My Take on the Matter

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10 Backyard Ideas

I am loving these ideas to spruce up a backyard or patio area.  

We are moving soon and our new place has a tiny patio, and I am hoping with some personal touches it can be transformed into an additional living space!

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Prank Artist of the Day: Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News Goes to Coachella

You’ve probably never heard of these Coachella-goers’ favorite bands, because they are too obscure to even exist! In the latest segment of Jimmy Kimmel’s “Lie Witness News,” concert-goers at this year’s Coachella music festival are caught pretending to be fans of made-up band names, including our favorites “Get the F**k Out of My Pool,” “Regis and the Philbins” and “The Chelsea Clintons.”

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Crafting these heart garlands all day for an upcoming bridal shower.  I plan on hanging them from trees outside (if the weather cooperates) and from the mantles and brunch tables.  Love the idea!

Crafting these heart garlands all day for an upcoming bridal shower.  I plan on hanging them from trees outside (if the weather cooperates) and from the mantles and brunch tables.  Love the idea!

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Rules of Dinner

Love these “rules” of dinner from the amazing blog, Dinner: A Love Story.  My favorites include:

‘Cooking is to baking as pleasure reading is to chemistry homework.’ 

‘If you have to ask “lime or lemon?” when making me a gin and tonic…I’ll make my own gin and tonic.’

‘You very rarely feel worse about yourself after cooking dinner.’


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It was a rare, rare moment when the city seemed truly whole; when people came together—for free—to watch an event, and they cheered the back-of-the-pack plodders as enthusiastically as they did the whippets who led the way. I was so moved by it that I was choked up for most of the twenty-six miles, seeing this crazy display of community and generosity… The special thing about big-city marathons, like New York and Boston, is that they are occasions when the clashing and whirring of urban life quiets, and everyone stands together to see a bunch of people trying to do something very simple that is also very hard. It’s marvellous… If the explosions were purposeful, whoever did it knew that it would catch people at an exceptional, joyous moment, when they come together in the sweetest way, helping each other fly.
Susan Orlean on her experience running a marathon: http://nyr.kr/ZxGsPX (via newyorker)

(Source: newyorker.com, via newyorker)

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Just made roasted brussel sprouts with bacon, Gorgonzola, dried cranberries, glazed walnuts, and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Scrumptious.

Just made roasted brussel sprouts with bacon, Gorgonzola, dried cranberries, glazed walnuts, and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Scrumptious.