by Flora Caputo | Aug 5, 2009 | Gardening, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
My husband and daughter gave me the Easy-Bloom plant monitor for Mother’s Day, and I had not had the chance to try it out until this week. This is a little computerized monitor that has a very elegant design that you stick in the ground and it can either give...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 4, 2009 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Lemon desserts are a favorite around my house, especially in the summer-and especially lemon bars. I have merged two recipes together to create my own. Mine have a touch of flour and cream in the lemon mixture to give it a little bit of a lemon curd texture. I have...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 4, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
Everyone asks me how I keep from killing off my plants with my stressful work schedule. The first thing I say is that I have a husband who helps – and that is the truth. If have to run out to an early morning meeting, he fits in the watering for me. SO that in itself...
by Flora Caputo | Jul 30, 2009 | Career, Uncategorized
First, I need to pre-apologize for this post. This blog is not about marketing and advertising specific, to the point I am going to begin to critique work that is out in the market. There are plenty of blogs doing a great job doing that-Adrant being one of my faves....
by Flora Caputo | Jul 29, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
I have used lots of products over the years to ward off disease and insects in the garden. One of my concerns has always been the bad chemicals that I was using with having a small child running around. The other issue is just effectiveness, or lack there of. My roses...
by Flora Caputo | Jul 28, 2009 | Career, Uncategorized
I have been in a management capacity officially for 9 years now, (unofficially managing young interns make it 13 years) and have had the pleasure of mentoring many talented people on my staff. I have noticed over the years that there are subtle differences between...
by Flora Caputo | Jul 23, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
We recently had a scare with my daughter and we had to rush to an immediate care clinic to have her looked at. After tests were done, the doctor came in and began to tell us what was wrong with her, but in very vague terms. Also, not in layman’s terms. The funny...
by Flora Caputo | Jul 16, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
I am amazed at how busy we are week to week with school work-and it’s summer break! Before school’s end, my daughter’s teacher recommended we get her a math tutor over the summer. So we started one day a week and moved it to two. That involves...
by Flora Caputo | Jul 10, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
Old house, Sun garden I embarked on my gardening journey over ten years ago in our old house. For a chicago lot, it was a very large yard (and a very small house). The yard was a disaster when we inherited it. Two, “kujo-like” dogs had created large dirt...
by Flora Caputo | Jul 9, 2009 | Career, Uncategorized
We had a consultant in a couple of months ago to talk to us about social media, and he uncovered this statistic that 3% of the nation’s creative directors are women. That is not a lot, considering that 85% of the population that makes the buying decisions are...
