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Random Excellent Investments

There are some things that you buy, certain that they’re going to be wonderful and life-changing…and then never use. My SodaStream, for example, continues to be a thing that I love…but not actually something I use all that often, because the bottles that you make the soda in are not machine-washable. And because it is [...]

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Herb Garden Success (So Far)

Gardening Week on Ramshackle Glam continues, this time with my very first herb garden. Well, second, actually. But I don’t think we should count the thing that I stuck in the ground outside my house in Los Angeles, completely forgot about, and killed within about 72 hours. As of this morning it’s been nearly 146 [...]

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Getting My Garden On

All weekend I wandered around in this sort of happiness-haze, wearing garden gloves and scooping dirt and saying things to Kendrick like “Who KNEW? I mean really…who knew?!” And he was sort of confused by my need to announce (over and over) how amazed I was by the fact that I was enjoying something that [...]

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Entertaining Inspiration: Colorful Jar As Unique Water (Or Wine) Carafe

I have a water pitcher. It’s ten thousand years old and made of raffia, which isn’t a great combo. I’ve been meaning to pick up a new one in preparation for summer (I like to use pitchers to serve my BBQ guests homemade sangria), but how much prettier – and more fun – is this [...]

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Small Space Storage Solutions

You know what one of the weirdest things about moving from a one-bedroom city apartment to a suburban house (a small one, but still) was? How instantly we expanded to fit our new space. When we were packing up our stuff from our closet-free apartment (seriously, the place had one closet; it was the worst) [...]

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DIY Terrarium Centerpiece

Things that I like: - Plants - The color green - Centerpieces - Small creatures, preferably ones that require a minimum of care (we’ve got our hands full over here) Things that I do not like: - Keeping plants alive, because I kill them. Always. I know, I know: on the scale of Difficult Things [...]

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Objects Of Affection

{ My in-an-airport must-buy: one of these ridiculous things from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory … } { … A rediscovery of my very first ‘fancy’ wallet: a Burberry that’s over a decade old, but still looks pretty decent … } { … These, which in case you haven’t noticed are green ceramic pigs WITH WINGS, [...]

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