Archive for November, 2009

black friday/cyber monday for babies

This year, instead of hunting for the perfect gifts for ourselves and family/friends on the hottest sales days of the year… we’re out hunting for baby goods at a discount. On Friday, the shopping agenda included a stop at the uber-baby boutique of the west coast, Goore’s, where early birds (8-10 am risers… thank goodness) [...]

ucla vs. usc

[source: LA Times]
.What’s that Joe? That Trojan you just ate was nice and tasty??? Do you want to devour some more tonight at 7pm??? Sure sure… just meet us at the LA Coliseum and we’ll be sure that there are plenty available for you to feast upon. Sorry Thanksgiving dinner is coming two days late, [...]

if you’re thinking of doing a p365 project in 2010…

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… this might just be the perfect inspiration for you to get it done! Becky Higgins created this ingenious kit called ProjectLife (which if you wanted to make on your own would easily cost 2-3x as much for the materials) which turns your Project365 into a true keepsake. You could choose to use it to [...]

the elements of clean

[full screen PDF version]
.Back in 2005, I ripped out “The Elements of Clean” from the pages of my Real Simple magazine… knowing that I had finally found the answer to the mystery of cleaning. With my ever-smaller apartments in Los Angeles, most of these tasks took little time at all, so I had forgotten about [...]

wonderful design is not just in the uk anymore

.Last year, Mr. M and I seriously contemplated hopping the virtual pond to buy this newly released set of penguin classics (with jacket covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith) last year as a present for the M family from Waterstone’s… but the shipping and timing was quite off for a holiday delivery, so we passed on [...]

invitations for all sample (sales)

Today’s USA Today had an interesting story on the effect of online sample sales on the new retail habits of consumers. It looks like I could be a person of interest in the story, as I’m guilty of checking my email daily at 8am for what is going on sale that morning… and often spending [...]