A love letter on your birthday.
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The best part about New Year’s for me is that it also happens to be my birthday.
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On Sunday, I turned 28. Despite being admittedly less agile at recovering from nights of drinking, a bit softer in parts my memory swears were firmer before, and no closer at all to figuring out what the heck I’m doing with my life, my twenty-seventh year treated me well...
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I learned about a new way of doings things, and I have to say, I'm pretty intrigued...
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...for my dear friend's 25th!
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Although deemed "naked" by today's cake-naming guidelines, this cake still has plenty of cream cheese frosting among its layers, enough to make up for all that's been lost. It therefore feels wrong and deceiving to call it naked, hence its new, more fitting name.
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Jon’s sweetest nephew just had his 2nd birthday party. And let’s be real—wrapping paper, cards, and even to some extent the gifts, tend to feel more like they’re for the adults involved than the tiny human celebrating his birthday, a little unsure of all the hustle and bustle going on around him. I wanted him to really love our gift, even while still wrapped. After having taken note of a similar kind of pom pom gift wrap I'd seen, I knew it’d be a cinch to make and that it’d be perfect for Smith because of the sensory aspect of the fuzzy little pom poms. And I was right! He loved touching them and trying to pull them off. And I loved how cute the gifts turned out. I certainly plan on employing this technique again, maybe for Christmas with holiday colors, or using brown paper and plain white pom poms for a more subdued look.
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