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Party Planning Made Easy: The Finger Food Combination Chart
If you are one of those people who has to sometimes throw together an appetizer or finger foods fast when you find out guests are on their way for an unexpected visit, you are probably going to bookmark this post. This chart, published in The New York Times, is completely brilliant. It breaks down t ...
8 Stunning Holiday Nail Art Designs
Some of the best parts of the holidays are all the cocktail parties and fun luncheons where we get to see people we haven't seen all year. Going to those things always reminds me of going to a high school reunion. I spend half my time saying, "It's great to see you, what have you been up to this yea ...
The Best Way To Parallel Park
I'm a bad driver, and I know it. There, I said it. I suck really badly at it actually. I've hit cars parked in my own driveway several times, and I've had many accidents on the highway. I drive like a granny, and when my friends ask why I drive so slow, I have to explain that I'm trying to be carefu ...
Christmas Tea: A Special Holiday Tea Bag Designed For Two
Even though this holiday tea bag design is truly brilliant and very cozy (since it takes two people in order for it to function), when I first saw it, it reminded me of this lazy person's Christmas tree. LOL This little design is called Christmas Tea. It invites people to spend time together and to ...
Dreamy Food Design: Chocolate Ice Cubes In Vanilla Milk
I don't drink milk, but this doesn't even look like milk to me. It looks like a dreamy concoction of chocolate and vanilla heaven. These are frozen chocolate ice cubes in vanilla flavored milk. As you can see in the bottom picture below, as the chocolate ice cubes begin to melt, you can stir it all ...
Words Under The Skin Tattoo Is Horrifically Cool
Tattoos can be a creative way to put permanent "accessories" on your body. 10-15 years ago, people looked at people with tattoos and thought the person was some kind of gangster or biker that could go mad on your butt in a matter of seconds. Today people have changed their perception of tattoos, and ...
Food Design: Creative Santa Hat & Christmas Tree Brownies
I went out for tacos and beer last night, and now I'm having a fat day today. For guys who don't know what that is; I'll give you a little insight about what that means. Girls sometimes have "fat days." You know what I'm talking about, right ladies? It's when we wake up in the morning and realize we ...
10 Financial Lessons Learned From Napkin Sketches
Have you ever been so bored in a restaurant or at a bar that you started doodling on a napkin? I've done it many times, but usually my napkin sketches don't amount to much more than a dog or a smiley face. I've certainly never sketched anything important on them like how to save money.
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What Your Toilet Paper Says About Your Personality
Do you put your toilet paper roll on so it rolls over or under? Earlier this year when I wrote Over Or Under: The Great Toilet Paper Dispute, I was surprised to learn that most people I know do it over, but I've always done it under. What's up with that? Which way is best? Does it really matter?
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The Best Ways To Organize & Store Your Cats [15 Pics]
This is one of those oldie-but-goodies that will definitely put a smile on your face today. I'm not much of a cat person, but writing about this is making me reconsider. It all started back in 2010 when Joanne Casey wrote an article about how to store cats, kinda like they were belongings like shoes ...
How To: Make A Black Olive Penguin
Black Olive Penguins have always been a classic appetizer recipe in my house. I thought everyone pretty much knew about them until I was tweeting a friend of mine a few months ago, and she had never heard of them before. I decided then that during this season, I would write a post about these fun li ...
Your Whole Breakfast In A Cupcake
This morning when I woke up, I immediately started coding furiously to be sure that what I have for today gets done and that I don't get behind in my usual schedule. Is something missing from that sentence? Well, usually I don't miss out on my breakfast, but today I completely forgot about it until ...
Take A Photo: A Social Experiment With Disposable Cameras
It seems like everyone is picture crazy these days. We all love to take pictures and share them, especially online. I remember just ten years ago when I was lugging around a heavy camera in my handbag. Back then, taking pictures always required a certain amount of planning with the batteries, the me ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s To-Do List: Peek Into A Creative Mind
Do you ever read about people like Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso and some of the other most creative people in history and wonder how they approached their daily lives? I do. Sometimes I get to the end of the day and feel like I didn't finish some of the most menial tasks on my to-do list, yet there ar ...
Mama Birds Feeding Baby Birds: 8 Heart Warming Photos
I remember earlier this year when the webcam recording that family of bald eagles in Iowa went viral. Back then we were all waiting for that third egg to hatch, and at any moment there were between 100,000 and 150,000 people watching the nest live. That experience taught us a lot about the behavior ...