Author: Tara

Geeky Fashion

Printed Leggings For Under $15

This morning I did a dangerous thing: I clicked on a link for mermaid print leggings on Amazon. This resulted in my clicking more and more suggested links and falling in love with ALL the leggings. Lucky for me, these leggings are cheap. If I bought all of the pairs […]

Fun Food, Recipes

Trefoil Cookie Butter

EDIT: My recipe is a finalist in the Girl Scout Cookie Recipe Contest! You can vote for it here. It’s one of my favorite times of the year: Girl Scout Cookie Recipe time! Because the only thing more fun than eating Girl Scout Cookies is finding ways to incorporate Girl […]

Friday Favorites

Weekly Links: February 9

This is one of the Valentines created by Kyle Reardon for backers of my Geeky Sprinkles Kickstarter campaign! You can see them all here.  I’m sitting at home, looking at snow outside my window, and holding a hot cup of tea. It’s pretty much the dream environment for a blogger. […]

Fun Food, Geek Fit

Healthy Gaming Snacks: Pistachios

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the Pistachio Health Institute. I’ve been trying to find nice, healthy alternatives to my friends’ typical gaming snacks over the past year or so. Cupcakes and chips are great, but if we’re going to be mindlessly munching on something, […]

Recipes

Blue Moon Cupcakes

Another day, another cupcake. Am I right? It’s sure felt like that lately. Between birthdays and all of the hullabaloo (wow, what am I, 70?) surrounding the Seahawks these past couple weeks, I’ve been making a lot of cupcakes! For the big game, I made two different types: Beast Mode […]

Friday Favorites

Weekly Links: January 31

These cupcakes were made for the last Seahawks game. I used my “Pirate Rum Cupcakes” recipe and added blue and green food coloring to the cake and frosting. I’m excited to make more for the Super Bowl this Sunday! Go Hawks!  I’m giving this new type of post a try, […]

Party Tips

Using Tech to Plan Your Parties

I was recently invited to be a part of the “Intel Tablet Crew” and in the process was given a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 to play with. I’ve had an iPad in the past, but since I’m Android all the way, I was thrilled to start playing around with a […]

Videos

I’m In a Super Bowl Video! (Kind of)

I’m not normally a sportist. I enjoy basketball (but Seattle no longer has a team. It’s still a sore subject.), but never really “got” football. Two weeks ago, I was invited over to watch the Seahawks vs. 49ers game. I went because everyone else in Seattle was watching the game […]

Geek Etiquette

Anybots: Send Robots in Your Place

Do you have a wedding, important conference, Birthday Party or other big event coming up, but you just don’t feel like going?  Your 30th birthday party isn’t just to celebrate the end of your 20s, but to also kick off a brand new chapter. Your 30th birthday party should be […]