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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:37:21 -0500

truebluemeandyou: halloweencrafts: DIY 100 Harry Potter...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:03:17 -0400

halloweencrafts:

DIY 100 Harry Potter Halloween Party and Costume Ideas from The Dragon’s Fairy Tail here. A few that I liked out of so many good ideas:

Magical Color Changing Drinks (super easy) from Day2Day here.

Platform 9 3/4 Entrance from Hall Buzz here.

Pumpkin Juice Recipe from Babble here.

Harry Potter Paper Glasses Template from miragestudio7 here.

Hogwarts’ Ties from The Brilliant Crafty Type here.

Luna Lovegood’s Pudding from Spoon Fork Bacon here.

housingworksbookstore: The Silent History, “a geo-located...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:01:37 -0400

housingworksbookstore:

The Silent History, “a geo-located mobile serialized story,” looks amazing. Via Fersh linking to Buzzfeed.

kathyakey: Alexis Arnold is a San Francisco based artist who...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:45:16 -0400

kathyakey:

Alexis Arnold is a San Francisco based artist who covers books (amongst other things) in Borax crystals in order to heighten the sense of memory, nostalgia and “ages past” of the objects.

These are The Catcher in the Rye and The Complete Book Of Houseplants

"Stop trying to “get it together.” The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 20:08:41 -0400

“Stop trying to “get it together.” The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as we’re adults, as soon as we’re in college, finish college, get that job, have that steady income, find that someone special, “find ourselves,” find that perfect house, get that retirement fund, have those children, everything will fall into place. Here’s a secret: it won’t. Every new development in your life, good or bad, big or small, will come with its own very special set of challenges. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be. But the myth is perpetuated throughout life, perhaps now more than ever with happy status updates on Facebook and blushing bride/happy multi-tasking mommy blog posts. What these success stories don’t tell you is what is going on behind closed doors. They don’t tell you that your friend who is so over the moon with her new baby had to apply for food stamps. They don’t tell you that your fantastic, involved professor struggles with depression. They don’t tell you that your happily married friend still has nightmares about her abusive ex. They don’t tell you the cousin who just got that jealousy-inducing job opportunity is thinking of breaking up with his boyfriend of 10 years. What closely interacting with people from all backgrounds on the Internet for over a decade has taught me is that no one “has it together” in the way we think they do. So stop trying to have that as your goal, because you are just setting yourself up for massive failure.”

- (via thatonegirlsierra)

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npr: So this exists. -Savy

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:02:06 -0400

npr:

So this exists. -Savy

DIY loose leaf tea bags. Click through for tutorial!

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:02:35 -0400

DIY loose leaf tea bags. Click through for tutorial!

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Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:53:00 -0400

"Your life is not an episode of Skins. Things will never look quite as good as they do in a faded,..."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:45:09 -0400

“Your life is not an episode of Skins. Things will never look quite as good as they do in a faded, sun - drenched Polaroid; your days are not an editorial from Lula. Your life is not a Sofia Coppola movie, or a Chuck Palahniuk novel, or a Charles Bukowski poem. Grace Coddington isn’t your creative director. Bon Iver and Joy Division don’t play softly in the background at appropriate moments. Your hysterical teenage diary isn’t a work of art. Your room probably isn’t Selby material. Your life isn’t a Tumblr screencap. Every word that comes out of your mouth will not be beautiful and poignant, infinitely quotable. Your pain will not be pretty. Crying till you vomit is always shit.
You cannot romanticize hurt.
Or sadness.
Or loneliness.
You will have homework, and hangovers and bad hair days. The train being late won’t lead to any fateful encounters, it will make you late. Sometimes your work will suck. Sometimes you will suck. Far too often, everything will suck - and not in a Wes Anderson kind of way.
And there is no divine consolation - only the knowledge that we will hopefully experience the full spectrum - and that sometimes, just sometimes, life will feel like a Coppola film.””

- Your life is not an episode of Skins. (via reelaroundthefountain, tothemoonandbackagain) (via damascanradio, steelrabbitstonecoldfox)

"My idea of feminism is self-determination, & it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:52:04 -0400

“My idea of feminism is self-determination, & it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, & do whatever she needs to do.”

- Ani DiFranco

Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tobey Maguire in The...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:33:10 -0400

Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tobey Maguire in The Great Gatsby

peterpan-and-pirouettes: Have you ever wondered what a...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:36:04 -0400

peterpan-and-pirouettes:

Have you ever wondered what a beautiful grand jeté looks like—slowed down to 2000 frames per second?

"I try not to let my insecurities dictate who I am, and who I want to be. I gave you all my world,..."

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:26:33 -0400

“I try not to let my insecurities dictate who I am, and who I want to be.
I gave you all my world, and my words and my soul.”

- Poem Song - Polly Scattergood

nedhepburn: nevver: Six Tips on Writing from John...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:20:27 -0400

nedhepburn:

nevver:

Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.

Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.

If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

‘Cannery Row’ is one of the best books, and ‘Of Mice & Men’ can make a grown man cry. Steinbeck was a legend. Also; the third point here is vital, stellar advice.

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npr: The Unlikely Best-Seller: ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Turns...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:00:17 -0500

npr:

The Unlikely Best-Seller: ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Turns 50

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a publisher hearing a pitch about a children’s book whose tangled plot braids together quantum physics, fractions and megaparsecs (a measure for distances in intergalactic space). The book also casually tosses out phrases in French, Italian, German and ancient Greek. Sound like the next kids’ best-seller to you?

It didn’t to the many publishers who rejected Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, which turns 50 this year. The novel was an immediate hit with young readers and with critics when it was published, and it won the Newbery Medal in 1963. Since then, it has remained a beloved favorite of children and adults alike.

But it almost didn’t see the light of day. At the time, L’Engle already had six books to her name, but publishers were perplexed by her latest.

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justdancingaround: Sofiane Sylve

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:46:25 -0500

justdancingaround:

Sofiane Sylve