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Boil your eggs with these natural plant-based dyes for pretty, edible Easter eggs. I think the packaging alone is frame-worthy. If you’re feeling particularly Martha, Whole Foods has some great ideas on how to naturally dye your easter eggs with food items from your kitchen. Nova Natural Toys and Crafts also sells the [...]
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I have seen so many items made out of cardboard lately — everything from the tabletop puppet theater we bought for $4 at IKEA a few weeks ago to an actual cardboard crib that costs hundreds of dollars.
These cardboard suitcases from Feather Your Nest are the cutest things I’ve seen in a while - either [...]
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I was “snack mom” today at school, so I made my favorite moist banana bread recipe. Here it is:
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
What to do:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Measure out how many cups of bananas you have. I like to peel and [...]
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Despite our worries about the predicted rainfall, we ended up having a beautiful rain-free day for our little guy’s 4th birthday. We briefly discussed holding it at a place where you pay to have someone else handle all the planning and all you have to do is show up. But both my husband and [...]
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Last week I became enamored with the smooth little brown trays my organic bosc pears were packaged in at Trader Joe’s. I have been using them to stash things here and there. The trays were labeled “Earthcycle“, so I went to their website to see if they sold any earth-friendly consumer products. Unfortunately, it looks [...]
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Today was the last day of preschool before the winter break. My son’s teachers gave each child a bag of lavender-scented pink, blue and purple homemade playdough as a gift. We got out our box of playdough tools this afternoon and had the best time rolling, cutting, plunging and squishing the freshly made dough! [...]
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I have always been a little crazy about packaging, and I love basic brown, white or clear bags, boxes, and containers because I can customize my gifts, baked goods, or party favors just the way I like. So I am going kinds of nuts about a website I found called Garnish. I’m not sure what [...]
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