Although I have always been a big fan of little things (hi, honey!), cute generally doesn’t get it done for me. However, these minuscule crocheted animals are so tiny and so perfect that I must make them mine. This one actually extracted from me the exact sound “squee!” Never really understood that before. Turns out it’s a thing.
Author Archives: Donna from One Beautiful Thing
Love and the Art of Baby Helmet Painting
When OCD Produces Beauty, It Produces Really a Lot of It
Beauty in a Hopeless Place
Storai and Saeeda are budding jewelers and artist in Kabul AND THEY ARE WOMEN.
Sex, Teens, and the Art of Parenting
To Be Young and Talented and Nimble Again . . .
Are You A Beautiful Gay Man Or a Beautiful Gay Woman?
Look at the Time!

©Corcoran Group Real Estate
Today was the first New York day that really felt like Winter might be over. And when the weather turns Spring-like, naturally I get to thinking about New York City real estate, the more outrageously unattainable, the better.
No One to (Cos)Play With
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Q. What Do Shoes and Poetry Have in Common?
There’s No Place Like Home
First Aid Kit For Your Ears
Agog at Gaga
She’s not everyone’s shot of iced chocolate vodka (which is as good as it sounds). I get it, you either love her or hate her.
Mozart’s 40th + 007 = Genius!
Nola at Night
“Louisiana was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air–moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh–felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s face.”
– Tom Robbins, “Jitterbug Perfume”
I Wanna Be a Lady Villain! I Wanna Be a Lady Villain!
Gowns Fit for an (Evil) Queen
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Never, Ever Act Your Age
Grandma Betty Nails It. Continue reading
Calvin and Hobbes and the Answer to Everything

©Bill Watterson
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad libbing his lines.
Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re in a tragedy or a farce?
Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
Don’t we all?
















