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- long romantic walks through my neighborhood
- I love this cheap ornament idea. While you could get a whole box of silver balls for what it would take to make a few of these thumbtack ornaments, they ARE homemade and a few in a cute box would make a neat sentimental gift. My mom and I used to sit at the kitchen table and make ornaments in a similar way, using straight pins, sequins and beads. They were a bit more glitsy and you had lots of color and pattern options.
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I want to check out this book – One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Fabric Projects. Things you can make with just one yard of fabric!
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Being on a doctor ordered low fat diet, I was really excited about this huge post on beans. So very helpful!
- hilarious
- rat snuggles
- dropping my phone in the toilet and it still works!
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A lot of things seem to be really popular right now and I am not impressed.
- Tea towels. These are little thin woven cotton towels with decorative motifs. They don’t absorb a thing!
- Giant bulky headphones.
- Expensive jewelry and hair accessories made out of things I could get for $2 at the craft store.
- Teapot cozies. Seriously?
- Twilight. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson creep me the hell out.
- Friends’ parents on Facebook. They have straight ruined it for me. I barely get on there anymore.
- Furniture made from garbage. 1. 2.
- That bedspread made to look like cardboard boxes. Yuck!
- Perpetual calendars are a pain in the ass.
- Why are Legos so expensive!?
- Moleskines… when you could get a small notebook for $1
- Lomo cameras. I’ve had almost all of them and maybe got 2 good pics out of each roll of film. Total crapshoot.
- Pantone.
- Foursquare. I don’t need the world knowing everything I do and aren’t our online identities self indulgent enough?
- Mustache kitsch.
- Ponchos.
- Drop crotch pants.
- Cleaning products that require the endless purchase of refills when the original tool was an inexpensive one-time buy and worked just fine.
- Criticizing Obama feels like a criminal offense these days.
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My mom and I used to make those same ornaments every year. There are still a few floating around in the Xmas box, I’m sure. Sigh. Nostalgia’s not just a river in Egypt.
I’m glad I’m not the only young(ish) person who remembers! Most of ours need a bit of TLC. I may have to get on that before I do the tree this year.
This is a very interesting article about Twilight and why it kind of backwards: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/twilight-girls-learn-to-give-up-all-for-love-20091118-imfx.html
Perpetual calendars, lol. I have one beside my bed and I change it about once a month!
I agree about Moleskines and parents on Facebook! Teachers on Facebook are at least equally as strange if not more so…
I loved that article! Thank you so much! I read Anne of Green Gables when I was young too and was a rabid feminist in my early 20s… not so rabid now but either way, it’s a shame to see this pathetic obsessive example for today’s teen girls when the world really is their oyster, now more than ever.