blog #499 >> Pintrest Update!

I'm really just posting this here so I can pin it to Pintrest.
I'm updating my "In the Kitchen" board. I'm switching it from both cute kitchens and delicious food, to just cute kitchens. Then I'm starting a new board called "In the Recipe Box" for awesome eats. So if you're missing my food pins, you'll need to start following my new board. Or if you're not on Pintrest, sign-up! 'Cause you're really missing out!
Cheers!
T

Here's an example of the delicious things you can see on my "In the Recipe Box" board.
It's a Home Made Mushroom Soup. I tried it. It's AMAZING! You can see the recipe here on Season with Spice. Or see the pin here on Pintrest.

And here's an example of the swell stuff you can see on my "In the Kitchen" board.
Image found on Interior Home Designz. Or here on Pintrest.

blog #480 >> From my internet travels

Okay, here's a nice little blog post w/o any meat!
This is a swell little collection of cool links I've found online recently.

p.s. I should mention, I'm becoming increasingly addicted to pintrest. I think I even like it better than my google reader feed, and that's really saying something!

Here is a super cute kitchen found at Apartment Therapy.

Here is a dorky accordion kid, found at pintrest.
(Also, I find this advertisement slightly misleading. )

Amazing bedspread from Sewing Daisies. See how she made it!

I love Nutella too! From Chibird.

Adorable book couple. I tired to track down the original link, but it turned up blank on etsy. See it at pintrest here.

Tea is indeed refreshing! Found at pintrest here and at this beautiful tumbler page named the oxford circus.

The perfect "welcome" mat for less then welcome guests. Like those crazy poll takers.
Found here at ffffound.
I love how they filled in the cracks, chinks and crevasses of their home with books as if they were spackle!
See it here at Pamela Love and Jordan Sullivan's home.


These two fancy fellows are from My Daguerreotype Boyfriend. I love this site!


And these strange floating people are from:

Edison's Anti-Gravity Underwear Kite Babies, 1879

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1562 [Part of a series on the History of the Future]

There was a time in the late 19th century when it was seen that Thomas Edison could do just about anything--so much so that the Brits in The London Punch gave him tongue-in-cheek credit for inventing (flying, so to speak), anti-gravity underwear.

Read more about it here at Ptak Science Books.


And although I usually try to avoid the kitty internet craze, I just can't help it! These ones are just so funny! From Cats That Talk. Discovered here.

And as a bonus link, here's a fascinating story about The Vidocq Society.

Nineteen years ago three men had the idea of a regular lunch club for crime experts that would try to solve some of the United States' most baffling homicides. The Vidocq Society has now been instrumental in solving hundreds of crimes. Adam Higginbotham meets the founding members.

I suppose I find this so interesting because I've recently been reading lots of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels lately.

Find the complete story here at The Telegraph. Well worth a read.

Okay, time to go be productive now...
T

blog #451 >> Simply Awesome Award

Last week I was so very honored to win The Simply Awesome Award! This little dainty was graciously bestowed upon me by the very sweet Miss. Grace over at Puddles of Memories. This could be where I go on and on about how I don't deserve it, and I'm not actually very awesome, but I'm not that humble... I'm totally awesome, and I know it! Anyhow here are the official rules:

1. Accept this award graciously because you (and your blog) are simply awesome.
2. Pass it on to five other bloggers who have simply awesome blogs, and tell them about it- either by commenting on their blog, emailing them, etc.
3. List five things that you find simply awesome.
4. Pass these rules on.

Well, there are so many awesome blogs and awesome things I don't know where to start.... um... 5 simply awesome things...

1. tea - I really love tea... a lot. Nothing beats a nice hot cup of tea when you first get up.... unless it's a nice hot cup of tea before you go to bed.



2. books - Books are wonderful! I really hope books never go out of style, but even if they do, I'll become like the crazy cat lady, but instead of a cat refuge, I'll have a book refuge. I'll pile them up in every room to the ceiling with little arched book tunnels to get around in. Oh, and they'll be organized, because what's the sense of having all those books and not knowing where anything is. See more lovely bookcases at Bookshelf Porn... don't worry there's no actual porn on the site... just very modest bookshelves.

This image is from Apartment Therapy.

