Christmas Monday

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Awesome:
♦40 most influential corgis of 2012
♦Amazing ceramic sculpture
♦As a former grocery store drone, I love this piece!

DIY:
♦Gold painted ornaments
♦Melted snowman oranment

Fashion:
♦Denim make-overs (I don't wear jeans much, but this might be helpful to you)

Feminism:
♦Don't want to have kids? You are not alone.
♦I am all for family planning, but don't force birth control on women
♦I ♥ this poster so much!

Heros:
♦Irena Sendler smuggled 2500 infants and children out of the Warsaw ghetto!
♦A pajama companies raises funds to help women get out of forced prostitution.

Mental Health/Self-Care:
♦How To Have Sex Again After Being Raped. (Tough subject, but I felt that this may be helpful to someone.)

Noms:
♦Gingerbread cake with lemon-ginger cloud frosting (sounds soooo good!)
♦Gingerbread Cheesecake bites
♦10 Vegan bread recipes

WTF:
♦Pizza purfume???

Merveilleux Monday

Merveilleux:
(French) adj. marvelous, wonderful

How cute is this dog?!?

Awesome:
♦The Post Office is honoring service dogs!
♦Super cute blank cards. (This one is my favorite!)
♦93 year old yoga instructor!!! She is amazing!
♦Hair do's from the 80's. (Pretty damn funny!)

DIY:
♦Make an animal print sweater.
♦Better photography tips. (She is talking about cookies, but it would work for many small objects.)
♦Can't afford to buy stretched canvas? Make a cardboard one!

Feminism:

Reading this comic (The Devil’s Panties) lead me to this article:

♦Large retailers putting condoms in locked cases. I wonder how this is impacting young buyers?
♦Gender pricing...grrrrr how irritating.
♦Nepalese women over-come cultural taboos to find jobs. (Not something I could do, I don’t like touching feet. Icky!)

Freaky Beauty Contraptions

*Trigger Warning for Sexual assault and abuse survivors*

More information at: Project Unbreakable

Mental Health/Recovery:
♦Medicinal Marzipan gives advice on how to combat weight/size stigma.
♦I ♥ this post: Explaining victim blaming.
♦Can we stop using "anorexic" and "thin" interchangeably?
♦Nine dangerous things you learned in school.
♦Need some inspiration. Click here...    : )
♦"When you veer off (your life) course..."

Noms:
♦Can't wait for fall to try this soup! Vidalia onion & Wild rice soup.
♦ Key-lime frozen yogurt. YUM!
♦Chai Coffee cake.

WTF:

♦Truly bizarre book: Grandpa Won't Wake Up.
♦Horrible "Tinkerbell" cakes.
♦Rita Hayworth, had to have her skin bleached? This is sad. (Her story is at the bottom.)