SHIFTING ROOTS

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6 Tips and Tricks to Setting a Beautiful Spring Tablescape

Get inspired by these easy tablescapes, perfect for your next party, special meal with your family, or Easter celebration.  I’ve created 7 colourful options that are sure to impress your guests, along with some tips and tricks to make creating your own a breeze.

Spring & Easter Table Setting
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Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets with Chalk Paint? Read This First!

Find out what you should know about chalk painting your kitchen cabinets before you take the plunge.

After posting about the kitchen makeover, a couple of my readers had asked if I was happy with chalk paint on my cupboards, so I thought I would make this post.  If you’ve been on Pinterest any length of time, you’ve probably run across posts about the magic of chalk paint. This is (and is not) one of those posts. Here’s what you should know before you take the plunge.

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Kitchen Reveal. . . for now.

I have a confession to make.  I really wanted to reveal my kitchen to you guys, so I started the whole decluttering series to make sure my kitchen would be clean enough.  A series is not made out of two posts, you say?  Don’t worry, more is coming.

Let’s all take a moment and remember how ugly the kitchen used to be.

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Decluttering the Black Hole in my Kitchen

Decluttering can be a lonely job, so lets walk through it together.  I’ll share my pictures and thought process as I’m working my way through my home.  If you are someone who is a very logical and ordered thinker, this post may not be for you.  My brain just doesn’t work that way.  Let’s call this… decluttering for the naturally disorganized.

Our house was relatively clutter free until we found renters for the other house.  We needed to move everything that way still lying around the old house and shove it in to the new one.  Did I mention it was September?  Forget having time to actually go through anything in September.  Then add in me being sick in October and November, the write off that is December, and here we are.

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Christmas Home Tour 2016

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Welcome to the first annual Shifting Roots Christmas home tour!  Does it count as a home tour if only two of your rooms are featured. . . just barely. . .?  I say yes.  Last year when we packed away the Christmas decorations we pared down considerably.  I also wasn’t thinking about blogging last year after Christmas when I was checking out all the sales.  So here we are.  It’s pretty minimal, but I just didn’t want to spend a ton of money on Christmas decorations this year.

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Welcome!

Hi, I’m Kristen and I help new gardeners learn to grow their own vegetables and beautify their yards. I also share recipes that use all that delicious garden produce. Grab a coffee (and your gardening gloves) and join me for gardening tips, simple recipes, and the occasional DIY, all from the lovely city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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