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My friend Lydia’s husband and Grasshopper and Sensei‘s art teacher’s husband are both Industrial Designers who have worked on vacuum products. Turns out that they have worked together too! What a small world! Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. When I…
Jeanette Nyberg of Craftwhack and I have teamed up again to bring you a holiday shopping series. November 3, 2015: Gifts That Give Back (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) November 10, 2015: DIY Gift Ideas (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) November 17, 2015: Gender Bending Gifts for Kids (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) November 24, 2015: Gifts to Steal from Loved Ones (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) December 1, 2015: Left Brain/Right Brain…
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Aunt Jemima®. The opinions and text are all mine. My kids like a hot breakfast but I rarely wake up in time to cook for them before school. On the weekends, before their soccer games, it can also be a mad scramble to get…
My girls visited Alcatraz this past summer and it didn’t freak them out. I wondered if it would. PickyKidPix has been obsessed with psychics and mediums lately and watches Lisa Williams a little too much. It could be that we live in an old house that is NOT haunted but there are certainly stories of…
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Incredible Innovations®. The opinions and text are all mine. Does your child have food allergies or do you know someone who does? I know moms who bake special cupcakes and treats to pack for their child when they go to birthday parties. It takes…
My blogging friend, Nina Garcia of Sleeping Should Be Easy, has a new book out called Parenting With Purpose! In this practical, eye-opening and action-oriented book, Nina Garcia explains how to use connection to raise well-behaved kids and strengthen your parent-child relationship. You’ll learn: How to diffuse and prevent tantrums and outbursts How to better…
Aetna recently teamed up with Grandparents.com on a survey to find out what healthy means to more than 5,000 Grandparents.com members. There is a strong focus on connections between the past and the future. Many grandparents these days live with family, with almost one in five respondents reporting that they live with children or other family…