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Kristin Schell

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31 Days: You Are Special

Outrageous Hospitality Dare #2 You Are Special Please join me for a 7 day challenge ~ An Outrageous Hospitality DARE. I’m collaborating this week with my friend Krista Gilbert at Meaning in a Minute. Sign up for the hospitality dare  and receive a daily email which includes a short video of Krista and me presenting your daily dare. Seven days of simple, fun…
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Red Plate Winner!

Without further ado… The winner of The Red Plate is: Angie McDonald I’m not sure what took more skill, locating my new subscriber list or figuring out how to use random.org to generate a winner! All technicalities aside, I’m thrilled to give away The Red Plate today. Angie, I hope you will enjoy using this special plate as much as…
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Market Monday

Welcome to Market Monday at The Schell Cafe! I’m excited about this new weekly feature at the cafe. Every Monday I will share one of my favorite finds from the various grocery stores, farmer’s markets, and kitchen shops I visit. It might be one of our favorite foods, an outstanding new product, a must-have kitchen staple, or some exotic in-season…
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The Red Plate: You are Special

Welcome back! What do you think? I hope you like the renovated cafe. As you know, I’ve had my heart set on this for a while. I’ll get to the details of the new site in a bit, but first I want to thank you. Thank you for reading and cooking along with me. Thank you for your comments, and…
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The Red Plate

When I was growing up my mother had a red plate and in fancy writing it said ‘You Are Special Today’.  My brother, sister and I were always eager (and let’s face it down right competitive) to do something special to earn the red plate at dinner time.  I’ve thought about getting the red plate for my own children and…
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I'm on a mission to love my neighbors. I put an ordinary picnic table in my front yard, painted it turquoise and invited neighbors, friends, and even strangers to hang out and do life together at the Turquoise Table®.

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Final kindergarten chapel to final senior year cha Final kindergarten chapel to final senior year chapel. So grateful for St Matthew’s and Hyde Park for loving and raising up our four. If you need me I’m the mama crying buckets for the entire month of May as we celebrate two milestone graduations.
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Happiest of hours. Oyster shooters in stories. 🦪
Happy 25th Will! We love you so much and I’m so Happy 25th Will! We love you so much and I’m so proud of you. Never grow too old for Puff the Magic Dragon, Baby Beluga and I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon. 🎂🥳🥰
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