Nate and I had decided not to do Christmas cards this year. We’re in a weird engaged but not yet married, couple-holiday-cards-would-be-jumping-the-gun-but-single-holiday-cards-would-also-be-weird stage. But then my mom said it’s kind of rude not to send cards when people send them to you, and etiquette got the best of me. Off to CVS we went [...]
A couple years ago, I was browsing through the wood section of my craft store and was inspired with the idea for these adorable penguin ornaments. I made them for friends and family, and they were a huge hit! They were pretty easy to make, just a bit time-consuming to paint all the pieces [...]
Every year, my office has a holiday decorating contest where everyone decorates their own office/cubicle/desk area (someone has even quietly been decorating the bathroom, but I’m not sure whose office THAT is!). You’d think it might be hard to come up with clever ideas for our (at most) eight-foot by eight-foot areas while still leaving [...]
I found a pretty simple recipe for cream caramels in my old Betty Crocker cookbook, so I decided to try my hand at candy making for the first time. Caramels are a good thing to start with, because you can’t really screw them up no matter how hard you try (trust me). The mistake anyone [...]
Is it just me, or does EVERYONE seem to be getting pregnant lately? There’s babies everywhere! It doesn’t really make sense, considering that we’re still caught up in a recession and baby booms usually come after recessions (when people feel confident to start investing in their families again), but my theory is that everyone is cutting back on [...]
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