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Looking for the easiest way to spring clean your home in a weekend? Today, I’ve got a super simple spring cleaning schedule for you to keep you on track. Raise your hand if you love to spring clean your home. Yeah, I didn’t think so. It’s that time of year where we all feel like we should be giving our homes a thorough cleaning but none of us really want to. It’s exhausting. So, I decided to make a little checklist to help keep us on track. Because I’m an Enneagram 1 and there’s nothing I love more than a good checklist. This...

A“proper little mountain”, a “family fell’, a “mountain in miniature”. If ever there was a hill to be fond of, it’s Cat Bells in the Lake District. The iconic peak – believed to be a distortion of ‘Cat Bields’, meaning ‘the home of the wild cat’ – sits enticingly above the town of Keswick and Derwent Water. It’s universally loved, and for good reason – the panoramic views of the Lake District from its summit are the perfect introduction to the national park’s mirror-like lakes, wild mountains and lush valleys. “It is one of the great favourites, a family fell where grandmothers and infants...

Artist Tee Ken Ng created awesome zoetrope automata. This sculpture becomes animated when rotated, making a little wooden person look like they're walking around.  Atlas Obscura: "By using a Geneva wheel the zoetrope can be rotated in steps (frame by frame). — Read the rest

We love these women-owned brands all year long Although we here at Tinybeans spend most of our days celebrating the women that create this amazing community of moms, March is officially Women’s History Month! And what better place to kick it all off than by highlighting some of our favorite women-owned brands? Supporting these businesses puts funds directly into the hands of female entrepreneurs and allows them to continue pioneering the ever-growing landscape of women-owned brands. We know it won’t come as a surprise, but women face a level of challenges in business that their male counterparts traditionally don’t. Being...

Toy companies are catching on to the nation’s increasing diversity and offering choices that better reflect the country’s changing demographics.Adobe.com My children are the product of a Palestinian father and a well-traveled American Israeli mother; we live in immigrant-heavy South Florida where we have friends from places around the world — Latin America, Korea, Japan and Jamaica, to name a few. So I was delighted when my daughter received a wooden sushi set — complete with chopsticks — for her birthday one year and a Little Passports Food Around the World International Meal kit the next. As it turns out, this is...