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Welcome to our Fun Favorites page. Here you'll find all kinds of articles about having fun. There's giveaways, product reviews, and anything else we think is fun. Check out a few of our most popular posts here, or scroll down for the most recent projects.

Weekend Make and Takes: Football, Hearts & Chinese New Year

by Marie

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?! Well, here’s some yummy tailgating snacks to help round up the football fans!

Citrus Guacamole by Recipe Girl (pictured above, yum!)
Cheesy Spinach Bacon Dip by A Southern Fairytale
Crab Stuffed Mushrooms by Furey and the Feast
Teeny Tiny Tacos by Time in the Kitchen

Here’s a few more fabulous crafts helping to celebrate [...]

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Custom Caricatures from an Amazing Artist

by Marie

You’ve seen the fun caricature drawings people get at carnivals and festivals. I love them. They find the silliest features your face might have and bring it to life. Gabriel Olsen is one of those amazing illustrators and is a master at caricatures. He was kind enough to give me the two drawings below. I [...]

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Weekend Make and Takes: Design

by Marie

I’ve just spent the last two days at Alt Design Summit in Salt Lake City, UT. Happily it was in my hometown, so I didn’t have to travel far! This conference was all about design. Design in blogs, crafts, food, photography, home, everywhere. I learned a ton, thinking about how I can improve the design [...]

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Adorable New ‘Babies’ Documentary

by Marie

I just found this movie clip over at Clover Lane, (who has a fun crafty blog. Check out these Winter Decorations!) Although this movie isn’t out yet, I know I’m going to love every minute of it. It’s a documentary about 4 babies growing up in 4 different parts of the world. It’s going to [...]

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Let’s Talk About the Book, Hunger Games

by Marie

I just finished reading the book Hunger Games and Catching Fire (it’s sequel), and January is not even over yet, exceeding my New Year’s Resolution expectations! Now that I’m finished, I have a few thoughts. Then I want to hear what you think!
SPOILER ALERT – Read the books and come back!
I absolutely loved this book. [...]

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Day 3 of StartNOW @PCSki

by Marie

We’re on Day 3 of my son’s StartNOW program, sponsored by Park City Mountain Resort. He’s really getting the hang of it and having a lot of fun. I feel like he’s progressed a lot since his first day. I even took him out on a few runs after his lesson this time and he [...]

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Eat. Blog. Run. Relay Team 2010

by Marie

As mentioned in my New Year’s Resolutions, I’m running a relay this year! I’ve ran a relay before back in 2007 with my family and it was so much fun that I had to do it again. So I decided to organize a team of few running women bloggers I know and create a relay [...]

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Resolutions for the Mind, Body, and Soul

by Marie

For me, 2010 is the year of the mind, body, and soul. Even my milk jug lid knows it’s going to be a good year as I found this image the other morning for breakfast! Below I’m making some resolutions in each of those areas, along with a few links to go with them.

Mind:

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Snow Clothes, Renting Skis, & Riding the Lift

by Marie

As I’ve written in an introduction post here, Park City Mountain Resort is sponsoring my son through their new program StartNOW. He’s had his first lesson and well on his way to calling himself a skier! Below I’m sharing a few of the things we learned on our first day at ski school.
Snow Clothes: It [...]

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