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Design Steal: Thomas O'Brien Duvet at Target

by Sarah C. Leave a Comment

51b3gm5sxdl_ss384_While after-Christmas shopping online, I ran across a sale on Thomas O’Brien bedding at Target.com. You can always count on the Thomas O’Brien line for classic, well-made style at a good price. But this Rich Neutral duvet cover really goes above and beyond.

The duvet is a beautiful, rich brown. And if you look closely, you can see there is an almost deco-inspired floral print that adds an air of luxury. And it’s on sale for $59!

After ordering this duvet and the matching sheets, I realized I’d seen this before in a beautiful bedroom featured in "Maxing Out a Small House" article in the December/January issue of Domino Magazine. As it turns out, the featured home was decorated with O’Brien’s help.

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Recycle Your Christmas Cards

by badbadivy Leave a Comment

Starprovisions1Looking for a neat way to recycle those Christmas cards? Check this out!

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Getting Your House Back To Normal After The Holidays

by badbadivy Leave a Comment

Christmas_treeNow that all the presents have been unwrapped and the wrapping paper has been thrown away, it’s time to gather all the gifts and put them away. This sounds a lot easier than it really is, though.

Conquering the Christmas clutter can be a struggle. If you’re a crafter, you may have a mess on your hands there from last minute Christmas crafting. If you have kids, you probably have new toys scattered everywhere. If you’re an electronics fiend, you probably have instruction manuals and cords all over the place.

Yep, it’s time to clean up and it’s not gonna be easy. I’ll be doing a series of posts both here and at Home-Ec 101 covering different aspects of recovering from the holidays. Stay tuned!

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Get Rid Of The Clutter

by Kathylynn Leave a Comment

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We here at Shak In Style want you to know that we are listening to want you want to read about. We have had a lot of requests to talk about clutter and organizing and I found a great site that answers some of those questions.

5 Ways To Clear Closet Clutter written at Clutter Cubed gives great advise….

1. Remember the 80/20 rule

2. Top of the pile

3. Use a 4 bin system to sort your clothing

4.Once and for all

5. Get rid of the freeloaders

Make sure that you click on over to Clutter Cubed and read about each of the 5 in detail. I really think that if you follow the rules listed here, you will have a clean closet without all of that clutter.

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Happy Holidays Shak-ers!

by Kathy Helbig Leave a Comment

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We here at Shakadoo would like to take this opportunity to thank you
all for your continued support and friendships. Each and every one of
you have brought us to where we are, and inspire us daily. Thank you
for all of your suggestions, comments and loyalty. It has been a
pleasure getting to know so

many of you, and we look forward to the opportunity to make even more friendships through out 2008.

We wish you a joyous and safe Holiday and of course a prosperous New Year!

Kathy, Kathylynn, and Bill

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Holiday Wishes

by Sarah C. Leave a Comment

2007_12_20joejoesMmmmmm. I wish I had a box of these candy cane Joe-Joe’s from Trader Joe’s. Unfortunately, the store hasn’t made it to Dallas yet.

Via the Kitchn.

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DIY: Paper Christmas Tree

by badbadivy Leave a Comment

PaperxmastreeWhat a fabulous idea- use non-holiday paper to create a Christmas tree. It gives the tree a deliciously different look. Evie S. has a PDF at her place.

Via: Craftzine

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The Winner of the Shak In Style Giveaway IS…….

by Kathy Helbig 1 Comment

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What an exciting Friday it is here at Shak In Style when we get to announce a winner for our giveaway.

Would Lilyruth of Lilyruths "This and that cottage" come on down…you are the winner of the Canyon Crest Royal Paisley Bedding Set.

Congratulations lilyruth from the Shakadoo Team.

We would like to thank all who entered this giveaway. We will be writing about all of the topics that you have requested, so be sure to tune in daily.

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Teach Your Kids To Clean Their Own Rooms

by badbadivy Leave a Comment

I originally posted this at Curbly, but I thought it would be a good fit here, especially since commenter Emily asked for a post about managing toys, since Christmas is coming up!

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My daughter Megs was shocked when I told her to go ahead and let her room
get messy. Normally, I expect a clean room, and my kids generally comply. But I
wanted to take some pictures to teach you guys how to teach your kids to clean
their own rooms.

Start them off with a level playing field

Before you can expect your kids to clean their own rooms and keep them
clean, it helps to have the rooms set up in a manner that the kids can easily keep
their rooms clean.

If your kids struggle with keeping their rooms clean, they have too many
toys.  Heck, my kids are able to keep their rooms clean and they still
have too many toys. A kid with way too many toys will get overwhelmed and will
end up playing with your vacuum cleaner attachments instead. They’ll let their
rooms turn into a complete disaster and won’t know where to start. Keep the toy
level under control, and it’ll be much easier for them to clean their
rooms.

Once you’ve got the toy monster under control, make sure their room has lots
of low shelves and baskets to put their toys in. With plenty of storage, they
will be able to put their things where they belong more easily. A "pet
net" is great for kids like my daughter that have obscene amounts of
stuffed animals.

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Low shelving is key. Let them organize the shelves as they see fit. It
might not be perfect and beautiful, but it’ll be their own design, which they
can be proud of.

Now, let’s get them started cleaning

I bet you’ve sent your kids to clean their rooms and you walk in there, and
they’re sitting there playing, or reading, or something. It used to completely
infuriate me- I sent them to clean their rooms, not play! One day as I was
standing in my totally trashed kitchen, not really knowing where to start, I
realized the kids are probably the same way as I am. If I don’t know where to
start, I get stalled and often wander off to watch some TV or surf the
internet.  Once I realized that, I taught my kids this system to cleaning
their rooms and they now always know where to start and can go from there.

First, tell them to make their bed. My mother always told me, you
could have clothes on the floor, but a made bed, and the room will look better
than a room with an unmade bed and nothing on the floor. This also gives them a
surface they will use later to aid in their cleaning.

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Megs always wants to put 42,000 pillows and stuffed animals on the bed.
We’ve compromised with 2 large pillows, 1 regular pillow, 1 small pillow, and 1
stuffed animal.

Then have them pick up all the laundry in their room and put it into a
laundry basket.  Keep the laundry basket handy in case you missed some
laundry.

Next, have them pick up toys in groups. I have Megs pick up all her
stuffed animals and toss them into the pet net. I have my boys pick up all the
cars and put them in the car box. Then move on to another group of toys until
you’ve run out of groups of toys.

You’ll usually end up with a bunch of odds and ends that don’t really belong
anywhere. Have them toss all of those items on the bed.

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Oh where, oh where should this other junk go?

The floor should now be completely clean in their room.  Have them pick
up each item from the bed individually, and decide where each item should go.
If they cannot find a place for it, it has to go in the trash. (Or the
freecycle bin, or the goodwill box, etc.)

Once the bed’s cleaned off, they can dust and vacuum (if age-appropriate, I
don’t generally let my kids vacuum until they’re about a head taller than the
vacuum cleaner- my 6 year old is not quite tall enough yet, although she’s been
cleaning her own room since she was 4.) and the room will be clean!

It might not be showroom perfect, but let your kids revel in the fact that
they did it themselves!

 

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DIY Wrapping

by Sarah C. Leave a Comment

Office_wrapped_paperpreview1Can you believe these presents are wrapped with grocery bags? They’re gorgeous. And green. The decoration is made from stickers you can get an any office supply store.

Get the DIY low-down at Casasugar.

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