Chewbacca on his first day of school

Josh found a link to this on reddit and sent it to me. I tried to find it myself, but can't, so I have no idea who drew this - but it is all kinds of nerdy adorable!

Josh also sent me this, by animator and artist Greg Peltz:

Go visit his blog for more awesome steampunk Star Wars paintings!

This arrived in the mail today

Here are some close-ups:

Love it. Though if the designer were a true Tolkien nerd, I think she would have replaced "Sunday" (in the key) with "Sunnendei", "airport" with "Eagle", and "National Rail" with...er..."National Horse TRail" (!!!) Just sayin'.

*design is "There and Back Again" by Reagan H. Lee. T-shirt from threadless.com.

KitchenAid

My two best friends from college threw me a lovely wedding shower last weekend at my parents' house in Pennsylvania. The weather was kind of gross and humid, but I had a fantastic time, and got to see some folks who I haven't seen in waaaay too long.

Almost a dozen of my family members combined resources to get us a sleek, matte grey KitchenAid, which now sits proudly in the center of our kitchen:

We christened it last night by making some Greyston Bakery brownies (the same brownies that go into Ben & Jerry's chocolate fudge brownie ice cream!):

Let's just say that between the mixer and the brownies...we're in heaven right now. :)

Wall Street Journal

My fiance is in the Wall Street Journal!

He's involved in a project with the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation to archive all of Cunningham's work into "dance capsules" - each containing all the choreography, design, music, and lighting notes for a particular piece of work - that will be made available to dance companies who wish to perform full stagings once the Dance Foundation formally closes in 2012.

Details are in the article; look to the bottom for Josh's name!

That which we call a rose...

I've been sadly absent from Etsy for the past couple weeks, but today I finally broke my Etsy-fast and made a new treasury! I'm not usually one for frilly, floral stuff but here's a virtual rose garden for your enjoyment:

Featured listings (in order of appearance):

Bud vase by juditavill

Rose and black pepper thumbprints by whimsyandspice

Depression Glass creamer & sugar by scdvintage

Raw silk bolero by maryandangelika

Red rose necklace by blossomstowear

Mod rose bouquet necklace by balance9

Royal Breakfast Blend tea by lilithsapothecary

Rose quartz briolette strand by lilysoffering

Beige floral shawl by mucar

Rosettes clutch by DavieandChiyo

Rose mini bath bombs by ElegantRoseBoutique

Granulated natural rose cut diamond ring by JanishJewels

Tasmanian rose myrtle vessel by rosannacoyne

"Roses" giclee print by MaiAutumn

English Rose ruffle dress by Lirola

Scarlet satin flower necklace by RiRiFisch