I’m so excited to be a part of the Valentine’s Day Craft Series hosted by Erin at How to Nest for Less this week! I’m sharing my recipe for Valentine’s Day Stained Glass Heart Cookies today, so head over to Erin’s blog for the full tutorial on how to make these sweet Valentine’s Day treats! [...]
Yes, I know as a 36 year old mother of two, I am too old to be planning a Cocktail - more precisely, Shot - Themed Bachelorette Party, but sometimes, you have to learn the hard way. And trust me, we all did. Especially the Bachelorette, who cancelled the Sunday morning brunch due to … [...]
I’m so excited to bring you this Valentine’s Day activity, which is part of Toddler Approved’s 100 Acts of Kindness Project! My inspiration was Christina Perri’s Jar of Hearts - a melancholy song about a tortured break up - but this activity is about recognizing love and kindness in another and creatively expressing thanks for that person’s [...]
In the middle of all our Valentine’s Day crafting madness, both kids came down with their first stomach bug, so the posts have been slow as of late. The good news is that we discovered a new sensory play activity for our Fun With Food! series. Ingredients 2 packets of Jello water 13 x 9 [...]
This Old Fashioned Apple Crisp was one of the yummiest desserts I’ve made. We served it in individual ramekins, along with our Caramelized Upside Down Pear Tarte Tatin for Thanksgiving dinner, and it’s my new homemade favorite. Ingredients For the filling: 5 pounds McIntosh or Macoun apples (I used Granny Smith) Grated zest of 1 orange Grated zest [...]
On the days when the screeching and screaming won’t stop, the t.v. no longer holds their interest, Hubby’s not home to help me round up the rebels, and I just really really really want to get rid of them, I throw Jane and Sam in the bathtub with some shaving foam and a few drops [...]
For years, I have been obsessed with living in a grand New York apartment with a wall full of beautifully colorful frames like Ingrid Bergman’s in the film Indiscreet (one of my favorites): Source: google.com via Corley on Pinterest I’ve given up that dream, but still have an itch to create some kind of frame-decorated wall. Like this heart-shaped gallery [...]
After the Make Your Own Monster Gift Kit post, which featured some monster-themed gift ideas, some of you asked what themed gifts Sam received for his pirate-themed birthday party, so here you go! My favorite was this awesome set of pirate-themed gifts from our young hipster couple friends who picked up this cool booty from local [...]
My new header and buttons are up! Thanks so much to Thanh of Thanh Design for the fabulous blog styling! If you’ve been featured on the blog, please feel free to grab one of these lovely buttons (grab the code here): {Play} {Bake} [...]
For someone who’s so nostalgic about everything, I’m surprised at how much I’m looking forward to 2012. But before I get busy jumping ahead, here’s my favorite play post from 2011: Colorful Ice Cube Painting We got so messy, but we had so much fun! Jane was in heaven with the different textures and [...]
I was nauseated for most of the holidays, which was great for me because I lost six pounds, but horrible because I couldn’t make or shop for presents and stocking stuffers or properly prep for all the festivities. It would have been totally awful except that I have these wonderfully fond memories to laugh back [...]
Thanks to Walgreens for underwriting this post. I was paid as a member of the Clever Girls Collective, but the content is all mine. Visit http://www.walgreens.com/beauty. My name is Chrissy and I’m a drugstore junkie. I’ve been hitting up drugstores since I was in sixth grade. It began with me scouring the shelves for the [...]
{Celebrate} Valentine’s Day | Stained Glass Heart Cookies
{Celebrate} Cocktail-Themed Bachelorette Party
{Celebrate} Valentine’s Day | Fun With Jello!
{Bake} Old Fashioned Apple Crisp
{Play} Bathtub Painting
{Craft} Our New Gallery Wall
{Live} New Year, New Look, New Link Party, New Giveaway!
{Play} Best Toddler Activity Of 2011
{Live} Our Holiday In Quotes
{Live} All I Want For Christmas
November 23, 2011 in All Posts, Live, Products, Reviews, Sponsored Posts
I can’t believe Jane will be three in just a few months. Looking back over her old photographs (well, as “old” as a person who’s lived 33 months can have), it feels like decades ago that she was a little newborn and I was ooh-ing and ahh-ing over her first gurgle, her first giggle, and [...]
November 15, 2011 in All Posts, Live, Products, Reviews
One of my good friends is having her first baby! (A girl). (Yay!). She called to ask me what I couldn’t live without when I first had my babies, so I’ve put together a few lists to share with her and decided to share them with you, too! I used so many different products that [...]
November 6, 2011 in All Posts, Live, Reviews
Marlfield House is the exact opposite of Castlewood House. A large sprawling, leading luxury estate in the South East of Ireland, Marlfield House is a country house hotel set on 35 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds, including an organic garden from which the chef will gather vegetables and herbs for your evening meal. I can’t [...]
November 6, 2011 in All Posts, Live, Reviews
I really do not enjoy staying in bed and breakfast inns, which to me equates to musty, old, lacy-bedquilted rooms, nosy innkeepers and noisy neighbors. Castlewood House completely blew those notions out of the water. Despite the fact that there are no great views from the rooms, it is such a wonderful B&B, with [...]
October 24, 2011 in All Posts, Bake, Drink, Products, Reviews, Sponsored Posts
I stopped drinking all forms of caffeine during my two years of service as a human incubator. But as soon as Sam popped out and I literally became a walking zombie with two under two, I started unabashedly quaffing all forms of the legal liquid stimulant. Before kids, I wasn’t picky about my coffee. I [...]
October 12, 2011 in All Posts, CRAVE IT. COVET. LOVE IT., MomStuff
This week I’m loving the idea of turning violence into beauty, like the way designer Ellen Miller of Botticelli’s Niece has designed these brass flake necklaces from spent bullet casings: Isn’t this a much better use for bullets? Maybe I don’t look like or technically qualify as a hippie, but I do believe we should [...]
October 10, 2011 in All Posts, Products, Reviews, Sponsored Posts
I’m all about the diaper cake these days. They’re such a fabulous decor piece - plus, the lucky recipient gets to take home the fruits of your well-meaning labor and put your present to good use long after the party. In case you missed the last one, here’s my tutorial for the pink and bling diaper [...]
October 8, 2011 in All Posts, Places, Reviews
You know my favorite season is fall, but you probably didn’t know that my favorite “holiday” is Halloween! How could it not be, when it’s the one “holiday” that colorfully ushers in all of the upcoming season’s festivities? Once it hits, you know you’re in the thick of crisp fall fun and heading full throttle [...]
October 5, 2011 in All Posts, CRAVE IT. COVET. LOVE IT., MomStuff, Reviews
This week I’m coveting a personalized Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso Duo like this one showcased at Monochrome: You can choose from one of their ready-to-engrave designs or you can design your own truly unique and much more detailed case by using Jaeger-Lecoultre’s Facebook application (accessible on their Facebook Page) or visit their Personalisation Website to customize your very own classic [...]
October 3, 2011 in All Posts, Live, MomStuff, Outlaw Posts, Reviews
Last week, Hubby and I had what you might call a spat of sorts. To make a long, uninteresting story shorter and more interesting, words were slung around like gloppy fingerpaint in frenzied toddler fists, which fortunately turned out to be the washable kind, and came clean in a day or so with some gentle [...]
