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Web Coolness - The safety of baby slings and the artistry of Marshmallow Peeps
Web Coolness - The safety of baby slings and the artistry of Marshmallow Peeps
Here's some stuff we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
Peeps Show
Peeps Show
juniorsociety.com — Well friends, it’s Peeps season and the Washington Post is now accepting submissions for their fourth annual... diorama contest using the iconic marshmallow candy. Last year’s Peeps Show brought in more than 1,100 entries ranging in ... (more) Peeps Show
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Embrace the Lace
Junior Society — ... an online repository of reader submitted photographs capturing us in our most coiffed, billowy, tulle wrapped, sequined glory. “…let’s be clear: this site isn’t about reviling days past. No, no. We at Promtacular! are here to celebrate the sequins. To embrace the lace. To high-five the hairspray, the mullets, the dyed shoes and the press-on nails. Because proms may be awkward, but they’re also full of awesome.” [Thanks to CoolMomPicks for sending this gem our way!]

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Just Let Them Eat the Marshmallow
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Easter Peeps Gone WILD!!!
blogs.babble.com 3/29/2010 — Peeps. Good ‘ol wholesome, tasteless peeps. Easter would just be “Jesus day” without ‘em. But some out there, some with too much time on their hands and clearly an abundance of peeps have transformed them into so much more. Funny, scary, evil, terrible things.
Baby slings to get safety warning after deaths
msnbc.msn.com 3/9/2010 — The U.S. government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings — those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents can sling around their chests to carry their baby. Children - Shopping - Baby - Equipment - Baby sling
My daughter's take on the marshmallow test — ChildWild
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Chocolate Covered Easter Peeps on a Stick
makeandtakes.com 3/17/2010 — You know I like to dip things in chocolate, marshmallows , ice cream , pretzels , and candy canes . Well, these Peeps were just asking for it! And they were delicious! Supplies for Chocolate Dipped Easter Peeps: chocolate to melt Easter ...
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