They’re bigger, cooler, and cheaper than having to go get some from the eye doctor. Thanks to hours of scouring some cool websites, I found these babies and was ready to take the plunge. All you need is your prescription and you’re on your way to getting some new glasses!
I think the next pair will be red. I miss the badass old red ones I had.
I am taking care of my puppy, Tortilla, home from the vet, and need to relax (I’m at Mom-level worrying right now). I’m taking a writing break and listening to this on a loop:
What is your favorite thing to listen to when you need to de-stress?
Another installment of word origins!
Hapless – meaning “unfortunate,” first began use in 1568. Stemming from the Old Norse word “happ,” meaning “chance, luck or good fortune.” Who better to illustrat hapless than Gilligan? 
photo credit: elfie and me
Sundries - meaning “miscllaneous items” from the Old English syndrig “separate, apart, special.” Phrase ‘all and sundry’ first recorded 1389; sundries “odds and ends” is first found 1755.
I somehow stumbled upon this website and was awed by most everything she had on there, but the tag “A Dress and a Gig Poster,” from which I took my title, was my favorite. They don’t have to be the same pattern, but generally the same colors, but most importantly, the same kind of mood. I really liked this.
So, I thought I’d do a little homage. But instead of limiting myself to just gig posters, I decided to do album covers as well. The reason? This first example:
Judas Priest’s “Screaming for Vengeance.” This cover was just begging for someone to compare a dress to it. Have no fear, I will fulfill! This shoe makes me swoon as well; it fits so perfect as a talon I could scream!
Herb Alpert. The album cover that launched a thousand whipped cream fantasies, made wearable as a wedding dress. I even added the rose earrings to match the one Dolores Erickson holds.
Who Killed Amanda Palmer. It was probably her killer sense of style. Was that too much? Okay, I’ll try and rein in the cheese-factor.
bloc party gig poster, with some seriously graphic shoes and a dress that positively purrs.
Best of the Beach Boys. Plaid, khaki, and the ever-cool beach.
Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November. Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues – specifically prostate and testicular cancer.
Watch and see what it’s all about.
Sign up, donate, raise some money for a good cause, and grow a wicked awesome ’stache.
Ladies, this is a good time to break out your fake mo’s, too. All the more easy to break the ice. When a stranger asks you why in the world you’re wearing a ’stache, you can reply that you are raising donations and awareness for mens’ health. I’m going to try and be brave and wear one for a full day while at work or running errands. To help people better understand what it’s all about, i’m making little business-card size info pages I can hand to them.
I think this is an awesome cause and am slightly at a bias when it comes to mo’s – The Beau can grow a pretty killer one.
Today’s Take Five, in honor of All Hallow’s Eve being tomorrow, is dedicated to mostly jack o lanterns, but also a couple amazing spook houses!
5. This cool, dark-detecting, LED-lit jack-o-lantern! Learn how to make your own here!
those tools look especially scary.
4. Learn everything you need to know about pumpkin-carving, including how to make your own stencils, on Squidoo!
cutest couple ever.
3. Extremely intricate pumpkin designs.
Frank stencil on ReadyMade
2. If jamming your hand into a gooey pumpkin doesn’t sound like your kind of fun, make some sack o’ lanterns!
photo via blog, courtesy of Kyle Wood)
1. The man who runs Secret Fun Spot (he’s also written a book about the old magic stuff you used to be able to buy in comic books) also made this blog about this capital A-mazing Phantasmagoria ride at Bell’s Amusement Park in Tulsa. Take a look through the site and notice all the details that went into making this ride back in the day.
Don’t forget to check out the dollhouse transformed into a haunted house!
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