Somehow or other I stumbled upon a most excellent site offering free, cleaned-up scans of vintage images. There are old advertisements, illustrations, calligraphy… Best of all, there’s a fabulous selection of vintage labels! Graphics Fairy gets your crafty gears turning!
My dog is currently grateful that he’s 70 lbs of big dog muscle. I’m armed with yarn and Lion Brand patterns for little doggie outfits! If only I could stuff him into these hilarious coats!
The real reason my dog should thank his lucky stars:
I’m obsessed with autumnal flavors right now. I’ve been going through a pumpkin phase, a maple phase, a squash phase, and now a cranberry phase! Aren’t fall flavors great? I think I associate them with Thanksgiving, one of the best holidays. Plus, you get to enjoy unique flavors that you don’t really get to taste the rest of the year, so take advantage of the season, while the trees are still popping with color!
I ate the pumpkin pancakes in my previous post three days in a row this week, and pumpkin pie yogurt twice! I’m now the biggest fangirl of katheats.com. Beautiful photos + healthy food + delicious-sounding recipes = win!
I made a half batch of Kath’s cranberry sauce today, and ate it on top of yogurt. I can’t wait to try it in my oatmeal tomorrow morning! Like she cautions, it’s a pretty tart recipe, so if you’re sour-shy, you might want to find a different cranberry fix.
Cranberry Sauce from katheats.com
16 oz cranberries
1 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup brown sugar
Cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla to your heart’s content
Heat the cranberries, water, and sugar on medium heat until they start to boil. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Make sure the pot doesn’t boil over. (Several times, the lid started rattling, and I was almost afraid it was going to fly off the pot!) A few minutes before the end, add the spices. Let cool and enjoy! 1/4 cup of cranberry sauce = 40 calories and 2 grams of fiber!
Speaking of sour, I bought some True Lemon packets today. It’s an awesome invention- dehydrate some lemon juice and sell it in packets for lemon fiends like me who can never squeeze enough lemon wedges in their waters and Diet Cokes. You can order a sample of True Lemon, True Lime, and True Orange at www.truelemon.com. (I couldn’t wait the 2 weeks it would take to arrive!)
The Internet is truly a wondrous place, for where else can one find such a fine selection of t-shirts featuring kittens with laser beam eyes?
If office supplies give you goo-goo eyes and make your heart go pitter patter, then you may enjoy Levenger, purveyor of ridiculously extravagant folios, pens, personalized index cards, and monogrammed leather wallets designed specifically to hold your Post-It flags. “Ooh, a $68 leather stapler,” I chirped as I thumbed through the virtual catalog. It’s one of many products guaranteed to enhance your “deskscape.” The catalog copy reads like a Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous episode about Office Max, and one of the magnifying glasses offers “versatile decipherability.” If you like paper pr0n, you won’t want to miss this.
Oops. Back to writing my paper. (Even though I’d be able to write it so much better if I had a Circa paper punch to professionally bind the pages. How am I supposed to get an A if I have to staple the pages together? Without the $68 leather stapler, I mean.)
Cupcake: we played a soccer game this week against 7 and 9 year olds
Cupcake: and if i hadn’t said “next goal is the winner!” they would have KILLED us
Cupcake: one called me a PUTA when i beat him
Cupcake: (whore)
Kiki: bastard!
Kiki: i hope you’re taking a shitload of photos to show me
Cupcake: OH I’M TAKING A TON of photos
Cupcake: people teased me
Cupcake: they’re like god cupcake
Cupcake: (as i take a million pictures of an insect)
Cupcake: what is this? a photo shoot?
Cupcake: and i’m like
Cupcake: leave me alone fucker
Cupcake: i have a shitload
Kiki: btw we really did send you cards, like in FEBRUARY
Kiki: we didn’t forget your bday
Kiki: it’s just that central america mail is slow as fuck
Kiki: like at least a month slow
Kiki: it’s like SLOW AS FUCK SLOW
Cupcake: speaking of shit ton
Cupcake: i want to send you guys more and more postcards
Cupcake: you should upload this convo to your blog
Cupcake: all the obscenities
Kiki: we’re like little sailorettes
Kiki: seawomen
Cupcake: lol
Cupcake: that just sounds weird
I know I’ve previously inflicted upon you the KICKASS pistol shrimp, but this video is WAY TOO COOL for you to miss. Feast your eyes on the incredible sea critters that live below us!
This 5-minute clip makes me wish I had taken Oceanography in high school. I used to secretly sneer at all the high school girls I knew who vowed to become oceanographers. Pretty much 1 out of every 3 friends of mine had pledged their lives to the sea, and I had always figured they just wanted an excuse to frolic with the dolphins adorning their Lisa Frank folders and hanging from their throats on delicate 14 carat gold chains. I hereby rescind my former disdain. Far from being cliché and generic, these girls, a mere sixteen years of age, had discovered what it took me until almost age twenty-eight to learn.
… except it’s Tuesday.
Anyhow, important facts I need to share with the internet today:
Try it next time. I promise you’ll like it.
Is it just me or is something about my weather forecast a little… odd?
Wireless networks my computer could currently connect to from my sister’s house:
bojanglin
robothaus
internetz
AnnaBanana
Durex
theflat
jackjack
Bangin Dudes
lovecthulhu
house of style
Smoldering_Heap
