Who thinks of these things?

I love these!!

http://www.amazon.com/Fred-Cup-Measuring-Matroyshkas-Cups/dp/B002L162FS/ref=pd_sim_dbs_k_6

So I Made a Skirt

I bought this plaid fabric about two months ago with intentions of making a skirt for myself. I should have known better than to buy it... of course a few things got in the way: sewing gifts for Christmas, a diaper bag for a friend, and a costume all took precedence over my skirt. But once I cleared away all of the projects, I got to focus on something for myself. Yay! It took me a few days to decide what I wanted it to look like, but once I discovered this skirt at Sundance I knew I had to have one of my own. I used an Amy Butler pattern for the top portion of the skirt and just made the bottom part work. I LOVE it!

Crunch Cons

So I just finished reading Crunchy Cons. Is anyone else turned off by the title, as I was? But the book is awesome. Very meaty.


Here's the Crunchy Con Manefesto

By Rod Dreher

1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.

2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.

3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.

4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.

5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.

6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.

8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.

9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”

10. Politics and economics won’t save us; if our culture is to be saved at all, it will be by faithfully living by the Permanent Things, conserving these ancient moral truths in the choices we make in our everyday lives.

And in case you were wondering Luke, you can read the last chapter and get some very interesting information. Though my favorite chapters were: 2 Consumerism, 3 Food, and 4 Home.

Worth the read and at the very least, worth skimming while you're in a bookstore. :)