Scene: Grant is in the kitchen, having a snack. Random guys, dressed as bananas, doing their part to help Keep Austin  Weird. Grant: “Mom, I just timed myself while I was eating my banana. I did it in 1 minute and 59 seconds!” Me: “Um, that’s nice….?” Grant: “Yes! I was trying to do it in […]
Thanksgiving tablescape. A rained out Thanksgiving: going to Plan B (with minimal freaking out.)
My dining room is too small to fit the 15 to 20 people that come over for Thanksgiving dinner, so I always host it outside on our patio. Â Living in Southern California, it’s usually safe to do this. Â However, this year there were cold temperatures (62 degrees. brrr!) and a threat of rain. Â (Yes, yes, […]
The one about bikers, beer and stereotypes. (And Twilight.)
Carlsberg beer made a commercial where they rented a small movie theater. Â There are 150 seats and they filled 148 of them with tattooed, leather clad, body pierced biker-types. Â They left 2 seats open, right in the middle of all of those bikers… What would you do? Such an interesting example of human behavior, isn’t […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s not that happy people are thankful… it’s that thankful people are happy. via Pinterest Lord, for what we have ALREADY received… may we be truly grateful. Wherever you are, whoever you’re with today, I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for $150 towards anything at Bathroom Mirrors Direct!
Pairing rustic and glam elements together: Everything looks better if you put it in a champagne bucket.
I love to play rustic items against the sparkle of silver and glass. Â Makes me happy and the two really play off of each other that way. Â I put together this little grouping of sparkly glass and silver on the buffet in our dining room. I especially love, love, love the rusticity of the sticks […]
A winter floral tip: make your own frosted, icy branches at home.
To buy decorative frosty or icy branches in the store can be very expensive. They’re actually quite easy to make on your own using epsom salt, glitter and glue. Check out this easy tutorial.
Thanksgiving Artwork – Craft Fans & Grant Fans… unite!
I’ve got something for both groups of readers today! I just finished another piece of artwork for Thanksgiving. Â (I actually used the flip-side of the Raven artwork, so it’s 2 holiday art pieces in 1! I is smaaaaht!) I’m happy with how it turned out. While I was cutting out the contact paper letters**, Mitch […]
“Loco” is Spanish for “creative” right…?
I have less than a week to come up with a fabulous Thanksgiving tablescape and decor.  I just reposted what I did last year, hoping to inspire someone out there in blogland, but also hoping to inspire myself.  Just yesterday I was telling my friend Betsy that I needed Creative Defibrillator paddles to shock me into […]
Make your own Stridex-type cleansing pads.
I have four boys. Three of them are teenagers.  (Two of them are extremely active.) None of them are terribly keen on skincare regimens. My good friend Raquel mentioned that she heard of taking ordinary baby wipes and pouring witch hazel over the stack of wipes and using them to wipe down greasy faces. I pondered […]
The Last Pumpkin of the Year. (Make a frosty pumpkin for your winter decor.)
I refuse to decorate for Christmas prior to December 1st and I usually have a small fortune invested in real pumpkins each fall season (so I don’t want to just toss them…yet.) Here’s an easy way to take your fall pumpkins into winter. Create frosty winter pumpkins while you wait for December.
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