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Tell All – Confession Time

February 28, 2013 by 34 Comments
Friend Graphic with two owls sitting on a branch

Today I tell all. Or at least a few things you may not have known about me.  It's confession time on The Fringe. I thought I would take this opportunity to get to know you a little bit better, but it's hard for me to entice you into spilling your guts in the comments, so I'm going to go first. After this, you should feel sufficiently guilted into leaving a comment and telling me all sorts of fun facts about you. Even all you blog stalkers.  Don't pretend; you know who you are. A Few Fun Facts I eat popcorn.  Lots of it.  Sometimes with butter, sometimes with salt, but … [Read more...]

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One Target Dress Worn Seven Ways

February 26, 2013 by 56 Comments
Seven Ways to Wear One Target Dress

1 Dress Worn 7 Ways In this post, I will show how you can invest twenty bucks into buying one basic dress and then wear it seven different ways. I wish all my clothes were this versatile. I'll also be adding this to The Pleated Poppy's What I Wore Wednesday. Style #1 I bought this Target dress back in September.  I checked the store's website and it is no longer available, however, these black and white striped dresses are in just about every store I go into.  You can find them at almost every price point. I do not spend a lot of money on trendy pieces of clothes, because let's … [Read more...]

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The Library: My Office Away from Home

February 25, 2013 by 41 Comments
The library: My Office Away from Home

Hello Monday Since this weekend was a bust, I decided to show you our library, my office away from home. I mean, I could talk about how FringeMan came down with the stomach bug, but that's not a good Monday morning topic. Let's just say I declared the second floor of our house a contamination zone and I slept on the couch. The kids and I stayed as far away from home as possible, so of course that meant at least one trip to the library. This room is my office away from home. I plant myself here every time I come to the library. Usually the entire table is covered with my junk, a few … [Read more...]

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Life is Short. Wear Your Tiara.

February 13, 2013 by 21 Comments
life is short. wear your tiara sign

My daughter got a tiara for her birthday.  She's an eleven year-old princess. We went to our favorite accessory store, Charming Charlies, and gushed over the amount of eye candy - beads as far as the eye could see, and purses with bows.  It was a rainbow of girly goodness and we found our pot of gold. She stood in front of a wall full of tiara's and her eyes twinkled with the reflection of rhinestones.  Sheepishly she looked up at me and said, "I've always wanted a tiara." "So get one."  I said. Life is too short not to wear a tiara. ********** The next morning I crouched over … [Read more...]

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3 Things For A 13th Birthday

January 29, 2013 by 18 Comments
birthday advice for a teenager

Today is my son's thirteenth birthday.  When I held him in my arms for the first time, I couldn't really see ahead to this day, not even in my imagination.  Goodness, I couldn't see ahead to solid foods.  I was afraid to give him his first bath and I didn't know how to burp him correctly. I loved him fiercely and I cried my eyes out over him.  All I really wanted him to do was to go to sleep, just for one night.  I always thought babies slept a lot. I drank coffee until my nerves were frazzled and listened to others say that I just wasn't acting like myself.  No sleep and … [Read more...]

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The Cure for Dry Skin

January 25, 2013 by 14 Comments
Eucerin & Almond Oil dry skin healing

My skin is dryer than the Sahara Desert on a sunny day in August.  I wish I were kidding, but the battle for soft, well-hydrated skin began in childhood.  Dry flaking skin with patches of eczema has always been part of my life. Dry skin becomes worse in the winter.  If you have dry skin, you know heat, extremely cold temperatures, and lack of sun all work together to suck every last drop of moisture from your body. Recently my face became a flaky, dry, cracked, itchy, mess.  Then I developed a rash all over my cheeks and chin. My face looked terrible and when I used makeup, it … [Read more...]

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Mommy Super Power

January 15, 2013 by 19 Comments
Mommy Super Powers

I'm a mother with a mommy super power, and I'm pretty sure I am not alone in all this super power goodness. We're all gifted in different areas, but I suspect someone else may have the same super-power as me, or not.  The range of mommy super powers is far and wide. Wanna know what my power is? I have super vision. Yes, I wear glasses, but they don't even interfere with with this super vision.  I can look through all the scratches and smudges on my lens and I can still spot things with my super vision. Wanna know what I can see? Piles of clean clothes, folded and … [Read more...]

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DIY: Balloon Wreath

January 8, 2013 by 14 Comments
DIY Birthday Balloon Wreath

A wise woman knows when to step away from the glue gun and abandon the craft scissors.  She recognizes when she's been outsmarted by D.I.Y. I never claimed to be smart. Besides, it was my daughter's eleventh birthday and she's over the moon for crazy colors and zebra stripes. Unfortunately I began this wreath the night before her birthday.  It was two days after Christmas and snowing like crazy; however, I loved this wreath the minute I saw this photo on Pinterest. I knew I had to make it. Here's what you'll need to make a balloon wreath of your own. A foam circle … [Read more...]

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Mothering Mishaps

December 7, 2012 by 14 Comments
Parenting is a tricky business art

Forget about the mother-of-the-year award.  Who needs one more things to dust and polish. Today is all about Mothering Mishaps.  Now, don't you dare let me go on thinking I am the only mom who screws-up from time to time.  You better commiserate in the comments, because I am about to make you feel much, much better about yourself and your mad parenting skills. I haven't slept very well for the last week and a half.  I am blaming my coughing, hacking, spitting daughter.  Her room is right across the hall from my own and the hall is eighteen inches wide.  I hear every last bark … [Read more...]

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A Few Things Every Parent Should Know

November 20, 2012 by 20 Comments
Parenting Advice

Things you must know about parenting: Children multiply like Gremlins. The more you feed them, the more you get. One minute you are queen (or king) of your castle and then next minute you are reduced to scrubbing Kool-Aid out of the carpet. Some days, alone time translates as twenty seconds in the bathroom.  On. A. Good. Day. Your children will try to kill you.  It really is accidental.  All those matchbox cars lined up on the stairs...they had no idea what a few toys would do to you.  They are so very sorry you ended up in the hospital.  In … [Read more...]

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