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By Brianna, on January 5th, 2012 
During my organization frenzy of 2012 I am pretty excited to tackle the spice mess in my pantry. I created a mounted spice rack using old baby food jars. Want to learn how? See the following tutorial on creating your own spice rack. Bonus organization: I not only cleaned up the spices but I used these random jars I refused to throw away.
Necessary Materials
Jars with lids (Labels removed… If you want it to be aesthetically pleasing)
Wooden board or Shelf
Wood Screws
Drill
Step 1 Painting the Lids (Not shown because spray paint comes with directions)
Depending on
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By Brianna, on January 4th, 2012 
I find in life that my love of perfection and research lead me to read a lot about topics while actually doing… Well let’s just say the doing leaves much to be desired.
Secure in my knowledge that I was going to actually make a resolution about organization for 2012 I started a week early AND I dove right in. I had some code yellow areas (as described by Rants from Mommyland) that were just begging to be tackled to make room for the ginormous amount of crap necessary for the survival of an American newborn.
I’m used to this
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By Brianna, on January 2nd, 2012 In 2010 I wrote about how I don’t, “Do resolutions,” then promptly reversed my position the next year and made an attempt to change myself into an awesome saint of a person. I bet you can guess how that worked out…
Though I can say I didn’t buy from Walmart for a full year. Booyah to me for doing one resolution! I guess if I really look back at 2011 then I’m being hard on myself. Sure I didn’t become an urban homesteader but I did rethink a lot of our actions and took more intention in my life.
I’m
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By Patrick, on January 1st, 2012 
From all of us at RealMountainValues.com, from our fermenter to yours, we want to wish you a
Wishing you all the best fermentation in the new year!
HAPPY BREW YEAR!!!
(and we hope you had a beerry Christmas!)
By Brianna, on December 25th, 2011 
Yes this is a Venus Flytrap
We wanted to wish you the best holiday season with love from our Christmas decorated venus flytrap. If you think that’s a little odd you can thank Patrick. When I was in the midst of holiday decorating he suggested, “You should decorate my venus flytrap for Christmas. I bet that has never been done before.” I told him everything has been done before… Well I lost that bet. Or at least couldn’t prove it through Google images.
So here you go world: Merry Christmas from Real Mountain Values… Venus Flytrap Style.
We’ll see
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By Brianna, on December 23rd, 2011 
You might have noticed the posting/craftiness has been a little bit light this week. I haven’t abandoned the blog, just been working on an awesome behind the scenes project; facelift for Real Mountain Values. Plus a whole lot of recategorization, linking etc. Which will make it easier for you, dear reader, to find your favorite tutorials, inspiration, and general awesomeness.
I’ll give you a little sneak peak:
You didn't think we were going to get rid of the blue did you?
I have a bunch of great ideas for 2012 BUT I would love to hear anything you would
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By Brianna, on December 21st, 2011 
We need help coming up with a crafty project to take care of this:
We need help with crafts, not alcohol. :)
We have amassed quite the collection of beer caps with a fair number of wine corks thrown in for good measure. Now before you judge our alcohol consumption please note that these have been collected over a large period of time. Still judging our alcohol consumption? Fair enough.
Anyway, we just toss these bottle caps in a bag BECAUSE I keep thinking I am going to come up with some awesome crafty project for them. Well folks I will
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By Brianna, on December 19th, 2011 
Last year did a round up of green alternatives to regular wrapping paper. I thought I would add a few more just in time for us last minute wrappers. Did I say last minute? Yep, I’m still waiting for some of the gifts I ordered to arrive. Hey at least I ordered them already :).
Scrap Paper As Layered Wrapping
Although this is wrapping paper you could buy (2010) from Anthropologie you could easily recreate this look by using all those little scraps of paper left over from other wrapping. Or ahem… admit your mother was right and save some
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By Patrick, on December 17th, 2011 
What if they combined junk mail and spam… You'd get a 6" longer penis with 0% introductory APR.
Just like you, we’re bombarded with all kinds of crappy junk mail every day. This past Thursday, I received something from the Honey-Baked Ham Store. As I looked at the catalog, I said to myself, “How in the world did they get my name and address? I’ve never bought any of their tasty pork products before. Oh my god, that ham looks GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.” But I digress.
Well, probably the worst and most numerous of the junk mail that me and Brianna
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By Brianna, on December 16th, 2011 
I’ve been in a Christmas whirl, viewing all the amazing decor about the blogosphere. However, it is always and forever the craft tutorials that grab my heart. I love to both write and read them, but here are my top 5 choices for ornament tutorials. These crafty peeps blow my tutorials out of the water! I can’t wait to try some of these; both this and next year!
In no particular order:
1. My Desert Cottage: Paper, glue, and pipe cleaners never looked so good.
Image courtesy of My Desert Cottage.
2. View Along the Way: Glittery Snowball Ornaments
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