A new find

I've been hesitant to put a new blog post up because I like looking at Jesse's handsome face when I see my blog, but I guess it's time for a new one since I can see his handsome face in person.

When Jesse was 8 years old his family lived in a semi-rural area in Arkansas. One day when his parents and siblings were gone and Jesse was home alone, an electrical problem started a fire in the house. As the fire started increasing Jesse called the fire department and his Dad who was about 45 minutes away and then he grabbed a picture of Christ and a family photo and got out of the house.

Recently, in the middle of wedding planning I came across this new (to me) website and I can't stop looking at it.

The Burning House is a blog where the author asks people the world over this question: "If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It's a conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental. What you would take reflects your interests, background and priorities. Think of it as an interview condesnsed into one question."

It's so facisnating to see what people would choose...

From looking at the pictures, here are few things in common that people would take:

People and animals that are currently in the house
Moleskin notebooks/journals
Photographs
Cameras
Phones
Passports

Bleuenn age 2

David age 27

Jennie age 19

Janet age 58

What would you take with you if your house was burning?

A few finds...

This website that I recently found, called Perpetual Kid definitely appeals to my inner child.

Some of my favorites include:

Mustache jumbo magnet. Cause everything looks better with a magnetic 'stache, right?



Chillipede ice cubes:



Ninjabread men cookie cutters! How cool are these?



For the bagel lovers among us (raising my hand)- some bagel soap to go along with your morning:



Do you like or dislike these stamps?



What are you favorite items on their site? I've started a long list...

Month of love

Via

Thank you so much to everybody who commented on my last post. I'm hoping I can figure out what's going on soon.

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About two months ago I came across a website called Love Bomb. Every Thursday they send out an email about a person who is really struggling or experiencing rough times in their life. Love bomb includes a link to their website/blog and your job is to head over to that person's site and leave them an encouraging comment. By the end of the day they will have received many, many nice comments just when they are needed most.

Does it sound good? If so, please head over to Love Bomb and sign up. It only takes a few minutes of your time, but the results are truly timeless for those you help.

Think of the impact this could have on these people! As you know it starts with us.

Also, if you know of someone who needs a love bomb dropped on them you can email Lauren (the girl in charge) at dropalovebomb@gmail.com and let her know.

Yay for love!

Post edit: These past two weeks Lauren has been struggling and because of that, Lauren is being love bombed this week. Go here to send her a comment!

Random city

I'm back from my little blogging absence. The reason I took the absence was because I wasn't feeling well and had been to the chiropractor and doctor several times in a short period of time and I just didn't feel like composing a blog in my head let alone typing it.

See, I'm still not back to normal. Just look at that run-on sentence. I know it was a short absence and actually the space between my posts before was longer than this one. But whatever.

Does anybody still read this blog? I hardly get comments, so I'm not sure...

I saw the "The King's Speech" yesterday. I now know it's rated R. I just thought it was PG-13 (and in my opinion it really should have been rated that).

I highly recommend it. It's based on the true story of King George VI (queen Elizabeth's father), who became king after his brother, Edward, abdicated the throne in order to marry his mistress, Wallis Simpson. King George stuttered and the movie is about his (working) relationship/friendship with his speech therapist before and shortly after he was crowned as king. Collin Firth was wonderful as King George. It was sooo good. GO see it.

I peeled a banana from the bottom end today because I couldn't open it from the top. My finger turned all brown from the grossness. And it kind of made me sick looking at the bottom of the banana. But I ate it anyway because I was hungry.

I love ickle and Lardee. Have you met them? Go here to meet them. They're pretty much the cutest yittle milk teef you have ever seen.

Blogger has more fonts. I haven't really checked them out. Thusly, I am still using this plain old font. But just you wait ('enry 'iggins) I'll be using them shortly, I'm sure.

Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you had to live in a bubble? I was at the library recently and I found a movie on the real life bubble boy! I'm excited to watch it.

Whenever I hear or talk about bubble boys I always think of the Seinfeld episode with the bubble boy.

Also speaking of bubbles. Here is a view of the world from bubbles. Cool, huh?

I'm reading a book about human cadavers and I'm learning lots of useful information.

For example, did you know that a human stomach can hold about a gallon? After that, it either explodes (in the case of cadavers) or you throw-up (in the case of someone living). Like I said very useful, right?

