Hi folks, and welcome once again to the
Kitties Are the Best Friday Potluck. Still not quite on Friday, but I'm getting closer. Tell you what: I'll work on my punctuality, and in the meantime, you have some
rice krispie treats and I'll try to make it worth the wait.
I've said it
before, and I'll say it again:
doggies are the
beast. And while kitties are indeed the best, you know what's (almost) even better? Kitties in
pants.
And now, from the One Good Thing Leads to Another Files:
While browsing at
Drawn, I happened to come across this
lovely picture by
Art Lad. He's a six-year-old who draws stuff, and
his dad helps him post it in a blog. You'd think it would be obnoxiously precious (or at least,
I would, being the cynical misanthope that I am), but the kid's a pretty good draw-er, and the blog is written in his own voice, so there's no parental pontification about how brilliant and amazing Little Picasso is. It's just nice. Here's hoping it survives the
hype.
Anyway, Art Lad kindly pointed me in the direction of
Rurality, a lovely little blog that's one of my new favorites. It's very simple and laid-back, and seems to be primarily composed of photos of pretty things. It's like a moment of zen meditation. Plus, she includes
snakes in the category of pretty things, so you know she rocks.
Quietly perhaps, but rocks nonetheless.
Next, one of Rurality's
posts made mention of the intriguingly-named
Month of Softies. It is, in short, a
bunch of people making crafty things according to a
monthly theme, and sharing
pictures of them. These things are usually
small and soft (hence the name), but sometimes
not soft, and sometimes
very, very not small.
And it just so happens that Month of Softies resides on
Loobylu, the blog of Australian illustrator and toymaker
Claire Robertson, who makes and draws all kinds of things that are incredibly cute, and yet somehow do not inspire me to strangle her, and that's a hard balance to strike. Also, you'll see that on her main page, she's very conveniently created a list of links to a plethora of other
neato crafty,
illustration-y,
toy-y sites, so I don't have to. Thanks, Loobylu!
Rurality (remember her, from way back when?) also led me to
Happy and Blue2, which I'm sure is a very nice blog, but I really can't say, because all I've looked at is his Cool and Free list, which includes fantabulous items such as the
Church Sign Generator, the
South Park Character Generator, and the
Crazy Paper Doll Lady. How awesome is Crazy Paper Doll Lady? So awesome that she made an
Aishwarya Rai doll, just one of her many
Bollywood dolls. But who in the hell is
Kalan Porter? Oh.
Canada.
Looking at all these crafty folks reminded me of
Knitty, a wonderful site that I haven't been to in a while, which is all about
knitting, a hobby I haven't done in a while - but I've got to start it up again. It's already mid-August, so if I'm going to make Min a
scarf, or even a
hat and some
mitts in time for him to wear them when he'll actually need them, I'd better get crackin'. And if I'm really industrious, I can whip up a
little something for myself, too.
And finally, the news. A British man confessed to bigamy when
all three of his wives showed up at the hospital where he was recovering from a triple bypass. The one-bypass-per-wife joke is really too obvious, but I will say that it puts your mom's admonitions to always wear clean underwear into perspective.
Anything else? No, I guess that's it for now.
