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So what if repainting your bathroom isn't as exciting as hunting assassins in Bermuda or blowing up shit whilst diamond heisting in St. Petersberg? When redecorating, moving furniture, repainting, sitting on the floor and pondering the small space you live in, you've got to have some tunes going. Something to remind me that I'm an energetic little body that can groove and dance and be inspired. It helps at work, too. This is the channel that we listen to at work whenever NPR gets old or Diane Rehm gets too haggard.

I Heart Kate Mack

Its entirely possible that every single swimsuit made for infants and toddlers qualifies as the most adorable. I just got my Delia's catalog (haven't ordered since High School, but its still fun to peruse) and I can't' wait til summer. Suri Cruise gives KATE MACK her stamp of approval ... err, I guess that's Katie Holmes stamp of approval... anyway. Wanna take a poll as too whether I'd actally spend the 80 bucks at Nordstrom for one?

Fred Finds

FREDTASTIC!!!!





Since my blog is usually family-oriented (note that I did not say "family-friendly" - I have parents and grown-ups in mind), here are some really adorable finds from World Wide Fred.

Holy Crap, CribCandy!

My favorite new delicious slice of design cake is at Crib Candy. Wow. Is. All. (Oh, and just kidding with the last picture. (kind of))

Robots that cry when they fall.

Unrelated but worthy

This is irrelevant to design and I'm not even from New Jersey, but its such a good cause and it breaks my heart to think of the dwindling food supply in our own country. I'm sure the problem with food banks is country-wide. The unemployment rate in NC is over 9% in most counties and is projected to be over 10% by the end of 2009 if things don't pick up.

Please add this link to your blog or pass the word along if you can't make a monetary donation (like me). Here is a snippet from Househubbie's website:

If everyone could just do a little, it would help those in need a lot. To help, people can:

1. Make a monetary contribution: Visit www.njfoodbank.org.
2. Donate food: Drop off a bag of food at your local food pantry.
3. Organize a food drive: We can help explain the logistics of starting a food drive. Just call 908-355-FOOD.
4. Help "Check Out Hunger:" Look for the "Check Out Hunger" coupons at your local supermarket and donate. No donation is too small!

It's Etsy Time!!!

Dun dun dun! It's about that time y'all. I know I sound like the dorkiest cracker in the design blogging world and I care not what you think. You know you love me. Here's a healthy SCOOP of favorites from my list.

These pillows are such a lovely idea, and perhaps I should've saved this image for a post about throws or DIY ideas, but I also believe in giving credit where its due. They ain't cheap, either, but some darling millionaire who reads my blog could show some love some day.




OR you lovely design bloggers could link back to me so I could afford to buy them myself! (It's worth a try, at least).

What kind of genius is THIS?
Handmade flowers never die.

Legwarmers are a trend that I hope never go out of fashion. They're cute anyhow, but when adorning a freckle-faced five year old, they're ridiculously, absurdly adorable. Especially these.



A black velvet choker used to be my trademark when I worked in a coffee shop. Ahh, those were the days! If there is a God and I go to heaven, there will one day be a reunion of all my beautiful co-workers and hilarious regulars in a "Moose" Coffee Shop and I would *rock* this snazzy upgrade in the name of tradition.

That's all for now. Much more to come. Can't you just, like, not wait?!

*mwah*

Frugal Schmugal - LOVE them.

"Don't let the bedbugs bite!"

If you don't know how to sew - please just skip this one. I'm sure you'll think of some cute and quirky alternative to give your house guests something to talk about over their Wheaties and coffee. If the lines are uneven, it'll just make you look good-humored in a creepy way. Like the count from Sesame Street. Oh, and uh, if you're as bad about remembering to dust (and this is one minor injury that my guests could spot without Clark Kent's 0/0 eyesight) as me and mine.

But *major* props to the crazy ladies who did this to a hotel comforter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not many photos are as sad as the ones at a yard sale. Those were people! Alas, if someone regards ancient familial media as fifty cents worth of garbage, make them your treasure! If it happened to the last known photo of myself, I would be quite proud to have my grill in an art collection instead of mashed with receipt paper and egg salad in a Wendy's cup.

If at this yard sale you should spy with your fine eye a useless thing like a tacky cuckoo clock that hasn't worked since 1982, please. Spend the $4. Buy it. Show the German Engineering (on the side of drunk that doesn't make racecars - I hope) some love. Dress it up in your colors. Give the dancing caricatures and smoking men a home in your daughter's doll house.

START COLLECTING

It doesn't have to be annoying as tick-tick-tick, nor as bat-shit-crazy as birdhouses. Think: most of those have been used. = 0

Make a semblance. A pretty configuration. Make it look like a natural mess just like the cogs inside of those clocks. Or the inside of a VCR. It's shabby but it's... *groan* don't finish that sentance, GAWD!

Making something yours can be as thrifty as decoupaging music notes onto a vase. If I had a picture of that, I would soooo post it for you. Maybe some thoughtful guru will post a picture in the comments section.

Happy New Years!

CHEERS!