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A Craft & Recipe to Celebrate Your Favorite Furry Friends
The only thing that can make a great movie or TV series even better is a four-legged star. Celebrating pets this month, Netflix has pulled together a few of our favorite dogs, cats and even monkeys who hit the big screen. Aside from upping the cute factor, these loyal companions can deliver important lessons on courage, protection and love. I grew up with lots of pets in the house and I think at one time we had over 10 dogs, 3 cats and a couple goldfish living at our place. Granted, eight of those were puppies our Standard Poodle had just given birth to, but I have always enjoyed…
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Make Your Own Cosmetics: A New and Natural Alternative
There is a new product on the market that is so fun and fresh, your makeup will never be the same again. Make Your Own Cosmetics offers kits that allow you to create your own eye shadow using their specially formulated all-natural, cruelty-free ingredients. Do you ever see an amazing eye shadow color in the store and get home to find it just doesn’t fit you? Now you can completely customize your colors to get just the right shade. The paraben- and gluten-free mineral makeup is perfect for sensitive skin. The Colour Crush Eye Shadow Kit includes 9 eye shadow pigments plus a base, and everything you need to get…
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PBS KIDS PREMIERES Special Downton Abbey-Inspired Episode of Arthur
PBS KIDS PREMIERES Special Downton Abbey-Inspired Episode of Arthur – Join Arthur and his friends for a drama-filled adventure airing January 26 on PBS KIDS and available on DVD January 27 – Ever wonder what secrets and stories your family history holds? This is the question posed to everyone’s favorite aardvark and his friends in “Fountain Abbey,” an all-new, Downton Abbey-inspired episode of ARTHUR, premiering January 26 on PBS KIDS (check local listings). “Fountain Abbey” will also be available on DVD January 27 through PBS Distribution. In the drama-filled “Fountain Abbey,” Muffy finds herself absolutely devastated when she learns her great-great grandmother, Mary Alice, wasn’t royalty at all. She…
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Disney’s Jake and The Never Land Pirates Review and Giveaway
Join Jake and His Friends as They Battle Captain Hook to Save Wendy’s Storybook and the Story of Peter Pan! JAKE AND THE NEVER LAND PIRATES: BATTLE FOR THE BOOK! When Wendy’s special Storybook is stolen by Captain Hook, Jake and his mates go to London to help Peter Pan’s friend (from the classic movie Peter Pan). The longer the book is out of Wendy’s hands, the more she and her brothers (John and Michael) forget about their past adventures on Never Land. The battle for the book continues in Never Land, where Hook plans to destroy the book and its stories in the legendary Ring of…
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Downton Abbey Inspired Tea Party Ideas
This past Friday, January 2nd, PBS and MASTERPIECE “hosted” a BIG SIP event in downtown New York City and are encouraging fans of Downton Abbey to get involved and host their own tea party in anticipation of tonight’s premiere of Season 5. I am so excited for tonight’s premiere that we are hosting our own little tea party today and wanted to share some ideas to join in the fun! You can make your tea party as elaborate or as simple as you like. We used my grandmother’s pewter tea set that my mother gave me this last year. I love that it has been in the family three generations…
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A Moment with Artist Carmen Salazar of Siemon and Salazar
It was early December, about ten years ago, while staring at my computer screen, my then-boss suddenly announced that he had gifts for the staff! The gifts were not wrapped but it didn’t need it. He handed me a beautiful hand blown, tear shaped glass vessel that was lovingly patterned with alternating stripes of deep crimson and merlot. He then told us that a good friend of his made them, and that his friend and his wife were actually having their annual warehouse sale that very night! Upon arrival at their studio, I was immediately taken by beautiful concrete steppingstones and twinkle-lit olive trees that lined the walkway towards…
