There was a fire under the train tracks yesterday. No one was hurt, thank goodness, but my commute from downtown to Evanston went from 50ish minutes to 4ish hours. As you might imagine, the train car...
Have you ever seen strawberries this big? Summer is here and strawberry season continues. My neighborhood market is selling them cheap; two pound boxes for $3.00. They are huge, meaty berries with gl...
I love this project. Its fast, cheap, easy, AND its fun to say aloud: obmre chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum is one of my favorite words of all time. I like the way it requires you to scrape...
Lets be clear about one thing: I am not a tidy person. I was not raised to be a tidy person, nor was I raised by tidy people. My father was good about picking up after himself but cleanin...
I am in the process of cleaning out my craft room. While Im sorting things out, I decided to designate a drawer to ribbon... .... then that drawer split and begat two more drawers, one for loose fabr...
I was busy making a Friday Flower project last night when it took a turn for the worse. I am still hoping to resurrect it from the bowels of craft failure, but until then, the best I can give you is ...
Dear People Who Used To Live Here, Thank you for planting the giant patch of purple zebra striped iris bulbs out back by the garage. Wow. I realize you did not plant them with me in mind, but I feel ...
I need to borrow a wide angle lens so you can take in all the Easter goodness at once. I cleaned out my pantry. While I was in there, I bleached down the baseboards, threw out 3 bottles of sala...
Partridges Shakespeare Statue, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL Im not saying I like to insult people, or that Im good at insulting people, or that I attempt to insult people a lot. I am saying the term dou...
I dont know about your neck of the woods, but around here, its strawberry season. In case I didnt mention it, I love strawberries. And strawberries on sale are even better. If I let myself, I could e...
My mother, just like your mother, was big on giving unsolicited advice. Some of it was good. Some of it, meh, not so much. But I will say, it was always memorable. Perhaps in the back of ...
Mothers Day is on Sunday. Know what Moms like? Thoughtful greeting cards. Know what Moms like even more than thoughtful greeting cards? Thoughtfully homemade greeting cards. Know what Moms like even ...
I love hydrangeas. Blue hydrangeas in particular. It wasnt until a year ago that I learned that blue hydrangeas are not actually blue flowers, they are white flowers grown in acidic soil. Acid soil= ...
You might recognize the cupcake liner lantern I made for "Disney Family Fun Magazine" I picked up some foam rubber placemats in the dollar bins at Target a while back. They were too groovy to...
What was the first movie you ever saw? Mine was The Adventures of Prince Achmed. I was five. It was with my Grandnana. She wore her deep-pocket purple house coat to smuggle in two wax paper par...
Many thanks to Anne for the mini cowboy hat. I bedazzled it for the occasion. Lola loves her some bling. (And cheezburgers.) Four years ago today I spent the afternoon at The Treehouse, a no-ki...
This is one of those posts I hesitate to write because this may already be common knowledge. But, I just polled a couple people and asked them if they knew about this, and both of them looked at me l...
Festive much? I finally got a grip on how to make tissue paper flowers. It took a while, and a lot of torn tissue, but thanks to some great directions from Vallen Queen and my friend Tracy, I finally...
Bad News: My ultra fabulous thrift store skirt did not fit. I could get it on and button it up, but my hips bust out from under the pleated waistband and gave me the look of a rainbow striped Elizabe...
From Up The Sandbox, 1972 You don’t even want to know how much I love Barbra Streisand. It’s sort of a weird thing. Not as weird as my Mandy Patinkin thing, but it’s pretty weird. O...
Major score at the thrift store this weekend. My haul included a Marimekko print comforter (in my all time fav Uniko pattern, no less), an ultra rad rainbow skirt (silk!), and spanking new pair of or...
Vogue Magazine documented every outfit Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth wore for 12 months. This is what they concluded: Blue is royal for a reason. Beige, not so much. Personally, I like to see the...
Confession: I cannot make tissue poms. Also known as tissue pomanders or fiesta flowers, its probably the easiest and most popular, readily available craft idea on the internet, involving nothing mor...
Courtesy of That Cute Site Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner and I am fixin up around the house. The holiday also happens to coincide with Lolas birthday, so obviously, it must be unparalleled ...
Guess what came in my mailbox? Thank you amazon! Now that summer reading season is upon us, the prowl for good books has begun. I need something to snack on. Any recommendations? My lit tastes ...
So here is the thing: I hate plastic baggies. Yes, they are practical. Yes, they come in handy. Yes, I still use them from time to time...BUT...if I can get the job done with something else, or bette...
Thought I would take a break from making Friday Flowers and offer up an idea on what to put the flowers in. This idea came to me at a wedding reception where the centerpiece flowers were displa...
Alexa will be so glad she shared her old class picture with me ;) My Kentucky friend, Alexa Westerfield, was kind enough to interview me on her blog, The Swell Life. I initially came to know Al...
Huzzah! Mad Men is back, The Hunger Games is in theaters, and The Real Housewives of New Jersey is scheduled to return with their three inch fingernails any day now. My pop culture cup runneth over, ...
Kiki made Chocolate Toffee Matzah for Passover last weekend, and yall, I have to tell you: it was phenomenal. I have had chocolate dipped matzo before, and it was fine, but nothing to talk about. But...
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