Tech Tuesday: The Art of the Instagram Hashtag

Whether or not you are on Instagram, by know you likely know about the #TBT – Throwback Thursday. And if you aren’t on Twitter, you can likely figure out what Follow Friday (#FF) means. There are some other #hashtag theme days out there that are gaining traction that I thought I would share with you all! Why do people use these hashtags? There may be a number of reasons, but I see it as creative...

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Craft-tacular or Craft-tastrophy? Chevron Wreath

As I’ve blogged about here, a lot of my recent craft projects have been either full on or borderline craft-tastrophies. After Easter, we needed a wreath to get us to Memorial Day (we have a nice little red, white and blue wreath). After a day at the craft store, I came home with the items shown below and decided I’d go for a little S painted chevron wreath. But I wasn’t sure how I was going to get...

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Etsy Item of the Week – Giant Jenga

When I lived in Chicago, this trashy bar on my street (Division) had a giant Jenga game in its window. I always thought the game was rather cool, but was a bit afraid to play it in fear that the giant blocks would come crashing down on me. Now, as I see on the Facebook, a lot of people either play Giant Jenga at bars or at home. If you aren’t savvy enough to make one of these at home, never fear...

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Fashion Friday: Wishlists

(source) Sometimes Reader, former co-worker and fellow Anthropologie-lover Katie told me a few months ago that she uses the Anthro wishlist to watch for items to go on sale. This is SO MUCH easier than my former strategy of just going to the store on a weekly basis (or on Tuesday when items would go on sale!). Now that I’m addicted to the Anthro Wishlist, I’ve added a few others to monitor...

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Taking a Bite Out of Pittsburgh

I interrupt this regularly scheduled Thirsty Thursday post to give you a somewhat related drinking/eating post. Lately I’ve been LOVING the local Pittsburgh Food Scene. On Fridays the hubs and I regularly dislike cooking at home, so we have been trying out a number of dining establishments across the city. This has led to some of the best meals of my life. Often people ask me where they should...

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Etsy Item of the Week: Just Beat It

Whether it’s a kids birthday, bachelorette party, adults birthday or just for no darn reason at all, I’m really still obsessed with piñatas. So I decided that they would be my Etsy Item of the Week. My first stop was Pinata Fun and of course my eyes went right to the owl! I’ve mentioned them here before, but PinataVille just may have moved into the category of MY FAVORITE with this creation....

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Motivational Monday: Fortune Mag's The Best Advice I Ever Got

This weekend I tackled a major household project…making it through my stack of magazines.  I won’t divulge the real number of mags in the stack (I actually don’t know), but let’s just say that the only pile left is Vogue and I’m looking at about five of the last six months. Making my way through an old Fortune mag I picked up on a biz trip (because I’m fancy like that and read grown up mags),...

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Shot of GodMom's Awesome Pizza Dip

I interrupt this regularly scheduled Sunday with Sue to bring you a post from another Shot of Mom…Shot of GodMother – Aunt Michelle! Craftiness and Cookingness (is that a word?) totally run in my family. So it’s no surprise that my mom’s four sisters excel at both crafting and cooking. On Father’s Day, I almost devoured a whole pie dish full of Reader/Godmother/Aunt Michelle’s Pizza...

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