Brew Bash: 30th birthday beer tasting party
To commemorate my husband turning the big 3-0 this year I knew we had to do something EPIC. After much thought, consideration and Pinteresting (is that a word yet?) I settled on a beer tasting. Here’s how we threw a 30th Beer Bash…
Weirdo ambassadors: Exploring the friction between attention-seeking and impatience
If I dress in a way that I know attracts a certain kind of attention, is it fair for me to get impatient when someone is curious about it?
MASTICATE this Dalek cake!
Imagine how excited I was to see this amazing, homemade Dalek cake pop up in our Offbeat Home Flickr pool. Go ahead… imagine… NOPE! Wrong, I was even more excited than you just imagined. So I asked Offbeat Homie Gem to exterminate elaborate on how she created this bad boy.
4 secrets to living in another country for a few months on the cheap
Traveling to another country for an extended amount of time is only for the filthy rich and privileged. You can’t possibly afford international travel to some other country! Let alone live there for months at a time! But traveling internationally on the cheap all comes down to a few simple tactics. Though they are not always that simple to implement…
Wait, is offbeat Botox a thing?
I’m nearing 40, and while I think aging is pretty cool, and like how I look these days (I’m in better shape than I was in my 20s!)… I don’t like the furrows between my eyebrows. It’s less that they make me look old… and more that they make me look mad! I got a Groupon for Botox and decided I wanted to try it. Afterwards, I told my husband and he got really upset…
Keep the Breaking Bad-ness going in your hearts and homes with these science-y home goods
Breaking Bad — everyone’s favorite meth-themed TV show — is coming to an end this Sunday. I’m sure a lot of you are going to morn the loss of having all that science-y, chemistry, craziness piped through your entertainment system. So what if you just incorporated some of it in your home decor?
How can an introvert thrive at work?
I have been at a great job for six months and have just had my second employee review. What came up is that my boss thinks I need to be more confident and assertive and forge better relationships with my colleagues. I am finding myself getting more introverted as I get older (pretty sure I was never this bad in school) and I have trouble initiating conversations with people. Do any homies have advice for dealing with being the introvert in the workplace?
How to throw a Bill Murray party
If you follow Offbeat Home & Life on facebook, you may have seen that I was creating a Fantastic Mr. Fox costume for a Bill Murray-themed birthday party. Many of you asked to learn more about throwing a Bill Murray party. So I asked the birthday boy himself to let you in on the secrets to throwing a kick-ass Bill Murray party (is there any other kind of Bill Murray party?)…