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One of the most requested posts is a Fall Boot edit. I love black boots. I love them with leather pants, jeans, dresses and skirts. This season I think I found the most versatile round up. I am torn between 11, 9 and 8 but honestly I love them all. Click the numbers below for more info on each pair!!!! Happy Shopping!!!
ONE//TWO//THREE//FOUR//FIVE//SIX//SEVEN//EIGHT//NINE//TEN//ELEVEN//TWELVE
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Nobody wants their home to smell bad and be full of dirt. It’s why they put so much effort into cleaning up. Despite how much cleaning you do, you could feel as though your house still doesn’t smell the way you want it to. You’d want it to smell better.
You don’t need to put a lot of effort into this. Instead, it’s as simple as knowing how to make your home smell nice quickly and easily. With three particular tips, it’ll be much easier than you’d expect. They shouldn’t take much time or effort, despite how much of an impact they’ll have.
How To Make Your Home Smell Nice: 3 Top Tips
1. Scented Candles
Scented candles can be one of the more notable ways to make your home smell nice, but it can also be overlooked. It’s worth picking up a few of them and putting them around your home. There are plenty of options on offer with this, even candles for smokers.
Having a few of these you like the smell of, and lighting them regularly, will make sure your home smells as nice as possible. They can even make your home feel a little cozier.
2. Deodorize With Dryer Sheets
Dryer sheets are known to help clothes and laundry smell nicer after a wash, but you’ll need to pick up the scented options to take advantage of this. If you’re already doing this, it could be worth going beyond the laundry room with this.
Having scented dryer sheets in your dressers, closets, and other small places can help your home smell nicer than you’d think. Anything you take out of these places will smell great, even if they’ve been tucked away for months.
3. Spruce Up The Trash Can
You’ll already know you need to take the trash out regularly. Not only can a buildup of this be unhealthy and draw in pests, but it emits an unpleasant odor. You could need to go beyond this to make sure everything smells as nice as possible.
Even putting some baking soda inside your trash can could help you with this. The can itself could retain smells, even well after they’ve been emptied. In time, this leads to the trash can smelling bad even when it’s empty.
By keeping it spruced up, you can avoid this. Even cleaning the inside of the bin every once in a while can be recommended to help with this.
How To Make Your Home Smell Nice: Wrapping Up
If you don’t know how to make your home smell nice, it can seem like a complicated process. At a certain point, you might resign yourself to just putting up with it. That doesn’t need to happen, however. A few specific tips can be helpful, as they’d have more of an impact than you’d expect.
By using the right candles, sprucing up the trash can, and deodorizing with dryer sheets, you’ll have your home smelling better than expected. You wouldn’t even need to put much time or effort into these, so you’ll have an amazing-smelling home in no time.
Meet Julia Ballentine and her exquisite jewelry pieces. Julia Ballentine has worked in the jewelry industry for nearly thirty years, earning her certification as a Graduate Gemologist with the Gemological Institute of America early on. In 1992, she began her career at Christie’s Auction House in New York, where she was a cataloguer and gemologist. This was followed by many years at Tiffany & Co where she worked as a Buyer, a Product Development Manager for Engagement, Statement and Schlumberger jewelry, and also as the Manager of the Tiffany Pearl Lab. In 2001 Julia left Tiffany and went back into the antique and estate jewelry world with an exclusive boutique jeweler on Madison Avenue and reconnected with exceptional vintage jewelry. Her experience also includes working at Christie’s London, jewelry design coursework at NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology, design work in Florence, Italy and Appraisal Certification through USPAP. She has been a member of the Jewelers Board of Trade since 2005. She is a graduate of Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut and has a B.A. from St. Lawrence University, as well as a G.G. from the Gemological Institute of America.
Over time, Julia discovered that there was a need for excellent customer service and wanted to help navigate what can be a very tricky industry. In the spring of 2005, taking advantage of the relationships with suppliers and craftsmen that she had built in her years in the industry, she launched her business on a referral-only basis. It was a natural progression to start Julia Ballentine Fine Jewelry, sourcing beautiful, high-quality jewelry for her friends and private clients.
Today, Julia’s website includes available beautiful, fun pieces. This website represents a fraction of the jewelry that she sources and designs for her clients. She specializes in custom design work and is happy to consult on individual projects as time permits.
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As temperatures drop and we start spending more time indoors, this is when that first round of “winter colds” start to spread. Nothing is better to relieve sore throat pain, clear your sinuses, and warm you to your core than a bowl of soup. Butternut squash is loaded with Vitamin A, B, C, potassium, and magnesium so this is a nutrient-rich and delicious soup — all year round!
The BEST Butternut Squash Soup is so delicious!!!! Bon Appetit!!!!
Ingredients:
2-2 1/2 lbs. butternut squash peeled, seeded, and cut into 1″ cubes
1 lrg. onion, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
1 lrg. sweet potato, diced
4 Tbs. unsalted vegan butter or organic butter
6 cups vegetable stock
kosher salt
ground pepper
ground nutmeg
Directions:
Melt butter
Saute onions until soft. Add carrots, celery, squash and sweet potato. Cook for 5 minutes
Add stock, 1 tsp salt and bring to a boil. Cover and lower heat.
Cook for 35-40 minutes until squash is tender.
Use an immersion blender (or Cuisinart) to puree when the soup is cooled.
Add nutmeg and pepper to taste.
I am so happy to share this week’s best sellers with you. Most of the items featured I have tried on myself. I love the clogs, the coat from J Crew is perfection, and I just ordered the leopard dress (it is on sale too). But I think you are really going to love everything in this week’s edition. Email me and let me know what you get!!!!
- I tried on these clogs over the weekend and fell in love.
- This leather skirt is fabulous!
- I am in love love with this J-Crew coat. The sterling vest is incredible.
- This is the perfect leopard dress…love the smocking!!
- Everyone needs a neutral sweater for the Fall/Winter
- Here is another perfect camel winter coat..
- How cute is the top with feather sleeves?
- These Tory Burch rings are gorgeous!
- I have not tried this yet but this dewy foundation gets rave reviews…..
- This sweater is beautiful…Love the green
- Love the pink color….
- You have to try this candle..it makes a fab gift too!!!