Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / home makeover, Mar Vista Mom, My Day, Nate Berkus, Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show / 6 Comments
I was lucky enough to have been chosen for a home makeover by the Oprah Winfrey Show. Nate Berkus was in my house and made it look amazing! It was a fantastic experience and I owe it all to writing a blog and having great neighbors. Along the way, I learned a few things and [...]
Sarah Auerswald / Contest! / Contest!, Fun, Label Daddy, Summer Camp / 2 Comments
I’ve really wanted to do a giveaway on my blog and the good people at Label Daddy offered to help me out! These labels are microwave, dishwasher and washer/dryer safe. Plus they’re customizable!! They’ve got a great set called a Camp Pack ready just in time for summer vaycay, and the contest prize of a [...]
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / gardening, giant pumpkin, pumpkin / 0 Comment
Elise gave us a baby giant pumpkin plant to grow as our very own. One day it will be so big we can’t lift it up, but today? Not so much of a problem. It went in the ground today and I will chronicle its life here. Stay tuned.
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / Food and Drink, Friday night pizza / 0 Comment
It had all the trappings of the usual Friday night: pizza, cookie bars. But then, this: My 6-year-old’s first sleepover buddy! It’s a little tiny milestone, but I know he’s excited about it. So excited, in fact, that neither one of them is asleep yet. Oh, man.
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show / 2 Comments
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / Home Makeovers, Nate Berkus, Oprah Winfrey, Recession, Sarah Auerswald / 14 Comments
It’s TRUE — and get your mind out of the gutter! He was here as part of the Oprah Show’s upcoming episode on recession-era home makeovers. The concept was to have neighbors swap furniture and then do budget makeovers on the rooms the swapped furniture goes into. Well, my neighborhood is especially close-knit — what [...]
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / Ben and Jerry's, Food and Drink / 0 Comment
Ben and Jerry’s has done it again! We love it — every year. What a great company!
Sarah Auerswald / Games, Kids, Nintendo Wii / Bonsai Barber, Game Review, Wii, Wii Ware / 0 Comment
Bonsai Barber is like a barber who works on plants. There are all these cute plant characters who need to have their leaves trimmed, and you’re the barber who does the trimming. This game is one of the new ones you can only get through Wii Ware, downloadable only. No box, no disc! It seems [...]
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / being sick, Sarah Auerswald / 2 Comments
I found myself in the Fairfax district today and took myself to Canter’s for a big bowl of Chicken Matzo Ball Soup. It’s called the MishMosh and it has noodles and rice and BIG carrots, as you can see, as well as a giant Matzo Ball. YUM. Death to the Bacteria!!! By the way, I [...]
Sarah Auerswald / Sarah's Blog / being sick / 0 Comment
I was so miserable! I couldn’t take the hacking cough and the sinuses that were puffed up and full of what amounted to marshmallows pressing on my brain — to the point that I couldn’t even think anymore! I was DONE with all that. So I ran to the clinic and got some lovely antibiotics. [...]