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Cindy Mandernach Photography
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About Me
- Cindy
- I am mama of two, a nonna of two and a wife to my adorable hubby. I am also a budding photographer who sees life through the lens of a camera. I am constantly on the lookout for a new photoshoot site and love taking natural light photos for my sweet families.... I have recently started repainting thrift store and discarded furniture and bringing it back to life.
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My Everyday Reads
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Blog Updates in Progress - Working on updating blog Jan 2026. Might have technical glitches in the meantime. [image: miniature computer sits on dollhouse desk]
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2025 Christmas Home Tour - [image: 2025 Christmas Home Tour (Sunny Side Up)]Come on in! Sharing my Christmas home tour today! Better late than never. :)3 days ago
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Year at a glance FREE Printable Calendar - Hey friends!! Happy NEW YEAR!!! I am pleased to announce that back by popular demand is the year at a glance FREE printable calendar for 2026! These thin...4 days ago
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WOAH! Here The 40 EHD Room Reveals We Did In 2025 – Do You Remember All Of Them?! - Wow. It was a HUGE year of room reveals, and looking back at it, I’m so impressed with my team…4 days ago
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Christmas Break 2025 - When I first started posting on this blog in 2009, I posted every single day. I enjoyed it and was excited to share, but I also saw this blog as a commi...1 week ago
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DIY Arched Bookcase: Free Printable Plans and Step-by-Step Tutorial - If you’ve been wanting to build an arched bookcase, this tutorial walks you through every step, from the cabinet base all the way up to the arched hutch....4 weeks ago
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November 2025 – My Eyes - It’s been two years and a few months since I last posted. I have continued...5 weeks ago
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DIY Bathroom Makeover with Classic Coastal Style - Transform a dated bathroom into a serene coastal retreat with DIY molding, peel-and-stick floors, and Benjamin Moore Boothbay Gray. My boys’ bathroom mak...1 month ago
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Tagging Along - Today, Lottie and I joined Christian and other very capable men as they helped a single mother of five move from her apartment in Durham into an apartment...
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Le Château - I haven’t finished the chateau, but I’m far enough along that I can do a sneak preview It’s so pretty! The color scheme (deep blue-green / black / gold hig...3 months ago
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The Perfect Paver: Backyard Reveal - This past summer we tackled our backyard. It was quite the undertaking because we have four golden retrievers. Why did we get four golden retrievers? Wel...1 year ago
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Country-Style Monogrammed Placeholder and Cloth Napkin DIY - Howdy, blog friends! It was so fun hearing from so many of you in the comment section on my last post! What a treat to reconnect with those of you who st...1 year ago
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Summertime Sweets - Hey friends! I pulled together a bunch of sweet treats that would be super fun served up this summer. Check these out if you are looking for a cute tre...1 year ago
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Just Listed: The House from the Movie “Stepmom” in New York - I have been in with this gorgeous old house since the Susan Sarandon-Julia Roberts tear-jerker “Stepmom” arrived in movie theaters back in 1998. Some of ...1 year ago
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Media Cabinet Halloween Village Display - [image: Media Cabinet Halloween Village Display] Halloween is almost here! Which sadly means October is almost over. It always seems to go by so quickly. M...2 years ago
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Lovebug senior tuxedo kitty needs a home. - My people.Can we help keep this incredibly sweet old man out of the shelter? Kuzco is a lovebug 14-year-old-spry tuxedo boy; he has been with his family ...2 years ago
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I am alive! - So you might have noticed that I haven't been here on my blog for a few months. I was working full-time at my husband's clinic and busy with the famil...
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Fastest Summer Ever - Hello, dear friends! I'm so sorry I've been absent here for so long! Summer has been so wonderfully busy and full of joy. We have been doing lots of things...2 years ago
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Christmas Camp Create 2023 - Well HELLO! I miss this space. Sighhhhh. Thanks for being here. Coming November 2023 I am hosting TWO Camp Creates! Camp One will be November 2 – 5 and Cam...2 years ago
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The Softer Side :: a new fabric collection - Happy New Year friends. I hope you're well. It's been a while but good things are coming. As for now, I've got a new fabric collection that's just hit shop...2 years ago
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End of blog - This blog is now at an end. If you would like to keep up with the latest updates on my patterns and fabric, you can find my new website here.3 years ago
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Feel Good Friday 117 - Feel Good Friday 117 Well, it’s been a few weeks. I am still alive! We’re just in the midst of soccer season, a busy time at work plus loads of one-off e...3 years ago
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Top 5 Stand Up Dartboards in Production Today - ... Read moreTop 5 Stand Up Dartboards in Production Today The post Top 5 Stand Up Dartboards in Production Today appeared first on Fresh Idea Studio.3 years ago
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This Saturday’s Recipes by The Pioneer Woman - This Saturday is a brand new episode of “Home Sweet Home” on Food Network. My kids are helping me shoot it, my production company in the UK is editing it t...5 years ago
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silver linings and quilt tops - There was a slight shift in my breathing this weekend, as I settled into a few projects here at home. The first few weeks of this whole thing felt like a f...5 years ago
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Spring Tour in the Sun Room - The sun room has gone through a couple of changes again with a new jute rug and a colorful textured ottoman that I just love. Oh, and some color has retur...
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A Fancy French Comtoise Clock - A French Comtoise clock has long been on my radar as an object of desire. The Comtoise clock, also known as a Morbier or Morez clock is a longcase clock m...
