spring is coming, I swear.

spring dresses por vous---------as i see it.

emma-lee (there was a close 2nd choice, but it was more gray-day than spring-day.)



pinkghost (maybe not an obvious choice, but I want to see you in this so bad!!)



mimi (polka dots and ruffles done classy. here's the 2nd runner up, which is not as classy)



minx (there were lots of picks for you, but I think I like this more sophisticated dress the best)



me



(I tried looking at the high end stuff, but I just can't get into it. I suppose I'm just low class to the core core.)

stronger, deeper, higher, sweeter -- my oh my!

stuff for sale

I've posted some earbobs up on my etsy shop.



This is where the digi-cam starts paying for itself!

for no reason at all

vertical flower boxes

you guys are in luck: vous pouvez en acheter à montréal.

more leslie

waaaait a second. you guys have seen theses, right? right?

oh, leslie!

Leslie Hall is coming to town! Gem sweaters a-go-go!

Rear Window

my back yard:

Smart Women Elect!

This was one of the finds from the American Science Surplus outing: a vinyl pouch from the League of Women Voters in St. Paul.

The front graphic is pretty cute, as you can see:


But the back is what really sells it for me:

Tattoos are included!

where I blog

literally, procrastination station:


I told you guys when I got this camera, I would blog ANYTHING.

GO-BAMA

Obama won the South Carolina primary by a huge margin!

Obama - 55%
Clinton - 27%
Edwards - 18%


Read A Margin That Will Be Hard to Marginalize.

My favorite quote from Obama: I need your Cousin Pookie to vote!

pillows! pillows!

Sad news, my old Singer is dead... I was so excited once the fabric came in the mail for these pillows, i bunkered down to work and plugged in my Singer who had been out of service since the spring. She blew smoke at me, and I had to abandon her for the Serger. The job got done but it was not pleasant, i miss my regular sewing machine!

Suggestions for new sewing machines are most welcome. I have no idea what to get.

Howie's big day

international footwear

ok japanese-speakers, how to I order these shoes?

Clinton Friedman

Beauty!



There's a book for sale, but I think it's only through this site. I can't find a price, so maybe I can't afford it.

Books that will not make you smart.

The real name of this analysis is Books That Will Make You Dumb, but I think my title is more apt. A guy from Caltech took the ten most popular books from a bunch of colleges and made a correlation between those books and the average SAT scores for the schools. I've got some issues with his categories, namely that he put both Little Women and Pride and Prejudice not in the Classics genre but rather in Chick Lit along side The Devil Wears Prada (I should include this in my own study entitled Things That Make You a Prick).

Nonetheless, it's kind of an interesting list as well as kind of sad. I really feel bad that the Bible correlates with such a low score. It's even beaten by the I don't read entry.

my new camera digs red

color accent feature, with mejay:

aquarium feature, with tselanie:

the Wire, with chuckles

This is a reworked clip from the Wire, season 4, 3rd episode. I don't think there are any spoilers revealed here, but don't watch if you haven't gotten to this point yet and want to remain pure.

Bad Piggy!

A music video by T.o.L., the people who did Tamala 2010: A punk Cat in Space.

To Do: Go to Henry Darger's House

..or at least to the recreation of it at this exhibit.



Mimi, I'm thinking this will be a great activity for your visit!

The Library of Congress has a flickr.

loc flickr link

from the camera, from this weeknd

Catherine and Ali

View from the backseat Frozen Eggs
Plastic Tangles
A Boy and His Ram
Wire Fence

American Science Surplus

I went to American Science Surplus this weekend, and it was awesome. And I don't even like science. There's a good AP post about it here. I bought a bunch of different containers (for what I don't know yet), a couple of different kinds of duct tape including camo-design, and one of those boxes of birds shown in the AP post.

Unfortunately, I forgot my brand new camera so I have no personal pictures to show. And even more unfortunate that I forgot my camera: We saw Joan Cusack there! I would've loved a picture of her browsing the small motor aisle.

Thriller!

I thought I'd either posted and/or sent this around but Miss Minxer claims not. So this one goes out to the lady with the short bangs.

The image quality is shite but man can those little zombies shake it!

make-up

Do you like the new format?
It's my sorry-I-haven't-been-around-but-I-still-love-you present.
You can tell me if you don't like it. I can take it back for a refund or exchange.

????

who's in here messin' around with me? I like where you're going, I just want to know who it is.

Baby Mama

hot dogs.

Heat Eats

This site gives reviews of frozen food, which I'm eating more and more of. Not all the reviews are bad, btw.

I like the box vs. true life pics.


YUM!

this lady reminds me of emma-lee

something about the way she talks. and giggles.


That's a compliment, in case you need clarification.

cooch couch

for sale in San Fran, of course!

the scariest news of the day..

Scrabulous may leave facebook.

story here

pet peeve number whatever

I hate grown folks who smack gum.
and who shuffle their shoes when they walk.
and who smell like poop.

Here's hoping this will make me feel better.

Scorsese does Hitchcock

It's an ad for a Spanish wine, and the script is fictional, but it's all so good -- the Hitchcock style is perfect and Scorsese's reverent geek act is awesome.

what I found at Grandma's house

more on my flickr

birthday mania

More pics up on flickr!

laughing at hipsters of yore

DANCE PARTY USA!!!

antidote

This video isn't as pretty as the dance sequences, but this song totally rules.

what the?!?

I'm kind of hesitant to post crap like this, because if there's one thing we don't need to see more of....

But this caused a minor scandal in my household last week so I thought I'd share. We think her face looks all weird and squinty like that because she's actually wearing the trout mask.

