I don’t want you to get all freaked out about making your own pie crust. You can do this. We can totally do this, together. In fact, you’re going to be super surprised at your mad pie skillz after making a crust or two. This is seriously the best pie crust you’ll ever make. Flaky, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth. Whip this out as a party trick at any old holiday get-together and you’ll be the talk of the town. Too many clichés…
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Remember the fabulous Double Dream Hands fellow? He’s back better, brighter and smile-yer than ever in Double Dream Feet. Help me Rhonda, I’m so happy. What’s the best thing you’ve seen on YouTube lately?
This week’s What’s in Your Purse Series purse is from Kelly. Thank you. If you love this series and want more of it, submit your purse. Take two photos of your purse {NICE, CLEAR, NOT-BLURRY ONES} one of the outside, one of the inside, along with a listing of the contents to allisonATpetitelefantDOTcom A bottle of Ibuprofen A bottle of Benadryl; I have allergies, I never know when Ill need it! Eleven condoms (Dont judge me!) Degree Sexy Intrigue Deodorant…
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How good are you at recycling? I’m not your mother or your mayor, I’m just asking out of curiosity.
See, at my house we create a lot of trash. Like, a lot. And there are only four of us, which makes me wonder about bigger families.
As a kid growing up with 10 of us in the house, we never had enough trash cans for all our garbage. We spent more than a few Monday mornings {trash day} running the overflow garbage bags all around the neighborhood to see where we could stuff in a few extra.
I wish I were kidding, but that’s just the way it was yo. Being one of 8 kids sometimes meant having to stuff trash bags into the neighbors’ garbage cans on the street.
It’s called sacrifice.
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Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!
Regular chocolate chip cookies are enough to make my mouth water. Chocolate-chip-raisin-oatmeal-cookies? Holy sister, pass me a spoon. I’d never eaten cookies in a dish until I went out for dessert one late night in Laguna Beach with my girlfriends Carrie, Kelly, and Julie. I don’t even remember where we ate, but I do know I ate snarfed a cookie the size of a pan, warm and straight out of the oven, a scoop of melting ice cream on top….
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Sadly this post isn’t about fashion, but I’ll get to that later, don’t you worry. A few weeks ago I wandered into the garage looking for all my Fall + Halloween decorations, and would you like to know what happened? I discovered that Viktor had gotten rid of all my decorations. He donated it all stuff to D.I.! {that’s a local thrift store} I wasn’t super happy about that, not one bit, but I took action. I usually do. What…
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Do you have any special Fall traditions at your house? We’ve sort of fallen into a few, by accident; the accidental traditions always end up being the crowd favorites. One of our favorite traditions is making oven roasted pumpkin seeds after we carve our pumpkins. Have you ever eaten pumpkin seeds? Oh man, they’re insane. Salted, roasted? Hold me. First things first: carve pumpkins with your family. It’s a complete and total mess, and if your kids are anything like…
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You want to learn how to make wood shutters for your house? Today I’m your gal. We live in a super windy city, and over the summer a particularly vicious storm ripped off what was left of the plastic window shutters on the front of our house. The plastic cheap-os have been driving Viktor crazy forever, so he decided to take action and make some wood shutters on his own. You cannot BELIEVE how easy this project was. Peasy. The…
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I love back to school. I love the school supplies, I love that my kids are so tired they fall into bed at 8:00 pm, I love my children’s teachers, I love that I have all day to work alone. What I don’t love so much? All the !%#$ paper that comes with it. There’s an obscene amount of paper coming home every day, and it’s enough to overwhelm my entire household. So here’s what I do to tame the…
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