tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51881951564708087112024-03-08T06:33:56.115-05:00ModernSauceAttempting fabulosity, one saucy day at a time.ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.comBlogger546125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-1959377173464311072016-12-05T21:39:00.001-05:002016-12-05T21:39:50.375-05:00Welcome to Lemane Vintage! Any excuse to use 'Fecundity' more often.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hoo boy. Who would have thought that a year of absolute awfulness would have been punctuated with a fascist exclamation point? Did Mercury retrograde itself directly into the Sun? Did I verb a noun one too many times and now we're here? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of 2016 was just a series of unfortunate events - everything broke just when I needed to use it, I hemorrhaged money, technical difficulties, you name it, tragedy happened. But I was really proud that no matter what random daily shit storm that was served to me on a silver platter of awful I didn't lose sight of my goals and I'm not going to do that now. W</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e can't let the terrorists when. Even when the CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So welcome to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LemaneVintage">Lemane Vintage</a>, online pusher of eclectic finds and vintage soul. And that's Luh-mane. Bonus points for how many syllables you can drag the 'mane' out to be. More than two and congrats, you're Southern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shop is all about vintage decor and accessories (and maybe some clothing soon)! Finally I have a real excuse for spending so much time at those estate sales. <i>IT'S FOR BUSINESS, MOM! </i>And d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">espite this year's atrocities, I've had so much fun gathering all kinds of goodies and finding them new friends to hand out with in the studio... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...until they come to live in your stylish home! I'm essentially opening a rescue mission for vintage decor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But all this is happening because of the <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-black-flamingeaux-summer.html">renovation I told you about last time</a>. Welcome to the home base of Lemane Vintage, my new studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It went from room of shame to workroom of smiles with only all my savings and a bucket of tears!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of these shelves are lined with my wares which I've been collecting over the past year or so. Turns out I'm much faster at shopping than taking pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only is this my craft room, art studio, online workshop, laundry overflow and sometimes yoga room, it's gonna be a jungle too! A</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ll the plants that were suffering in other parts of the house have been moved in here for more sun. A ficus was even donated to the cause. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I love hanging out in the space because of the light but also because it's constantly in movement. Friends are coming and going and new items come in and move around... just good positive vibes all around. More homey than fussy. That should be my shop motto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I honestly felt a little guilty launching a personal venture during our country's time of crisis but if I've learned anything recently it's that ACTION is key. Just gotta add activism to our hobbies. Your Tindr profile better say you like homebrew and social justice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So once I realized I could multitask and both fight injustice AND start a passion project, I got serious with setting up the shop. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Self care to facilitate service. Embodiment for empowerment. Fecundity against fascism! Damn, I obviously should have opened a pithy tshirt business instead of a vintage store!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I have a framed picture of Lagertha so a warrior can watch over me and kick my ass when I need it. I will have her bless every item with badassery before it heads out the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both this room and setting up the shop took a long ass time to happen but it's 110% worth it and I'm loving it. I'm having a lot of fun and sending these rescued items out to their new homes is the best feeling! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come hang out with me on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LemaneVintage">Etsy at Lemane Vintage</a> and on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lemanevintage/">Instagram</a>. And since y'all have a special place in my heart all ModSauce readers get 15% the rest of this month using the code ModernSauce15. I heart y'all and will try to set up listings for lots more items for y'all to choose from. The sun is such an asshole and sets at 3 pm so it's cutting into my photography time. Ugh, thanks astronomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look who it is, ghostbustin babes! Feels like I've just been gone a few months but according to science it's been a year. I have the internal clock (and body shape) of Jupiter. If you're still here I applaud your loyalty/inability to update your blog preferences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year, y'all... truly the Coachella of all fuckfests. Not only were all the planets in retrograde but everybody kept dying, we're in a severe drought and now we have Fuckface Von Clownstick with his tiny fingers too close to the nukes. Feel the radiation burn. I can't wait for this summer to be over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But we did get Lemonade, Dr. Jillian Holtzmann and probably a lady president so there's that. I had a really good hair day last month so this year hasn't been a total waste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turns out not blogging freed up some time to do some things like live life again, garden, write things in my <a href="http://www.mochithings.com/products/13843">MochiThings planner</a>, renovate the Ranch and try to finds words that end in -o that I can replace with -eaux to make me sound edgier. Pinteaux beans? Dildeaux?