I was making an apple crisp - that's easy enough, right? Well, I had chopped all the apples, added butter, sugar and paprika - what? yup - I mistakenly put paprika in instead of cinnamon. The conta...

i wonder - could you do the apple cider cocktail served hot? hmmm

ooo - this sounds like a fun option for Turkey day! i'll have to pick some up!

you know, i'm having the same problem - a crowd of only 4, and i've never roasted a whole turkey before... honeslty i'm a little intimidated... i've come across a few recipes using the crock pot to...

i just scored a lt blue leather theater arm chair on sunday for $299, originally $2100. it had a huge gash through the leather on the back, but it's going against a wall - so no one would see it an...

thank goodness for platform beds. no space under there! when i was a kid stuffing everything under my bed was "cleaning my room".

looking at the pic of that mat from LNT, i bet you could just saw off some of the width to make it maybe only 5 or 6 slats wide.

i always use 8.5"x11" sized pieces of paper to measure stuff. there's always a piece of paper lying around somewhere!

what about silverfish? Every night the past week I've seen one crawling on the ceiling near our skylight. And we've had giant ones (well, they looked like giant silverfish anyway) up there too. On...

i used the shared laundry room in my apartment building in LA during the middle of the day on a week day. who's home, ya know? if had been maybe 10 minutes after the wash cycle had finished and whe...

and, there's a big difference between packing and moving when you're excited about where you're going, or packing and moving and not wanting to leave one bit... i'm approaching the latter...

so what's the ultimate word on magnets near your computer? i'm contemplating putting up a metal strip behind my computer to put things up with magnets. will it harm my computer? it's an imac so the...

ha - brain fart

it'd be cool to get a sheet of metal or something to make it a magnet board. i love magnet boards.

i loved these bookshelves (west elm has one too even cheaper, metal for $169, wood for $179) but at least on the metal one, when i saw it at the store, it looked like the shelves droop. as if the s...

marisajane - LOL, my escape is these blogs, looking at tidy, neat things! meanwhile, i have sticky (apple) fingers, dirty dishes, tracked kitty litter that needs to be swept and lots and lots of la...

so does this mean the icky furniture you see lying behind buildings is actually germ free? Ha. jk No idea where I could hang my duvet, but what a good idea.

I wish I had a space to hang stuff when you walk in, but my landing strip is basically right in my kitchen, there's just a wall I have to utilize. do you think the Storage Shelf with Doors from CB2...

you know the penny trick for tulips? put a penny in the bottom of the vase (in the water) and it will make your tulips last longer!

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