Mash-up Monday

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Art/Culture:

♦Broccoli House! (We all know that I had some weird ideas as a kid, but I also thought that broccoli plants were baby trees.)

♦Crazy mash-up of old Better Homes and Gardens magazine photos, and men's magazine photos.(SpaceMan Steve, I thought of you when I found these!)

♦AMAZING art deco cakes!!!

♦Bathroom portraits...

♦Details of the intricate process of making up Persian bride.

DIY:

♦Cool hair clip holder.

♦Mod Podge your bike!

♦Add some Zen...with mandala- rocks.

Feminism:

♦Breif history of hair removal, and a discussion on its impact. 

Fun:
♦“Disapproving Social Network Guy" Comic

♦Have dessert for breakfast!

♦Pintester tries out things from Pinterest...and makes a mess of things...in a fun way. Her test of strawberries and cream mug cake had me in tears laughing! (Caution, she swears a bit.)

♦More Pintester: the "cat anus bag"

♦I ♥ Calaveras. This site sells really cool ones for cake toppers.

Mental Health/Recovery:

♦Self-image and breast size. One girls experience.

♦How to enjoy eating again.

♦A young woman's account of being stalked.(Get help, don’t keep it to yourself!)

♦Gala Darling wrote an extensive piece about cutting and self harm. She talks about her battle with cutting, and proves that you can make it out of the darkness. (Please read with caution, this may trigger some folks.)

Gala gave a TED talk!!!!!

♥♥♥♥She is amazing!♥♥♥♥

Noms:

♦Super drool! Sweet Lime Tartlets. I HAVE to make these!!!

♦Chocolate cookies...nom nom nom!!!

WTF:

♦Mt. Dew Doritos cupcakes. Ewww!

♦Creepy cakes.

MOONday

Hey, thats how my hair looks in the morning too! Source

I had never heard of porcupines with prehensile tails. Cool!

Art:

♦Incredible tattoos!

♦Amazing spring cakes.
♦Floral scultptures.
♦Money...warnings.
♦Not your childhood sand art!

DIY:

♦Fun poster art.

♦Poppy cookies +18 other flowers!

♦Make a cool bracelet.

♦OMG! Its giant versions of my favorite flower!!!!!

Fashion:

♦Fun with scarves.

♦Glitter shoes...but could just leave it as satin bands.

♦Decorate your shoes.

Feminism:
♦It about stinking time! Some dating websites have to cross check applications with sex offenders. (If only they were all required to do so!)
♦Geek girl for the win! A woman was fed up with a program written into her company’s chat channel. When ever something remotely provocative was typed it would reply “That’s what she said!” She wrote her own program that would reply with quotes from notable women! How cool is that!

Fun:

♦Terrible sheep cake....

♦Easter in Sweden...(Feather trees, and The Easter Witch...?)

♦ A huge collection of fairy tales has been discovered.

♦More book news: A huge collection of banned books discovered.

♦Its Pan Wow!

Noms:

♦Ice cream cone cannoli. Fantstic!

♦Oreo cheesecake frosting filled cookie sandwiches.

♦Classic appetizer. (Hint: bacon!)

Mental Health/Self-care:

♦Advice for teens (works for anyone.)

♦Would you give up TV for a month?(If you said yes, join Gala!)

♦"Don't tell me to get over it!" (I don't like it when people say this either!)

♦Stop apologizing! (Gala again.)

♦Ragen Chastain talks about weight bullying.

♦Make yourself a priority!

WTF:

♦Accidental zombie nails. (This is probably what would happen to me.)
♦Crazy shoe...art?

Colors:
16 ~ Silver
17~ Red
18 ~ Yellow
19 ~ Green
20 ~ Pink
21 ~ Gray
22 ~ Orange

bookMark Monday

Cutest bookmark ever! Where can I get one?

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Cute critters:
♦Cute Overload offers the top 10 cutest videos of 2011. Squeeeeeeee!
♦Further proof that corgis are amazing dogs, a tuff corgi survives an avalanche!

Life advice:
♦Gala Darling offers some great advice about how to start out the new year on the right foot.
♦Are you burned out? Stressed…? Gala (again) has suggestions to get your spark back.
♦Encouraging words to give you a boost.

