part series looking at how your Myers Briggs personality profile affects your decorating choices. Last time we examined ESTP (Promoter) and principles they should be considering in their home decor. In
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