Baby Breathless: Another Free Baby Sweater (French Sailor Edition)
The perfect baby gift for my cineaste friends, Inga and Chris, would really be a baby ones-y silkscreened with the New York Herald Tribune logo. However, since this item doesn’t seem to exist…yet, and I have exactly zero dollars to spend on a baby gift, but plenty of free leftover black and white wool yarn [...]
100% Free Luxury Gift For Babies! (The Mod Stash-buster Baby Sweater)
After years of trying, my friend Lauren is finally growing a penis. Yes, she’s pregnant. I’d been struggling to find a present worthy of Lauren’s future baby for months when I found the dog-print ones-y at a girlie swap party. In addition to being totally cute, the ones-y was also totally free and looks brand [...]
I Stretched My Boots With Chanel No. 5 Perfume. Yes, Really.
I remember the very moment when I knew, without a doubt, that Mr. Foxypants was the man for me. It was when he said without any prompting, “I like how thick your calves are,” unintentionally complimenting the parts of my body that I hate the most. I have fat legs. Okay, they aren’t fat fat. [...]
June Food Stamp Challenge: Two Degrees Of Foraged Fruit A.K.A. Turning Compost Into Fancy Hooch
This morning, while waiting for my doctor’s appointment, I struck up a conversation about gardening with a guy in the waiting room. When I mentioned that I had huge loquats this year because of the bees, he mentioned that he makes a “mock amaretto” liquor by soaking the sun dried pits from his loquats in [...]
The Master List
As my 2010 Resolution is to “fix my life,” I thought it might be a good idea to keep a running list of all the unfinished projects that are knocking around the inside of my head and cluttering my house. Of course, this list is in no particular order. But let’s face it. If I [...]
It’s Like Hello Kitty For Men
As an early Christmas present, I gave Mr. Foxypants a penguin shaped seltzer machine to replace his two bottle a day Pellegrino habit. Although I absolutely prefer the taste of Pellegrino over filtered Los Angeles tap water, environmentally, bottled water is a terrible waste of resources. Financially, bottle water sucks too, as Pellegrino is more [...]
I Hate To Be One Of Those Lame People
who blog about their appliances. But I admit it:I’m an appliance whore. The only major disagreement that I have ever had with Mr. Foxypants is over my refrigerator. That’s the one thing that I had to leave behind for my renters when I moved in with him last year. My old fridge was custom-built for me [...]
