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link’in.

16 Jan

The sixteenth president of the United States.  Whose head should not be visible when checking the tread on your car tires.

Or, maybe what I was really going for —
Links.  (Kinda like ‘pimpin’ but ‘link’in’ instead?  No?  Never say those words again?  Okay.)  I’ve had a number of people ask me lately where I find blogs to follow; what follows is kinda how it works.  I find a blog or two that I like, stalk their favorite blogs (as listed typically on a side column), and repeat.  Sometimes, you can hit the jackpot of all link’ins — blogs will have a post of their current favorite links – often on the weekends – from the blogging world to click on, explore, and begin the blog stalking all over again.  This is where Google Reader comes in.  Add your new favorite blog to your feed and viola!  
(One great example: This site, OnePrettyThing, is actually a roundup of links to other blogs EVERYDAY.  Some of the projects are kinda ridiculous but there are some good ones/ways to adapt/the finding of wonderful blogs amidst the crazy.)  
Here are my current favorites, my weekend round-up.  It could also appropriately be called “The ways Lindsay avoided studying for her history test.”

I made this for dinner on Sunday evening.  An excuse to use my food processor.  (Always looking for those.)  It was pretty yummy … and crazy to think it mainly consisted of soybeans.  (I used to grow those. Rather, my dad did.  But I played in the gravity wagons that carried them and climbed up the bins that stored them.)

These are a possibility for Monday morning, an addition to an already delicious weekend.

My friend, Sara, and I made our way to northeastern Minneapolis on Saturday and checked two of three off this list.  City Salvage was closed for remodeling.  Bummer.  However, Wilde Roast has a DEE-licious mint mocha and super fun atmosphere.  And we found a wicked-weird “antique” store en route.

Creepy Santa in a cardboard box chimney —  an antique? 

Another link from the blog I’m a tad-bit obsessed with —  This looks like a good project to do while watching a movie.  Perhaps a great Christmas garland for next year?

I might try these to stick in people’s mailboxes this Valentine’s but with something else instead of tootsie suckers.  (Can you guess what?)  Also for Valentine’s … do you have extra candy canes still sticking around?  These are cute and fun.

Another food processor recipe.  Hummus with natural peanut butter instead of tahini.  I’m intrigued.

Are you a one-space-after-a-sentence kind of person or two?  I was taught two … and apparently I was taught WRONG.  gasp.  Read a witty article on the proper way to type and not waste space here.

My new go-to sugar cookie recipe.  Much needed because – I don’t think I’ve told you – I have alphabet cookie cutters!

new look?

8 Jan
Please allow for further fidgeting but I thought it was time to make the blog a bit more user/print-friendly and simply time for an update in general.  Bring on bigger photos, new title font, and a few more changes to suit the rest.

Likey?

cupcakes.

7 Jan
Check this out.

Seriously.

Go there now.

And drool.

If you ever need a fancy cupcake while hosting friends or to take to a fancy occasion, look no further.

I’m going to refrain from baking them.  Tony Horton – with whom I spend at least an hour of each evening – would disagree with their beauty.  (That’s right.  Week four of P90X.  Bring it.  I got lazy about walking to the gym.  So now I get my butt kicked in my living room.  literally.  butt.  kicked.)
But if I had to pick one?  24.  or 23.  or 19.

new blog.

2 Jan

My friend, Cassie, has a blog.

Here’s Cassie.

She’s a senior at seminary.  Like me.  We bonded while on safari and shopping the markets in Tanzania two years ago.  We shared a ‘luxury tent.’ (No joke.  The best accommodations I’ve ever had and they were on the plains of Africa.  In a tent.  With a rather large lizard-thing and scorpion in the shower.  But let’s not talk about that.)

Did I mention she has a blog?  Did I mention that she mentioned me?!

You should visit.

a birthday wish.

9 Dec
It was my birthday yesterday and there will be stories of hamballs and volunteering at Feed My Starving Children to come on that topic.  But for now, enjoy yet another video embedded here at the place of the happy gnome – a birthday wish from my penpal, C., and his sister – favorite friends from Dawson who I miss dearly!

missing: new blog posts.

25 Nov
Happy Thanksgiving (Or, as my three year old cousin, Logan, would say, “Happy Fanksgiving!”) and a gooble, gooble (Mispelling purposeful.) to you and your families today!
I’ve been home in Wisconsin for the week and will be here until Sunday.  Anticipate new blog posts – including my slightly-altered version of being thankful on paper – upon my return to wireless internet and St.Paul.  It’s been a great week at home, complete with culinary accomplishments, sleepovers, and general merriment. 
To be continued …

Green Grocery Bag Challenge.

