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Pinkies Up - Time to Embroider Some Downton Abbey Tea Towels
[Editor's Note: When I first set eyes on these Downton Abbey embroidery patterns designed by April Heather Art on Kitschy Digitals my tea sipping PBS watching heart skipped a beat. Just when I thought...
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Sexual Assault: Years Later, It Still Hurts
As a child, whenever you were outside playing and fell off your bike, or fell down as you were running down the block…chances are you ran inside crying, where your mom or dad would say: "What happened?...
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The Absolute Importance of Teaching Your Kids Online Manners
My daughter told me that she was being cyber-bullied. After she told me what happened, it wasn't really cyber-bullying, but I would say it's pretty mean. Apparently a girl at school used Instagram to...
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Inspired & Unstoppable: 3 Practices to Succeed Wildly in Your Life’s Work
As a young woman I denied my calling, the life that called my name, and I achieved worldly “success.” I ignored my desire to write, considered it fanciful. Instead, I graduated Harvard Law School with...
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"Super Why!" Creator Asks: Does Jack Antonoff of Fun. FINALLY Make Me Cool?
COOL?! Could it be?Is TODAY the day?When I'm at a red carpet event, flooded with flashing lights & flowing gowns, it's become customary that when I finally approach the photographers' line, they...
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Create Your Own "Dating Bucket List"
Editor's Note: Keeping things "fresh" in a relationship takes work. We're always looking for new and exciting things to do and fun ways to enjoy spending time together. Sometimes, we overwhelm...
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Upcycled Kitchenware: Fancy Fruit Bowl
Editor's Note: Is there anything more liberating than creating something you need out of used materials than buying something new? Getting the hang of the whole 'upcycling' thing brings constant...
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Should You Pay Your Kids for A's on Their Report Cards?
Report cards, grades, standardized testing, red green yellow, on and on and on. Our kids' performance in school is closely monitored, graded and reported back to us, the parents, in many ways...
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Scared of Getting Sick? A Reality Check
Afraid of catching the flu, or coming down with cancer? Join the club – only if your anxiety about illness is overboard, it can actually harm your health more than it helps. So what can you do to...
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What I Learned at BlogHer Entrepreneurs: I Am an Entrepreneur!
Editor's Note: We've shared some great posts about our attendee's experiences at our BlogHer Entrepreneurs '13 conference. We wanted to take some time and share this new post by Sarah Kimmel at Tech 4...
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Craft Re-fashion Tutorial: T-shirt to Girls Tank Top with Rosette
Have a t-shirt that needs a little make over? Here is all you have to do.If you read this post, you realize that I had a partially ruined purple shirt that I didn't know what to do with. So, after...
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How Effective Hyperlinks Can Help Your Blog
In my crazy life, I'm always talking to students about how important link text is. Link text is the actual link you click. Sometimes I call it clickable text. It matters in several ways. One is to the...
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Sunday Reflections: Anniversary of My Failed Suicide
This Sunday is an ordinary Sunday. It will start by hearing two little people talk and giggle as they wake up and crawl into each other’s beds, where they will lay there and read books for a while. The...
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A Safe Haven for Babies and Parents Alike
Spring 2011There is a cemetery on the way to Westley's preschool. It's an old cemetery; the town's first police chief and mayor are both buried there. I recently learned that the grounds include a...
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Why Teaching Your Kids About Child Abuse Is So Important
When I was growing up, my dad was extremely protective of my sister and me. Some would say he was overprotective, and they would probably be right. Now that I'm an adult, I can understand his...
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If You Love Me, Say My Name!
I realized the other day that my Crush says my name - often, fully and deliberately. It catches me mid-step and leaves me nearly speechless. The letters that would form the words to respond back to him...
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BlogHer Food Interviews: The Business Case for Video
It's time to get back into the BlogHer Food '13 speaker interviews. This week I am talking with the panelists from our session, The Business Case for Video. Video is a popular and growing medium that...
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'Doctor Who' Birthday Cake Made by the Best Mom Ever
Editor’s note: I think Tina from Sugar Bean Baker just won the coolest mom award. She baked her son this utterly over-the-top "Doctor Who"-themed cake for his 16th birthday. The base is made from Rice...
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Perseverance Pays Off: Signing a Book Deal
Editor's note: I haven't yet met one author who was not told at some point that the odds of them getting published were slim. Writers learn about rejection early but what I've found is that writers...
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Roger Ebert Challenged Us to Think About What Makes a Movie Great
RIP Roger Ebert: The Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic, who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for more than 45 years, died on Thursday, April 4, at age 70, after a long struggle with cancer. Two days...
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