One of my favorite people ever, and that’s not even overstating it a little, Joy the Baker wrote a book. Oh Joy. Oh, Joy. Isn’t she a babe? Like, straight up authentically gorgeous. I met Joy at a Jennifer Garner event last Fall. I didn’t know anything about her, she was the only blogger at the event I’d never met, and she was hysterical. She was behind me in a Q + A session with a chef and I was…
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There’s a lot of bad buzz around how to use Pinterest right now, but I’m still the happiest user on the block. I love me some Pinterest. If you steal my stuff, I will cut you. The Bloggess is my other lover The posts I put together take an average of 5 hours a piece to create, photograph, edit, and blog. If you steal any of that we’re going to have some words. That’s just plain illegal. If you steal…
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I don’t know about you, but I had so much fun: a) talking about finding your dream home b) watching House Hunters International {live! on the tee vee!} and live tweeting while a very, very young and uh, very “American” couple chose an apartment in Vienna. {side note: Heather Spohr and I were texting back and forth during the show: “Seriously? $1,800 buys THAT in Austria?! Why are we still living in the U.S.?” double side note: Rebecca Woolf is…
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Lately I’ve been posting pictures on Instagram of my daily oatmeal and protein breakfast smoothie and a few of you have asked what’s in it, so I thought I’d share. The recipe is vegan, but the oats aren’t technically gluten free so it’s not completely vegan and gluten free like I’m trying to eat most of the time. But oatmeal doesn’t seem to bother me too much, so I’m forging ahead until my stomach tells me otherwise. I suggest you…
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This is the castle in Salzburg. It has nothing to do with anything, but isn’t it amazing? After one of the craziest most exhausting weeks ever, I’m spending the weekend in bed watching Netflix with my pneumonia-ridden kiddo. There will be sleeping in, there will be no bras {for either of us}, there will be magazines and lots of sparkling water, many hot baths, no interaction with the outside world. Except for the 8:00 pm screening I’m planning of Crazy,…
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*This post was sponsored by HGTV’s House Hunters the most entertaining and living vicariously show on the tee-vee. See also: anything HGTV is a bestie of mine and I’m thrilled to bits and pieces to be working with them on this.* UPDATED: I will announce the winner of the iPad next week, stay tuned! Straight up, you heard me right: I’m giving away an iPad tonight. Follow me on twitter: @petit_elefant, and don’t forget the underscore, it’s pretty important. Enter…
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*This post was sponsored by HGTV’s House Hunters. A show I die watching because it makes me want to move everywhere, all the time, always. See also: anything shown on HGTV is a mortal enemy of my productivity in any capacity.* If you had the resources to buy a home anywhere in the world, your absolute end-all fantasy dream home, where would you go? What would you want it to look like? Honestly. If you could look at a globe…
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It’s still Winter, even though the weather in Utah has been ten kinds of insane. She’s a fickle little diva, that Winter. Anyhow, since citrus is so widely available in the depths of despair December/January it’s a fun time to get your craft on and whip up a tea light made from an orange. Or three. Serious. Martha, procurer of all things beautiful, taught me how to do this little bit of magic with oranges and I’ll tell you what:…
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This week is choc-a-bloc full of how-to’s for you. First it was how to dye your hair at home, and now I’m going to show you how to make a banana hanger for the kitchen. It’s like I can’t even help myself anymore. I know this is the simplest of simple things, but a banana hanger in your kitchen {if you’re one to eat bananas that is} not only saves space, it saves you from the misery of mushy brown…
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