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was the former carport that was closed in some time 40+ years ago and never touched again. It holds my junk and Christmas decorations and Charlemagne also likes to nap in here because it gets great sunlight although you can't tell because the walls and floor are made of sadness. Also duct tape which holds the seams together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The storage room/room of shame had an acoustic tiled ceiling which I assumed had wood underneath but wasn't sure. I got bold after a gin-and-grapefruit one night and did some mild demo and WHEEEEE a pretty ceiling was revealed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As was my new Spring hobby of removing hundreds of tiles and staples one by one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once all the demo was done and every staple were stepped on, each surface required three coats of Kilz and another three of Valspar's Ultra White in Satin finish. I spent more time and money on paint than I ever have in my life. But I LOVE the satin finish on everything. All my future paint finishes will be this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this point since I was all in I decided to replace the disgusting old linoleum with fancy NEW LINOLEUM. I was already spending all my tax return money so what the hell. I didn't need that new laptop... The exact size I needed - down to the inch - was found in a dusty warehouse and that kind of serendipity can only be explained by Our Prince Who Art in Heaven and you can't say no to vinyl from the great dance club in the sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found a handyman - who happened to be the kind of handsome that handyman porn cliches are pulled from - that helped take care of some of this mess. He </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">decided it would be easier to use a self-leveling concrete rather than building out a wood box over the brick and I didn't care as long as it was done fast and cheap. Which is exactly how I prefer my porn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It took weeks to get some concrete poured and trim installed and I'm just happy that I didn't end up in jail for murdering his handsome face. Apparently beautiful people never developed the normal life skills that the rest of us ugly schmucks need to survive like time management, reliability and honesty. The longer I waited, the uglier he got.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But in the end and after lots of paint this little ledge turned out more beautiful than he could ever be. It's the Dorian Gray of home improvement projects. And who would even care that this floor is basically plastic?! Looks damn good to me. But I'm just an ugly schmuck with Purple Jesus on my side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ahhh, sweet relief. Not gonna lie, this room makes me immensely happy. It's fairly huge - about 15x20 - and I do a lot of twirling in here. And eventually yoga and barre and lots of crafting and other general merriment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The storage room of shame is now renamed the STUDIO and as soon as I get done caulking - so much caulk! Caulk everywhere! - I've got exciting things planned...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's kinda like the kiss of death for bloggers. Fortunately none of my income or sanity relies on blogging anymore so it only hurts my sense of duty and pride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel like a completely different person than when I started this blog SIX YEARS AGO. Back then my sanity DID rely on blogging. At the time I was reading a lot of blogs which were wildly addictive with their sparkle and shine girl-next-door vibes but even as a counterpoint to magazines, they still felt really far away from my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think what I was doing with blogging was asking permission - from myself and the "world" - to do the things I wanted to do even if I didn't know what they were yet. And if I gained nothing else from blogging it's realizing FUCK PERMISSION. Of course, there are enumerable things I gained from this here blog about vaginas and mood boards but that one seems important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I'll be a wise and mature 35 year old next month and what feels like way more than six years away from the person who started this blog. I feel comfortable trying new things without being behind the protective space of this dirty computer screen and exploring creativity (that word still makes me cringe) in lots of different ways. Blogging is just becoming less and less one of those ways. Not because I don't like it - I DO - but I have limited time and want to branch out. I'm gonna take ALL the Skillshare classes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So long story still long, ModernSauce will continue to be my home base just not my primary focus for a while. I have a lot of fun things I'm working on and planning to do - probably the cliche etsy shop - and I just need time to get that shit going. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So make sure to follow me over there on the <a href="https://instagram.com/modernsauce/">'gram</a> and the <a href="https://twitter.com/ModernSauce">Twitters</a> because I'll miss y'all's comments and community and I'm greedy. This probably sounds like a goodbye and it's NOT but all of you are amazing and I can't express how appreciative I am of all your support, comments, friendship and just general existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm finishing up the last of my major yard stuff and getting ready to stay inside and settle into my summer spot (straddling the air conditioner vents). However I have a few stray plants that I'm just throwing in the ground and wishing well. Best of luck come August, random plant that seemed like a good idea at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...just don't like them. Yellow and brown are the saddest color combo to me and their dumdum flower shape is just so "basic." They're the basic bitches of flowers, if you will. (I won't.) But still, I was going to give them a home because all Gawd's creatures yadda yadda yadda. *makes jacking off hand motion*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, damn! That's a stylish mix! And not only do I like this mix of flowers but I think the Black-eyed Susan look-alikes are the glue here. It's the perfect amount of contrast, methinks. I love Black-eye Susans now. The workhorses of summer gardens. Please don't die on me now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The moral of this story is make room for ugly in your garden/space/life. Or maybe redefine your definition of ugly. One of those sounds pretty important so probably you should do that. It's called 'calculated fug' and we will all be the masters of it. The End.