World news:
♦A look at the TSA's’s security efforts. [This confirms what I had suspected]
♦This is incredible! A man from India almost lost his family in an attempt to create affordable sanitary products for rural women in India. He is an incredibly resourceful man!

Crafts:
♦Here is a tutorial for a very cool scrap felt bracelet. Colorful and fun!
♦Also from the same blog, a tutorial for decorating switch plates. They made winter themed ones, but it would be easy to make any theme.
♦Make your own buttons from shrink plastic. Very cool idea.
♦Ring holder/display from old egg cartons. Very thrifty idea.

Art and entertainment:
♦Amanda Palmer wrote a long and very touching blog about her marriage to Neil Gaiman. [I got misty eyed reading this!]
♦Have you ever wanted to go crazy with stickers? An artist gave thousands of stickers to kids and let them go wild!

Last and certainly not least: I would like to wish Allison of Deviant Dispatches and her fantastic Spousal Unit a wonderful anniversary! 

You guys rock!


Colors:
16th ~ Silver
17th ~ Black
18th ~ Brown
19th ~ White
20th ~ Pink
21st ~ Blue
22nd ~ Orange

Chances to win!

As you may be aware…I have a huge blog subscription list. To find quality content…you have to read a lot. (It is sort of my part-time job)

One of my favorite bloggers, Miss Gala Darling is sponsoring a few give aways!

Free stuff= awesome!

Photo from galadarling.com Thanks Gala!!!!

(Sorry fellas…its mostly girly stuff.)

Check out todays give-away:

More info in Gala's blog.

Enter on Facebook.

Don't forget to check back, she has a new one everyday!

Make-Belive Monday

Greetings! Salutations!
I found oodles of DIY projects for Christmas gifts, some yummy recipes, some interesting article and one freebie. Enjoy!

DIY: ♦How about antiqued tags,? They could be ornaments...or bookmarks. Very cool.
♦If you don’t have a lot of space or a large budget…here is a cute Christmas tree idea.
♦Need a gift idea for the little ones? Or perhaps for your inner child? Two words for you my friend…Gingerbread-Playdoh!
♦What do paper clips have to do with Christmas? Click here to find out. : )
♦Making your own snow globes.

Food:
♦This doesn’t need a long description: pumpkin cream-pie. YES YES!
♦10-minute toffee. It look so easy, and tasty.

Cheery links:
♦The lovely Miss Gala Darling, shares her favorite pick-me-ups for winter.
♦Four pages…count ‘em four…of incredible cakes. Courtesy of Cake Wrecks. Gingerbread Goodies, Wintry Wonders, Holly Jolly, Winter Wonderland.

Thought Provoking articles:
♦Read about a proposed photo retouching scale. (Advertisers would have to give images a retouch rating, depending on how much the image was altered.) Reference photo gallery here.
♦Kate of Eat The Damn Cake, writes about depression and self image. She did an amazing job describing her state of mind while depressed. "Bad Egg" article here.

In Cute News:
♦Stumptastic dogs navagate deep snow and, cute wildlife talks.

(These aren't my two dogs, but there sure look like them!)

Have you ever wanted to hear a porcupine talk? Well here you go!

Free:
♦Last but not least, a free desktop calendar for your computer. Clicky, clicky, free!

Have a great week, and don’t let holiday madness run you over.

Colors:
19th Gray
20th Scarlet
21st White
22nd Turquoise
23rd Coral
24th Indigo
25th Orange

Magnificent Monday

How can you resist a face like this?! OCD Obsessive Corgi Disorder Blog

After hearing this song I have it stuck in my head.

It took me forever to figure out who it was by.

(I don't keep up with popular music.)

♦Dita Von Teese's advice rule breakers. Very good advice!

♦Swiss Miss's advice for ignoring haters. More cool advice.

♦Continuing with advice...10 Rules for Brilliant Women.

♦A very interesting article about consumerist feminism:

"I’ve always been fascinated and infuriated by the way that one is obliged, as a woman, to purchase the trappings of one’s own gender, and infuriated by the way the rules keep changing the deeper into the game you go. I’ve been getting into more and more professional situations where it is no longer okay to turn up with huge biker boots and a slash of clashing lipstick and expect to be taken seriously. As women, everything we wear is a statement, and we have no right to remain sartorially silent. We negotiate a field of signifiers every time we open our wardrobes, or, in my case, every time we rummage through the clothes-pile on the bedroom floor."

