fresh kiwi - chocolate sprinkled froyo while trying to appear as if this is a completely normal, rational request...
st out your beads, pliers, arts and craft supplies and get to work!
Move over DiorShow and FiberWig, there's a new wand in town, and it's won my wink! Tarte is one of my favorite makeup lines, first because they're cruelty free and second because I'm a devotee of their cheek stain sticks. And after an absolute marathon makeup session at Sephora over the weekend, I've flipped for this mascara!
I love this fabulous chandelier, created by Michelle Brand, especially because it's made from upcycled empty 2 liter bottles! I'm actually having to restrain myself from buying soda and dumping it just for the bottles. Being that I don't drink soda, and neither, it seems, do any of my friends... it's going to be a w
hile before I can collect enough bottles to make one of these! Hmmm... maybe I can raid the recycling bin at work for the small water bottles we use and cut them into flower shapes. Or, I'll just have to don a makeshift Hazmat getup and go dumpster diving in my building's recycling containers.
I break a lot of glasses, and I eat a lot of Bonne Maman Raspberry Preserves. As a result, I have many a half-set of water glasses, an
d a lot of adorable jam jars. So when I came across this idea, I was ecstatic and launched scavenger hunt around my house to reclaim all the repurposed jars I had, tossed them all in the dishwasher and voila! I have the sweetest new set of tumblers which are rather strong, so they may actually be long-termers! And if they're not... my love of PB&J and Tartines will quickly render me a replacement!
As if losing your job due to the Gulf oil spill isn't bad enough, many families are finding they also have to give up their loving family companions as a result of the income loss as Randi Kaye reports in this AndersonCooper 360 story http://bit.ly/bnSNK5, many families are having to choose between putting food on the table and feeding/caring for pets.
That's the seemingly simple question tackled by this fascinating dive into the reasons people decide to have or not have children.Lori Leibovich: A few years ago a woman in her thirties wrote to Salon, begging us to publish more stories about people who had chosen not to have children. She was the primary breadwinner in her family, and was struggling with the question of whether or not to procreate. "What would be the return on the investment?" she wrote. "Are there any laws that would require my children to pay for my nursing home when I am old? Are they going to be a sufficient hedge against poverty and loneliness?" This letter sparked a heated office-wide email debate. Some of my colleagues thought that anyone who was looking at childbearing in such stark, financial terms shouldn't be a parent in the first place. Others felt the letter writer was being refreshingly honest about her fears.
Since the question of whether or not to procreate spurred such a contentious discussion in our office, we decided to explore it in a series. I asked five staff writers to answer the question, "To Breed or Not to Breed?" From the minute we posted the first essay—a piece by Michelle Goldberg, a happily married 28-year old who has no maternal instincts but worries she'll have regrets one day if she doesn't have children—we were flooded with hundreds of emotional emails from our readers, sharing their own personal stories. After sifting through the letters—some of which we are going to reprint in the paperback edition of the book—we decided that this topic was too big for a series, and deserved a book. So I began to recruit other writers.
Finally! A beautiful way to reuse empty jars! Grab some old wire (hangers will work too), toss a candle inside, hang them from a tree in the backyard, and voila... a gorgeous candlelit setting for a romantic dinner for 2 or a summer night dinner party!
