Tag: family
The New YouTube | Do You Like It?
Social media is now part of our daily lives, the majority of us have been communicating and sharing via different social networking platforms. One that has gained a lot of popularity is YouTube. If you have noticed, people have gotten used to the idea of sharing ideas, concepts and information to ...
Spot Color | Adding Nostalgia to Your Photos
Everyone has his or her own way of sharing memories with people in their life like friends and family. The best way of course is through photos. We take so many pictures to make sure that we chronicle the special moments of our lives. Birthdays, graduations, weddings, parents share baby's first s ...
15 Wacky and Fun Uses for Duct Tape
What is the deal with duct tape? It’s one of those inventions that I just don’t understand. It’s the ugliest, bulkiest, most hard-to-rip tape I’ve ever tried to use. Most guys I know get excited about duct tape, but I don’t understand why. Maybe you can enlighten me on this because I don’t think ...
All Women are Heroes | Beautiful Art in Paris
Recently, something very special happened in Paris. French artist JR, along with many volunteers, covered buildings, trains, rooftops and walls with huge photos of women, a total of 70 of them, who he wanted to pay tribute too. He wanted everyone to remember these women as heroes. All of the phot ...
Sleep In A Sandcastle Hotel On Your Next Vacation
Are you low on funds? Are you looking for a way to save money on your next vacation? I have the perfect idea; how about make reservations to stay in a hotel made out of sand? Sure, it may not be private, and the bed could be a little lumpy, but for $21 a night, you can’t get any cheaper than that ...
How To: Scare The Crap Out Of Your Friends With Your iPhone
I’m giggling right now because a few days ago, @mistygirlph wrote an article about how to embarrass your friends, and now I’m writing about how to scare the crap out of them. Haha! I promise, we are not bad friends. It’s all in good fun you know.
Last weekend I got a DM from @Minervity that sa ...
My Top 10 Guilty Pleasures | What Are Yours?
As I secretly indulged in some of my favorite things this morning, I started thinking about guilty pleasures. The urban dictionary says guilty pleasures are those things we shouldn’t like, but we like anyway. I think this is a contradiction in terms. They are things we do but don't talk about to any ...
I Love You More Than A Rainbow | Don’t Throw Up
This year at the Oscars, one of the themes seems to have been "I love you more than a rainbow." Some people loved it, some people hated it. I was laughing when I saw some tweets that said, “I just threw up a rainbow.”
To make some of you even more nauseatingly happy, did you know that "National ...
Beware Bullies: Anti-Theft Lunch Bags
Growing up is tough. When my son Henry, who is nine years old, is having a bad day, I often explain to him that it is much more difficult to be a kid than an adult. It’s like a rite of passage that every person has to go through to get to the joys of adulthood.
My mother, who is a very sweet la ...
Escape From It All | A Tree House For Adults
My son has been asking me for a tree house for years. I never had a tree house growing up, so I don’t know much about them, but I’m ready to fulfill his wish, so I’ve begun the research to learn everything I can about tree houses and what they are all about.
Along the way, I stumbled across so ...
A Tribute To All The Moms On Twitter
I’m watching some pretty major things change in my house, and since I share my life with you, I was inspired to write this article and dedicate it to all the moms on Twitter.
My son, @toad_mario, recently turned nine years old. We’ve always been the dynamic duo and done everything together. We ...
How To: Get Your Dog to Tweet
Oh. My. Gosh. You gotta be kidding me… thanks to Mattel’s new Puppy Tweets dog collar, your dog can now tweet. For real. You want your dog to join you in the Twitterverse? No problem! Everyone is talking about this, in the past week it has been written about in the LA Times, Fast Company, engadg ...
Little Itty Bitty Babies | Baby Sculptures
Artist Camille Allen uses her incredible talent to create these precious little babies. She learned this type of sculpting from her husband’s grandmother. She begins with a ball of polymer clay, and spends many hours patiently sculpting to create the babies you see below. The hair is made from fi ...
Save A Ton Of Money On Your Next Vacation
In times like these when money is tight, I’m always inspired by people who get really creative about how to still enjoy life’s luxuries. Taking vacations is a perfect example. People everywhere are saving a ton of money by “exchanging” their house with others that want to swap houses with them for ...
How To: Make A Classy Valentine For Your Sweetie
We all know that homemade Valentine’s Day gifts come straight from the heart, and most of the time they are also lighter on the pocketbook. Do you want to make something really classy for your Valentine this year? I have the perfect idea for you.
First let me say that I’m not an arts and craf ...