Alice’s Adventure’s: Funstuff and Pretty Things

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I grew up dreaming of holly-garlanded christmas houses with big red ribbons and jolly Santas covering every spot of free space, but my mom would have none of that. She created a unique Christmas experience for our family, crafting silver-painted branches and twigs, eagerly thrifted Nativity scenes, and metal-sculptures of reindeer (which magically transform back into […]

i love this blog! 
so many pics of cool urban bike commuters, so inspiring to take off the moon-boots and brave the cold with style!
The author posted some pics today from his Christmas tree-acquiring adventure, kids and ice cream included! Click here to read

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this blog not only has stellar articles using type in the most innovative ways, featuring new and free fonts, but the blog itself is so beautiful!
i love typography!

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one of my co-workers filmed and produced this little spot, I happened to run into these folks Saturday night… rowdy bunch to say the least!
Santacon link: find one in your city! (Dallas yours is coming up this weekend!)
 
Portland Santacon 2008 from Bill Mikesell on Vimeo.

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circa 2024 of course.
due to the Urban Growth Boundary in Portland, there are acreages within pleasant 20 minute commute on the Tri-Met Max Line (bike racks included of course). Berry picking, goats, chickens, mud, slugs, winter squash. Oh all the fun things you can do. With a hobbit house.
Click the link to read about the […]

if only we could remember to bring our pile of reusable shopping bags into the store WITH us.
i feel so horrible accepting the plastic bags, but the kitty poop is unending! and the little muffin won’t use the eco-friendly pine stuff. i might try to acclimate her again when we get a house and our […]

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i am ready to go!

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via FFFFound

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you know, when you feel like you know a song, then find out its some obscure new band that wiggled its way into your ears?
well antenna farm records has a pretty high opinion of their latest darlings, The Donkeys
The Donkeys self-titled debut is an instant classic. We know you’ve heard this sort of hyperbolic crap before […]

in a hilarious post by Meowza Katz over at the Aviary, he redesigns our nation for the 2.0 (presumably that Obama will be ushering in)

Unfortunately our money is as worthless as this picture makes it look! The era of fat-cat corporate culture is taking a hit, and I am not sad to see it go. Quite the Fight-Club-esque […]

via: the city sage

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the FFF blogger comments:
The things you can do with rolls of tape, Styrofoam cups, paper plates, napkins… 
Lovely work. Kind of reminds me of tripe though!

I have love the beef noodle bowls that are tucked away in perfectly hidden little vietnamese joints (i.e. not the glossy Pho Van in the middle of hipster town) but I can’t […]

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Yo! Bike Mike! Poster, originally uploaded by Network Osaka.
Bike are cool

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puppies that is!
 

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Halloween 2001, originally uploaded by Lizette Greco.

Max! Found wandering the street in search of candy corns…

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and funny puppies!
now I think this guy is the funniest….

but here is the grand prize winner. 

Visit slog.thestranger for more!

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A capital FI lig is rarely a good idea:

via i love typography

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its like a soap-opera blog, such a novel concept!
like carrie in our beloved Sex and the City, the characters are anonymously nicknamed, but in this case the all are. the protagonist, our narrator and blogger is self-proclaimed “RedFrame” and her friends wear various monikers pertaining to their career, friendship status, etc. Beautiful Boy… sounds so dreamy. Almost […]