Everyday Life

Just a few more weeks until Easter! Where does the time go? With spring being the busiest time for real estate, why not decorate your house for the spring while you are showing it? You don't want to add too much clutter, but a few decorations here or there brings life and happiness into the home. Th [Read More]

Lakeland, Florida known for the many small lakes across the city is about to make a big splash come April 18, 2015!Slide the City, a 1,000 foot padded slide, will be erected to celebrate the return of spring, giving locals a chance to slip and slide their way from Lemon Street to Lake Morton Drive o [Read More]

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, here are a few beautiful and clever centerpiece designs to "Wow" your guests and1. Purchase three pumpkin gourds in different sizes. One large, one medium and one small. Remove the stems from the large and medium pumpkin gourd and stack them on top of each [Read More]

We have spooky times ahead! No, not the upcoming elections...Halloween! One easy decoration for this time of year is the Cheesecloth Ghost. They are easy tomake and fun to hang.You will need the following list of materials:thread1 - pair of scissorsstarch or fabric stiffenercheese clothStyrofoam bal [Read More]

Tis the season!! It's that time of year, when folks start decorating their homes for the upcoming holidays. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas is a time when heating up a cup of spice tea and making your house look like the season is just...well, plain fun!Here's a fun little project that you can [Read More]

Have you ever wanted to live in a state where leaving a pair of leather shoes outside in the summer for a couple of days can create you your own mold garden? Welcome to Florida! There are days, usually in August, where I wonder why we ever bothered taking this, my lovely home state, away from the In [Read More]

Do you live in a city? I do, and it's a fairly well spread out city. Jacksonville, Florida (last I looked) boasts the largest municipal area of any city in the US-it essentially covers the entire of Duval county.Imagine my surprise then, when I realized that my home built 20 amp electric bike will g [Read More]

Moving into a new home has always brought on a dilemma for me-clean first (and thoroughly!) or move in and then clean as you go. Plus there's the joy of fixing minor problems (baseboards, drywall dings and such). My take on this so far has been to do the cleaning and fixing FIRST. Once one is moved [Read More]

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Good News! According to CoreLogic's latest analysis, during the 4th quarter of 2012 nearly 200,000 more residential properties are no longer drowning. This brings the total to 1.7 million properties that have gone from negative equity to positive last year! The analysis shows that the improvemen [Read More]