New & Notable Mentions 3/25/23

This week on New & Notable Mentions 3/25/23…

Before and After : A Modern Life for this Dated Trailer

Using Empty Picture Frames In Decorating

Stephanie from Celebrated Nest shows how she uses empty picture frames in decorating her home.

How to Choose Furniture for Senior Citizens

How To Make A Bedroom Cozy

Jamie at So Much Better With Age gives her tips on how to make a bedroom cozy.

Well, the cat approves!

Determining Spans and Spacing for Wall Shelves

DIY Breakfast Nook Bench With Storage

Madison at Blushing Bungalow shows how she created a breakfast nook for eating as well as adding storage to the room.

One Yard, No Sew Window Treatment – 3 Ways

Easter Candy Jar DIY

Aren’t these adorable? Heidi at Eleanor Rose Home DIYed these candy jars for Easter.

A garden designer’s tips for redesigning a small outdoor space

10 Herbs To Grow In The Shade

Yes, there are some herbs that will grow in the shade. They evolved in conditions where they receive protection from the sun, be it in valleys, mountainous ravines, or lush tropical forests.

The writer of this article says that her Brooklyn terrace is a fine mess—but also a laboratory for shade-loving herbs.

6 Foods That Are Poised to Become the Next Superfoods, According to RDs

Baked Tuscan Chicken Casserole

The Top 10 Most Popular Pioneer Woman Casserole Recipes Ever

Easy Sauteed Green Beans

You Can Actually Keep These 7 Plants INSIDE Your Shower

Strawberry Lemonade Cake

Baking Soda vs. Baking Powder—What’s the Difference Between Them, Anyway?

Go As A River

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter.

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses.

Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring.

As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland—its ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations. 

Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home—where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river—gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when a river is dammed.

Verdant Charm and Vintage Finds Fill This Converted Carriage House

Charming Falls Apart

Allison James is a people pleaser and rule follower, but the day before her thirty-fifth birthday, that all backfires: she is unexpectedly fired from the public relations firm she’s worked at for twelve years, only to come home and find out that her fiancé has been sleeping with her maid of honor.

Allison James is a people pleaser and rule follower, but the day before her thirty-fifth birthday, that all backfires: she is unexpectedly fired from the public relations firm she’s worked at for twelve years, only to come home and find out that her fiancé has been sleeping with her maid of honor.

Feeling lost, Allison takes her friend Jordan’s advice and uses the time off for some self-reflection. Over the next few months, she devours countless self-help books (albeit skeptically), schedules a soul reading with an astrologer/psychic/magician, and goes on a meditation retreat in Costa Rica, where she finally starts to feel like she’s getting her groove back.

Back at home, her desire to escape the condo she once shared with her fiancé makes her a regular at the new coffeehouse in her neighborhood, where she finds some guidance from (and eye candy in) the attractive owner, Eric. Between Jordan’s support, the Barnes & Noble self-help aisle, and the Tao of Eric, Allison gradually discovers that her old life wasn’t as perfect as she thought―and that if she truly wants to find her happily-ever-after, she’s going to have to start writing her own rules.

12 Granfluencers That Prove Aging Is Fun

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