pop culture junk mail points us to this antique christmas light site. as a kid our neighbors had a few of these bubble lights.

Take a look at the Bulls-eyes egg dish for brunches at American Homebody (Dec. 11th). You know you want to try one. They remind me of the baked egg dish at a lost restaurant in San Francisco called Doidges. The baked eggs were wrapped in thick bacon, topped with pimento and were gooood. They had heavenly waffles and french toast, and you could substitute home fries with fresh ripe tomato slices, which were perfect. I miss the place still.

The 20 Things Benefit Auction is on - go bid on the great stuff, all proceeds go to nonprofits.

Slightly related to the Dec. 8th entry at Troutgirly is the Dec. 16th entry at ChicKnits, the St*plesCanKissMyA**BecauseIt'sChic Scarf

Nobody's Fool: Food Notes and Stories is having a holiday subscription sale. It is so very well worth it, and would, of course, make a great gift for the food lovers in your life. I almost missed the instructions for heavenly hot chocolate on the first page of the site!

froogle "is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online." Basically, Google shopping. Bonnie pointed me to the very desirable section on craft supplies, thanks!

Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers at The Morning News

Look - blotting sheets for your food "Originally designed in large sheets to soak up oil after tanker disasters, they also do the job on gravy, bacon, and ham". I'm assuming the clean and clear oil blotting sheets are in the same family?