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Fabulous Fall Series ~ Day 2

September 24, 2015 By Deanna Piercy 4 Comments

It’s Day 2 of our “Fabulous Fall” series. Welcome back! Today we are going to consider first impressions. What do you or visitors to your home see first? Do you have a front porch? What about just inside your door? Let’s take a little time today to spruce up these areas a bit and add…

Timely Tunes

September 24, 2015 By Christopher Piercy Leave a Comment

Timely Tunes by Christopher Piercy Ryan Adams “Bad Blood” (From “1989”) Website: Pax-Am Records Twitter: @TheRyanAdams About a month ago, Ryan Adams announced that he was working on a song-for-song cover album of Taylor Swift’s youth-pop opus 1989. What may have initially read as an ironic Twitter joke, quickly segued into something more interesting and…

“Fabulous Fall” Printable

September 23, 2015 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Click link below for a printable fall checklist: Dee’s “Fabulous Fall” Checklist

Dee’s “Fabulous Fall” Series ~ Day 1

September 23, 2015 By Deanna Piercy 4 Comments

Happy First-Day-of-Fall, everyone! You know what that means? Well, besides pumpkin-flavored everything. That’s right. It’s the first day of Dee’s “Fabulous Fall” Series. Each day for the next week I will be posting a daily “assignment” plus tips for making the most of this new season. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a list…

Why I’ll never eat escargot again

September 23, 2015 By Deanna Piercy 10 Comments

I’m not naturally adventurous but in recent years I have pushed myself to try new things. Most of the time I am really glad I put myself out there. I’ve become a Nine Inch Nails fan, learned that I adore raw oysters, met lots of fascinating people and expanded my horizons in so many ways….

Sneak Preview ~ Fabulous Fall

September 22, 2015 By Deanna Piercy 2 Comments

I’ve been living in denial but the calendar doesn’t lie. Tomorrow is the first day of autumn. I honestly don’t know how that happened. Didn’t summer only arrive about two weeks ago? If you’ve been following me any length of time you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I’m a summer girl. Spring is…

My first blog conference!

September 22, 2015 By Deanna Piercy 6 Comments

I’ve been wanting to attend a blog conference ever since I knew such a thing existed. My daughter and I have been talking about this for several years but most conferences are on one of the coasts which would necessitate plane tickets. So when we heard that Blog Elevated would be in Dallas we knew…

Music Monday ~ “It’s Raining” (Allen Toussaint)

September 21, 2015 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

We’ve got a trip to New Orleans coming up soon and that always gets me thinking about some of the incredible music from my favorite city. Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Mahalia Jackson, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Irma Thomas…and so many others. Here is a beautiful song by another New Orleans great, Allen Toussaint: