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Springing and stretching!
These last few days have blessed us with glorious weather here in Sili Valley. The sun has been out, but it hasn’t been super hot, I’ve been loving it! This past weekend we decided to hit our local...
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Yellow and green make . . .
Yellower green. Or greener yellow. In any case, it’s a color I am in love with right now. So does IKEA, apparently, featuring these shades in a variety of textiles. We usually have brick/rust and brown...
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Colorful
I’ve been a little MIA for the past few days but today was a very colorful day I met up with my college friend Carina at our usual nail place and I got that pretty shade of warm red. It’s Essie’s...
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Melissa’s craft room
When my friend Melissa asked me for a couple of ideas for her craft room, I did that little dance Laura Linney does in Love, Actually when she brings Rodrigo Santoro home from the work holiday party....
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Rachel Khoo times two
My latest girl crush and cooking inspiration is Rachel Khoo, star of The Little Paris Kitchen, a show documenting her cooking adventures in a tiny kitchen in the Belleville district of the French...
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The break of the spring
We have had a great Easter weekend – family and friends, and quiet times together. We are planning some adventures while the boys are on school vacay so I will be taking some time off from the blog –...
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Bringing spring color inside
A few months ago I made some embellished kitchen towels using Sharpies, in a craft inspired by Heather from Setting for Four. This time I decided to use a bunch of different colors for a very colorful...
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DVD storage solution
We didn’t use to own many DVDs. Then we had kids. Then we got chubby. So now we have ton of kids’ DVDs and, since we got our XBox, games and workout DVDs. There were DVDs everywhere, a couple even got...
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Stencils + Sharpies = Lovely Dish Towels
A few weeks ago I bought a set of stencils for super cheap. I think it was $3 or so. Mainly because the front stencil was of a fleur-de-lis, of course. I started on a flour sack towel I had leftover...
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Redwood flower frames
We love our backyard, no question about it. It is a pretty decent size, it allows our boys to play hard and it allows us to entertain and grow fruits and veggies for our family. THAT said . . ....
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Sweet and Simple Storage Solution
Our garage houses many things, except our cars. Most of our “stuff” is stored in large bins, but as always, it is the little things that are always bouncing from place to place, unless they have a...
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Garden Update – April 2013
Our lovely plants are budding and blooming and we are already enjoying some of the produce, like our chard and lettuces. Yellow roses are my favorite and the rose bush is going gangbusters – every two...
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Yummy doughy goodness
My husband sent me a recipe he found online, a couple of weeks ago, to make pretzels just like the ones sold at the Auntie Anne’s stores. We had everything at hand and gave it a try: Steve kneads the...
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I’ll Be In My Bunk
Steve and I used to watch Firefly, a great show from Joss Whedon that didn’t do so well in ratings but is, to this day, much beloved by fans. It was a sci-fi show with the twist that it had a western...
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Saving Saffron Sweeting – review, excerpt and Q&A
Most of you probably don’t know, but I was a book reviewer (on the side) in a past life. I am happy to put on my reviewing hat on today to share a great debut novel by a Bay Area author. Here is an...
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Colorful cupcake stands
This year I am missing my mama. She is in Peru, spending time with friends and family until next month so a mother’s day phone call will have to do. Still, I decided to do a little crafty goodness with...
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Camping in Big Basin
We spent Mother’s Day camping – this time we went to the place where I had my first-ever camping experience, Big Basin. Considering I was five months along with our first baby, my husband did an...
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The orange roof
We’ve started to think about painting the outside of our home. Probably will not happen this year, but it’s in the somewhat near future. I would love to have a pale turquoise or aqua door: Or maybe...
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My husband the sniffer
If you’re ever out and about and some dude comes up to you and asks you what perfume you’re wearing, and he looks nice rather than sleazy, you may just have met my husband. Seriously. My “scent bar” is...
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Memorial Day 2013
I have always tried to be vocal about my gratitude to the country that received me and my family almost thirty years ago – the country where my children now grow, where my dreams have come true, where...
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