3. Beirut - Still one of my all time favorite bands.



4. Sirius - Such a pretty little star. I don't care how cold it is outside, I'll be fine just as long as I get a quick look at this lovely silvery-twinkling star in my telescope.


Image found here at Weather Underground.

5. pie - I know cupcakes are in their prime, but I'd take pie over cake any day... mmmm... PIE! Sweet fruity pastry goodness!


And now the hardest part of all... trying to pick just five awesome blogs. I've got sooo many loaded into my reader, it's been really hard to pick just five. It's taken me all week!
But I think these are going to be my final five. (Grace, I would have picked you, but since you picked me you've already won, so I'm passing it on.)
So here they are:

Lolly-Tots Crafty Goodness by Mary the maker of fine furry hats.

Inadvertent Farmer by Kim grower of organic veggies and camel lover.

Food in Jars, lovely pictures and delicious recipes of food in jars.

Flapper Girl Creations, by Christine, collector of antique yearbooks and creator of retro aprons.

Backyard Farm Wife, by Carrie raiser of chickens and collector of vintage delights.

Enjoy!
T

blog #421 >> More Catchng Up!

Sorry, sometimes I just get too busy doing things to catalog them in my blog. Poor thing! It's been so lonely lately!
So I'm going to attempt to get mostly caught up tonight...
let's see if I can do it.

We have... in no particular order...

EGGPLANTS!!! At last I have eggplants! And they are amazingly delicious! I've been roasting them in honey butter. They might be one of my new favorite foods.

I wish the tomatoes were doing as well as the eggplants. I have yet to get a single red tomato this year. Only the yellow ones are ripening.

But the green peppers are doing pretty good.

And the sunflowers.

And the fairytale eggplant of course.

And I've got zucchini coming out of my ears! These are the monsters that grew while I was away house sitting. I've eaten zucchini nearly everyday. And if you consider soup a beverage, I have made zucchini into a breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and a drink!



I also had a bumper crop of beets. So I tried making some pickled beets this year. I can't wait to try them!

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And this is the bathrobe I made from the chenille bedspread I pulled out of "The Bins." I LOVE how it turned out! And I promise to post more of my newly finished sewing projects soon... well eventually.




And here is a sneak peak at my newly finished blue dress. I started this when I was 13 and finally finished it! It was the ultimate in procrastination. But now I actually have the skills to fix it and finish it. (I had made it too big.) Although, I have to admit, I was pretty impressed with the straight seems and details on it. I was a pretty good little seamstress at 13.


Even though I know it's a bit early to be thinking about Halloween. I want this to be my next sewing project. It would make an adorable little party dress. I would have bought it, but it was already sold by the time I discovered it. I found it here on Wearing History's Etsy shop.


And this is the dress I did buy! Such a sweet little tea party dress!
I got it from Elegant Musings shop.


Oh, and I loved the clothes in this old Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test too.



Let's see what's left in my "to post on the blog" folder...

ooooh here! These are some drip catchers I crocheted for my tea pot.


And this is an old parking lot photo I saw on Vintage Portland. I wonder if they ever lost a car?


hmmm... oh yes! And I recently rediscovered "Hark! A Vagrant" comics. I had forgotten how much I love her work! It always makes me laugh, plus it appeals to my inner history buff.

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And here is a new cookie cookbook I pulled out of "The Bins."

(Don't light the oven by yourself.)

(Official taste testers below.)


These are some cookie recipes I can't wait to try from Simply Recipes.
This one is for Butterscotch Cookies.

And this one is for Chocolate Nutella Cookies.
Photos by Simply Recipes.

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I also bought these How and Why, Wonder Books "The Science Library" at "The Bins." Because I'm a sucker for books, and I always loved these books when I was a little girl and this is the whole collection! I love the pictures in them and the early optimism of the 1960's, when we believed we'd be living on the moon in less than 50 years!

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And for a nerdy story and photo to leave off with. I recently found Bad Astronomy online and I can't believe I haven't been following it before. It's fantastic!
This is one of my favorite pictures from it. "The laser shoots up into the sky and excites atoms in the upper atmosphere, causing them to glow. That makes an artificial and very bright star in the sky! The telescope can then use that star to track the distortions in the atmosphere and compensate for them, allowing the images it makes to be incredibly clear and sharp." Read more about it here.

Alrighty, I've got to get to bed now.
Good night!
T