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Must-Own: OtterBox For iPhone
OK, so you know how the East Coast has suddenly turned into a tropical island, what with the daily monsoons and such? (Seriously, it's so weird, and has simultaneously made the summer feel like it hasn't even begun yet and created a terrible, horrible situation with my bangs.)
Anyway, Tuesday afternoon was lovely and sunny and Francesca was over, so we decided to fill up the wading pool so Indy could splash around a little.
Five minutes later there was a huge thunderclap, and we had to run inside to escape the downpour.
After about half an hour the rain stopped and we wandered back out into the yard...only to discover that I had left my iPhone sitting right there on the outdoors table.
How To Buy Your Very First Home
The other day we had a couple of friends over for dinner who are renting in the area and circling the idea of purchasing property, and at one point they looked around them and said, "But seriously: how do you do it? If you want to buy a house, where do you even start?"
I can totally relate to that feeling. Before we began our two-year odyssey I felt like buying a house was such a huge undertaking, so riddled with technicalities and legal issues and words like appraisals and inspections and FHA loans that sounded like a completely foreign language, that I simply wasn't the kind of person who was capable of doing it. It seemed like the kind of thing "other people do." People who know, for example, what a variance is.
Guess what? I know what a variance is now.
But in the beginning, I didn't even know what Step Number One was. Did you call...a bank? A broker? Check your credit score?
A Little Something
Saucony Toddler Sneakers
I think these sneakers are super cool, and we can't walk five steps down the street without someone or another stopping us to agree.
They're Saucony (apparently they were a thing when we were teenagers, although I don't personally remember that), and you can buy them in various colors in infant/toddler sizes. Cute cute cute.
DIY Vegetable Garden Bed
Ever heard of a raised garden bed? They're kind of the best. I spent yesterday shooting a segment on how to put one together, and can now explain to you exactly why they are wonderful. Let's discuss!
1. They're great for vegetable gardens because you can place plants very close together, and because the loosely packed soil makes for excellent drainage conditions.
2. They can be used pretty much anywhere (on decks, or even indoors), and are extremely versatile. This is just a simple 4'x4' bed, but you can stack them, expand them, and even make them into pretty shapes (I ended up stacking a second 4'x4' bed on top to make the walls a little higher.)
Salt Potatoes With Butter
Apparently this is a thing.
My friend Katie - who is from way-upstate New York - served salt potatoes at a BBQ last weekend, and I was pretty confused by the fact that I've never heard of them (as I'm fairly certain I've heard of most things involving too much butter and salt). So I ate quite a few - all in the service of research, of course - and then looked them up.
"Salt potatoes" are young potatoes that you cook in super-salty water (about one pound salt per four pounds of potatoes) and then serve with drizzled butter. The point is that the salt creates a kind of crust on the potatoes, so they don't get waterlogged the same way normal boiled potatoes do, and end up tasting more like they've been baked. They're apparently popular in Syracuse and the surrounding area mostly because the region has a big salt production industry.
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Such a lovely afternoon hanging with @MarkTownsend1 (Jennifer Lawrence's stylist) at the @Dove #DoveHairAffair #sponsor. Interview on summer tips and fall trends coming up soon!
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