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  Is your home market ready?  The secret to selling faster and for more money in any market.  In order for you to understand the value of home staging you need to understand what home staging really is.  Staging is about creating a model home feeling in any home regardless of age occupancy status or [...]

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  What Mom wouldn’t love receiving this basket for Mothers day?  Full of goodies to fulfill her every whim.  These baskets are beautifully created by Amy at Etcetera, downtown Wenatchee.  You tell her what you are looking for and give her a budget and she’ll create the perfect gift.

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As you know the Department of Fish and Wildlife has the local rivers on hiatus so the fish have a chance to spawn in peace.  Each year, in April, thousands of fish migrate back upstream to spawn.  Although I love fishing, I respect this part of the lifecyle and the WDFW decision to close the [...]

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For those of you who don’t mind mixing your own beauty treatment for a lot less money than spas and in the comfort of your own home, on your own time, I’ve come across Dr Oz’s DIY recipes that are replicas of some famous spas treatments.   Don’t get me wrong, I love going to [...]

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Freshen tired furniture with the art of decoupage and wallpaper. Decoupage, the art of layering paper cutouts slathered in adhesive, is believed to have started in China in the 1100’s, but some historians argue that the practice could be much older.  Wherever it began, the Chinese are definitely credited with transforming decoupage into an art [...]

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Although I couldn’t make it to the Taste of Spring Festival in Leavenworth this weekend, I was there for a very important part of it on Friday: the official judging of locally prepared pear dishes. Strangely enough, there weren’t ANY submissions under savory pear dishes — they were all desserts. Pamela Kiehn’s roast pork loin [...]

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NCWLiving.com and Swoboda Photography have put together a super unique opportunity for you to gather your girlfriends for an evening together….Pinot and Pinups!!  Call your girls, book a session and let us take care of the rest!  Call to book your session today!  509.888.6654

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At NCWLiving.com, we recognize the importance of our natural inheritance.  Here is a way to help preserve beauty in our region.   About the Save the Sky River Coalition: We are a coalition of recreation groups, conservation groups and homeowners who love the natural world and are working to protect and preserve the Skykomish River and [...]

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I always know when spring is coming because I start craving vegetables — as many as I can get, all thrown into one very large bowl. I realize that this recipe would probably be better later in the season when all these ingredients are fresh, but at this point, in the end of March, I [...]

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1 cup butter 2 cups creamy peanut butter 1 ¼ cup graham cracker crumbs 1 lb. powdered sugar 6 oz. chocolate morsels In saucepan melt butters. Add cracker crumbs and sugar and mix well. Press into 9×13 baking dish. Melt chocolate morsels and spread over mixture in pan. Cool and cut.

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