The Joys of Home Ownership

Building projects are on the go around my house these days. Actually, a little more un-building than building.
We took down (or shall I say, the professionals we hired took down) a wall between our kitchen and formal dining room. I immediately loved the way it looks and how opened up the area. What I didn’t like so [...]

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Calm in the Cabbage Patch Craze

They were new, unique and–for awhile anyway–in good supply. Box after box lined up the shelf of the local Woolworth store. With a  glorious clear cover on the front, the boxes held Cabbage Patch Kids: the greatest thing to come along since the doll was invented.
Each child came with his or her own birth certificate, first and middle names, and [...]

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Guys and (their fights over) Dolls

The jury trial for the Mattel and MGM folks, who have been sparring in court over the rights to Bratz dolls– created by a Mattel worker while allegedly under the company’s employ–has come to an end. Apparently, this man signed a contract giving Mattel rights to anything he designed while working for them.
 
Hmmm. I’m dying to see this contract [...]

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For Every Season…There is a Bag

For some girls, it’s shoes, for others, it’s all clothing. And still for some, it’s weird and unmentionable things.
 For me, it’s bags. No, not the ones under my eyes–those I try to hide.
 
It’s the big purse, the laptop bag, the backpack, the messenger bag, the book bag, the diaper bag, and the super book bag/diaper bag/purse/document-holder [...]

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I’m Lookin’ for the Real Thing

I enjoy cooking, and I love to eat. Put these two things together, and there’s lots of food flying around my kitchen at any given time, on any given day.
These days though, it’s hard to find food made with the real stuff. You know, ingredients that are less than four syllables and are easy to pronounce. [...]

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