Ok…I’ve put my 2 cents in about Halloween over the course of several posts…but I’m just, well, buggered that summer is over.
These are my last thoughts and then it’s on to being “snarkey” about Thanksgiving.
The Good: A four year old in a Scooby-doo costume. Wearing a Paris Hilton costume and adding a black […]
The 2006 Christmas season is upon us ALREADY! The pace will be frantic — between, shopping, cooking, planning decorating and traveling…it’s no wonder the Christmas stocking stuffer is often the last and least imaginative holiday detail. (Unless you’re Martha Stewart.).
Socks? Underwear? Drugstore perfume? BATTERIES? What’s that all about?
You’ve given those items and worse (admit it!) […]
I am sometimes inundated with calls from publications and media outlets — asking me to advertise with them.
As you can quite imagine, a small company often has a minuscule marketing budget, as is the case with The Pet Set — therefore, I have to be selective with my advertising strategies.
What tends to irritate me […]
Everytime I think to myself that I just can’t take Martha Stewart anymore, she comes up with a neat idea. Check out her recipes for Halloween “Creepcakes”:
As with ALL of Martha’s projects, you have to be really organized AND live near great craft and baking supply stores:
RESOURCES
Black sanding sugar (#601344), $1.99 for 4 oz., […]
Oh come on now — it’s exactly 2 months until Christmas. It’s not even HALLOWEEN yet and already with the Lowes commercials and the scarey holiday music.
If you’re too weak to start thinking about a gift list, how about a present for your computer…3M now makes these nifty laptop privacy protection screens for […]
Recently a colleague over at StartUp Nation asked how one goes about getting a national holiday instated, such as National Grandparent’s Day, or National Secretary’s Day, etc. (I once started a whole day’s worth of chatter because I said it should be administrative assistant, rather than secretary).
I do not have a clue as to […]
This is what my backyard currently looks like:
And this is what the inside of my house currently looks like:
Eventually, we hope to have a very nice patio…but in the meantime, it’s jackhammering, and sawing and dust from morning, non-stop until dinner time.
My complaints aside, what is interesting about this are the men who put in […]
While b5.media’s own, SP Bragg over at Aging Faulous can offer grace, style and wit as she helps us to examine growing older, Nora Ephron can crack me up.
Check out this priceless piece from Nora, which appeared in this Sunday’s New York Time Style Magazine. (With the ephemeral, Evan Rachel Wood on the […]
Siggggghhhh! So wait — now you can take liquids onboard a plane? You know, I have to wonder, when are they going to start giving train and cruise-liner passengers the same twaddle regarding packing as they so strenuously give to plane passengers?
Anyway, as you start thinking about a winter break, it may be helpful to […]
Slowly, I have become maddeningly sleep deprived. Developing ideas, worrying about, and simply obsessing about about The Pet Set leaves me on avarage with about 3.5 hours of sleep each night.
So, After a long 20.5 hours of work, who doesn’t just love to plop in front of the TV for an evening’s worth of […]
Did you ever notice, that although we are being spoken to or at all the freak day long, many times it’s the words which are unspoken which are the intended messages?
Entertainers, politicians, teachers, spouses, children…heck even dogs are saying things to use that we can’t hear. We all do it…out of politeness, fear, dishonesty or […]
Every year, as soon as I start to see Halloween decorations, I begin to examine the past year in terms of my goals, my accomplishments and my disappointments.
I know we still have several months to go before year-end, but I can’t help reflecting — maybe it’s the shift in temperature? (And when did those goofy […]
Thank goodness, Martha of The Random Muse made it a point to mention Blogging Project Runway on today’s post.
Now we can learn about all of the fun and silly things that are happening with the show, including this week’s finale.
(If not, I would have absolutely nothing to share with you.) :)
And don’t skip […]
How can a seemingly intelligent person be so unfocused that she burned pancakes? If that person is me, it’s easy. It’s as if my brain sometimes goes for a little drive without me.
I don’t know if this is a function of my getting older or that I’m simply bored, but I’ve noticed recently that I’ll […]
This is pretty powerful. Along with Bobby Shriver and global brand names such as The Gap, American Express and others to appeal to our sense of compassion and charity, Bono has done it again.
He has put his faith in Americans (I think some know that many Americans are more selfless than we are sometimes perceived) […]
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