Remember when crafting meant killing time while it rained at summer camp? It meant gluing together popsicle sticks to make something in the shape of a diamond that served no real purpose. It didn’t really matter so much what your project looked like in the end because you did your best – or the best
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Looking for another “Nice Thing” to add to your growing list? This idea is a great one to do for just about anyone – especially those with a sweet tooth. That’s right! I’m talking about homemade cookies. Our hectic schedules don’t leave us a lot of time to make homemade anything these days, but one
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Today, I want to share a blog I’ve just recently discovered. Meet Marisa Lynch, author and seamstress behind New Dress a Day. Her idea was to spend an entire year without shopping at “traditional” clothing outlets. Armed with a budget of $365 and some mad alteration skills, Marisa has been shopping primarily at thrift shops,
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I bought this frame almost 10 years ago in the hopes that I could use it to house an unforgettable memory from some incredible road trip I was convinced I’d eventually take. Well, folks, here we are almost a decade later and I’ve yet to plan and execute this amazing road trip idea from my
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There is a moment in all of our adult lives when we realize summertime just isn’t what it used to be when we were kids. Somewhere along the way “responsible adult” became synonymous with “no more summer fun times for you!” Unless you’re, let’s say, a freelancer or a teacher, most of us don’t have
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Reading, writing, classwork, office work, housework, working out, eating, sleeping, re-energizing. Lately, it seems like there just aren’t enough hours in my day. No matter how much I accomplish, there is always so much more to be done. And then I realized – it’s not that we need MORE hours in the day – it’s
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If Girlyfight started a dinner club, I like to think it would be a lot like Wednesday Spaghetti. Wednesday Spaghetti was started by Lora, an awesome chick in Philly. Lora’s one of those people that gets right to what’s important. In the case of WS, what’s important is quality time and conversation. At its most
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There weren’t many things I took to when I was a kid. I wasn’t very coordinated, so sports didn’t make much sense for me. I longed to be a ballerina, but being chubby quickly quelled that dream. My life as an accomplished violinist ended really before it ever began. So, what’s a kid to do
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I recently had occasion to do some traveling for work. On average I travel about 3 to 4 times per year, most of the time by plane. I’m the lone traveler that doesn’t say much and that spends most of the flight with her eyes closed, head nodding. I’m the one folks ask to switch
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In my quest to discuss an exciting new topic today, I stumbled across a YouTube video titled “Women In Art”. I clicked on the link with anxious anticipation because I assumed, wrongfully, that a video about women in art would focus on female artists. While this is a beautiful overview of women as the subject
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