Favorites last week: did you know?
Apparently, it’s been a week for noticing things or being informed of things. In no particular order, here is what I’ve learned since last Saturday.
1. It is difficult to eat one’s hot sauce and/or salsa without chips. When one is too lazy to get chips, one must then attempt to find other things for the hot sauce and salsa. Sometimes these are good ideas, like mixing hot sauce with ketchup. Sometimes these are bad ideas, which then are not spoken of aagain.
2. Shiny Shiny tells me that more women than men own gaming consoles these days. I understand. I bought a Wii. Urged by Husband, but still. There were high-jinks involved in the purchase, and I was an enthusiastic participant. ANYWHO, this probably explains why Crafty Crafty (Shiny Shiny’s sister site) was able to dig up so many hand-crafted covers for DS Lites. However, to further confuse our often-pointless gendered stereotypes, not all the covers were made by women. So there.
3. I had not previously taken a look at Indie Fixx’s Fall Jewelry Guide, but I should have. Nice stuff on there. Indie Fixx is great. And apparently I’ll soon have to add the Indie Fixx Shop to my Index of Indie, ’cause something tells me their shop selection will fit my requirements for the guide. (The woman who made this bracelet just got chosen as one of Baltimore’s best local jewelry artists. Nice!)
4. Adams Morgan is the best part of DC (sorry, Dupont). I know. In the 10 years or so since I left, it’s apparently gotten better, as it now has an annual shindig called the Crafty Bastards Arts & Crafts Fair, which took place yesterday. I’m sooo jealous of people who get to go. Instead of Crafty Bastards, it should be Lucky Bastards.
5. Some people (not me) really DO have the patience 0f saints. Such as the woman who made Blythe Manor. The pictures here (right) are of a miniature craft room. All those tiny teeny little bolts of fabric! And what she put ‘em in! I don’t even have that much patience with my real-life craft room.
So far as I can tell, each detail is perfect in its miniature-ness.