8 Nov
I’ll be the first to admit – I’m rather annoyed by the onset of Christmas decorations, advertisements, and the consumerism of the holiday already being prevalent in all arenas.  The grocery store had Christmas music playing this past weekend.  I’m a pretty big non-fan of Christmas music to begin with – other than traditional hymns sung on Christmas Eve – so it was a dose of extra torture.  I join many others with the train of thought that this should most certainly wait until after Thanksgiving.  Consumer America lends no such luck.
Despite the fact that this is directly related to the holiday, this I will get on board with – the Green Grocery Bag Challenge.  Found on Sew, Mama, Sew, this challenge is a call to forego wrapping paper for cloth grocery totes.  Not only would the large garbage bag of ripped holiday paper be lessened, but the gift recipient also receives an additional gift to limit the use of plastic bags throughout the year.  Double score.
Now, I do love paper.  Pretty paper.  But I also love fabric.  Pretty fabric.  The trick will be finding the time to sew the bags but I’ll make my best effort.  Want to join me?  OR I’ll sew a bunch of bags and you buy them from me?  (I’ve been looking for a little side business of sorts …)
From Sew, Mama, Sew’s blog post about the challenge:
The Green Grocery Bag Challenge: A Holiday Sewing Project Benefiting Mother Earth

Fact 1: US consumers generate 4 million tons of wrapping paper and shopping bag waste during the holiday season alone.
Fact 2: The US goes through 100 billion single-use plastic grocery bags every year.
Fact 3: This year, you can make a difference!
How? The challenge is this:
Wrap your holiday gifts in reusable cloth grocery bags.

be thankful on paper.

21 Oct
Take Joey from Friends for example.  After asked what he is thankful for, he said, “I am thankful for this beautiful fall weather we’ve been having.  The other day, I was at the bus stop and a fall wind blew this one chick’s skirt right up.  [pause]  Which reminds me – I’m also thankful for thongs.”  (I sat down to write this post and by happenstance it was that episode of Friends that was on my television.  It begged for inclusion.)

Sometimes we focus more on the negative than we do on the blessings and people for which we should be thankful.  (Guilty as charged.)  Rachel, over on No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane, is proposing a snail mail campaign in the month of November – hand-written notes of thankfulness.  Not only is the being thankful a bit counter-cultural, but let’s write a pretty note, address the envelope, and put the stamped thank you in the mail.  Not an email.  Not a facebook message.  A thank you that arrives in the mailbox.

Here’s what will happen: Each Wednesday of November, I’ll send a hand-written note to someone in my life for whom I am thankful, telling that someone why I consider them a blessing in my life.  That next day, I’ll write a simple blog post about that note of thanks and the person to whom I wrote.
Along with other bloggers I know only through text and not by face, my Dancing Banana (translation: high school) friend, Jenni, is joining in on the thankfulness.  Read about the people she thanks for being in her life here beginning in November.  Have a blog and want to join in?  Visit Rachel’s blog linked above for further direction.  Don’t have a blog?  You can send snail mail thank you notes too.   Be thankful on paper this Thanksgiving!

Lou Lou.

28 Sep

Lou Lou.  That’s me.

M.’s mom has a blog.  Find my description of peas mixed with mac and cheese there!

my love: google reader.

20 Sep
I had this discussion with my brother when I was home last weekend – We love Google.  Taking over the world maybe they are but I’m in love with many of their applications.  Gmail.  Google chat.  This blog is on a Google program.  (Thank you, Google.)  Picasa for photo sharing.  Google Docs for surveys and sharing of papers. (… which I never did give you a tutorial on, Sharon.  Let me know what your needs are for it and I can email directions!)  And finally, the greatest of my loves: Google Reader.
I love me some Reader.  I pull it up and have it open alongside my email and facebook each day.  I get excited to browse through it, never knowing what I will find in the feeds.  I subscribe to different feeds – NPR, CNN, BBC – but I’ll be honest right off the bat – I don’t often read those.  I’ll look at the headlines but rarely go beyond that.  The main object of my Reader?  Crafty ideas, sewing tutorials, fabric loving, creative home decor, and tasty new recipes.  I have found all sorts of blogs, all sorts of projects, all sorts of fun things to do because of my subscriptions in Reader.   People sometimes tell me, “Lindsay, you’re so creative.”  Really?  No.  The compliment should really be, “Lindsay, you’re so good at finding cool things to copy on Google Reader.”  Aw, shucks.
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