♦This piece on street fashion cracked me up!

"Where do people buy these absurd, absurd clothes? I know that a lot of it is more like moving art installations than actual clothes, but you take a picture of a chick wearing a floor-length ball gown made entirely out of Nerds Ropes and you don’t offer any explanation — like, sure, we’re all just supposed to nod along with great dignity and appreciation for art as we ignore the fact that she’s walking around an actual city in modern civilization wearing a bra shaped like a dolphin. Right, okay."

♦Delicious pumpkin cinnamon pancakes. Yummy! Check out the recipe.

♦Speaking of absurdity:

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♦Worried about the zombie apocalypse? Here are some ideas:

Armor, The Zombie Survival Guide, Zombie Survival Wiki, Zombie survival supplies.

My favorite product is the Zombie bait station. Ha ha ha!

I am adding a new feature!

I have an almanac that lists the color of the day. It is determined by astrological data…I don‘t follow horoscopes too closely but, I do use it to try to add some color to my wardrobe. (I try to wear the color of the day. ) A few folks have expressed interest in the color of the day, so I thought I would share with all of you. Enjoy!
Colors for the week:
21st Ivory
22nd Gray
23rd Brown
24th White
25th Rose
26ht Gray
27th Orange

Muerto Monday

Para Abnormal does it again.

So, I am not over Halloween quite yet...bear with me...

"Sobering" Tattoo commercial by Rhett & Link. Ha ha ha!
(The guys that brought you Caption Fail)

Do you judge a book by its cover? This is crazy!

(The music is pretty good too.)

♦Gala Darling shares her adventures on Dia De Los Muertos (last year.) Her make up was amazing!

♦An awesome tutorial for day of the dead cookies. All of her cookie ideas are fantastic.

♦I found a super crazy site called Kinder Trauma. If you saw part of a horror movie, you can describe it to the blog readers. Many times they can tell you what movie it was.

♦The Bloggess shares her amazing haunted dollhouse. It is filled with horror movie references.

♦Artist Eric Barclay makes household garbage into cute little critters. So dang cute!

♦Two pugs + a literary reference + Halloween = super cute!

♦From the mind of Paula Deen…a recipe for cornmeal waffles with spicy chili. Sounds hearty and yummy!

♦And lastly, this makes me laugh everytime:

Have a great week!

Mayhem Monday

Raccoon Mayhem. (I really like the Mayhem commercials.)

Note:Apparently this video is no longer available. : (

From The Bloggess.

♦This is what happened to her sign.

♦Great idea! Frame your achievements.  (I forgot to add the link sorry!!!!!)

♦I love Katie's blog, she is so fun. : )

♦Suuuuper cute rabbit!

♦Plants Vs. Zombies cake. (One of my favorite games.)

♦A “sheep-dog” too cute!

　
Prairie dogs on a Roomba. ‘Nuff said.

♦Great post from Gala Darling, Advice for young girls.

♦Mich L. In LA has a great jewelry blog. She uses things from dollar and hardware stores to make really cool jewelry. She hosts a giveaway called "Guess The Mystery Thing"   If you can guess what she used…you could win it. Or, if you have a fantastical guess…you might win.

♦Subliminal XKCD. A comic of math and love.

♦Info on the FedEx logo.

♦Corgis protesting shark fin fishing. (They catch a shark, cut off the fins…and dump it back.) FYI it dies.

♦*FACEPALM*

In Minnesota It’s illegal to paint a sparrow with the intent of selling it as a parakeet…

I was checking out Gala Darling's blog…I found a link to a crazy list of laws. Fifty crazy laws on the books.

Some of my favorites:

Connecticut:
A pickle cannot actually be a pickle unless it bounces.
Visions of bouncing pickles danced in there heads…

Georgia:
It’s illegal to change the clothes on a storefront mannequin unless you draw the shades first.
It’s a damned mannequin! Its not like its anatomically correct!

Kentucky:
Every citizen is required to take a shower once a year.
Wow….nasty!

Enjoy!