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After a long cold wet winter, many of us are seeking the sun for Spring Break season! Here’s some tips for keeping your little ones naturally safe if you’re traveling to warmer tropical beach climates for your vacation. This post…
A ‘Favorite Things’ party is a super fun idea for a Girls Night and best of all, everyone goes home with presents! Here are the basic instructions: Choose one of your favorite things that costs $10 or less (as an sample budget -…
Vegetable platters are beautiful, healthy and easy to prepare. However, it isn’t the tasty, creamy dip full of fat and calories that is feared at social gatherings. Nope, I’m talking about something much more insidious – the flu, or worse!…
I love Valentine’s Day! It’s not only a day to celebrate my cherished relationship with my husband, but it’s also a ‘month’ whereby I celebrate my great friends. Here’s a super easy dinner to prepare for friends to say ‘thank…
The holidays are all about spending time with friends and family and enjoying special treats. One of my most favorite holiday traditions is having a Cookie Exchange Party. As everyone is so busy around this time of year, I have…
There are always endless things to clean and fix around my house. The yard needs constant maintenance as we live under a giant Torrey Pine that rains pine needles and sap upon us. My daughter and her friends are in…
One of my MOST favorite Holiday traditions is having a White Elephant Gift Exchange Party. These parties are always hillarious, and it’s fun to see what people bring as well as fight over! White Elephant Exchanges are great for cocktail…
Here’s the 2015 Holiday Gift Guide for those hard to shop for people! The list is also contains things that are very easy to order online, so you don’t have to run all around town. These suggestions are to make…
Several years ago, I threw a big bash for my Dad’s 70th birthday. I wanted to do something nice to celebrate this milestone birthday, so we did a wine and cheese tasting party. As I shopped for plates, I realized…
Beautiful vintage beaded Easter ornaments! These ornaments were most likely created from ‘beaded kits’ from Walco (LeeWards and Sulyn were the other major bead kit companies of the era). During the Depression, beads were inexpensive and bead crafting became a…
Tonight’s taco frenzy was executed all at once because of ‘mise en place’. Mise en place (French pronunciation: [mi zɑ̃ ˈplas]) is a French phrase which means”putting in place”, as in set up. (French pronunciation: [mi zɑ̃ ˈplas]) is a…
So my eleven year old daughter was celebrating the beginning of summer with a friend at a pool. In the midst of some enthusiastic dancing, my daughter accidentally launched her foot into one of the many decorative poolside boulders. I…
I feel like Druzy jewelry came on the fashion scene many years ago, and I’m embarrassed to say I probably saw one advertised on HSN while channel flipping. While they are not semi-precious they are really fascinating. Druse, Drusy (or…
Summer evenings are perfect for simple appetizers simply because it’s too damn hot to bother with anything else. When having guests over, I like to have a minimum of three plated appetizers. Most everyone I know loves cheese, but they…