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The best local chocolatiers around the USA: The most delicious way to support Small Business Saturday
Every year, we are huge supporters of Small Business Saturday, ever since the first grassroots effort. You can look back through our archives for our writers' favorite small businesses from Brooklyn to Albuquerque but this year we wanted to point out another way to...
3 ways to save money on Small Business Saturday while supporting your favorite local businesses
We love Small Business Saturday, which gives a much-needed boost to our favorite moms and pops around the US, from restaurants to shops to services. (Hey, need some dry cleaning done? Today's the day!) Here are three ways you can shop small today and save, too....
Happy Thanksgiving, cool moms!
May your day be filled with love, laughter, and lots of pumpkin pie. Thank you for being the most amazing readers ever. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving! [Image via Moss and Twig Prints]
6 of the best YouTube hair tutorials for girls that you can actually do. Even if you’re not Ken Paves.
With three girls in my house, I've got an awful lot of hair to brush and style, and with the holidays almost here, I've been wanting to change up from the usual hairband. It's true you'll find no shortage of YouTube hair tutorials, but after watching hundreds of...
The best Thanksgiving wines for $20 or less, plus tips for picking your own holiday wine (no snobbery included).
You’ve planned and prepped for your Thanksgiving meal and then suddenly you remember: wine! (Or is that just me?) I generally drink wines I like, no matter what’s on the table--I’m easy that way. The Thanksgiving challenge is that there’s so much on the table, with so...
20 luxury holiday gifts for kids and babies under $50, complete with a VIP discount code from Jacadi
We all discovered our partner Jacadi when we were pregnant and quickly became obsessed with their gorgeous Parisian kids and baby clothes. Their clothing and accessories are often a splurge, which is why as a parent, receiving a Jacadi box for the holidays has that...
The Big Last Minute Thanksgiving Help Guide: Recipes, printables, hotlines and more recipes. We’re here for you!
You need last minute Thanksgiving help? We've got it for you. We've put out so many amazing features from the best Thanksgiving recipes of all kinds to fun printables to keep the kids busy, that we wanted to put them all in one place for you. Happy prepping, cooking,...
giftabls mini gift boxes: When a regular greeting card isn’t quite enough.
The gift-giving season is nearly upon us, which means it's time to think about recognizing all of those people who deserve a little something. For something that's just a step up from a card, but not quite , I love the ready-packaged giftabls gift kits which...
Wonderful vintage Christmas ornaments and decor on Etsy: And a very merry, mid-century Christmas to you too.
I think bringing vintage Christmas ornaments and other goodies into your celebration can bring so much personality to your holiday table setting and the rest of your decor. I really love mid-century items, so anything past the late '60s gets a little modern kitsch for...
This is your brain on embroidery hoop art
I think I've found the perfect Christmas gift for my much cooler younger sister (shh, don't tell). While we have tons of ideas for fun and irreverent best friend gifts, I'm excited about the embroidery hoop art over at Merriweather Council's Etsy shop, where their wry...
10 cool custom photo gifts for the holidays
If your kids are like mine, it's no small feat to actually get one fabulous, shareable photo of them. So when I have a perfect one, I love looking at ways to incorporate it into great custom photo gifts for people on my list I know will appreciate it (hello,...
Gourmet chocolate pretzels from Fatty Sundays: Bet you can’t eat just 70 million.
I hate showing up to someone's house empty-handed, even when the hostess says, "Oh...just bring yourself." That's why I always have so much fun scoping out affordable hostess gifts for you all each year. While we can always grab a bottle of wine or fresh flowers,...
Digital art you can eat. Sweet.
NYC local cupcake shop Baked By Melissa has had us wrapped around their finger since they rolled into town with their delicious bite-sized cupcakes and clever ideas--remember the cupcake gumball machine and the Betsy Johnson cupcake? We even have their insanely good...
12 free (or mostly free) Thanksgiving printables from place cards to gift tags to coloring pages for the kids.
We've given you some delicious turkey, mashed potato, stuffing, and cranberry sauce recipes, now let us help you finish up your planning with some easy Thanksgiving printables for gift tags, decor, even coloring pages and craft projects for the kids that will have...
How to cook a turkey: 5 easy Thanksgiving turkey recipes
We’ve been gearing up for Thanksgiving all week with amazing mashed potato recipes, the easiest cranberry sauce recipes, killer stuffing recipes, tips for how to make homemade pie, and a guide to best mail order pies in the country (a tasty, timesaving approach to...
5 of our favorite Pinterest pins: Thanksgiving edition
Are you as obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 Thanksgiving Pinterest pins, plus lots more from our site and around the web. 1. If you're heading out of town for Thanksgiving, you need this hilarious tote bag. So awesome, right?...
Adorable personalized wooden ornaments for kids who wants to see their own names on the tree. That’s, all of them.
Every Christmas, one of my kids' favorite things to do is reminisce about each ornament as we hang it on the tree. Sure, it takes us a long time to get the whole thing decorated, but we love trying to remember the story behind each one, and some of the most...
Best ever Thanksgiving stuffing recipes: The essential Thanksgiving table
Stuffing is one of those Thanksgiving dishes that I’m always changing. One year cornbread, the next sourdough. Sometimes sausage, other times bacon. Every once in a while I make it in the bird, though mostly it's done in a separate pot. I’m not yet sure how I’m going...
3 great Thanksgiving books for kids to be thankful for.
We love Thanksgiving, but we'll admit it can get the short end of the stick, sandwiched between the Halloween sugar-fest and the merry-and-bright excitement of the holidays. While one of the nice things about Thanksgiving is that it's about family, not gifts, we still...
Oh 80’s movies, how we love you in a single sentence.
I am so losing myself in this awesome collection of t-shirts on Fab.com from Stereotype Design. Each one describes a popular movie in a single sentence--like if you were a screenwriter, only you had to pitch the screenplay it just took you 12 years to write on Twitter...
8 seriously amazing mashed potato recipes for Thanksgiving. Or heck, Christmas, Mother’s Day and our birthdays.
I can never eat too many hot, yummy, heaping forkfuls of mashed potatoes. We're the kind of family that has both homemade stuffing (often more than one kind) and potatoes on the Thanksgiving table. If you're not running away from me in a carb-phobic panic right now,...