This. I miss her.

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O loard, Rare Bird Finds used to be such a fabulous shopping blog. I bought Susie Ghahremani owl note cards and a piece of original art off Etsy, and bookmarked all kinds of awesome sites and Etsy dealers thanks to their postings.

Recently the editorship changed, and some of the crap they're posting rivals RegretsyAnd so I'm taking Rare Bird Finds ( Read more... )

Good HEAVENS the iTunes store is not intuitive at all. I hate it. I muddled through and bought a bunch of stuff with the iTunes gift cards my sister gave me for Christmas. Here is wawt I bawt and, of course, why.

Artists I Know Nothing About, But I Heard These Songs On the Radio and Thought They Were InterestingTake Back the City -- Snow Patrol ( Read more... )

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
I still have several books that I've had since I was seven, most notably four little green hardbacked Beatrix Potters: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Ginger and Pickles, and one of my all-time favorite books in life, The Pie and the Patty-Pan. I also have a whole ( Read more... )

All the Christmas gifts are bought, and almost all of them are wrapped ( Read more... )

1. Feeling disdainful of the attitude entirely too many people have, that it's somehow cute to crow on Facebook about how much one overate yesterday. Cliche, cliche, cliche, boring, plus gross on so many levels.

2. Putting our Halloween/autumn decorations away.

3. Making "the" Artichoke Dip for clocktor and izangler's Alternate Thanksgiving dinner this evening

Today I threw my computer in the car, drove Leila to school, then parked my butt at the very cute La Salle Market and Deli in very cute Collinsville, CT to do some work WITHOUT logging into La Salle's wi-fi.

I told myself that if I finished, and there was still time before I had to get Leila at school, I could take a walk through Antiques on the ( Read more... )

OMG someone on Etsy makes fabulous meditation candles and even rosaries with images of Loretta Lynn, Michael Jackson, Johnny Thunders, Tiny Tim and etc etc.

St. Lucy candle. You know you love her.

I am partial to Our Lady of the Plains.

The artist has even immortalized the great Karen Carpenter as Lead Sister of Perpetual Percussion. (Note that ( Read more... )

I like donating my old stuff to the Goodwill. I've been doing it since I was a kid, helping my mother to clean out my dresser drawers and decide what didn't fit any more and what I was just sick of. Over the years, donating to Goodwill has become a habit; I made three or four sizable donations of stuff -- mostly clothing, but sometimes kitchen ( Read more... )