Month: March 2020

If you’ve been scrolling through your social feeds lately, you’ve probably noticed that a lot of people have suddenly become obsessed with bread making. In fact, we were planning to do a Critics’ Picks roundup of the best bread machines out there… only to find that most machines are sold out and there aren’t many out. Luckily, we found one of the few bread machines that’s still in stock, and it’s a good one: Cuisinart’s compact bread maker, which is on sale for $110 at Williams Sonoma (that’s 40 percent off!), and backed by a 4.6-star rating and rave reviews.

Making bread in this machine couldn’t be easier! Just pick a recipe, add your ingredients into the bread pan, hit start, and the machine does all the work, kneading, raising,

Now that many of us are sheltering in place at home, trying to find a way to keep our anxiety from taking us over, a few of my friends have reached out to ask where they can look online to start learning how to craft.

I’ve been knitting since childhood, knitting obsessively for about eight years, and embroidering for a couple years. When nonessential businesses aren’t closed, I work and teach part-time at a local yarn shop. I know I feel lucky to have crafts right now, to be able to lose myself in stitches, make something beautiful, and feel the satisfaction of finishing a project, no matter how small and personal.

Whenever I hear from someone who wants to try a new craft, I’m excited

Did you ever play that game where you write the first line of a story, then someone else writes the next one, and you pass the paper around in a circle, communally writing a story that, in the end, is probably totally different from what you imagined when you started it?

With the internet, you can play that same game without being limited to just a classroom of fifth graders. Baronfig, a company that makes notebooks, writing tools, and bags, has created The Global Haiku Project, which lets people around the world create haiku together.

Here’s how Baronfig describes the project:

“The haiku is a traditional Japanese poem that originated in the 16th century. The heart of a haiku attempts to capture a moment in time. There are many forms of haiku, the most popular version is taught to children around the world: three verses with a simple

It’s always wonderful to see a celebrity who loves to show off their plant children. There’s Bobby Berk, who’s showed the world how much he loves his banana leaf plant (among many others), and Reese Witherspoon, who has plants in almost every shot of her home. And the latest plant parent to land on our radar is Seth Rogen (no, he’s not just pulling everyone’s leg), which seems to stem from his love of pottery.

Rogen posted a photo of his latest plant baby last week, which lives inside one of his handmade pots. From what we can see on Instagram, Rogen’s passion for pottery dates back to April 2019, when he decided to join a pottery studio to make unique ashtrays.

Just a little over a month later, he posted a photo of six vases with the caption “I made these little vases” and finally, at