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Archive for August, 2007

Pledge Allegiance to Your Ideals

If you are like me and you walk around harping about how people are so wasteful about fashion (both ecologically and financially), then Wardrobe Refashion challenges you and I to put our time and energy where our collective mouths are. If you join Wardrobe Refashion you are committing yourself to the WR pledge: “I [...]

Wee Ones

I do not have any offspring. I have, however, reached the age where people around me are procreating and frankly, I’m a little freaked out. But just because I don’t feel ready to be someone’s mom doesn’t mean I don’t love my friends’ kids. I found Wee Wonderfuls the other day and [...]

Knitting Pretty

Greetings and salutations you wonderful readers you. Now, as you may recall from our previous conversations, er, blogs that although I appreciate knitting, nay, relish in the fruits of the knitting labor, I am not myself a knitter (yet. I’ve got a pair of 8 needles and a ball of scavenged yarn. [...]

The Counter-Counter Culture

You thought you were dismissing the mainstream by making your own clothes and buying from independent, small business owners instead of shopping at the mall–didn’t you? Well guess what? It looks like there is yet still a road less traveled that you and me both can spend some time exploring. Check out theanticraft.com. This [...]

Library Lovin’

Sometimes I wonder if I should have gone into the library sciences. I mean, who doesn’t love organizing and categorizing things for easy reference? I remember when I was little (about 10 or so) I used to spend my free time arranging and rearranging things in my room, mainly books. I would [...]

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