The thing about beads is, they’re tiny, they don’t take up a lot of room, you can store like a bazillion of them all in one teeny little container, and you don’t have to dedicate an entire closet to the hobby of beading. (Do you know how many closets in my house are devoted to crafting hobbies? It’s kind of sad, really. Let’s just say that for Valentine’s day one year my husband built shelves in several of our extra closets, and it was pretty much the best present ever.)

I’ve even tried to just grab the instructions from Hobby Lobby or whatever and just copy what they do, but they I don’t feel like it’s my own original idea. I think this is why I am willing to spend so much on super cool local jewelry. I read in a magazine once that buying local jewelry is one of the best souvenirs, because then every time you wear the stuff, you get to think about the cool trip you took. The only problem is, every time I go to look, I can NEVER decide. Really, what I need is a better storage solution for my jewelry, if I had that, then I would probably be more likely to buy nicer stuff, because then I wouldn’t worry about it getting balled up in the bottom of a drawer somewhere. Maybe I should make that my next crafting project, eh?

Until I got pregnant–then I had to buy a day planner. Well, thank goodness I don’t have to lug that thing around anymore. But now, the problem is that there are calendars everywhere, google, Facebook, my iPhone– oh my! Google’s made it pretty easy to sync up your calendars, but it still takes a trick or two with Facebook.

Login to your Facebook account, (as if you ever logged out, heh) and click Events:

Click the magnifying glass in the top right corner:

A Menu will Drop Down. Choose Export Events:

Copy the URL that appears in the pop up box to your clipboard:

Email that link to yourself. Check your email from your phone and click the link.

A window will pop up on your phone. Click Subscribe:

Another window will pop up after that. You can choose to view your events or cancel and go to your calendar the regular way:

If for some reason this hides all the other calendars on your iPhone, there’s an easy fix. (It did this on my husband’s phone, but not on mine.) Go to your calendar app on your iPhone and click calendars in the top lefthand corner:

Make sure there’s a checkmark next to all the calendars you want viewable:

Now you have all your Facebook events right there on your calendar! (I also did the same thing on iCal for my Mac– that way I always have those events in the calendar programs I use every day.) Hope this helps!

I think I speak for bloggers everywhere when I say, “Screw you, Google. We freakin’ loved Picnik.”

So, like every other website owner out there, I’ve been scrambling to find the perfect alternative, and I think I’ve got it: Skitch!

Which is pretty much exactly what I used Picnik for.

So, yaay! Hope it works for you!

But speaking of Medieval Times, have you ever been to the restaurant? I went once last year when I was in LA, and then I found out they have one in DALLAS. Um, dude, that’s way closer to my house, and it means I can take the kid. I so need to go. Fortunately, they’re giving me a couple of free tickets– um, but they’re sharing the Medieval freebies with you, too.

If you check in on Facebook when you eat there, they’ll give you a free gift at the hostess stand. Um, awesome.

Oh, and they have a fancy Valentine’s Day event planned. It’s like real-life princessing, so I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to go.

Plus, if that’s not enough. They’re giving away Valentine’s Day tickets this week on their Facebook page. Dude, I want to go!