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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughn An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan Many people look forward to the new year [...]
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This is one of SmexyMom’s favorite homemade gift wrap DIY How-To’s! A special thank you to Martha Stewart for her ever inspiring ideas and tutorials (so that, yes, even YOU can do it like MARTHA!) Begin RP: Beautifully grained woods are nature’s masterpieces, but, as style editor Tom Tamborello demonstrates, it is possible to re-create [...]
Typographic Gift Wrap | How To This year, I vowed to only make or buy handmade holiday gifts for my friends and family, and I’ve kept to it so far. But wrapping these gifts in commercial paper didn’t seem to make much sense, so I wanted to create some handmade gift wrap to match. I [...]
The Ins and Outs of Opening Doors for Women A hearty thank you to the Art of Manliness for this wonderful RP article: Readers email us surprisingly often with questions about opening doors for women. AoM readers are interested in being gentlemen and obviously understand the basics of this traditional act [...]
So Yummy For Hanukkah (or anytime!) How to Make Semi Homemade Doughnuts Using A Can of Refrigerated Biscuits Why Hanukkah: Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days when the Maccabees rededicated the holy Temple in Jerusalem after their victory over the Syrian-Greeks. Fried foods like doughnuts (“sufganiyot” in Hebrew) are [...]
Ship Race Kids will have a blast (and a friendly competition) with this homemade ship-race game from Brittany of One Charming Party. The miniature Nina, Pinta, and Santa Mariaare constructed from painted milk or orange juice cartons—and propelled by balloons! Day #4: Need some games to play on Thanksgiving Day (or at a school classroom [...]
Everyone knows that stuffing is the best part of Thanksgiving. So, how do you improve on everyone’s FAVORITE? Make it easy by starting with your basic (homemade) or (store bought) stuffing recipe, and add a selection of yummy ingredients to fool even the most gourmet palettes! Choose the perfect one (or two!) for your feast! [...]
As an adult, your life is filled with work, kids, marriage and other responsibilities. It may not be until your kids become teenagers and your spouse is working late that you realize that you don’t have a friend to call and spend time with. Making friends ‘later in life’ can be difficult because you’re “too [...]
GAME # 1 The Best Thing About… Objective: To help kids practice focusing on what they are grateful for! 1) Write the following down on a sheet of paper for the kids to see – Let’s be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the gardeners who make our soul bloom. – [...]
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