What Is PixiesDidIt?

PixiesDidIt!® is a new website devoted to making your life easier with personalized home and life advice.

From fashion and home décor to travel, beauty and food — the pixies’ personality types help you  embrace who you are, not who you think you should be.

Sign up for our free daily e-mail tips, discover your home and life personality style, and find solutions that fit who you are. 

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PIXIETIPS
Life Should Be Easy

Make your life easier with advice that embraces who you are. We take today's home & life advice and show you whether or not it will work for you. Every weekday.

FIGS, BAY & WINE
The Easy Way to Eat Local

Leave it to a Smart Freedom • NTP to find the easy way to eat local. A gifted writer and trained chef, Amanda Darrach Filippone embraces simple, unadorned cooking with delicious results. New recipes every Monday, and throughout the week.

 

THE EMPTY IN-BOX
More Work ... More Play?

Follow a Classic Freedom • SFJ as she searches for her Holy Grail — an empty "in-box." Is it actually possible to put two days into one? Can she work more and play more? Find out every Tuesday. 

 

PIGMENT
An Insider's Look at the World of Makeup

Funs are born knowing how to sieze the day and Rebecca Perkins, head make-up artist for Law & Order SVU, and a Fun Freedom • SFP, gives you what she grabs with her insider's blog to the world of make up. Wednesdays.

 

THE LOUSY HOUSEWIFE DOES
Figs, Bay, & Wine

This summer, Organic Freedom • NFP  Katie McMenamin Sabo will attempt to reproduce Amanda's awesome recipes from Figs, Bay, & Wine. See if she can do it! Thursdays this Summer.

 

It's easy for an Organic Structure • NFJ to find meaning in their daily life, and Tracy Zalit Davidson's musings on the beautiful distraction that is life do just that. Ahh. Fridays.
What Are PixieTips?

PixieTips are helpful tidbits of advice designed to make your life easier.

Using Myers-Briggs personality type theory, we show you how our home & life advice will work for your personality type.

Whether it's a quick recipe, a cool service, or some sage advice — we explain who the tip will work best for, how it will work for the rest of us, and why it might be helpful for you.

Latest PixieTips

This Week's PixieTips

Sharks two weeks in a row? (Cue the Jaws soundtrack!) But we've also got a summertime cassoulet, makeup palettes, job fairs, and controlling your sister, oops we mean inspiring her to get things done! Ah family time.

Last Week's PixieTips
We've got summer soup, the best SPF, Tracy's job search and Kelly's greatest fear — sharks in the swimming pool. Ah, life is good.

Latest Posts
Summer Cassoulet
Just the fact that Amanda calls rain "The Dark 'n Stormies" means you must try her summer cassoulet. It's the perfect antidote to summer thundershowers.

Imposing Structure on Other People
Can it actually be done? After four years of working with Kate and 37 years of being her little sister, Kelly would know!

Pro Palettes
Having lots of different colors to choose from all in one place is the height of convenience. Plus there's so much to experiment with! Our makeup expert lets us know which palettes are the best.

Bayhead, NJ
Time to scrap The Lousy Housewife does Figs Bay & Wine. Just too much to do and too little time. SO, it's travel log time. Bayhead, NJ is an underrated, quaint little seaside town perfect for an impromptu vacation.

The Sharks Are Circling
Tracy goes to a job fair. Gulp. A slice of the cultural milieu that I never want to have to experience first hand. Thankfully she braves it for us.

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This Week in PixieTips

Friday
Jul302010

The Sharks Are Circling

Tracy goes to a job fair. Gulp. A slice of the cultural milieu that I never want to have to experience first hand. Thankfully she braves it for us.

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Thursday
Jul292010

I Have Greatly Overestimated My Powers

I just don't know about this week. Right now I've got cramps and a headache from what I believe to be an oncoming cold that, if I was a more careful person, I wouldn't be getting right now, but there was a cute little 10 month old named Annabelle in my parents' house this weekend. What exactly could I do except hold her and tell her about the world? So don't know about making the Cassoulet.

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Wednesday
Jul282010

Pro Palettes

Having lots of different colors to choose from all in one place is the height of convenience. Plus there's so much to experiment with! Our makeup expert lets us know which palettes are the best.

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Tuesday
Jul272010

Imposing Structure on Other People

Can it actually be done? Yes and no. Its not about controlling, but about setting the stage for optimum results. If you KNOW how other personalitites get things done, you can prime the pump for the likelihood of success. After four years of working with Kate and 37 years of being her little sister, Kelly would know!

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Monday
Jul262010

Summer Cassoulet

Sure it makes more sense in the winter, but Amanda swears by what she calls "Dark 'n Stormies." Perfect for when a thunderstorm chills off the day's heat and leaves everything a bit damp.

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Friday
Jul232010

"A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials." 

Tracy muses melancholic again in the middle of the night, but she's got lots on her mind. Looking for work, for inspiration, for purpose.

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Thursday
Jul222010

Katie Can Do It!

Now that she knows that she can drive to Cleveland from NYC one day and then make a mean tart the next, she is probably overly confident that she can drive back from Pittsburgh on one day and make a mean soup the next, but she's betting she will because she's so damn cool right now.

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