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Oh to all the things I can’t afford

Etsy member and Montreal resident of Littlehouses clothing makes incredible clothing entirely out of my price range.  But I can dream, right?
Rosemont Sweater:

La Fleur:

Creaturely Etsy Finds

Etsy user Celapiu offers Foks scarves.  She/he writes:
Foks is a unique and original Celapiu design. It is a handcrafted fox-shaped scarf, a witty accessory and pro-eco manifesto at the same time.
Not sure how I feel about this handmade etsy find.  Is it made of real wool?  It could make people think about what they are [...]

Where the Hell is Matt? (A story about an elaborate hoax)

Have you ever heard of “Where the Hell is Matt?” An Aussie quits his job and travels all over the world - and for fun decides to do some funny dancing in front of monuments or in atmospheric places, sometimes joined by native residents of these locales.  These sequences are compiled on film and it [...]

Tech Tool Round-up

I have been much remiss on my new social web tool experimentation lately - I would chock it up to GRADUATE SCHOOL MANIA and ignoring Lifehacker, among with several discarded technology-related RSS feeds.  Or maybe, the existing tools I have simply meet my needs.  But recently I came across a whole flurry of gizmos - [...]

Best of new blog discoveries

(Photo by Sandra Juto. i love owls!)
My blog interests have lately taken a drastic domestic turn, as I dream about my future house (very far away, but a fun distraction) & other design interests such as my new fascination with letterpress printing (a possible future hobby?) &, of course, Etsy.  The dangerous thing about discovering [...]

Ever confused about the links between feminism, sexism, and meat-eating? Let me help.

I am learning lots about feminism this term in school (verging into topics that include: queer studies, sexuality, gender, feminist media studies), and the experience reminds me again why I love learning. My perspective on the world is changing as I begin to look more critically at media from a scholarly feminist angle, and [...]

Meal Planning Experiment 101: What I’ve Learned

When I began to contemplate how to put my 2009 resolutions into practice, I was inspired by In a garden … somewhere’s meal planning posts.  So I sat down for about an hour or two, had my cookbooks at hand, and created a simple meal plan for the entire month - inputting recipes I thought [...]

What music do you listen to when you exercise?

For Christmas I was lucky enough to get the Nike+ sensor for my shoe.  This ‘talks’ wirelessly to my iPod Nano and allows me to set up workouts according to speed, time, calories etc.  The GPS tracks my distance and speed (via pace), and a female voice lets me know when I have run .5 [...]

New documentary: America the Beautiful

I have started to engage in feminist scholarship, which has been an eye-opening experience. While I have always considered myself a feminist, I have barely scratched the surface of reading some of the relevant texts. One of the areas I find interesting is body acceptance and the ways to look critically at the [...]

New levels of ‘cute overload’ - interspecies relationships

An increasing trend in internet interest seems to be photographs or videos featuring interspecies relationships that are surprising and endearing. My favourite story is that of Christian the lion, despite the horribly cheezy musak that accompanies it. A recent video that I have seen cropping up is of this relationship between a female [...]