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Tricks (But Mainly) Treats for a Great Halloween Party

This past weekend, we hosted our Third-Annual Pumpkin Carving party for our friends and their kiddos, and tried out a bunch of fun new recipes. (If you’d like to see previous years pics, here are the posts from 2015 and 2014!) Our snacks included (from left to right in the top photo): Rice Krispie Pumpkin […]

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Skinny Margaritas for Cinco De Mayo!

It’s Cinco De Mayo, that day when white people appropriate Hispanic culture without any knowledge of the day’s historical background at all, but, hey, margaritas, amirite?! We’re back on a low carb kick here in the Unintended Domesticity household, so for me, any celebratory margaritas have to be of the skinny variety. Luckily, I’ve spent […]

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Make Ahead Snacks for the “Big Game”

We like to play a drinking game whenever we watch a show on HGTV – you have to take a sip anytime someone says “open concept”.  This game can get you very drunk, very fast.  Because “open concept” is all the rage in real estate, but it has one fatal flaw – if everyone can see […]

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Fun Halloween Party Foods (2015 Edition)

Last weekend, we decided to repeat a tradition we started this past year: a pre-Halloween pumpkin carving party for friends and their kiddos. We already had some great recipes from last year including salmon sandwich ghosts and chocolate-dipped pretzel rods that we chose to repeat this year.  But I also expanded this year’s spread to include candy […]

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33 presents for a 33rd birthday
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33 Presents for a 33rd Birthday

This post contains affiliate links. For our full advertising disclosure, see our About page. Yesterday was my husband’s 33rd birthday, marking 1/3 of a century of him making the world a better place.  I always like to plan something BIG for his birthdays, especially since he comes from a large family where birthdays were primarily quiet family affairs. […]

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Halloween Treats & Appetizers for a Boo-tiful Party

Halloween’s never really been my favorite holiday.  Deciding on a costume, procuring all the stuff needed for that costume without spending a fortune, then battling the crowds at the top parties…I was over it by about age 23, I gotta admit. However, I do LOVE pumpkin carving.  So this weekend, we invited our nearest and dearest […]

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