Home Staging For You

Wordless Wednesday…Who Are You??? Agents…you may relate to this. There has been a move-in ready home near us but as they say…you snooze, you lose!One of the bluebird nest boxes we monitor at Kickerillo-Mischer Preserve has had a newly built nest in it for about a week. Larry and I have been check...

Food Fun…An Easy Hack While I usually leave sharing recipes to our resident chefs…  Will Hamm and Endre Barath, Jr.…there is an easy-peasy recipe I thought I’d share with you.  My niece, a working mom of 3, asked for an easy dish to make this weekend.  Below is the recipe for Easy Shepherd’s Pie....

Motivational Monday…No Regrets Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably andnever regret anything that makes you smile. Mark TwainWhen I read the quote above from one of my favorite sources of funny and oh-so-true sayings, I knew I had to share...

Posts Just For You- This Week at ActiveRain February 25 to March 2, 2024  Every day there is something to learn here at ActiveRain.  With this series, I highlight posts that gave me that lightbulb moment. It could be something techie, a post about Real Estate or other professions, about a place, ...

This Week…A Nod to Texas It’s been easy to tell that Spring is here this week in Texas. Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend--and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture.ROSEMARY KENTThe Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is going strong and will be until mid-March…trees ...

Friday Fun…Do You Know Yours? It’s time for some Friday Fun!!! Tomorrow March 2 is Texas Independence Day. It commemorates the day Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.  I am proud to be a Texan and know what most Texas school children are taught… the State Song, the State Flower ...

Staging Stories…Dancing Around the Floor Every home stager has stories to tell that make their projects interesting. One of my earliest vacant stagings was for brothers who were agents and investors. They were redoing a property that was on a spacious lot on a quiet cul-de-sac street. They opted ...

Wordless Wednesday…Anticipation Rewarded Last Saturday in my post I wrote that Larry and I have been eagerly waiting for Spring nesting season.  Our wait has been rewarded. Our most productive bluebird box has 5 eggs in it!  We didn’t expect anything because we’d not noticed any bluebirds nearby....

Tuesday’s Treasures…Time Well Spent Larry and I got to spend time with Mini-Me on Sunday!!!  We had the perfect weather for it…sunny with temperatures in the 80s.  First stop was Kickerillo Mischer Preserve so she could take a peek at the 5 eggs that were just laid last week.  I wish I had her en...

Motivational Monday…Start or Finish Line A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a young friend. We were playing catch-up over the phone. She expressed regret about something she wished she had done.  Now she feared it was too late. It wasn’t a matter of life or death. But it was something she ...