The above is the reason why it's probably not a good idea to do the gallon challenge. Just sayin'. If you don't know what the gallon challenge is, google or wikipedia would be a good resource.

Okay, my lunch break is over. Have a happy Wednesday.

Links to Love- December

I decided to post the links early this month since some of them are related to Christmas.

Enjoy!

Artsy:

A book Christmas tree

Hanging chair pendant

Modern paper ornament for your Christmas tree

DIY Advent calendars

Printable owl gift wrap. Too cute!

Let it dough, let it dough. A sneak peek:

Beautiful (free!) downloadable gift tags. Too fun.

Dress boys. I had never heard of these before, but a great idea.

The Whole Story

Singing his own songs, at last: Bruno Mars

TV Worth Watching

Random:

2010 Darwin Awards

Pine cone fire starters

SantaCon. Santa sightings!

Let's go ride a bike

Basketball playing nuns

White ghosts (deer) of the forest (embeding is disabled)

Running away:


Smart (and very well trained) dog!

Light up the world

Hilarious animal voice-overs

No Christmas tree? Try this

Genius staircase

Beekeeping:


Mormon life:

The word that Elizabeth Smart wanted to hear.

Provo Tabernacle fire, but picture of Christ was saved.

I love technology:

Need help finding your lost/misplaced phone? Try this!

Interesting Google Street View images.

2010 in review:



Can you escape technology?

Neil Pasricha on TEDxToronto- The creator of 1000 Awesome Things:



Facebook...love it or hate it? 100 people I hate on facebook

10 most watched youtube videos of 2010:

(Watch all 10 videos here)

Literary:

The Day John Lennon Died

What made you happy today? A scrapbook of people and what makes them happy.

Best books of 2010

Saying Images

Recipes:

Peanut butter and jelly cookies

Mashed potato puffs. Delicious!

Cookie + cupcake

Cranberry pie. You'll be surprised, it's very tasty!

Links to Love

Artsy:

How to transfer an image with gel medium.

Awesome tilt shift images.

Birds on the wires.

Adorable artist images. Especially this, this, and this.

The knitting clock. Brilliant!

How to retro-fit your hair with a 40's up-do. I think I'll try this.

Awesome wedding invitations.

MOBA

Lovely polar bear wall paper (and room in general!)

Even though this song is getting kind of old (in my book) I thought they did really a good job:



I loved it when Finn sang to Kurt:



Awesome casette tape artistry from the original youtube song "Just The Way You Are" (see above for Finn's version!):



Mormon:

Did you know Elder Scott was a watercolor artist?

Elizabeth Smart and missionary work.

First Presidency Christmas Devotional. This Sunday!

Literary:

The story of a woman living with face blindness.

Bite sized fiction.

America's greatest word. OK?

Transcription of the journals of a woman who lived during WW II- blog format!

Technology:

Funny Windows Error messages.

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film:



These beauties kind of make me wish I had an iPhone!

Replica of King Tut's mummy (currently in Times Square):



Random:

A (not so) secret subway stop in NYC! Definitely on my "to do list" when I visit.

A welcome home to remember!:



Christmas Flash Mob:



Interesting handmade toys for kids.

Formaldehyde?

The healthiest foods for under $1.

Fun fishbowl. If I were the fish, I might be tempted to jump out of the mouth.

Links to Love!

Artsy:

Painting on people

The value of a food dollar.

The art of hand-painted murals:

UP THERE from The Ritual Project on Vimeo.

Beautiful lace fencing.

Play with your food?

What are smittens? Well, have a look! Sickeningly sweet.

Rifle Paper Company. Have a look around. You might especially like this, this, and this.

Lite-Brite love

Desperate for affection?

Print maker:

Grain & Gram: Nick Sambrato, Printmaker from Grain & Gram on Vimeo.

Miscellaneous:

16 things you didn't know about sleep A and C are the way I sleep....judge accordingly.

You've won the Nobel Prize-- Wait, Don't Hang Up!

10 words to delete from your vocabulary.

23 things to remember + 1

What's your secret?:

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God from Frank Warren on Vimeo.

35 ways to be beautiful.

Adorable animal kingdom kids!

I'm such a people watcher. Are you?

