I’m queen of allergies. Seriously, I’ve been deathly allergic to half of my life, but I’ve learned to cope. I’m a normal sort of person, most of the time. When my kids were born though, life threw me a curve ball and I had to learn a whole new bag of tricks just to keep sane. Charming didn’t have as many food allergies as a pack of nasty skin, and it took me almost a year to figure out what…
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Have you ever heard of Flat Stanley? Meet Flat Stella. A few years ago for a school project, Precocious was required to create a Flat Stella version of herself. She drew a purple dress, long golden hair, and chocolate brown eyes in a an adorable 3rd grade likeness of herself. We were assigned to ship Stella off, with an envelope and instructions to photograph Flat Stella wherever she landed. First Stella went to our friends in Maryland. Flat Stella had…
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Victor here reporting to you on behalf/behest of Allison. Allison is in Los Angeles right now with P at an event that I am sure she will be writing about soon. In fact, in sure that she’s Tweeting about it @petit_elefant. When she comes back, she’ll go straight to the Alt Summit where she’s speaking/presenting/mingling and selling this year’s Social Luxe Lounge event. Anyways…. We spent the last few days about 50 miles from home getting ready and helping celebrate…
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I’ve done a lot of things in my life. I’ve played a lot of different sports, camped a lot of random dangerous places, ripped a handful of ligaments, birthed two children, tolerated 9 months of a P.I.C.C. line, and endured more than my fair share of surgeries but until yesterday, I’ve never had a black eye. It’s no walk in the park, this black eye business. Mine hurts like the devil. I took this photo of my kids skiing at…
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If you’re looking for a last minute homemade neighbor gift, I’ve got you covered. I didn’t have time or energy to make my annual homemade toffee much to the chagrin of my children, but I made homemade peppermint marshmallows instead. Before you go calling the Martha police on me, I swear this gift is easier than it looks. Way easier. These are just skewers with marshmallows coated in peppermint. Give them to your friends alongside packets of hot chocolate…
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This is an old post, guest written by my friend Amy Turn Sharp with gift ideas for the whole family. I’m off to get some last minute shopping in with the kiddos since they’re home on a snow day from school, bouncing off the walls, making me crazy. Enjoy!
Last week I showed you a present wrapping idea, the way that almost all the gifts at my house are wrapped this year. I literally have a house full of brown paper packages tied up with string, and it’s such a beautiful look. The monochromatic look of it all is soothing and calming in this season of crazy. But I wanted to show you a couple of other fun ways to wrap a present should you want to…
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I’m feeling extra tight with cash this year, but I really didn’t want to cut holiday cards out of the budget entirely. If there’s one time of the year I enjoy picking up the mail, it’s the holidays. Almost all human contact has been lost in the world, but personalized holiday cards remain. I really want to keep this tradition alive, so I decided to go the cheap route. I turned my favorite family photo from the year into a…
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This year I’ve decided all the Christmas gifts will be wrapped in brown paper. It started when I was re-using brown paper bags from the grocery store, wrapping the gifts with the insides of the bag so nothing but the brown showed. After I ran out of those I decided to buy brown Kraft paper from the Dollar Store {where else?} and continue on with my wrapping. I love the look of all the gifts in the house wrapped as…
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