Hello the wild, wacky, & weird world! Precocious here. I’ve been BEGGING & BEGGING mom to let me post, and it’s always gone out like………………………. Me: Mom, can I guest post this week? Mom aka Petit Elefant: Sure baby doll! One week later… Me: Mom, can I guest post this week? Mom: Sure baby doll! One week later…. Well, you get the idea. Here’s a few of my VERY favorite books,(Mom had to delete some): 1. Fablehaven, Secrets of the…
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Who needs a little something for the kids this season? Bread & Butter, an adorable online kitchen shoppe is giving away a goody basket filled to the brim with fun kids cooking gear. $100 worth actually. So peek around the shoppe, and enter the giveaway. Happy day. Here’s what you’re getting: Set of 8 Party Animal Candleholders $25 Number Magnet Set $12 Little Reindeer Apron $16.50 Cakes for Kids Cookbook by Matthew Mead $19.95 Monkey Measuring Spoons. Seriously? Oh for…
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It’s “bake cookies” day on our paper chain. My husband’s favorite kind is a snickerdoodle, but since I prefer a good old fashioned oatmeal or chocolate chip, that’s what we make most often. We experimented today and discovered this trick: next time you bake up a batch of your super-spectacular-best-ever-world famous chocolate chip cookies, add 1/2 cup toffee bits to the dough when you add the chocolate. Makes for a little extra something special and will have friends and loved…
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This chili from Robin Miller is very satisfying on a chilly evening, and for lunch the next day. Zesty, colorful, warm and hearty. Bonus points: cooks in the crock pot, and is quite healthful. Even my meat-n-potatoes lovin’ hubby raved about it, each of the three times i’ve made it in the last month. We omitted the lima beans (not fans of those) and substituted extra red beans instead. Some warm tortillas or cornbread on the side? Perfection. If you…
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discovered at the Purl Bee, click on through to link to the designer and instructions. i think it’s delightful
Friends, Christmas came early for me this year. Santa {that would be the Santa of me} brought mama a new camera. Something to replace my aging, dropped on, battery sucking Canon A560. Which incidentally really doesn’t take the most horrid photos on the planet. But I wanted more, because I’m selfish like that. This is what I’ve been using. It’s a good one, but it’s seen better days. The lens doesn’t close all the way, I have to do it…
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It’s time to start talking about gift guides. I’ve got about a million and one ideas and suggestions for you, so let’s get this party started. My first gift suggestion is the book The Encyclopedia of Immaturity Volume 2 {yes, there was a Volume 1, and enough demand for a second book} for any grade school age kids you might have roaming around your house. If you have a kid in the grade school range I don’t need to tell…
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I’m here to tell you if decorating isn’t simple in every way, shape, and form I’m usually out. It’s just the way it is, I don’t have energy in my life for fuss. So this year I came up with what has to be the simplest Thanksgiving centerpiece known to man. A jar full of pumpkins. No lie. I bought the jar at D.I. for $1, bought a bag full of leftover Halloween pumpkins from the produce section of my…
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Where are you going this weekend? Besides the New Moon Premiere at the Gateway with me? I’ll tell you where: Tom & Lucy’s Art Shoppe. What is Tom & Lucy’s? Well, the hippest place on the map this weekend, your one-stop-shop boutique for holiday gifts. I’m telling you the vendors are phenomenal, the goods are to die for and frankly, you’ll be one sad camper if you don’t show up.
