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 [...]
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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 [...]
. … 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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… [...]
Lots of people like to write about the joys and wonders of pregnancy. You have to admit that fluttering kicks in the belly are pretty cool and being unable to see your toes when you look down is quite a silly shock every day. But yesterday, one of those crazy downsides appeared from [...]
“Stephen Wiltshire draws an 18-foot panorama of New York from memory, after he took a 20-minute helicopter ride over the city last week”
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If only the left and right side of my brain worked this way…
Photo source: Telegraph Media Group
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Have you ever found yourself in need of the “perfect sized box” — for organization purposes, for gifting, etc. ???
Lovely Design has come up with the perfect solution via a recipe of cardboard/millboard and paper! Check out her awesome PDF for all of the instructions!
On Saturday afternoon, Mr. M and I trekked to Emeryville for yet another one of our silly adventures… this time we were off to hang around PIXAR Studios for the annual Cartoon Art Museum fundraiser. Getting inside the gates at PIXAR is difficult to do, unless of course you’re really good friends with [...]
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I have a feeling that Photoshop would be infinitely more fun if you could play with it like this in real life!
Photo source: wandaaaa
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In my wild imagination, I’m a safari photographer. If I had the right tools when I was a teenager, I would have saved my pennies to go on safari with Franz Lanting, but settled for visiting his studios and soaking in his art instead. Today I know my limits as a photographer, [...]
