by Julie | Dec 8, 2008
Hey all you teachers out there: where do you prefer to get gift cards from? Target? Coffee shop? Bookstore? Liquor store? I had good success last year getting the preschool teachers tote bags with Henry’s drawings on them from Cafe Press, but this year I feel...
by Julie | Nov 18, 2008
I’ve never been much for monogrammed things (too Alex P. Keaton). But then I had kids, and somehow became completely obsessed with putting giant initials on the walls. Just search on eBay for “sign letter” or “vintage sign letter” and you...
by Julie | Nov 16, 2008
I needed to get some coasters to go on the new desk/table on our back porch (or on the “conservatory” as we like to say, keeping up with our Clue House theme). Like I normally do these days, I searched on Etsy, and found Robot Candy, which has hundreds of...
by Julie | Nov 9, 2008
Last Christmas, Dave and I had one of those dumb “The Atlantic Ocean is better!” “No, the Pacific Ocean is!” fights, wherein he said it was stupid to buy toys at the fancy little local toy shop downtown, and we should just go to Toys R Us. I...
by Julie | Nov 6, 2008
The comma key on my keyboard is not working as happily as it used to. So I apologize if there’s a sentence that seems to be missing the helpful pause that a comma would provide. I’m trying to catch them when I can, but I might not get them all. (Is there a...
by Julie | Nov 5, 2008
Ever since I started majorly decluttering, things started to go missing around the house. And yes, of course I’m worried that I accidentally decluttered them, but I don’t think so. These are fairly large things. Where are my black Dansko clogs? I...
