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December 23, 2013

Shop The Drugstore!

On line at the supermarket yesterday, I was paging through a magazineand came across a feature on “building the perfect stocking.” It included things like seventy-five dollar bottle openers and cashmere socks and little ceramic cubes to keep your drink cool. It looked great. It also looked like virtually the opposite of any stocking I have ever personally built, ever.


Every year when I was a little girl, my dad would realize on the afternoon of December 24 that he’d completely forgotten to get...

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Published on December 23, 2013 05:20

I Made A Gingerbread House, And It Did Not Fall Down

gingerbread house before


This is mostly because the actual “house” part came from a kit, and someone more dextrous than I was responsible for assembly.


But I did decorate it! And it wasn’t terrible, considering that I’m fairly sure it’s the first gingerbread house I’ve ever decorated in my life (it’s the second one I’vemade, but the first one never actually reached the point where it was standing upright enough to allow for the application of things like icing).


The “After”:



gingerbread house after


(The door could use a little work, but I rath...

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Published on December 23, 2013 04:50

December 22, 2013

New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show

nybg train show


If you’re in the NYC area, this is areallycute, festive thing to do with (and even without) kids. I was expecting the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show (running now through January 12) to involve actual trains – like, large, climb-on-able ones – but what it actually is is room after room of miniature trains winding between replicas of New York-area landmarks (mostly city buildings like the Guggenheim and Penn Station, but I spotted a few buildings from our town, as well) constructe...

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Published on December 22, 2013 07:41

December 20, 2013

Cookie Party Success (And Easy Sugar Cookies)

christmas decor


This post was created in collaboration with Bed Bath & Beyond.


You know how every year I decide that I’m going to actually put some effort into my Halloween costume, and then every year end up procrastinating and digging the cat ears out of storage? And then I swear that the next year will be different, and it’s not?


Same thing with holiday parties. When the season starts up, I always declare that this will be the year that I will throw a lovely holiday cocktail party with thematic drinks, Chri...

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Published on December 20, 2013 04:20

December 19, 2013

Links & Love & Stuff

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Very excited to show you theRamshackle Glam cover art (by Paperfashion’s Katie Rodgers, with a logo design by Naava Katz)! The book is available for pre-order on Amazon right now, and officially comes out March 25.


Speaking of books, I’m now on Goodreads; if you’re a member I’d love to connect so I can follow along with your book recommendations.


Also on the topic of books: reading The Interestings, which was overwhelmingly recommended to me in this post. So far, so good. It’s a nice change fro...

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Published on December 19, 2013 07:51

Holiday Hair Tutorial: One Style, Three Ways


How to create relaxed waves…and then transform them into two totally different looks in just seconds.


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Published on December 19, 2013 07:05

So…Hmm.

Our bed has arrived, and it is everything that I dreamed. Last night I slept so far away from Kendrick that my isolation and comfort was actually confusing and kept waking me up. We had the exact right amount of middle-of-the-night contact: one of my ankles hooked under his leg, and that is it. (He had migrated across the tundra and on top of me by 7AM, but we’ll deal with that problem later.)



Only one issue: I don’t know why the camera didn’t accurately convey this…but the bed is seriously li...

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Published on December 19, 2013 06:20

December 18, 2013

Snow Day

brown leather jacket


Kendrick’s done with finals!


And home – every single day -for almost a month!


AND!


There are five inches of completely pristine snow in our backyard.


AAAAND!


I just found out Francesca is visiting us for New Year’s. And I found my son an enormous clear Buzz Lightyear that makes sounds and is sort of the coolest toy ever in the used bin in our local toy shop for two dollars. And last night’s Chinese food-and-Elfcelebration was awesome. And my dogs actually declined to jump on my head last night whi...

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Published on December 18, 2013 07:04

Right This Moment

Right This Moment


What I’m actually wearing right this moment is an old college t-shirt, even older Victoria’s Secret pajama pants, and a fuzzy robe that won’t stay closed because half of the belt fell off (I don’t know how that happened, either).


But what I’d like to be wearing is black, grey, mint…andJimmy Choo Attila mirrored flats, which have replaced last year’s Anouks as my Number One Most Coveted Shoe. (I also wouldn’t throw a little vintage Chanel out of bed.)

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Published on December 18, 2013 05:24

December 17, 2013

Chocolate-Jam Pizzelles

dipped pizzelles


I do not understand cookies that don’t contain chocolate.


It’s not that I’m such a huge chocolate person – I’m not – it’s that chocolate just seems like a necessary component of a cookie. Sugar cookies, for example? Do not get. (Although the ones I made for last weekend’s cookie party – the recipe is coming up later this week – were as excellent as a non-chocolate-containing cookie can be.)


So when I visited my in-laws in Ohio over Thanksgiving and my mother-in-law raved about these flattish, e...

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Published on December 17, 2013 07:23