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To enter, just go to ‘improvised life’s Facebook page and check it out. YOU DON’T HAVE TO JOIN FB TO VISIT THE SITE. (If you are a member of FB, we’d love it if you LIKE us). In the FB Comments box OR in the Comments BELOW THIS POST, just tell us a FB posting you like. Contest ends at midnight on December 5th.
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like the post about the NY food bank
As i am getting ready for the Thanksgiving feast I was inspired by your recent posts on Table setting and decorations. I will try the linen table napkins and place some fresh picked persimmons with branches attached on the table
The post about making your own twinkies gives me hope for the future. I know that my young nieces and nephew will still be able to indulge after a late night out in college. Thanks for the post.
The post about making your own twinkies gives me hope for the future. I know that my young nieces and nephew will still be able to indulge after a late night out in college. Thanks for the post
Fresh picked persimmons!!!! You are so lucky.
I love that the link to the story on Health Snacks that nutritionists eat justifies my avocado habit!
I follow you on twitter so I saw the posts there too. I went to the fb page as well to give you some stats (I deleted fb ages ago)
My favorite was the post about the log slice tables.
I liked the post Daily tonic: How to Enjoy Every Moment
I really like the post about how Korean designer Jihyum Ryou reimagines food storage without a fridge. I’m so excited to put some of the ideas to use. Thank you.
I like looking at every post!
I like the post when you were cooking with Lynne Rosetto Kasper. It is my favorite because that’s how I learned about you!
“When Life Arrives at the Door Unexpectadly” is a good thing to remember any day.
I enjoy all the posts about people leaping and jumping!
I have to decide what post to like? I like them ALL! I really love all the posts using tree stumps as furniture and that coffee table. . .Maybe one in my future. . .
I love the quote,” Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet” in the post The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life! It reminds me to slow down and be more in tune with my surroundings.
I loved “Thanks for the day after Thanksgiving”, which led me to Pablo Neruda’s poem about gratitude.
Lood really delicious !!!
I generally go on Facebook once a month to see what nieces and nephews are doing. It was fun to see you site all in a row.
Please enter me in the cookbook contest.
I really, really, do like you.
Thank you
I especially liked the post about productivity and displaying completed to-dos. Please enter me in the cookbook contest. It looks like a wonderful cookbook.
Love seeing the log uses. We still have chunks on our table from our son’s December wedding last year. They currently support fat white candles.
Please enter me in the cookbook giveaway.
I L is what I turn to first whenever I turn on the computer!
yum love to own this cookbook
Love the post about famous failures
I loved the post about cardboard. The passion and joy that can come from this simple and frequently overlooked material was inspiring. Loved it
I loved the one with the “better person” documentaries. I also remember you having some pictures of kitchens from around the world, don’t know if that was here or elsewhere. Just made me ache with an urge to cook. sterile US kitchens don’t have that color, or used/worn feel that just whispers “good food was made here”
I love all your DIY’s – but most recently foraging fallen trees…the art of re-invention- adults should get better at it- kids do it so effortlessly!
Love Thich Nhat Hanh’s ground kissing feet quote and all the great recycled furniture.
The post fom one minute mba.— let your ears do the listening. Too many managers donot want to hear bad news and it leads to an asymmetry of information and many managers, as a result, get blindsided.
Loved the laughter yoga post!
Too many to choose just one, since I have been receiving your email now for years. If I have to choose just one, I’ll go with Bill Murray.
Everyday I look forward to seeing what you all have found that has been reinterpreted and adjusted to make it your own.
I loved the people swimming in Venice. Having been there when it is dry, I can imagine what it could be like to swim the Piazza in stead of walking it.
I loved the post on Henry Miller’s writing tips. I think of it often.
With two kids at home, the link to working with cardboard is great!
I love the post about the modernist gingerbread house. Even though I live in a Victorian house and love Victorian inspired gingerbread houses, I love the idea of looking at materials in a whole new way.
Love the laughter yoga post with the farmer jumping into a baler.
I love being surprised by Improvised Life EVERY day. I especially liked the post in February about the man who welcomes everyone into his home in NYC, loved, loved, loved it.
Most inspiring of recent posts was the post on November 28 about food storage – reminds me that “rules” are recent, and can be broken if you have the knowledge!
The knitted necklace post was great! I’m not the best knitter but I have a friend who just started and this would be a fun project for her for holiday gifts.
I liked the link to ’10 Documentaries that will make you a better person.’ But I like all (or almost all) of the links you post! Thanks for all you do!
My favorite posts were post Hurricane Sandy, you wrote several entries around the theme ‘Strange Beauty Amidst Destruction’. I especially enjoyed the stories of the people you met along the way – the park ranger and the man who helped you haul the log.
I like the post about modernist gingerbread houses.