Month: March 2009

Vintage Wallpaper

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Growing up with parents in the textile and design industries, there were always fun scraps of wallpaper and fabric to be crafted with at my house.   (I was always getting in trouble for using Dad’s fabric scissors on Mom’s wallpaper books and whatnot.)   As an adult, my love of these items has stayed with me, and I’ve been known to… Read more →

Meta

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Scott and I somehow ended up with a fairly extensive collection of Vintage Cameras – only a few of which we actually know how to operate.    Some of them are so old they don’t even make the film anymore (which is how I came to spend one pre-wedding day respooling modern film onto old rolls.   It actually worked for the… Read more →

Wonderful.

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Scott and I just enjoyed a lovely candlelight dinner in honor of Earth Hour, and when it was over, we were thrilled to see the lights in the surrounding buildings all coming on one by one, proving that the darkness that had surrounded us wasn’t just because it’s Saturday night, but rather that people were home and actually participating in… Read more →

Turn it Off

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At 8:30pm tonight, cities and citizens all across the globe will switch off their lights for an hour as a statement against Global Warming.  The World Wildlife Fund is asking the world to VOTE EARTH and help them reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen… Read more →

I want this.

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Scott and I are preparing to re-arrange our living room (we’re geminis, we bore easily…) and despite the fact that the whole purpose of the rearrange is to NOT buy any new stuff, I can help but troll eBay for a better room divider than what we have now.   I found this one, and I want it.   Alas, unless the… Read more →

It’s Cookie Time

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It’s that wonderful time of year again…It’s girlscout Cookie time!   This morning, at Ralph’s, I was accosted by a brownie troop insisting that I buy 20 boxes of thinmints.    While that’s the cookie I’d load up on if I were going to buy 20 boxes of anything, don’t these kids know we’re in a recession? Four bucks a box is… Read more →

Why SkyMall is Awesome

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They sell things like this: If you’ve ever thought “you know what would be really convenient?” (and named some random who-would-need-that invention) chances are you’ll find it in Skymall. For as long as I can remember I’ve been an advocate of the in-flight catalog, so much so that Lindsey once commented after a weekend of house sitting that our place… Read more →

Things that make you go Hmmmm.

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So…everyone’s talking about AIG.   And with good reason.   The shit that’s going on is just insane.   Seventy-Three people were made millionaires (or had their millions added to) off of bailout money while the economy crumbled around them,  and not one of them stopped to say “wait…isn’t this kind of fucked?”   Seriously?   Do you know what the 170 Billion dollars… Read more →