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My Collection: Cookbooks!

March 10, 2012 By Carrie Leave a Comment

Happy weekend, everyone! Today I’m talking about collections…and my collection should come as no surprise to you at all!

Yep, I collect cookbooks. I buy them in bookshops, order them online, pick one up every time we go on vacation…I love them! I especially like to get cookbooks that are representative of the area I’m visiting. Sometimes I buy them because I love the recipes, sometimes I buy them because I love the pictures, either way I’m always happy to spend lots of time going through my treasured books!

What are your collections???

Filed Under: Around the House, Baking Tagged With: around the house, baking, collections, Cookbooks

Project Simplify Challenge #2: Paring Down Our “Collections”

January 13, 2012 By Carrie Leave a Comment

If you think about it, we all have “collections” that we’ve begun building without even realizing we’ve done it. One of my many unofficial collections has got to be books. As an avid reader, I have many, many books in my home. I have very few books that I am willing to re-read after I’ve finished them, so my precious books are placed on a shelf, never to be read again. Until now…..

After only about 10 minutes, I was able to go through one of my bookshelves and remove 30…yes, 30 books that I know I’ll never read again. They’re packed up in a box, and ready to go to our local library, for many people to enjoy for years to come!

What unofficial collection do you keep, and do you think it could be pared down a bit? Leave me a comment and let me know, and after you’ve done it, snap a pic and leave it on my Facebook wall! It takes a village to simplify our lives!

Filed Under: Around the House Tagged With: around the house, Challenge, collections, project simplify, simplify

My Christmas Collection: Nutcrackers

November 30, 2011 By Carrie Leave a Comment

Do you have a special Christmas collection? I collect Nutcrackers and every year, I buy a new one to add to our collection. Some of my nutcrackers I purchased myself, some were given to my husband by my mother-in-law, and some have come from my husband’s grandmother’s collection…and I love each and every one of them! [Read more...]