I sometimes think that my blog secretly resents Facebook because so many thoughts which at one time would have been blog entries are now short Facebook status updates ( Read more... )

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Product Disney Princess / Superhero babysitters

Service provided Parents hire their next babysitter based on their child's favorite animated hero. Trained babysitter comes in costume and in character. Sample range of characters include Disney princesses, Sesame Street characters and Pixar stars like Mr. Incredible.

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I guess it started when I couldn’t stop craving a pear cake I’d seen on a blog a friend sent me. A few days later and gave in and made the cake. (It was great. My only regret is that I ate almost half of it myself in about a day ( Read more... )

Alida and I spent Sunday afternoon making and decorating these 3-D cookies. The angels and snowmen were too fragile :-(


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If you know me as a girl who loves magnets and mosaics, you won't be surprised that I am delighted by this new product!


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Kris and I teamed up again (this time adding Hugo as well) and brought this year's design forward from last year’s 17th century Pirate ship. This year the pumpkin stayed on land as it competed Clay's annual pumpkin carving party.

We had nine new categories to choose from: