- This wonderful, magical animation drawn with crayons: Crayon Dragon Comes to Life.
- For the freelancers/self-employed, three good reads: How to Accomplish More by Doing Less, Death by Hourly Wage, and It Doesn’t Get Better, You Do. Favorite quote: “I don’t charge by the hour, I charge by the awesome.”
- Does the Sun Make You Sneeze? Finally, my affliction has a name: photic sneeze reflex.
- This is just plain awesome: JCPenney Responds to Homophobic Boycott Calls with Gay Father’s Day Ad. I need to go shop at JCPenney more often.
- A must read for the spouses/partners of bloggers: If You Love Her, Let Her Grow.
- Alycia has a useful list detailing 5 Reasons I Won’t Buy from an Online Shop, along with ways to fix the issues.
- An interesting and accurate look at What Happens When You Live Abroad.
- Two great posts recently on Yes & Yes: How to Broadcast Body Confidence, and You’re Smart. So What?
- A really moving post from Sarah about the importance of mental health and stigmas associated with it: Bringing in the Professionals.
- A very interesting read about the perils & advantages of nonconformity: Nonconformists Need Better Social Skills.
- 13 Inspirational Quotes for the Modern Cynic. Hilarious.
- I wish this were the standard everywhere! My Sienna is a sweetie. Ohio to pit bulls: You’re no longer ‘vicious’.
- Beth has some handy tips for summer.
- This seems awesome, and I hope it takes off: Swap-o-Matic, a barter-based vending machine.
- And finally, this adorable Cat Eating Watermelon. He’s very focused. 🙂
Things of Note:
I finished my very first solo, with-machine sewing project, and am ridiculously excited/proud of it. It’s just some pillows, with screenprints on them. But I sewed them myself! Successfully! I’ll have a sewing update w/ pics later this week, I just have to wait until after the recipient gets them in the mail, since they are a gift and I want her to see them in person before seeing them on the blog.
I had another great clothes swapping experience with Austin Clothes Exchange this past weekend. 🙂
Getting excited about the Zelda Symphony later this month – woohoo!
I received the first letter from my Lovely Letters penpal! I love getting mail. Except now I don’t know whether I’m supposed to write her back right away, since I also wrote her a letter and she might be responding to that, in which case our letters would cross and it’d be all confusing…Conundrum. But on the upside, I bought the CUTEST stationery on Etsy, so I’ll have pretty stuff to write on. 🙂
I’m scheming things to put in the box I’m sending to my Foodie Pen Pal, and I hope she likes it.
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Great list. The expat post was particularly interesting, it really highlighted what are to me some of the key differences between being an expat and being an immigrant. Good food for thought.
As a newbie sewer (sewist? person who sews? person who attempts to sew?) myself I’m always keen to hear about fun new projects, especially the easy ones :).