April 2009

Good news. Binth’s famous alphabet poster is now available as individual letter prints. Framed and ready to hang. I want to get each of my kids’ initials. R M O B. Share and Enjoy:

It’s a big holiday week. Spring break. Passover. Easter. Everybody is celebrating. Grass is growing. Blossoms are on the trees. At our house, Easter is the holiday. So I’m wishing you Happy Easter with a Giveaway. Today’s sponsor is Fawn and Forest, one of the prettiest shops on the web. The pretty prize they’re offering [...]

The other day, Lou from Mayflower came by to give us a moving estimate. He gave the house a thorough once over and the entire time I asked him question after question about the process. What do you do with the beds? Will the truck fit on our street? How would you recommend packing this [...]

Last Friday I spent half the day hitting tag sales and antique shops with my knows-how-to-spot-a-find, dear friend, Kathryn Carmona. From the first month we moved here, 8 years ago, Kathryn has been my go to source for the best tag sales, estate sales and garage sales in the area. She has an eye for [...]

Did you see the color fight that my sister Jordan put on for her friend’s birthday? It’s the happiest thing I’ve seen in my whole life. Also. Jordan created some awesome (and inexpensive) bookworm party invitations. Find out how to make your own here. Also. My brother Jared is on an only-for-experts ski trip called [...]

I just posted one million photos of the Hallmark Event on my flickr page. About half of those pictures are of art supplies. They had a whole department dedicated to every art supply under the sun. It was like heaven. At some point, one of the creatives described working at Hallmark as being similar to [...]

I hope you will indulge me as I report on more of our last-month-of-adventures-in-New York. On Saturday, we made a trip to the very southern most tip of the island. It was time to say our goodbyes to the Statue of Liberty. I’m not sure if it could have been any windier. But it didn’t [...]