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We don’t really celebrate Easter, but this time of year it’s a little difficult to avoid or resist all the adorable pastel stuff and baby animals. Just the sorts of things that little girls love, too. So the Bit may well end up getting an Easter basket, or a spring basket, and because that’s how this family works, odds are ... Read More »

I have always wanted to be a person who does scrapbooking. Even before I had a kid, every couple of years I would decided I was going to be the kind of person who scrapbooks. I’d go to Hobby Lobby (when it was the only choice in town) and load up on paper, stickers, whatever I thought would make me ... Read More »

Remember a couple weeks ago when I told you about Melissa & Doug’s Terrific Twenty gift list and the fact that they were doing daily giveaways on their Facebook page of the different toys? Well, I’m happy to report they’re at it again, and from now through Dec. 19 you have the chance to get one of these great toys ... Read More »

This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Deb Moretti! Please read on for my review of the Melissa & Doug Whittle World bus set! A few weeks ago I told you about the Melissa & Doug Terrific Twenty Holiday Gift List and mentioned that I would be doing a giveaway of one of the products on the list. (As an ... Read More »

When I was in high school, my parents went through a bit of a phase. They were hanging out with a younger crowd, going out drinking and dancing, and they were listening to country music. My classic rock loving parents were two-steppin’ and Electric Sliding all over the place. Being a teenager, and a girl who never considered country to ... Read More »

Anybody’s who has been to my house knows that I love Melissa & Doug. This company makes awesome toys and accessories for kids of all ages. We have a bunch of their art supplies, puzzles and other toys, and the Bit has one of their awesome Trunki suitcases, which we’ve yet to take on a trip but she loves packing ... Read More »

I have never been the sort of girl who had any sort of beauty routine. My mom never wears makeup so I never did when I was younger, and I still don’t with any regularity, though I’m trying to the more I notice that it does make a difference (I’m pretty darn pasty without it). When it comes to skincare ... Read More »

A couple of weeks ago I decided I needed a break from the near-constant reading of knitting books I’d been doing lately and set out to find something light — maybe even a little trashy — to read. The best I could do was Pride and Prejudice. Damn my fine taste in literature! Luckily, when I went to Arkansas Women ... Read More »

I should have mentioned a couple of days ago that the winner of the Knit Red book is commenter 7, Judy, who said Both my father and my husband’s father died at an early age from heart attacks. Almost all the siblings in my family suffer from high risk factors for heart attack. We are really aware of the risks ... Read More »

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America. Women are five times more likely to die of heart disease than breast cancer, but a lot of women don’t know their risks, the signs of a heart attack in women or what they can do to improve their heart health. Laura Zander of Jimmy Beans Wool wanted to ... Read More »

Hi, all! We took off for the holiday weekend a little early, so I haven’t gotten a chance to thank everyone for entering the Knit Picks books giveaway! We had a whopping 244 entries, which is awesome, and it was lots of fun to read all your country/city/in between comments! The winner of this one is commenter 82, which was ... Read More »

I’m trying to get a hundred things done today so I can take tomorrow off to celebrate my 10th wedding anniversary with my sweetie, so here’s a short one for you. The giveaway this week is two new pattern books from Knit Picks: Uptown Chic and American Prairie. These are books that started out as ebooks and they now have ... Read More »