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Today only (5/2/13), BuyCostumes.com is having a massive $10 costume sale on nearly all their inventory. Their costumes normally start from $29.99 for kids and $49.99 for adults, but they range up to as much as $110 (hello! for a costume!). The Michael Jackson costume above is normally $109, but on sale for just $10. [...]
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An oldie but goodie… Wishing you and yours a Purim Sameach! xoxo, Mara
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Thursday night is pizza night at our house. Last night as I was rolling out our crusts, I had a brainstorm! If you can make a half moon-shape stuffed pizza and call it calzone, why not a triangle shape and call it: Pizza Hamantashen. So that’s just what we did! Followed up by hamantashen with [...]
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Today’s creative mishloach manot idea comes from Coby Glasserow, whose Childhood theme is a clever idea for young adults (and the young at heart). This was my first year coming up with a theme for my Mishloach Manot. In the past I’d just put a bunch of goodies together in a bag and hand them out, but [...]
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It may be a fast day, but here in Kansas City, it’s also a snow day. And that means we’re warming up our kitchen by baking a batch of hamantashen. Now, to be completely honest, I am not the hamantashen’s greatest fan. Dry dough? Prune and poppyseed filling? Meh. I’ll pass. But throw in some [...]
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Find yourself stuck for a creative mishloach manot idea this year for Purim? There’s nothing wrong with a few hamantashen and an orange on a plastic plate. But if you want to get a bit more creative, picking a “theme” for your mishloach manot is one way to up the cute-factor without driving yourself too [...]
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Just a little over a week before Purim, and like many of you, we are finalizing plans for our costumes, seudah, and mishloach manot. While I don’t post many pictures of my kids, they are so cute in their Purim costumes, I couldn’t resist! Over the last six past, we’ve had: a snail a king [...]
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Today’s creative mishloach manot idea comes from Rivky Waldman, who tied together her Tea Time theme with both her mishloach manot and her family’s costumes. Ever since my kids were young, I enjoyed dressing them up for purim with some kind of theme and match the mishloach munes to it with a cute poem. Last year we [...]
