Mariko from Super Eggplant and Kelly from Buzzville have opened a fantabulous online fabric store for Japanese prints -- Superbuzzy. I love these little birds. Keep an eye on them, they nearly sold out after opening and new stock will come in frequently.

This is a view of the dashboard of my loaner car. I have a loaner car because the last time the car a was in the shop it came back with a scrape on the left front bumper that wasn't there when we dropped it off. Why was the car in the shop that time? Because the time before that the car came back with a rip in the driver's side seat. And why was the car in the shop originally? Some perfectly innocent scheduled maintenance. Despite the Shop In Question's willingness to fix the troubles they created I'm a bit disgruntled. So I present some of my happy things:

our woeful bottle opener

a milk crate Somebody stole in college and I will never let him get rid of

complete magazine archives

I need some houseplants that will improve the air quality in my house, and some wormie water seonsors to avoid killing the plants from neglect. (I'm waiting for somebody to bioengineer a houseplant that has a quiet vacuum system in it which will filter the dust out of the air as well.)

Yum - grapefruit Campari martini gelatin dessert. Also, the pink grapefruit gelatin which I keep eyeing but never get around to making.

Molten chocolate center cakes, make by stuffing a little bit of ganache in the center.