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8 Jul 2010With family members to visit, new cities to explore and backyard soirees to attend, you may be busy packing your bags and arranging your packed summer schedule. But through all of the partying and traveling, there is one thing you mustn’t forget: your lovely hostess. She’s the one who fluffed the pillows, stocked the fridge [...]
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16 Mar 2010Two whole days have past since the Liberty of London collection hit Target shelves. Do you know what that means? It’s nearly all gone. (Yes, already.) I told you that such a juicy collaboration would be pillaged quickly. But don’t worry, there is still plenty of pillaging to be had.
Of course, I [...]
Some people will wait outside of sporting venues or department stores for hours—days even—to nab tickets to the big game or to grab the hottest Wii this or that. Me? I’ll show up outside of Target long before the automated doors slide open on March 14 to grab home items (supermarket sweep style) from the [...]
Few days are as groan-worthy as laundry day, especially for those of us who daydream about washer-dryer hookups, lovely steam washers and laundry rooms to call our own. Unfortunately, dates with my dirty clothes typically involve a handful of quarters (scrounged from the depths of my purse and every hidden car nook), a bottle of [...]
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10 Nov 2009This week, as we relish the sound of crispy leaves crunching beneath our boots, we’ve collected a group of items that we seem to seek this time every year. These are the must-haves that we just long for once a hint of a chill comes our way. When we curl up with good books and [...]
We were mesmerized by Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. All it took was one glimpse at those fantastically furry wild things to transport us back to that place—the one where we, as children, were completely transfixed by Max’s world. One where he dressed up in his wolf suit and got into [...]
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29 Oct 2009Remember when Halloween meant plastic jack-o-lanterns filled with candy from neighbors (and, okay, from a few strangers)? In those days, your favorite Halloween décor was all about cheap, plastic spiders, stringy faux spider webs and garbage bag ghosts in the front yard. Now that you’re all grown up, it’s time for your Halloween décor [...]
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8 Sep 2009We have long found woodland creatures, tree dwellers and forest friends to be just plain cute. And lately it seems many big-name designers couldn’t agree more. We’ve seen droves of animal imagery popping up on our favorite store shelves. Perhaps that’s because doses of strategically placed animal décor never fail to add a sense of [...]
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Elizabeth Ulrich is the former editor-in-chief of The Tyra Banks Show Web site, where she covered fashion, beauty, relationships and more—and even penned a column chronicling her dating life. She also has worked as an investigative journalist and staff writer for Village Voice Media. After following her career from Los Angeles to Chicago, Nashville and New York City, Elizabeth is now a freelance writer living in Portland, Oregon.