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Decorating – Gingerbread Houses

When I was a kid growing up in South Carolina, I always insisted on making a gingerbread house as the centerpiece of our holiday table. Each year, I did my best to recreate the witch’s house in Hansel & Gretel and inevitably my brother would pick off some of my gumdrops, leaving a hole [...]

Bruce on CBS Early Show

One of my favorite holiday traditions: looking at Christmas lights! For my book, Merry Christmas, America! (on sale at Amazon) I toured the country and climbed up ladders with America’s best Clark Griswold’s to find out why they do what they do. I stopped by the CBS Early Show a few year’s back to [...]

Holidays – Gifting 101

I stopped by WGN-TV in Chicago to help host Steve Sanders with his holiday list. Check it out here. Three gifting DON’Ts: #1 DON’T give a fruitcake unless its a gag gift. #2. DON’T give anything that poops or pees. #3 DON’T just throw it in a gift bag. Three gifting DO’s: #1. [...]

Life 101 – Halloween candy

Halloween is a dentist’s favorite holiday. Why? Would you believe that over $2 billion is spent each year on Halloween candy?! That’s a whole lot of scary cavities. But since you’re going to run out and buy some (and be judged by the kiddies), let me tell you that chocolate candy bars are rated [...]

Life 101 – Simple happiness

As my PaPa used to say, “I’m busier than a one-armed paper hanger with hives.” It’s “back to school” season and if you’re like me, you don’t have a lot of time. So, simple is beautiful. Here are a few Life 101 ideas to inspire a happy day: A love noted dropped in a [...]

Life 101 – Every Home Should Have…

Hope you’re going to have some fun in your yard this weekend. During the summer, one of my favorite things is to roll my garden cart out to the flower beds and whip up some arrangements. I think every home should have a garden cart. I got mine at a garage sale and besides [...]

Bruce on Summer Entertaining

My front porch ready to party. Photo by Cal Crary

Check out the feature in Chronogram Magazine which includes my ideas on summer entertaining:

“It’s summertime and the living is easy!” gushes Bruce Littlefield, quoting George Gershwin. A party maven and arbiter of American fun, Littlefield suggests our summer get-togethers should be [...]

Garage Sales – New economy

My garden cart is a garage sale find. I adore it and think it has so much more character than something new out of the box. I think with the economic times we find ourselves in ($5 gallon gas!) and all the talk about being “green,” this summer will see more garage sales than [...]

Bruce Talks Garage Saling

Today, the inimitable Cindy Adams featured me as her NY Post column’s “Only in New York” line: “RECORD citywide garage sales coming. At Da Tommaso ‘Garage Sale America’ author Bruce Littlefield: ‘People who before never dreamt of one will have several to raise cash.’” I do believe that… and it’s not only in the [...]

When I grow up…

It took Scott Weaver more than 35 years to design this amazing kinetic structure entitled “Rolling Through the Bay.” It is made out of over 100,000 toothpicks and depicts San Francisco with balls roll through it. Watch. It’s a viral wow! Oh, and he either has the patience of Job or the worst [...]

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