Winner of the NOVICA contest

Did you enter last week’s contest to win a $50 gift certificate to NOVICA? You have to enter for a chance to win, you know! The winner has been magically selected by my WordPress plugin, and—drumroll, please—it is commenter 44, Dewi. Congratulations,...

If you must use a mix…

… my children (those scurrilous gluten-eaters) assure me that this Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix is the crown jewel of boxed brownie mix. For some reason they prefer this to the zucchini, protein powder, and oat bran ones I like to make them from...

I don’t really know what a Skylander is

Somehow my kids have missed the Skylanders craze, for which I am extremely grateful. (We already have a zillion Wii games and all they ever really play is Legend of Zelda or Mario Kart, anymore.) So I can’t tell you much about it or why it’s such a big...

Time for summer clearance!

It’s the most wonderful time of the season—time for the summer clearance sale at 6pm.com! They’ve taken their already low prices and slashed ’em again, plus that word “summer,” I don’t know that it means what they think it...

Hairvana

Confession: every so often I take a deep breath, avert my eyes, and spend an outrageous amount of money on hair products. I know. But I have to wear my hair every day! And curly hair is finicky. Some of my favorite luxury hairstuffs come from Ouidad (the curl...

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