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What to Do With Leftover Hard-Boiled Eggs

Easter egg dyeing, decorating, and hunting has probably left you with an abundance of hard-boiled eggs. You can slice them into a Cobb salad or chop them up for egg salad, but there’s nothing more delicious (or trendy, these days) than the classic deviled egg. To add some zip to the traditional recipe, try some of the following variations: -Stir [...]

Today’s Thought

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How to Remember Your Wi-Fi Password

I think one of the modern signs of friendship is having the password to your friends’ Wi-Fi network saved in your phone, but I also have those friends that just can’t seem to remember their Wi-Fi password (not to mention my parents!). So I’m going to encourage everyone to use this tip from Apartment Therapy Tech: Write your password on a [...]

Blemishes or Dark Spots? Apply Concealer With a Brush

We all have the occasional blemish or dark spot that needs covering up, and wouldn’t you know they are the most difficult things to hide. Luckily, our friends at The Beauty Department have a great recommendation about how to really cover those spots. Start by using a small brush to cover up the blemish itself. Then fan the brush around [...]

How to Dye Easter Eggs Without Food Coloring

If you’ve yet to dye eggs for Sunday’s hunt, you don’t have to rush out to the grocery store in search of that last bottle of food-coloring. Instead, use these simple (and all natural!) recipes (which use ingredients you may already have in your refrigerator and pantry). To make blue, bring one pound of frozen blueberries and 2 cups of [...]

Create Your Own Subscription Box

I got the chance to speak with Vera Gibbons of Yahoo! Financially Fit a few days ago about all of the beauty and food subscription boxes that are available on the market, but what do you do if you can’t find one that’s right for you? Luckily, you can actually create your own “subscription box” of a sort using the [...]

Sparkly Spring Flats

Put your best foot forward in one of spring’s sparkling cocktail flats. With bright metal accents, glitter, and sequins, they are the perfect combination of dressy and comfortable, and play just as nicely with denim for day as they do with an LBD in the evening. Filed under: New Products

Friday Links: Easter Bread

Several of my friends have recently taken up bread-making, and it’s gotten me thinking that I should try my hand at it, too. I’m considering starting with one of these tasty looking Easter bread recipes. (Find out more about Easter bread here.) Do you make homemade bread? If so, what are your favorite recipes? Italian Easter Bread, Revisited from The [...]

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A Natural Remedy for Canker Sores

Canker sores are one of the most obnoxious ailments, and quite painful, too. And the over-the-counter medicines to treat them are often just as painful. Thankfully, there’s a good natural remedy—clove oil. Simply swap a bit of the oil on the canker sore to help relieve the pain. It’s also a natural antibacterial agent, so it will help the sore [...]