Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 25, 2009, 10:13 am
This is a really great book, by Suzan Nanfeldt. It's one of those books on what to wear and yes, the focus is plus size but the rules apply, plus or no plus. I've had this book for years. It...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 24, 2009, 3:13 pm
I'm thinking I need to buy clothes as outfits? My problem with having nothing to wear may be that I bought isolated pieces but nothing that goes together... Isn't that what Stacy and Clinton...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 24, 2009, 6:38 am
It's Retro Tuesday! I found something interesting in the first magazine I pulled out this morning. I've always known that some colors were associated with certain eras but I never realized h...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 23, 2009, 1:59 pm
In July I posted about my search for the perfect purse and got lots of responses. Purses, it seems, are something people have a lot to say about. I agree, me too. So what do y'all think about a ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 23, 2009, 6:01 am
Yay! I finally went to a meeting this week-end and I was pretty much bouncing off the walls to be there. Can't say I wasn't nervous, but I was happy. I haven't gone to a meeting since t...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 20, 2009, 5:57 am
Well, I didn't get the convertible... When push came to shove it wouldn't have worked. Besides needing room for the estate sale finds (although I am pretty sure I could have adjusted) my va...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 19, 2009, 3:42 pm
More tomorrow!
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 19, 2009, 7:10 am
Every year around this time my father sends us a huge box of oranges and every time I get one, it's a surprise. I guess life fills my head with lots of other nonsensical details and I forget abo...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 18, 2009, 4:48 pm
Convertible... I don't know, does it work for me? And no, I didn't buy it but I'm going to look at it tomorrow. And it's not a Chevy, I haven't been able to find a Chevy with und...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 18, 2009, 9:36 am
So I was having this conversation with Kmart yesterday... Oh wait, let me back up. I don't Twitter much because unless you're Demi Moore no one cares if you go and eat pita chips. So, twe...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 18, 2009, 6:00 am
Wordless Wednesday November 18, 2009 The long road home
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 17, 2009, 5:50 am
I'm into crafting; it fascinates me. I'd always seen it as an art form. But since I started reading old magazines I've realized what I used to see as crafts - something to be done in my ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 16, 2009, 10:58 am
I wrote My kid's not going to college for NJ Moms Blog. I can't print it here, I promised. But I'd love it if you would check it out. Man, totally love that kid.
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 16, 2009, 7:32 am
Got nothing to do. I'm sick. No car... And I'm trying to avoid TV because while I love this... I don't actually want to buy so... I've been window shopping. Or Windows, shopping....
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 14, 2009, 4:02 pm
A day after I posted about making my Roasted butternut squash honeycrisp apple soup recipe I got an email asking if I wanted to try Brown Cow Greek yogurt. Since one of the ways I serve that soup i...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 13, 2009, 9:02 am
So I'm laying here, ya know, dripping. I wasn't even going to post today because what could I contribute to the world? The current tissue count? In the 1,000's How much I resemble Rudol...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 12, 2009, 5:54 am
Day 54, No car... I got my drivers license when I was 17 and this the longest it's been since I haven't had wheels. Can I tell you what I've learned in the last 54 days? 1. New Jersey&...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 12, 2009, 5:17 am
One of the things I love about Cape May... Besides the quiet.... And 5 a.m.... Is walking on the beach and picking up bits of rock and glass, shell... Especially broken shells. These little bits ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 11, 2009, 12:20 pm
I know I haven't done one is weeks. The thing is I'm still without a car (mini-van - I can't get my mini-van out of my head) and it's been 53 days now. And I am pretty much losing my...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 11, 2009, 3:54 am
Wanting a better way to make chicken stock I pulled out my behemoth Cooks Illustrated Best Recipes, have you seen it? Over 1000 pages of cookingology type knowledge. It's huge and more than a ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 11, 2009, 3:53 am
Wordless Wednesday Ginger had a few homes before we got her; three or four... She bounced around a lot without a place to call her own. But that was 10 years ago and pretty much she considers ever...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 10, 2009, 1:54 pm
So yesterday, I posted about being challenged in the ways of storage. That post was about storage in my powder room but I have the same problem in two other bathrooms... And all my other rooms to be ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 10, 2009, 7:07 am
Last Day of Retro Tuesday All Week Long! Tomorrow this blog will go back to regular and Retro Tuesday will be confined to... well, Tuesdays... The last bunch of magazines I got were some McCall'...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 9, 2009, 9:29 am
I have a departure from retro Tuesday all week long because I need a little help. I have a downstairs powder room that is storage-challenged. Or maybe it's me that's storage-challenged? An...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 9, 2009, 6:44 am
I'd heard about this ad... But could never find it... Until I found it online here It's really hard to know what to say. It's pretty hard to even wrap my mind around the whole Lysol a...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 8, 2009, 6:35 am
... ? Mauve. A huge fail if ever there was one. I didn't even like mauve when it was popular. I've mentioned Pam at Retro Renovation before. I've even given her a blog tiara. I'...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 7, 2009, 6:00 am
