littlecabbage has up a tutorial on making your own knitting needles, hers are blue!

The Jenville Show - Cooking With Rockstars with videos of her cooking or chatting with indie music people about cooking. Fabulous.

Girlhacker has compiled a list of stuff in the Oscar Goody Bags. Man.

Last weekend I was listening to This American Life, the Say Anything show, specifically the reading of the parts of the zines Fears of Your Life and Fears of Your Life: A Whole New One by Michael Bernard Loggins. About half way through I heard the name Andrea Scher, I wrote to ask and sure enough, it was the Andrea Scher who is Superhero Designs and is a big part of the Another Girl At Play website. And she just started a new blog, welcome!

Fears of Your Life and Fears of Your Life: A Whole New One were made at Creativity Explored in San Francisco, a place worth checking out.

Evany (one of my long-time reads, and she reads this site! swoon!) started up a crafty portion of her site, you must see the Go-Between, I need one of those just for those times when I am sitting in a restaurant in an open-backed chair accidentally giving the other customers flashes of my pale skin.

It may just be this way on me, but Target's Sonia Kashuk Frangrance #1 smells exactly like red kool-aid.

Being the lip balm whore that I am I bought some Blixtex Clear Advance, the fact that it is marketed towards men appealed to me - metalic gray packaging, non-glossy, SPF 30, there is a man on the box (or at least a strong chin), and I seem to remember commercials with men telling each other about it. So I'm surprised to find it has a very strong, very sweet, fake strawberry flavor to it, you can smell it when the tube is open. I mean, if you have have a masculine flavor I would think mint, or lime, or orange even. But strawberry? At least ask Jelly Belly if you could use thier Margarita flavor or something.

Troutgirly won the battle of finding just the right shade of foundation for herself! It's from Zhen, a cosmetics company who makes products for Asian-American women. It was started and is run by a group of sisters, and for $5 they will send you a generous trial size of foundation and powder, you can apply that amount to a purchase later. Lovely. There is some stuff I might try, like the Matte Gel -- "Do you have enough oil on your face to fry an egg roll?"

Oh Dangerous Chunky you will be missed!

According to the latest Lucky Magazine Lush will be opening stores in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston by the end of the year. The latest Lucky Magazine is also so packed with those annoying stiff advert pages that I'm utterly frustrated and don't want to struggle so much to read the thing. Except for the ad with the Clean and Clear Cleansing Cloth, I like that one, free stuff is always good.

really cute skirts at loosetooth! and check out the picture of the Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing, that is the edition I have and I must agree, the patterns from the 70's make it worth it. I've been meaning to scan those because some are so amusing.