Kristal

Loves living in the South Bay with her husband and two beautiful children. Has a passion for her family, trying something new, dancing, spa appointments, chips & salsa, wine tasting and her amazing girlfriends!!

Sandpiper’s Holiday Homes Tour + 2 Tickets GIVEAWAY!

Sandpiper's Holiday Home Tour

{This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Elisa!} 20th ANNUAL SANDPIPERS HOLIDAY HOMES TOUR   Sandpipers’ 20th Annual Holiday Homes Tour will be November 30th, December 1st and 2nd from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. This year’s tour includes four distinctive homes in Manhattan and Hermosa Beach including the “Green Idea House” [...]

Donna’s AMAZING Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup!

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

November is the heart of Fall for me. The Thanksgiving dinner(s) and get togethers with friends and family mixed with cooler weather set the perfect scene for Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup! Growing up I remember loving when my family would go to my friend Amanda’s house for a dinner of chicken noodle soup. Her mom, would invite everyone [...]

My Daughter is Five. Parenting Starts Now. {Guest Contributor}

One of my favorite bloggers, What Would Gwyneth Do, recently wrote about how she believes parenting really started when her daughter turned five. It struck a chord with me since I have a five-year old kindergartener as well. I had such a “aha!” parenting moment that this is the time my daughter will form her own childhood memories. Here is the blog post [...]

GMO? OMG! Prop 37

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A very intelligent and talented friend of ours, Lisa Becker (author of Click: An Online Love Story) met with us and a small group of friends earlier this week to have our own morning discussion about GMO’s and Propostion 37. We are so grateful and lucky to have her guest contribute on Pier to Peer sharing her [...]

A Halloween Spooktacular Friday Favorites!

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 With one weekend left before our doorbell rings to little goblins and witches wanting to fill their bags with candy, I thought it would be a treat to share some frightfully fabulous Halloween posts for {Friday Favorites}. These crafty bloggers really know how to think outside the jack o’ lantern if you know what I [...]

Halloween Pup’kin Puppy Treats!

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    I have never been one for the scary, bloody and frightful kind of Halloween. I love the cute happy Casper the Ghost and pumpkin kind instead. When I think of Halloween I think of a street filled with dressed up kids excited over their pillow cases full of candy…yes, my brothers and I used to use pillow cases and would fill [...]

Drop, Cover & Hold On ~ It’s Shakeout Day!

Shakeout!

DROP, COVER and HOLD ON! Today, October 18th, at 10:18am millions of Californians will be practicing an earthquake drill called The Great California Shakeout. Will you? The Great California Shakeout is not just practiced in schools, but companies and individuals will be participating to generate state-wide awareness, as well to prepare for the next “big one.” This means that [...]

You’ve Been BOO’d Free Printable! {Plus A DIY Halloween Wreath}

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 Start with cute and sneaky little goblins on a mission to BOO! 2. Assemble a treat or goodie bag along with this free printable (by The TomKat Studio) to deliver. 3. Quiet as a ghost, sneak up to your friend’s door to deliver the goodies and the free printable. Then, ring the doorbell and RUN!!     4. Finally, [...]

{Book Club} Gone Girl

Gone Girl

  My absolute favorite benefits of being in a book club are spending quality time with my girlfriends, drinking wine and getting lost in conversations we probably never would have had were it not for reading the books together. It’s fun being able to go to a friend and say “Can you believe it? Did you see that coming?!”  I love having inside jokes that only [...]

October Is Colored Pink {20% Off All JLynn Jewelry!}

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October has arrived and you will be seeing lots of PINK because this is the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Kimberly and I are supporters of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Kimberly has even walked 60 miles to help find a cure and support the amazing women fighting this deadly disease. Sadly, our dear friend [...]