A very powerful speech by an abortion survivor- part 1:


Part 2:



What I've always wanted! Signs for your car!

Horrible ad placements!

Babies/baby wearing in Parliment. I have mixed feelings about these, but go women!

Funny sick notes

What's your hobby?

Mormon life:

Deseret alphabet translator.

The lovely Nielsons:

Links to Love

Hi, Friends! Any fun plans for the weekend?

Here are my five favorite blogs this week:

Nat the Fat Rat: I really like Natalie's writing style. And she and "holbsmover" are moving back to NYC!

Kind Over Matter: A blog based on kindness. How lovely!

Passports and Postcards: Travel, art, fashion, food.

aura-joon: Beautiful photos!

Where the Lovely Things Are: Art, photographs, jewelry.

Fun finds from around the web:

Food-y:

3.14 -----> pie

Baked eggs in bread bowls.

Wonderful idea for pudding cups.

Recipe: How to bake a dog.

Baskin-Robbins is changing flavors. Get them before they are gone!

Perfect pancakes and strawberry butter.

How to make yogurt in your crock-pot.

Arts-y:

Amazing castles from around the world.

Typewriter Symphony.

10 ways to new music on-line.

Adorable, adorable birds.

Pothole gardening. What a great urban idea.

A celebration of all things paper.

Early 1900's in color.

Great forced perspective photography.

Minimum wage machine.

TV museum.

Misc:

Are you this cute when you are falling asleep?

Have you seen the new Dyson fan? It was made to prevent buffeting. $300 worth of fan? I think not.

All the best for your family.

Great lessons from Abraham Lincoln.

Anti-theft lunch bags. Genius!

New uses for your microwave.

Birthday random acts of kindness! I love this idea.

Lovely printable quote cards.

90 days of kindness challenge. You in?

Popcorn kittens!


Mormon living:

Feast Upon the Word.

Mormon Matters.

What do Mormons believe?

Even though I've posted about this before, Segullah is definitely a blog to discover.

Have you seen the new Mormon.org? My profile is there too!

Links to Love

Here are five new blogs I came across this week:

100 Days in Bed: I'm not really sure how to describe this blog. It includes a woman's journey from depression to change. A must read.

Adorable Optimism: This blog includes fashion, food, and great photos.

Embracing Change: One woman's journey to a healthier lifestyle.

A Rowan Tree: A beautiful blog by a textile design student.

This one is not new, but I love it and think you should check it out!

My Ancestors and Me: A blog with wonderful stories (and photographs) about this woman's ancestors.

Wonderful finds from across the WWW:

Art-sy:

Amazing things made out of wood.

I would love to live on this awesome Seattle houseboat. It is exactly what houseboats should look like.

A tree dressed in lace? Boy, howdy, what a cool idea. Like graffiti, but with yarn.

Do you write in your journal? Some wonderful ideas to help you start, or keep on, writing.

Paper bride and groom.

Which famous author do you write like?

Food-y:

I will be needing to make these garlic rolls soon.

Waffles are wonderful things. Especially when they look like popsicles.

Create your own chocolate bar.

I've been in a lemon mood lately. (Not sour, just craving lemon). I think I will make these.


Free things:

Free Compliments

Free Hugs:



Misc. things:

If I were a man, I would totally change my "voice-male" to this.

Do you ever leave or see notes like this?

A mama otter teaching her pup how to swim at my home zoo:


A blog devoted to the art of bicycle riding. Includes beautiful pictures.

Does your apartment need a little therapy in the decoration department? Well, look no further.

Copyright © 2010 by Natasha M.

Links to Love

I don't know why I never heard of this blog before, but 1000 Awesome Things is, well, in a word...Awesome!

Hilarious School Answering Machine Message:


Beautiful stamped return address labels. I still love getting snail mail.

Inventions for Mormons.

The Seventeen Magazine Project. A high school senior followed the magazine's advice and blogged about it for a month.

Cooking by Numbers. Check off what you have in your fridge and click to find recipes.

Would you like to live in this low impact woodland home? It reminds me of something the hobbits would live in. So cute!

How to tell if somebody is lying to you.

Adorable panda playing soccer:


Send a bouquet of free flowers via the internet!

Copyright © 2010 by Natasha M.