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  • Howdini Holiday Help

    Posted on December 17th, 2010 in HOWDINI by Kathy Olsen

    Sometimes, the drudgery of the holiday season tries really hard to show up the joy, especially when you’re she-who-is-in-charge-of-making-everybody-else’s-Christmas-merry, or whatever the equivalent holiday is in your house.  What you need is help.  From gurus.  Help making appetizers, desserts, and a good impression on his parents and your boss; decorating festively with evergreens, candy canes, or on a shoestring; choosing …

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  • Wanted: Used Gifts

    Posted on December 7th, 2010 in HOWDINI by Kathy Olsen

    Around this time every year, I ask myself the same question: why haven’t I finished my Christmas shopping?  And more importantly, why haven’t I started my Christmas shopping?   For my many, many teenage children, I tend to adhere to their wish lists, since I am far too old to choose what the well-dressed, high school senior girl should be wearing.  …

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  • About This Blogger

    • Helen Jonsen is Editor-in-Chief of Howdini, a broadcast journalist turned digital and social media communicator. She has traveled extensively and covered news in the US and Australia. She is mom to four and aunt to many. For fun, she enjoys photography, hand-painting rooms and furniture, creating costumes, scrapbooking and gardening (growing weeds mostly). She has been known to let her children draw on walls and invite their friends to do the same!

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    • While hundreds of how to videos await you at Howdini, The Howdini Blog is where you’ll find out what goes on behind the scenes.  We blog about what’s hot, what’s new, what makes us laugh, and sometimes, what drives us crazy.  It’s our chance to share our opinions, and it’s your chance, too.  Feel free to post a comment…please!