I have a confession. I’m a terrible housekeeper. Really bad. Â I hate cleaning. If I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is hire someone to clean my house. Actually, once, when I was in the process of selling our 2nd house, I did hire a cleaning person and it was the greatest …
Fun Twelve Days of Christmas ideas you can do with your Elf on the Shelf, or without one. Easy holiday traditions.
Last year I finally had to give up my super warm winter coat that had gotten me through many cold Northeast winters. I wore that coat every day of the winter and you could tell. It was so warm and cozy, though, that it got me to not really hate winter that much. Now that …
I feel like from Thanksgiving to New Year’s it’s basically a free for all when it comes to eating. Â I scrap all the restrictions and the diet ideas and just go for broke. Â My biggest weakness when it comes to food is cookies. Â I’ll take a cookie over a cake or a candy bar or …
Dip dollar store faux flowers in plaster for a delicate, high-end look. A simple craft with stunning results.
I have some rules for gift giving. Gifts should always be something that the person really wants, but that they would never buy for themselves. Either because it is too frivolous, too expensive or because it’s something that they never even knew they wanted in the first place. For me, Anthropologie always checks one or …
When I was a kid, the best thing ever was decorating the Christmas tree. We had a room with cathedral ceilings which meant we could get, like, a 12 foot Christmas tree. My dad would buy the tree, bring it home, let it stand on the back porch for a few days to let the …
I’ve been hosting Thanksgiving for many years. The one thing I always forget about is that for kids, it’s not really the most exciting holiday. That’s where the kids thanksgiving crafts come in. This year for Thanksgiving I’m going to have one teenager, a 10 year old, a five year old and a 3 year …
ALERT!!! This is your first warning. At the time of the writing of this post we are 65 days out from Christmas. Nothing is worse than last minute Christmas shopping. No, wait, that’s an overstatement. Obviously, there are lots of things worse than that, but why make your life more difficult during the most joyous …
Does anyone else get into a state of paralysis when they get overwhelmed? When a project seems to big, my first reaction is to go into turtle mode and hide inside my shell where I can pretend it doesn’t exist. I find the best way to combat turtle mode is to get a plan together. …