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Browse dozens of posts on how to keep your home and garden in tip top shape on BetsyLife.com.  Cleaning and organizing tips. Garden planting and harvesting guides and tips, as well as garden friendly recipes and troubleshooting. Plus, ideas on how to style your home and great deals on home decor items. Find an answer to every home and garden question.

December 19, 2018 By betsy Leave a Comment

Affordable Last Minute Hostess Gifts

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Safeway . The opinions and text are all mine. The very best affordable last minute hostess gifts are available… 
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Filed Under: Entertaining, Home/Garden

Two Spiralized zucchini nests on a white plate with runny yolk eggs on top. Fork to the right and a purple napkin underneath

July 12, 2018 By betsy Leave a Comment

Crispy Spiralized Zucchini Nests

Spiralized zucchini, breadcrumbs, cheese and herbs come together simply to make these crispy nest fritters. The perfect vessel for a runny egg. A great light summer recipe, that comes fresh… 
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Filed Under: 30 Minutes or Less, Breakfast, Home Page, Home/Garden, Meals For One, Recipes, Vegetarian/Health Food

Close up of a blue bowl filled with bucatini pasta, bacon, burrata cheese, grilled vegetables

May 7, 2018 By betsy 2 Comments

Bacon Pasta with Grilled Zucchini & Roasted Tomatoes

Bacon, pasta and grilled vegetables make for a tasty and seasonal summer recipe. Take your garden harvest, throw it on the grill, and combine it with bacon (truly makes everything… 
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Filed Under: Home Page, Home/Garden, Meat/Seafood, Pizza/Pasta, Recipes, Seasonal

Clean office space

February 14, 2018 By betsy Leave a Comment

Complete Guide to Spring Cleaning Success

What exactly is spring cleaning in relation to general housekeeping? At what point does regular cleaning turn into the seemingly more massive task that is “spring cleaning”? For me, spring… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, Lifestyle

Home tour. Oakland, California. How to mix new and vintage details, with personalized touches.

June 10, 2016 By betsy 6 Comments

Welcome To My New Home

Welcome to my new home in the Longfellow neighborhood of Oakland, California I know Betsylife has been unusually quiet on the recipe front lately, but as you all know I’ve… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, Lifestyle

Sun Basket Meal Delivery

May 16, 2016 By betsy 14 Comments

How I became a Meal Delivery Enthusiast

This post was sponsored by Sun Basket. All opinions are my own.  Meal delivery boxes are so hot right now. You know the ones; several meals worth of ingredients conveniently… 
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Filed Under: Health/Fitness, Home/Garden, Lifestyle, My Favorite Things

Make awesome coffee drinks using your single cup brewer

May 27, 2015 By betsy 4 Comments

Want to Make Amazing Coffee Drinks? Here’s How.

One of my mottos in life is “Coffee is always the answer”. If you know me well, you’ve probably heard me say this on more than one occasion. If you’re… 
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Filed Under: Entertaining, Home/Garden, Lifestyle

Best Cleaning Tips Ever!!

March 19, 2015 By betsy 6 Comments

Greatest Cleaning Tricks Ever!

Spring time is for fresh beginnings, which is why the idea of spring cleaning is so popular. What’s better than a fresh and super clean house? I’ll admit that I… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, Lifestyle, Popular on Pinterest

September 16, 2014 By betsy 3 Comments

Artisan Bread Baking Class with Urban Craft Camp

Recently I’ve begun teaching an occasional food craft class through Urban Craft Camp. In the summer it was a pickling and preserving class, and once fall rolled around they asked me… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, Lifestyle, San Diego Living

Easy Cucumber Salad. Thinly sliced cucumbers, orange and yellow peppers and fresh herbs on a dark oval serving platter

May 21, 2013 By betsy 5 Comments

Easy Cucumber Salad

Easy Cucumber Salad. Vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, herbs and vegetables. There’s nothing fresher than that.  Cucumbers are one of the top 5 quintessential summer vegetables am I right? They’re… 
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Filed Under: 30 Minutes or Less, Home/Garden, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian/Health Food Tagged With: cucumber, cucumber salad, garden harvest, gardening, Salad, summer cooking, vegetarian

May 15, 2013 By betsy 7 Comments

How to Make Your T-Shirts Feel Vintage Soft

Want to know how to make a t-shirt soft?  There was a time in my life where I wore only thrift store vintage t-shirts. You know the ones. They are… 
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Filed Under: Health/Fitness, Home/Garden, Lifestyle, San Diego Living Tagged With: experiment, fashion, Pinterest, t-shirt, tees, vintage tee

April 30, 2013 By betsy Leave a Comment

Obsessions, Lately

While my camera is still in the shop, I thought I’d share with you guys some things that I’ve been crazy about lately. Summer is right around the corner and… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, Lifestyle, My Favorite Things, San Diego Living Tagged With: fashion, Garden, Home, Home and Garden, Macklemore, manicure, purse, Ryan Lewis

September 24, 2012 By betsy 2 Comments

Foolproof Children’s Birthday Cake Decorating

Over the weekend a very happy little girl turned the big 0-2. It has really been a joy for me seeing Leila go from tiny little conehead in the hospital,… 
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Filed Under: Desserts, Entertaining, Home/Garden, Recipes Tagged With: birthday cake, Cake, Cake Decorating, cool cake, decorating, easy, foolproof, yo gabba gabba

January 20, 2012 By betsy Leave a Comment

5 awesome things

I know I’ve been a little “Debbie Downer” lately with tax season sucking the life out of me and all, so I wanted to end the week on a high… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, My Favorite Things, San Diego Living Tagged With: butcher press, cucina urbana, latte, starbucks

January 10, 2012 By betsy 25 Comments

The lemon dilemma

As you may know, its lemon month for Seasonal Potluck. Since Kelley lives in Chicago, and I live in San Diego, often our “seasons” are slightly off in terms of… 
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Filed Under: Home/Garden, San Diego Living Tagged With: lemon, pricing, tree

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