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I found the source of this delightfully, mind-changing picture it gets even better. It's a PRE-PLANNED garden pack that you can buy from <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/">High Country Gardens</a>. I didn't even know you could do that! I'm full of awe and wonder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This pack featured above fits a 5' x 5' space and includes our pal Rudbeckia Goldsturm (the Black-eyed Susan-looking coneflower), the <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/echinacea/echinacea-purpurea">purple coneflower</a>, <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/agastache/agastache-blue-fortune">Agastache 'Blue Fortune'</a> (tall blue in the back), <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/solidago/solidago-rugosa-fireworks">Solidago 'Fireworks'</a> (the goldenrod in the middle), <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/unique-plants/physostegia-virginiana-crystal-peak-white">Physostegia virginiana 'Crystal Peak White'</a> (Obedient plant?), <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/sedum/sedum-autumn-fire">'Autumn Fire' sedum</a> and <a href="http://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/liatris/liatris-aspera">Liastris aspera</a> (the purple Blazing Star in front?). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fun thing is that I have already have sedums and purpleish coneflowers and have been looking at the blazing star so this little pack was made for me! It's called Summer Dreams. I'm singing it to the tune of Summer Lovin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seems like a lot of these are great for dry areas in the West but I've grown many of these here so fellow Southerners can at least get some good ideas. They have tons more <a href="https://www.highcountrygardens.com/pre-planned-gardens">pre-planned kits</a> to buy but these were the only group shots they had. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it's been a hot minute since I've been here but Springtime is Busytime at the Ranch. I went on some work trips, had a quick trip to Nashville, went to Miami for a design show and didn't get sunburned - SUCCESS. I did sweat through my first outfit of the year and it's only May... thanks, Florida. But I got so many damn shells from the beach Florida should start paying me to haul away their junk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wait, you can take shells from the beach, right?! It's not illegal like taking plants from a national park, right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And after years of traveling I've FINALLY made a permanent toiletry bag so I can grab and go - SUCCESS. All hail the tiniest of eye cream containers! I'm adulting all over the damn place. It's like a bukkake of responsible decisions around here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I wasn't jetsetting all over the Southeast region I've been doing never-ending amounts of yardwork. This month is just so damn sweaty! I'm reaching the end of my <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2015/02/ranch-updates-and-killet-kornbred.html">giant bush removal project</a> (for this season) so I'll post some updates on that soon. It looks... unimpressive for the amount of bitching I've been doing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what happened during all this tiny shampoo organizing and endless hole digging? The Mad Men finale which I'm a season behind on so no spoilers, Janet Jackson announced a new album and tour (!), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/DrSandraLee">blackhead-removing videos</a> are my new obsession and favorite lullaby and SHE SHEDS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, I like my own personal space so much I live alone in my own house. IT'S THE ULTIMATE SHE SHED!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a general rule, I'm very pro-shed. Where I come from, 'behind the shed' is where you smoke for the first time, get fingerbanged or bury a body. All are glorious rites of passage no matter which one you choose. As an adult (thanks to my tween rite of passage, you guess which one), I find sheds very useful for all my dirty, dirty tools. Except for the <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/05/charlie-sheen-came-back-for-slow.html">gross barn I had removed last year..</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's kinda the problem... sheds are gross (see above about numerous amounts of vaginal fluids and corpses) and are like poisonous hotboxes filled with all manner of critters. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know what lives in a shed outside and it ain't ruffles. It's spiders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if you want to have a potting shed and paint it pastel well then I hope the Lordt blesses you with a maid and a clue because obviously you've never potted a thing in your life. My potting shed - because yeah I want one - would be made entirely of black rubber and metal so I can hose it down. And it has air conditioning. And a sink... ok it's just a small house filled with piles of dirt that I don't have to clean up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This urban bike shed is the winner of the best eco shed and it looks delightful. Bet the British sheds are actual places to sit and have tea and probably not the prisoner of war shed like mine was...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can definitely get behind this modern shed more than I can that lace and chicken fuckery above. To each his own I guess. I mean, she own...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But since this is my blog I get to feature the sheds/greenhouse/unattainable cottages I like. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So let's shed this bitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shed is bae.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This glass shed of silence is adorable and I would like it very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could practically live in this one...