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There are so many nice things I could say about The Quilting Bee, but this holiday season I want to highlight just one: Holiday Cards I’m at an age where I know practically nobody aside from my cousins that sends out holiday cards. And I LOVE receiving cards! Every year on the Qbee forum, a [...]

I was browsing Old Navy yesterday looking for some clothes for Wesley when I happened across a onesie that gave me pause. (Keep in mind I was looking for clothes to buy for my baby – I did not go to this site with the intention of finding something that irritated me.) I came across [...]

Octophant There are so many wonderful things about this print. Elephants! Octopus! Narwhal! Walrus! $40 from octophant.us. Dueling Talking Carls I’ve had a wallpaper of Carl as my computer background for a while, so when I saw this I immediately had to play it. Daniel and I were in hysterics by the end as it [...]

As you may or may not know, a blogger named Stephanie Nielson and her husband survived a terrible plane crash several months ago. She has been writing about her recovery and I stumbled across this post today, written about her husband. She has a lovely, almost poetic stream-of-consciousness style of writing. I may not be [...]

The lovely Nikki from SnailBird has organized a Design + Music + Inspiration Project, and I’ve agreed to participate! She’s trying to get a feel for what designers listen to and what their combined playlists would sound like. If you’d like to participate also, check out the Design Music!Inspiration entry and comment to sign up. [...]

Yes, the rumors are true: I was finally able to attend An Event Apart! There are so many wonderful things to say about this conference, but I will try to be reasonably brief. Point #1: It is totally worth the money. Since I was lucky enough to have my workplace pay my way to SXSW [...]

The most surprising Internet gossip I’ve seen in a LONG time. I have no idea why this surprised me so much, but it did. Congratulations to Jem and Karl! This text effect. I don’t know that I’d call it “letterpress” per se, but I do like it and I’ve been wondering what fancy things to [...]

Skipping right over my lengthy absence from my website, I am here to tell you about my trip to Texas for South by Southwest! I was there for five days, and here is a list of the famous people I met: Alan Taylor of The Big Picture Susie from Dumb as a Blog Okay, okay, [...]

Since everyone else seems to be doing it, here are my resolutions for the upcoming year: Entertain at home more often I know you are supposed to quantify goals (“once a month,” “four times a year” etc.) but I’m not really interested in quantifying this particular goal, since anything I choose will be vastly higher [...]

Several years ago, around this same time in December, Jem posted something about The Quilting Bee on her website. I was intrigued, since I had seen a bunch of people with links to their Qbee quilts on their site, but I figured I wouldn’t have enough time to be a part of another club with [...]

After Kerri responded to my tweet asking which design blogs I read, I thought it would be appropriate to post them so everyone can enjoy. Behold! I visit Design*Sponge a LOT. They have a nice mix of furniture, food, stationery, pillows, everything. Everything designy. The first “house” blog I really got into is Making It [...]

This is my second installment of Why I Find the Republican Ticket Terrifying and Why I Think the Democratic Ticket Is Awesome. If you missed Part I, I recommend reading that first. Onward!

I don’t think I’d consider myself to be a negative person; I have my moments I guess, like anyone does, but on the whole I’d say I’m mostly positive. In my experience, most people I follow on Twitter (or other similar services) post positive things, or neutral at the very least. The problem I am [...]

How sad is it that for years, I’ve dreamed of having my own CD/DVD/vinyl/book database that catalogs our vast media collection? I would love to be able to check my media database for someting to make sure we don’t have it before we accidentally buy another copy because it was on sale. Most recently, we [...]

I have played around with WordPress 2.5 for a bit and I have a few annoyances with regard to the new admin interface. I managed to change my color scheme to “classic” and that helped me out a bit, but my thoughts on the interface are as follows: Things I Dislike The big blue area [...]