pompompom

Source: thebrokeassbride.com via skiourophile

you talk too much

Source: etsy.com via skiourophile

wreaths

Source: goodhousekeeping.com via skiourophile on Pinterest

Source: womansday.com via skiourophile on Pinterest

Source: apartmenttherapy.com via skiourophile on Pinterest

sweet home

Source: zsazsabellagio.blogspot.com via skiourophile on Pinterest

octopuss

Jill Watt via knithacker

link love

Source

• lesbian pulp fiction - how to be a retronaut
• you wouldn't want to be Andy Warhol's landlord - letters of note
• 22 manly ways to reuse an Altoids tin - art of manliness
• from velouté to casserole: a question of green beans amandine and Campbell's cream of mushroom soup - gherkins and tomatoes
• semper ubi sub ubi - urban dictionary
• John Betjeman's 'Invasion Exercise at the Poultry Farm' - ancient industries
• keyboard (ASCII) art and typewriter portraiture - boingboing and letterology
• a scarf with a secret hiding place for your valuables - better living through design
• on muscular women - brain-pickings (with some 1901 Edison footage of a trapeze striptease!) and how to be a retronaut
• some valuable thoughts on living in the present - liberty london girl
• how to cast out rats & mice, the old-fashioned way (Mäuseexorzismus!) - laudator temporis acti

foxy hats

aubery (etsy)

'scat' (scarf-hat) by Louise Mensinger (etsy)

detail: hats by nicole (etsy)

'scoodie' by stitches by brooke (etsy)

lobster mittens

lambswool lobster hat and mittens

from luna and curious (£64! and sold out) via india's tumbler

beading heart

Jan Huling's beaded heart: 

streetanatomy.com via skiourophile on Pinterest

piñatas

gorgeous colour via inchmark

mini-piñatas from oh happy day via dollar store crafts

buzzing bee-hive piñata via ohdeedoh

baby seal (!) piñata via laughing squid via not martha

etsy via badder homes and gardens

(with instructions for DIY here)

via design*sponge

confetti system's gold crystal
(too pricy to hit)

link love

source

• the last Tasmanian thylacine (so sad) - how to be a retronaut
• good fiction reads featuring food - gherkins and tomatoes
• Australia Day menu, 1922 - the old foodie
• guide to housecat coat colours chart - moderncat
• 'an eccentrical lady' - this is probably what will happen to me - georgian london
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - awesome people reading
• 'work mouth' - urban dictionary 
• heraclitus (podcast featuring kenodoxia) - in our time (bbc)
• defrosting your frozen words in summer - laudator temporis acti
• the best bites in Rome - parla food
• lentil spaghetti bolognese - not quite nigella
• hardly one. hardly one - Gertrude Stein's rejection letter - letters of note
• make your own grecian urn - dollar store crafts

purse DIY

Ridiculously cute rendition of craft passion's concept 

via how about orange (images).

I've featured the ribbon before.

uterus in a jar

Loving...

Buy a uterus in a jar (and many other organs)

from your organ grinder on etsy or madeit.

squirrel love

Ribbons designed by the talented how about orange.

wrap it up

Cleverly folded envelopes, seen on tales of a junkaholic.

Make stuff

• a paper-clip chandelier (I think I have enough time & clips at work for this) from dollar store crafts;
• simple paper lanterns (but I live with pyromaniacs!) from dollar store crafts;
• free-style sewing (I think this requires innate talent, sadly) from unwakeable: the artist, Laura Haigh, is from Adelaide;
• a hidden office liquor cabinet (which might explain what I'm doing with paper clips?) from serious eats;
• more stuff from paper-clips: a rose ring from cute.little.disaster;
• a jumping frog from a metro ticket from just another american in paris;
• I've already saved one fabulous huge tin for the punched design tin can lights from 101 layer cake; who took my drill?
• cute little gift box templates from a little hut (etsy) or free ones from don't eat the paste;
• re-create the Mona Lisa in burger grease via serious eats;
• give yourself skin cancer in pretty patterns, from neatorama;
• a safer use of pretty patterns: fold your own flash table-napkins with yes but no but yes;
• fill your house with leaves like the Aesop store in Notting Hill - via tea for joy.

Image: tea for joy.

monogram maker

Make your own monogram:

Free from wedding chicks 

in many colour combinations

NOTE: the direct link for this is 
http://www.weddingchicks.com/freebies/custom-monograms/vintage-monogram/

Crochet

I'm a sucker for crochet.

I think it's a combination of mad colours and symmetry.

Crochet-top storage stool (Rice via jeri's organising & decluttering)

I've now bought two of these cushions

from the very talented art & wool on made it. 

Her tea-cosies are amazing too. 

My all-time favourite crochet tea-cosy is from Wendys Woollys: 

the pineapple in pineapple stitch:

I need to persuade my mother to take up her hook again. 

There are bags of granny squares here somewhere.

Link Love

• Yum... Lemon Layer Cake with Campari Frosting (from serious eats).

• Sassoon at the Cambridge University Library (from war poetry)

• The Old Foodie explores a scrumptious menu for the Royal Family during Ascot Week 1938. I can't decide whether Consommé Jeanne Garnier would have been divine or foul: a chicken consommé with pigeon added when the consommé is clarified, then champagne is added; then a final garnish with rice and prawns.

• Dr Clelia Mosher, the Dr Kinsey of the late Victorian era: an early sex survey from the Stanford archives (via arts & letters daily)

• Eye candy: Diem Chau's (pleasure of tiny things) carved crayons for Nike for the World Cup.

I'll go back & look at these properly...

1. Anthony Gottlieb on What do philosophers believe? And what do people ask them in mid-air? (from More Intelligent Life).

2. The Journal of Ancient Fingerprints (via ancientworldonline).

3. Emails From Crazy People (via georgie love).

4. 'One Day I Will...' go to macaron classes at the Paris Ritz (via paris breakfasts).

5. Ancient Industries' on Marianna Kennedy's resin and glass works.

6. Elizabeth Berrier's wire sculptures (via modern cat -- below, the life-size wire portrait 'Fluffy and Mask'):

7. And let's buy some foolish gadgets: Skunk Duster, USB surgeon drive and maybe a Benedictaphone.