Thursday Thirteen: TV Shows I Adore

1. Project Runway Possibly my favorite TV show of the year.  I love the construction process of sewing.  I sew myself, not amazingly but I do work at it.  I love watching the creativity of what it takes to put these fantastic garments together to put it on a runway.  By far it’s one of Read More

Tattoo Tales: The ink you want, and the ink you don’t.

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Tattoo Tales

So I’m returning to the whole idea of Tattoo Tales, sharing with you all of the things I’ve learned about the inking process.  To recap, I’ve talked about making wise tattoo decisions, the permanent changes in life that having ink makes and picking a shop that’s right for you.  Today I want to talk about Read More

Teaser Tuesday: Always You by Karen Stivali

Teaser Tuesdays are a book meme hosted by Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! Read More

In Comemoration of the Pullman Strike

I realized last week that I was getting excited about celebrating a holiday I knew nothing about.  For me Labor Day and Memorial Day have always been interchangeable.  It’s sad that as an American I can’t tell the difference between two holidays that signify a lot of things in this country. So I did what Read More

Home Waxing, Hold Your Horses

Dear Reader, Do you want smooth skin?  Do you want to forget about hair growing back in half an hour? Yeah, me too. I’ve tried a lot of different creams and razors.  From fancy women’s blades, and blade and shaving solid combinations, and men’s cheapie razors.  As far as shaving my legs, arms, underarms, and Read More

Tattoo Tales, where did they go?

This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Tattoo Tales

So, like over a month ago I started doing a whole Tattoo Tales series… and then the blogs didn’t publish and I got lazy and I realized last night – what the heck?  Why am I don’t doing this? Well, this next week I’m going to return to talking about tattoos and the process and Read More