I haven't done an old recipe in a while and really want to. I love chicken and leeks so I picked: My first thought was.... Whoa! That's a lot of cans... My second was who has a pot that big...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 6, 2009, 6:30 am
The Friday edition of Retro Tuesday all week long! Vintage magazines not only give me clues to what woman bought a long time ago; they give me a clue about what they did. And they did a lot. One of...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 5, 2009, 5:00 am
It's Retro Tuesday again and again and again! I've wanted to do a post on this book forever. Retro Style : The '50s Look for Today's Home The Author is Marion Haslam who is based o...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 4, 2009, 5:20 am
Join in... Info at the end of the post. Whenever I'm looking for Retro Tuesday ideas I always come across things that make me shake my head - and you know, it's funny - most of these unfortu...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 3, 2009, 5:15 pm
Maureen from The Green Suitcase gave me the best advice - just now - about my McKlinky issues. I keep doing it and and I'm alone in my own blog hop much like being alone at the lunch table in th...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 3, 2009, 6:55 am
I can't tell you how much I love Retro Tuesday... In fact, I want to write two posts a lot, one regular post and one Retro Tuesday post...Of course, I'd have to change the name to... Well, so...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 2, 2009, 7:45 am
You can cook a butternut squash lots of ways but the easiest is it to wash it, poke holes in it with a sharp knife (So it doesn't explode into a million gooey squashy bits) and bake it in your ov...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Nov 2, 2009, 7:42 am
Tim who said:  My wife would love this! It is true when they say everyone deserves a lifetime. Lynette who said: I would love to win this to share with my girlfriend. She just had to have her b...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 30, 2009, 12:00 pm
A few years ago I decided I wanted to learn how to felt; the whole felting wool thing was suddenly really, really appealing to me. I only had two problems: I didn't knit or crochet. (I didn'...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 29, 2009, 4:32 am
Is there something at estate sales you just can't resist? Even though there is no practical use for... um....what ever it is... Let's use vintage buttons for arguments sake. Not that I need...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 28, 2009, 9:49 am
My (sorta) Wordless Wednesday Post I woke up to this my first day in Cape May, NJ I only go once a year and only for a few days but it's memories like this that keep me going the other 364 days ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 27, 2009, 5:41 am
Yay! It's Retro Tuesday again... Today I decided to look for things I want to find at estate sales. Things I covet unreasonably ... Things that I remember seeing as a kid and would buy in an ins...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 26, 2009, 2:25 pm
I've noticed something really really, odd. All the TV channels are running commercials at the same time. My (uneducated) guess is that it's an effort to spoil my channel-surfing fun. See, a ...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 26, 2009, 6:14 am
I don't go away very much because leaving the house makes me really anxious. Can't even eat breakfast before I leave because stopping here? Where I'll cheesequake all over the joint... Is...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 25, 2009, 5:38 pm
and will be posting normally tomorrow but I wanted to show you my favorite sign in NJ... Cheesequake, I mean.... What can you say about the word Cheesequake, right? ....cracks me up every time I se...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 23, 2009, 7:59 am
Honestly... How in the world are you supposed to read the signage at 65 mph? To continue.... If you do manage to read it and don't have E-Z Pass you are now trying to figure out if you have exa...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 22, 2009, 7:24 am
patience.... I bought this mirror a long time ago... It fit in a really awkward corner. To the left my kitchen, to the right a main stairway and then my living room. You see the mirror when you wa...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 21, 2009, 6:14 am
(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday Every year, in the fall, I go to Cape May, New Jersey. It's empty. The stores have closed, the season's over... I go to take pictures... I love this time of ye...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 20, 2009, 8:39 am
It's Retro Tuesday again! I love Retro Tuesday!  I've been sitting here going through a copy of The American Home, 1948 to find something flashy and spectacular - a towering and floresce...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 19, 2009, 11:15 am
So listen, yesterday I had to buy toilet paper.  I was close to being out (as in rationing squares close) so it's not like I could buy just a roll or two. I had to buy so much toilet paper it...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 19, 2009, 6:19 am
Is  called Born to be Wild... ish And it's actually here although there probably will be another one a bit later
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 17, 2009, 6:47 am
  I don't do a lot of sponsored giveaway type things; hardly any actually.  I guess y'all have figured that out by now.  And when I do them I don't paste ad copy.  But...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 16, 2009, 6:17 am
Ma, I had an accident. I didn't want to hear that, ever ever ever.   Since he got his license I hoped I wouldn't hear that. The only good thing was he made the call - I think I might ha...
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Tracy R. posted an article on The Crazy Suburban Mom - Oct 15, 2009, 6:43 am
I did get out this week-end and found an estate sale so I'm doing Vintage Thingies Thursday with Colorado Lady , Thrifty Thursday over at Bloggeritaville (Don't you love that name?) and The Da...
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