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White Sangria for Spring

Festive, heart-shaped shower desserts.

Twenty-seven years ago, a family moved into the house across the street from mine. This family had two little girls, ages three years and six months. I was thirteen at the time and could just see the babysitting money in my future. I did indeed end up babysitting for the [...]

The International Home and Housewares Show 2013

I love the new Water Bottle Cleaning set from OXO.

This past weekend, I had the chance to attend the International Home and Housewares show as a member of the media. This annual event, which takes place at Chicago’s McCormick Place, is the premier home products show in the world featuring the best in [...]

Holiday Party Food

Marinated grape tomatoes and mozzarella

For the last of my Twelve Parties for 2012 — okay so it ended up only being nine parties, but who’s counting? — we threw a holiday cocktail party for a small group of friends and neighbors. Instead of holding the party on Saturday night, which always feels like [...]

Wrapping up 12 Months of Parties

So, remember last December when I started a project to throw a different party for each month of the year? I called it “Twelve Months of Parties for 2012.” (I found out cialis online pharmacy

later that an out-of-town friend of my husband’s who is a faithful reader — thank you! — called it [...]

Twelve Parties: A Kid Birthday Party

After managing to live up to my obligations for the Twelve Months of Parties for 2012 project in June and July, I missed another month in August. I was supposed to host a cocktail party in August and as much as I would have loved to do so, I was out of town for two [...]