Cute On A Stick

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Pretty As A Parapluie

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Visions of Long Lost

Rain sprinkling down while in the pool. (last time: i honestly can't remember)

The desire to live in a room this barren and worn. (last time: every time i see a certain kind of foreign film. first time: Last Tango in Paris)

The desire to dye my hair pink, if only for a few days (last time: after watching a japanese movie i can't remember the name of)

fistfuls of glitter (last time: no idea)

I like my apartment, but i couldn't miss having a bathtub more... (last time: while visiting GTA in the ATL)

all c/o lolita

Bonne Idee

Wanderlust

I'm suddenly feeling it. Again.

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

— Bill Bryson


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Fruitcake

If it wouldn't sabotage my professional facade here at the workplace, I'd love to put a bowl of these on my office desk and await the reactions.

via kok via t&t

Just 'Cause

... I like it. via sj.

She's Crafty

I love this idea for a headboard (and I haven't had a headboard on my bed in years). The way it combines the vintage look of iron with the comfy (and silent) cushioning is pretty genius. I wouldn't begin to ever try to make this myself (the result would, undoubtedly, be laughable), but I love it all the same.

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It's Electric!

Photographic fireworks c/o Robert Buelteman (c/o lenscratch). Gorgeous.

Buelteman begins by painstakingly whittling down flowers, leaves, sprigs, and twigs with a scalpel until they're translucent. He then lays each specimen on color transparency film and, for a more detailed effect, covers it with a diffusion screen. This assemblage is placed on his "easel"—a piece of sheet metal sandwiched between Plexiglas, floating in liquid silicone. Buelteman hits everything with an electric pulse and the electrons do a dance as they leap from the sheet metal, through the silicone and the plant (and hopefully not through him), while heading back out the jumper cables. In that moment, the gas surrounding the subject is ionized, leaving behind ethereal coronas. He then hand-paints the result with white light shining through an optical fiber the width of a human hair, a process so tricky each image can take up to 150 attempts.

Sometimes It Snows In April

And sometimes it's chilly in July. Get it together, Chitown.

by David Foster Nass via AS

I Second That

Today over at Que Sera Sera, Sarah gives us two quotes that are, indeed, worth remembering and worth passing on....


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

-Plato

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Holy Sleeping 'Roo

This is just ridiculously cute. Thanks allcreatures. You warmed my heart after raking it over the coals by showing me a flamingo and a seal being attacked by their respective hunters. This only slightly makes up for that, but thanks all the same.