I love the Internet. Without it I’m sure I never would have learned that peach melba was named for 1800′s opera singer Dame Nellie Melba. In a way, it’s kind of sad. She was highly regarded in her day and now she’s only remembered as the name of a desert, and hardly anyone knows why [...]

Artist Steve Nederveen – Beautiful! More. Woodgrain Post-It Stack – Wow. That’s cool. Small World Gallery – Beautiful photos of very tiny things Uh…. – No comment. The Plain of Jars – The world is so full of interesting stuff! Science Fiction and Fantasy Flow Chart – I could spend some time with this. It [...]

Erin on the wearing of vintage clothing: The other hard part about wearing vintage is that each wearing brings a favorite piece a day closer to death. The seams on this dress are awfully fragile, and the fabric’s getting thin … it’s basically just one ill-advised reach from some unfixable tear. But I have sworn [...]

Here are my new winter boots, in front of my unorganized bookshelf. (Disorganized would seem to suggest that it was organized at some point in time.) The boots are Earth brand. They are actually a darker brown than they appear in the photo. I wore them around the house for about half an hour to [...]

I’ve been looking at wallpaper again. I wanted to change my desktop background to something seasonal. Here are a few sites that I found. Graffiti Wallpaper – Lots of beautiful nature theme wallpapers, plus kittens, puppies and more 40 Widescreen Nature Themed Wallpapers – Lovely Crazy Frankenstein – Many different categories. This site also has [...]