It's month two of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and for this month's project, we decided to focus on the laundry room. We chose this room as we thought it would be a relatively simple room to paint compared to the rest of the house, and since December is so…
I wanted to take a moment to wish my readers who are celebrating a merry Christmas today. Although we usually think of holidays as a happy time, we also know that they can be very difficult. The national and global community has been shaken by the tragedy in Connecticut, so…
In observation of Christmas and New Year's, Jai and I are taking a short vacation from Friday, December 21st through Wednesday, January 2nd. Our holiday programming schedule is as follows: Posts: There are new posts scheduled every day through our break, so there will still be fresh content here every…
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This time of year, nostalgia reigns as we recall Christmases past. People often discuss what their favorite memory is or the best gift they've ever received, but when people ask me what mine are, I have a hard time answering. To me, each memory stands on its own - if…
Last month, we announced our Glidden Home Makeover. This week, we completed our first room in the makeover: Our "Dining room". I say that in quotation marks because we don't dine in there at the moment, but when we're done remodeling the kitchen, we will. ;) We picked this room…
This has been a crazy morning! A big storm hit the Oregon coast last night with winds reaching close to 100 mph. The wind is still howling as I write this, and we just got power back after it was out for most of the morning. The video above was…
Today is an important day in the United States: Election day! I'm not a US citizen, so I can't vote, but I can make some cupcakes! The photo above is from the last election in 2008. We were invited to an "Election Party", where everyone ate politically-themed food and drank…
Click here to see my Spider-Man party invitation! I am a member of the Collective Biasâ„¢ Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Biasâ„¢ and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment #CBias #SocialFabric #SpiderManWMT I'm famous for hosting epic Halloween parties,…
It's been said that the best things in life aren't things, a sentiment which rings very true. Although holiday shopping usually consists of finding a useful or fun item for the people we love, there is more and more of a movement towards non-traditional "Experience" gifts - such as buying…
