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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

Love is in the Air: Capture the feeling with a winter craft idea by Tanya Bashor

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Cold snowy days lend themselves to staying home and crafting! If you have an empty wine bottle and some paint the opportunities for crafts are endless!

Here is in an idea for a sweet Valentine’s Day decoration, to cheer up your home - a lighted Valentine wine bottle project.

This project works best with a clear glass wine bottle. Remove the label by soaking in hot soapy water and scraping off, and then dry thoroughly. 

Place some valentine heart stickers on the bottle randomly, or paint on small hearts, then, fill in the whole bottle around the heart stickers with little dots of red, pink and white paint. Trick: Turn over the paint brush and hold with the brush on top, and dip the paint brush handle end into paint to create the dots - the smaller the brush the better!

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Fight the Winter Blues by Corey Flynn, NDTR, CDM CFPP

What's for Dinner (February 2019)? Ask Linda