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Our Anasazi Experience Pt. 1: Ivie’s Interview - I have sat down countless times to write this blog post, and it was like my fingers just wouldnt work. I have had so many emails from parents that are wo...5 years ago
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Aunt Bet's Quilt - And one last finish to record for 2019! I just sewed the last of the binding on this one yesterday. The pattern is Aunt Bet's Quilt, by Frankie an...
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Christmas Mail 2019 | Wake Me Up Before you Cocoa - Another year, time for another Christmas mailing! This year we sent out 2 single serving tubes of yummy hot cocoa + marshmallow bits. Just add hot milk an...
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STOCKING UP for Christmas : a couple of cheap- n-'easy tutorials - I just happened to be in *DOLLARAMA * a couple of weeks ago and chanced upon a package of Christmas Stocking stickers which I thought I could use fo...
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A Japanese Stash Buster Quilt - *A Catalog of my Japanese fabric stash!* [image: Japanese Stash Buster Quilt - A Catalog of my Japanese Fabric Stash | © Red Pepper Quilts 2019] I made a q...
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#AllWhoWander ... Are Not Lost - Hey beautiful friends, thank you so much for visiting today! I'm currently in Nashville at the one and only Blissdom Conference (more...6 years ago
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The Third floor - A living room - Wheee.. I made it to the third floor! I have big plans for this floor but let's start with the living room. Like the dining room it will have a fireplace c...
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1:12 Dollhouse Miniature Flora Oval Victorian Gift Boxes - I recently completed making a set of these 1:12 scale dollhouse miniature flora oval victorian gift boxes. Using the same paper design as the background,...
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A MATERNITY SESSION – MY SISTER GROWS A BABY ON THE BEACH - Watching my sister grow a baby was rad. I couldn’t wait to get my camera on her like this. The session starts at my brother in law Spencer’s favorite spot ...6 years ago
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red and white trees!-a completed quilt - I finished my red and white trees! quilt last week. It took me a few days to get around to hanging it up, but I think it was worth the wait. I LOVE how i...
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Favorite Things 2018 - It's been WAY too long since I posted a favorites thing post - so I've been working hard for the past two days to get this new one up, just in time for you...
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Story Time – Part Two - Hi! Thanks for coming back for part two of my DRAMA FILLED LIFE SAGA! Not really, but kinda. Catch up on part one if you missed it here. So to recap … my...7 years ago
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Discover the Secrets of Making Money From Your Art - Making money from your art is largely about talent. You will need to produce art which is beautiful enough or unique enough to be coveted by others. As wel...7 years ago
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The gift of possibility... A mother - daughter trip to Paris - *Bonjour!* Never in a million years did I think I'd travel to Europe without my husband. Honestly, the thought didn't even crossed my mind until it d...
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TYBEE ISLAND TOUR OF HOMES MAY 6th 2017 - Here is an opportunity to see "Maddie's Seaside Cottage" in person on May the 6th. Tybee Maritime Academy's Tour of Homes features nine amazing houses thi...
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Spring Greetings - Greetings dear friends! Thank you for all of your wonderful notes over the past several months, and please accept my sincere apologizes for not posting...
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Homeschool Chronicles {off to School} - This has been a great year in homeschooling! Though, it feels funny to say that because this March Aria started public school! Still honestly, both are t...8 years ago
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Living Room Update - Since moving in to our house just over a year ago, we've slowly been getting rid of our 'make do' furniture and buying bits that are truly us. Our livin...
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Rita Chan Interiors - It's all sun and sea in this SoCal home by Rita Chan Interiors, a Manhattan Beach interior designer known for her clean, coastal style! Fi...
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Spinning Blooms Mini - [image: Spinning Blooms Mini] I've just finished putting together some tips and techniques for this FREE Spinning Blooms Mini Quilt pattern now available o...9 years ago
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Out of the Blue - Hello out there...if someone happens to be out there! If I continue to apologize for my frequent lengthy absences, I fear I'll sound like a broken record...
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Lilac Italian Sponge Cake & Homemade Lilac Syrup - They say that, here on earth, there are two types of rain. There is, first, the dark rain; hungry and full of rage, like some great tidal plague it co...
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Happy New Year! (and new patterns!) - 2016 is here, can you believe it? Happy New Year! Although I try to keep Christmastime and the days leading up to it pretty low key in our home, December t...9 years ago
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The Vintage Farmhouse - I have most definitely been a bad blogger lately, but our store has been keeping me crazy busy!! We had an amazing end of summer clearance sale. Thank you s...
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Main Street Market vendor profile - Tattered Tiques! - I am SUPER excited to be hosting my first vintage & handmade market, Main Street Market, here in Rockford, IL on May 10th! We are still accepting applic...
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I like luggage racks - I like using them when we stay in a hotel and I like being able to offer them to my children or friends when they are here. A few Saturday afternoons ago,...
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Please update your RSS feed link - Hello friends, Some of you have reached out to let me know that you are not receiving any of my blog updates through your RSS feed. When I changed blog pl...12 years ago
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A Quilty Finish - Last Friday, a special package arrived from Spoonflower. Have you ordered from them? You can print your own designs on all kinds of fabric and they've bran...
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MOVING ON... selling some pieces - *Hello everyone! I can't believe how long it's been since I last blogged... oh my goodness, the time* *has flown by! I haven't even had any time to visi...
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Too funny! Definitely an oxymoron!
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