14 pop culture-inspired pillows that’ll elevate your couch game
Gaze upon the Starpugs pillow, and know that, with those sad-but-proud pug eyes, that dog is telling you that you are about to see some amazing shit.
My top 4 inspirational female characters
I wanted to take a minute to appreciate some of the fictional women I grew up with whose creators dared to make them different. The ones that I could relate to. The bad-ass women who didn’t just let life happen to them — they happened right back to life…
Sara and Nick: from a majestic movie wedding to adopting fur babies and parenting real babies
Since the wedding, we have purchased a house and adopted a couple of cats. My son is going into second grade. I’m currently pursuing Redken color certification and a cosmetology instructor’s license. Nick left the university he used to work for and is currently working for a marketing firm. We are going into our third year as Old Marrieds, but we’ve been together for seven years total.
Monsterously tart: Make a dessert that looks like Mike Wazowski
Mike Wazowski is the star of the children’s animation Monsters University and Monsters, Inc. This is how you can turn the lovable Mike Wazowski into a tart!
Let’s geek out about going on a self-guided Pretty In Pink tour
I recently shot a wedding in LA and had the happy fortune of being able to stay with Megan (as in the Associate Publisher of the Empire) while in town. One night in the trip one of my all-time favorite movies Pretty in Pink came on today, and I mentioned that it would be OMG AMAZING if we could go on a tour of all the places in the movie. It turns out that’s pretty easy to do… so we did it.
Use binders to downsize and organize your DVDs with an easy-loan bonus
We used to have a crap-ton of DVDs. Seriously, they took up an entire wall. Then we moved into our tiny little house. We have windows on every wall, so there isn’t a single open space long enough for our cabinet! The new plan: Declutter, join Netflix, and ditch our clunky DVD cases — opting instead to store them in this lovely little binder that tucks nicely under the television.
17 things The Princess Bride taught me about parenting children with autism
Fans of The Princess Bride will love this list of 17 ways the film has helped her parent children with autism from Bec, author of the blog Snagglebox. Bec has a fifteen-year-old and a twelve-year-old son who both have autism, and has been able to use lessons from the family fave in her favor.
Ditch your DVD cases: a “baskets!” moment for your media
This idea was a truly redefining “baskets!” moment for our household. We were running out of precious bookshelf space, so we decided to recycle all our DVD cases — take every disc, put them in disc sleeves, and store them in a lovely media basket.