Regina glows

first portrait with the new camera!

grandmother craft #1

Here's the first thing I made from the fabric I found at my grandmother's house over Christmas: a checkbook cover for my brother. I love the fabric!!





dig the quality photos!

DIY Dress Form

with duct tape!



(have we posted this already?)

miscegeny rules, man

I want it! Give me the zebdonk!

Facebook sucks! but I'm not giving it up! yet!!

I saw this piece on 60 Minutes last night, or rather the second half of it, which was about Facebook and its baby-CEO. There's some discussion about the onslaught of marketing on Facebook, which seems to be getting worse every hour. I knew that already, but! what I didn't know was that Facebook communicates with outside sites, like Amazon, and will post your activity on those sites in your news feed, unless you opt out. An example cited in the tv piece: a man bought a diamond ring for his wife but she found out about the surprise gift through his news feed. That's fucked up! Imagine if you bought a book on Amazon about living with herpes or filing for bankruptcy or some other incredibly personal topic? It was enough to make me want to pop that baby-CEO in his wealthy, unethical mouth.

I was so pissed and violated that I wanted to cancel my profile immediately, but who am I kidding? I'm addicted. The connection to my long distance friends is too important. So I'm staying on it, but I did increase all of my security settings including opting out of that "sharing external links" bullshit. And I also took out all my favorites shows, music, etc, because I feel like Facebook just wants that info to sell it to marketing companies. Not that they can't use other facts about me, but I want to give them as little as possible to profit from.

humph!

springy spring spring

this is what my morning looked like today. no, really.

80's Liz Lemon

I love it when she flashes back like she did in last night's episode.


Again, I have to say it: Liz Lemon is me.

The I.T. Crowd

Big thanks to Megan for turning me on to this British comedy. It's so adorable and funny -- it has me audibly chuckling at my desk despite my best efforts to stiffle the giggles. In this clip, the I.T. guys, Moss and Roy, try to kick a soccer ball..



Moss is my new huge crush, btw. I want to take him home!

gloria and her cat

to market to market

girl gang

for you lovers out there

the love matress:

PLY textiles

Felted, quilted wool pillows. so well designed, and so cozy!



etsy store.

heads up!!

We're going to change the url for this blog to titsandtoots.blogspot.com soon, like in a day. It's a phrase that's closer to our hearts than the current address. I'll try to email as many of you as I can think of who read this thing, but I may miss a couple of you.

We're also kind of tired of the layout and are looking around for other designs and ideas, so more changes to come. probably. maybe. But the name's the biggie.

She Coulda Been Your Cellmate

smug declarations and some kinda canon

click to enlarge.

been loving you

SHAKE

everything mini please

A. Bel Emporium esty shop has devine vintage multiple minis for sale..cupcakes! plant decor! oh my!

Why AA Really Sucks, and Why I Love Jezebel Soooo Much.

pillow sos

Please do recall the fuzzy furniture in our living room:

I would like to order some fabric to make pillows. The low rider couch especially doesn't provide much neck support resulting in guests with stiff necks. Unacceptable.

There are lots of purdy types of fabric on the purlsoho site to choose from, so many in fact that I need help choosing. What appeals to me is all over the place. Please see the top contenders below, and help me to pick!

GO-BAMA

"I know I've been campaigning too much because I was a rally and instead of saying 'The time for change has come' I said 'The time for come has changed.' And I have to admit, everybody clapped."

-- Obama in a New Hampshire speech.

via jezebel

Panda Factory

"A Boom in Panda Production"


article here

beard cap!

This costs $135, so i need to learn how to knit and then how to make patterns so I can have one for myself. in pink.

YAY YAY AMY !!!

check it y'all-- Amy was featured on Deisgn*Sponge today!



Congratulations, sugarpop!!

Thanks to Cindy Mac for bringing it to my attention via Facebook.

TGIF

I know it was a short week, but it seemed soooo hard! like trudging through tar. I think it's holiday exhaustion mixed with stupid New Years retrospective muck. but when I heard a snippet of this movie on the radio this morning, I cheered up a bit. It's the little things that make me happy.



ps - why isn't Chris Tucker in more movies?

hi hat!

the evil eye

Third Drawer Down

I love this company, Third Drawer Down. It commissions different artists to make limited edition tea towels, pillow cases, aprons, and such. I gave Mimi and Mongrel a couple of their tea towels last year, Mama (now out of print) and Papa.

Here are some others I like today, the first being my favorite!

swinging party

I finished All Over But the Shouting during the holidays, and I fell wholly in love with the Replacements again. even more so. I really bought into the idea that the band was excellent at representing two sides of rock n' roll - a raw earnestness alongside apathetic rebelliousness - but they never seemed false.

Here's some live footage from 1981. I was surprised not only with how good the quality is, but with how tight they are, considering their reputation. I think most of these guys are about 21 at the time, except for Tommy (who's 14!).


I only saw them once, at the big Birmingham amphitheater in the summer of 1991, their farewell tour. I don't remember much, only that it was the same week I lost my virginity and they played Kiss Me on the Bus during the encore. I wish I had gone up to the stage, but I was too meek. ah well.

3-5 days

Thanks to mom for most of the money, I have just ordered this:

With this new means of documentation, I'm going to have even MORE crap to post about!

Bookaneers!

bonus!

happy trails cards

Sets or indiviual greeting cards are up for sale. These are from the stuffies I made this past summer at islands fold. All proceeds go to the artist residency, a most worthy cause in cuteness.

Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction

oh dear...

Has Minx seen this?