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  • Casey’s Tips for Working from Home

    Casey’s Tips for Working from Home

    Working from home may sound luxurious and easy. But if you don’t have a plan for productivity, it may not be the ideal situation for you…

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  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Blog

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Blog

    We’ve gotten tons of emails over the past 5 years from others who are looking to start their own blogs, and we often email them back with paragraphs of information and advice. Today we are finally sharing a full blog post with ALL of the information we recommend knowing in order to start your own…

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  • Ask Us Anything: Blogging Edition

    Ask Us Anything: Blogging Edition

    Last month, we told you guys about a new series we’re starting here on The DIY Playbook called, “Ask Us Anything!” We certainly get lots of design-related questions, but we still get tons of questions about things outside of the DIY/design field. That’s when the idea for our “Ask Us Anything!” series began…

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  • Happy 5th Birthday to The DIY Playbook

    Happy 5th Birthday to The DIY Playbook

    It’s the DIY Playbook’s 5th birthday and we are celebrating all week long! Here are 5 things we’ve both learned these past 5 years…

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  • A Blogger’s Guide to Working with Brands

    A Blogger’s Guide to Working with Brands

    We have had so much fun sharing a behind-the-scenes look at the blog and all that goes into making content for you guys every day. Todayโ€™s topic? Working with brands…

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  • Our Favorite Tools to Be Efficient and Organized Bloggers

    Our Favorite Tools to Be Efficient and Organized Bloggers

    Even with busy schedules, we manage to keep things chugging along here on The DIY Playbook. That is mostly thanks to processes we’ve put in place to be as efficient and organized as possible…

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  • Money and Blogging, Our Most Frequently Asked Questions

    Money and Blogging, Our Most Frequently Asked Questions

    Weโ€™ve written about money here on the blog a few times before, but in honor of blog week we figured we should dive back into this topic because itโ€™s one that people are really curious about. In fact, we get questions about out blog finances all the time…

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  • The DIY Playbook’s 3rd Annual Blog Week + a Giveaway

    The DIY Playbook’s 3rd Annual Blog Week + a Giveaway

    Happy Monday & welcome to The DIY Playbookโ€™s 3rd (!!) annual BLOG WEEK, where we will be taking a break from all things DIY to chat about someย behind-the-scenes blog tips and topics that often donโ€™t get addressed around here…

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  • Welcome to the New and Improved DIY Playbook Website

    Welcome to the New and Improved DIY Playbook Website

    You may notice that things look a little different around here. Yepโ€ฆwe completely revamped the entire DIY Playbook website. Pop the champagne!ย  We cannot even begin to tell you how thrilled we are to have a clean and upgraded site. Weโ€™ve been wanting to overhaul things for quite some time, and we are thrilled thatKeep…

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  • 9 Things you Might Not Know About Us & a SURVEY!

    9 Things you Might Not Know About Us & a SURVEY!

    Last month, we had such a fun time sharing insights about our husbands that you probably didn’t know. Like Finn’s chapstick addiction and Matt’s obsession with music. So today we though we’d share a little insight into ourselves. Learning More About Us To be perfectly honest, it was DIFFICULT to come up with these becauseKeep…

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  • Our Best Tips to be a Successful Blogger

    Our Best Tips to be a Successful Blogger

    Next month we will celebrate 4 years of blogging. 4 years! We really can’t remember our lives before this blog, but then again…we still feel like we just started this crazy journey!

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  • 17 “Changes” on The DIY Playbook in 2017

    17 “Changes” on The DIY Playbook in 2017

    Can you tell by now that we love a good list?! Truth be told, we’re pretty much addicted to lists and literally can’t function without one reminding us of what needs to get done. (Pretty sad, we know!) There’s just something about checking off each item on the our to-do lists that gives us instantKeep…

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