DIY Projects

DIY Projects

DIY Valentine’s Day Cards For Kids

I’m not a crafting-type mom.

I’d like to be – I aspire to be – but you know those moms who have cabinets filled with things like glitter and pipe cleaners, and enjoy settling down on snowy afternoons to create bedazzled things with their children? They are not me.

But I do like cutting hearts out of construction paper (who doesn’t?), and I very much want to get my son excited about the fact that Valentine’s Day is coming up. It’s a holiday that I have historically not really cared about, but is now – like every other holiday – about ten thousand times more fun, given that I now have a very short roommate who is experiencing it for the third time in his life (and probably the first time with any real clarity).

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How To Remove A Turtleneck From A Sweater

Remember this sweater? My Fresh Prince sweater?

I liked it...but didn't love it, mostly because the turtleneck made me nuts (as you can see from the above photo, in which I am physically yanking on the neckline and trying to get it further away from my skin).

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Get Organized For The New Year

In one of my favorite Louis C.K. skits, he describes children (accurately) as buckets of disease, and tells a story about his daughter coughing literally into his mouth. Like, aiming her germs at the back of his throat.

At least, this used to be one of my favorite Louis C.K. skits. It's not quiiiite as funny these days, mostly because it's just what actually happens. All. The. Time. Right in the mouth.

Anyway, I'm sick. And I spent yesterday in pajamas in an effort to magically cure myself before today's nine-hour drive to Ohio, which means that I had a lot of time to do things like file and clean out drawers. All very boring stuff, I'll grant you - I'd rather talk about sangria recipes and New Year's Eve outfits, too - but I mean it when I say that getting organized is THE BEST. Literally. The best.

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Headboard Rehab: Before And After

LOOK AT WHAT MY PARENTS FOUND.

I mean, that is AMAZING.

It was sitting in the trash room in their apartment building, and the second my mom spotted it she gave me a call and announced that I needed to run our station wagon into the city for a pickup.