I just wanted to write a quick little hoorah! 2015 was overall pretty awesome, and I'm so ready to see what 2016 will bring, here's hoping that it magically brings lots of cold hard cash and some pretty rainbow colored unicorns. (You always have to add unicorns to wishes, it helps? I think?) Plus, here's a random drawing the accurately portrays our year, or actually more ...
Christmas Cut-Out Cookies, the most wonderful kind of mess.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #HostingHacks #CollectiveBias Years ago when I was in college and working as a teacher's aide I brought in holiday cut out cookies for all of the kids in my classes. I remember one of the teachers looking at me like I worked some kind of a miracle for baking, cutting out, ...
Klask a Tabletop Game Review on a Table
When most people think of tabletop games they don't actually think of a tabletop, well Klask is a tabletop game on a table if that makes sense...ok just look at the pictures and marvel at the awesome craftsmanship! Klask comes from Finland and just made it's US debut a few months ago, over in Finland you can find Klask in every pub and cafe around because it is really that much ...
Simple DIY Geeky Christmas Crackers
You'll find affiliate links in this tutorial to help you make these really cool Christmas crackers! If you watch shows from "across the pond" you'll notice a Christmas tradition that we don't have over here in America, but it's an awesome one. You'll definitely notice these in Doctor Who fellow Whovians. I'm talking about Christmas crackers, these great little tubes filled ...
She wants power tools for Christmas
She wants power tools for Christmas and she's persistent on it! When we went to a Christmas parade Aliceana saw Santa and immediately after she said, "He didn't have my power tools yet." Santa visited my Aunt's house on Thanksgiving, we heard his sleigh bells, but alas, no power tools yet. Honestly, I'm just happy she hasn't changed her mind. I can barely stick to one thing ...
Upcycled Pub Table
Over the past couple of years I have painted a lot. I have painted our office, dining room, and the entire outside of the house. Now I just built this upcycled pub table and it needs some paint. I learned a lot about painting, like the fact that I will never paint an entire house again! The BEHR MARQUEE line of paints has a great exterior paint that covers really well with ...
Happy Fakesgiving
Fakesgiving is that magical time of year where we make a ton of food and take lots of pictures of said food for our blog and make our friends very happy! This year was our second Fakesgiving and it looks like it is well on its way to becoming an annual tradition. In order to meet holiday posting deadlines for recipe posts we need to make these recipes ahead of time before ...
Savory Maple Butternut Squash
Squash is easily one of my favorite things to eat in the fall. I love butternut squash made with butter and brown sugar it is so delicious it is almost like eating dessert. This year however I wanted to try something a little different, savory squash instead of sweet, mind blown! Butternut squash with butter and brown sugar is the only way I have had squash up until I made ...
25 reasons why you’ll never want to leave The Virgin Hotel in Chicago
I received a little bit of a discount at the Virgin Hotel in order to facilitate this review, but I'm sold. AJ is sold. Aliceana, our 3 1/2 year old, desperately wants to go back. We've officially found the only hotel we'll ever be staying at when we're in the Windy city. Virgin Hotels are setting the bar for hotel standards remarkably high. I've stayed in a lot of hotels in ...
Because Science Kits. DIY Electro Dough Kit
We’ve been having so much fun with science experiments this year at home. Heck, when we perform science experiments with Aliceana even we learn a thing or two. We ask the good questions, like “How does that work?” “What do you think will happen next?” Some of our experiments bring us right back to our own days of the elementary school science lab, and by that I mean a table ...
That time our dirty door graced the New York Times.
We were thrilled to be featured in the New York Times. We had an interview on Skype, a professional photographer at our house for hours as we played with Aliceana, he probably shot a thousand photos, so many had to be adorable. When I clicked over to the live link. You might as well have heard horror music, the dirty door, not the dirty door. You see, this is the back door, ...