This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CatsloveNutrish #CollectiveBias My whole life I've been a dog person, but as I sit on the couch with a cat on either side of me, I'm thinking I'm a cat person too. I'm always looking for new cat toys and Princess loves toys on strings, and we all know cats love ...
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Tips for hosting a beer tasting party
Messaging below is intended for ages 21+ and is intended to be enjoyed responsibly, in moderation. This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #RefreshinglyIndependent #CollectiveBias Beer tasting parties are becoming so popular, they can be really extravagant or really simple either way it'll be really fun. ...
DIY Window Clings
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #allessentials #allsulfatefree #CollectiveBias We love feeding birds and watching them all over our yard. We have a handful of bird feeders in our yard that attract a lot of beautiful songbirds, but the problem is we see too many birds fly into our windows. The solution ...
What ice cream flavor would you create?
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #KempsLocallyCrafted #CollectiveBias After what feels like an eternity of winter, the warmer weather is finally making it's way and that means that we almost always have ice cream on hand. Is there any better way to spend the end of a Summer day than enjoying ice cream on ...
Meet Lucy
It all started a few weeks before Easter when Aliceana said that she wanted a cat for Easter. It was a strange request coming from the dog loving almost five year old, so we naturally said, "Nope, you have a dog and a cat already." Then the Thursday before Easter, after a particularly crappy day of running errands, we came home and as we were unpacking our groceries this ...
Raising a foodie
I'm not sure what turned AJ and I into foodies, it might have been traveling to California or maybe it was our visit to Milwaukee's famous Mader's way back in the day when we were dating. It's impossible to argue, we're officially converted to complete foodies and spend way way too much of our income on dining out. So naturally that obsession has transferred over to our ...
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is severely underwhelming
All my life I dreamed of going to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, ok maybe not dreamed, but I probably Map Quested it when I was a teen. Cleaveland isn't a terribly long drive away and I thought I would have to take a road trip at some point. So I was psyched to see how close the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was from the hotel we were staying at for a weekend trip. That's ...
Leveling up our geeky Christmas decor
I come from a family that's crazy about Christmas, on Thanksgiving my aunt had 3 Christmas trees...in her kitchen. We're at that stage of life where we have some Christmas things tucked away that we bring out each year, but it's not a whole lot. Last year we bought a Stormtrooper to guard our tree and it's one of my favorites. I was so excited to get him out of his storage ...
The Bakken Museum – Minneapolis, Minnesota
When you first arrive at the Bakken Museum you might just think you're at the wrong place. It's a gorgeous 1920s mansion, one of those buildings you look at and immediately think "it's gotta be haunted, right?" Am I the only one that assumes all swanky old homes are haunted? Anyway, it's definitely not a boring museum. It's actually a really great modern and interactive ...
Why does my preschooler need to learn how to code? and the toys that make it fun.
STEM has been a buzz word on every top toy list for the last couple years, and this year the science, technology, engineering and math toys have definitely gone in the direction of coding this year. This brings up two good questions for parents of preschoolers when shopping in these categories. Why should I teach my preschooler to code? Are these toys really teaching them ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We spent last weekend in Chicago kicking off the holiday season with teh Chicago Toy & Game Fair, The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival Parade, lots of eating, and lots of shopping, we won't talk about the fact that the trip ended a bit earlier than planned with a need to get to the dentist for emergency oral surgery, damn bacon waffles. Today ...
The Bulldog, Lowertown St. Paul MN
We found The Bulldog after a bit of research on our last night in St. Paul and decided to go there for dinner. It is located in an area called Lowertown which sounds really cool and makes us think of Dragon Age! I guess you could call it a brew pub, they do have one of their own house beers as well as a huge selection of local craft beers. It is definitely more of a pub with ...
Herbie’s on the Park, St. Paul MN
Like I said before we plan our trips around our meals but sometimes things don’t quite work out the way we plan and we get a pleasant surprise. After driving to Minneapolis from St. Paul where we were going to try Revival, finding out it was a 3 hour wait, calling Night Hawks, finding out it was an hour wait, we ended up back in St. Paul a few blocks from our hotel and had ...