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one looks like it really came from a Home Depot kit and I approve. Home Depot hobbit. Of course, you could grow vines over a laundry crate and I'd try to rent it on Airbnb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A single room is nice. Small space for potting but you could also just sit alone with a chair and shut the door. No judgment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This counts as a shed. I bet getting fingerbanged behind this turns you into a fairy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This half-shed, half-greenhouse is my favorite because he <a href="http://nittygrittydirtman.com/the-potting-shed/">gives you the plans</a>! How super. It's a great gardening blog too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But don't forget the most important part of the yard: Charlemagne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cat shed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just kidding I'd make her hang out in the she shed and kill the rodents that are nesting in my daybed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll probably be blogging light this summer (I don't have a blog shed) but I'll try not to let a month go in between. That's just rude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope your May was delightful! Hope it was in a shed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE: After I published this post about eleventeenfifty shed articles came across my dash/stream/pins within a few hours which lets me know we all got shed brains right now. But this one was worth adding. It's technically a playhouse but I'm saying it's a shed... </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">See the whole cute place at <a href="http://www.ruemag.com/home-tour-2/rooms-we-love/an-outdoor-oasis-in-orange-county">Rue</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm working on multiple projects JUST FOR YOU, saucy blog readers, but shit keeps fucking up my plans. I mean, all a girl wants is to be bedazzled from crown to ground and have nice eaves to her house that aren't covered in mold. Simple things in life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This looks waaay more professional than it actually is because graph paper makes everything look very serious. 77% of a solid legal defense is because of graph paper. It's true. Hopefully I won't need a legal defense for some plants because I am <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2015/02/ranch-updates-and-killet-kornbred.html">ripping out bushes</a> so big I had to call the utility people to make sure I don't destroy something vital. More on all that <strike>fucking mess</strike> project later!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did, however, finish a crafty project that took a good chunk of my last remaining wintery nights. My hallway is getting some love this year after <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2015/02/ranch-updates-and-killet-kornbred.html">getting a fresh coat of paint</a> and now we're focusing on textiles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, something that is not boring or expensive is a chindi rug! I have a soft spot for chindis (or rag rugs) since they're handmade of recycled materials and delightfully happy for all your funkiest needs. In this case, an aggressively long hallway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The good about chindis is that they're knotted together with warp yarn so in (my) theory I should be able to knot them all together to make one loooong chindi, right? This is a rhetorical question because I did it. They above picture is a picture of a "seam" but I won't tell you where it is. Well, I guess it's obvious to me but I'm really selling this DIY and I bet dinner guests won't notice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you'll need is a selection of chindis - I found a bunch at Ollie's which is a local discount place kinda like Big Lots - and a disregard for your free time. Also a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Susan-Bates-2-Pack-Plastic-Knitting/dp/B000Y3IVUE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428977359&sr=8-2&keywords=plastic+yarn+needle">yarn needle</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't even know why I'm explaining to you how to do this like it's a real tutorial because no one else in the history of DIYing would ever do this. Hell, I may never do this again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is less than a foot of knots. I unknotted then reknotted about 10 feet of this. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!?!?! I musta been drunk on the fact that these rugs were less than $4 each because this took a long ass mothafuckin time. Feel free to call me Unbreakable Lacy Sauce because with enough delusion and Netflix, anything is possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT at the end of it I've forgotten all the pain and the stiff neck and the nights my friends were out partying and I was home alone on the couch underneath a pile of stinky rags because I think it turned out decently (for a $25 investment).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She would walk NEXT TO the rug for a few weeks but finally has felt okay walking on top of it and dare I say napping on it. I've since added a rug pad to help it stay put since it drifts on top of the hardwood when we play chase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So am I happy that I have a rug in this space? Yes, I want Julie Andrews to add chindis to her list of favorite things. Would I do this again or encourage someone else to do it? Only if you're recently unemployed and have nothing to occupy your time and mildly hate yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I bet I have prettier floor coverings than the puritans.</span>ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-60465791434602127762015-03-23T21:49:00.000-04:002015-03-25T08:36:33.799-04:00We made it through winter! Most of us...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're in that lovely transition period on the way to Spring (shit, we're here already!) where I refuse to wear my coat no matter how cold it is but can't bring myself to wear sandals no matter how hot it is. Ahh, the mercurial tornado season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's how I survived this brutal winter and am transitioning into Shpringtime. Yes, it requires its own transition period. With lots of exfoliating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These jade beauties are not mine but they might be soon. <a href="https://instagram.com/p/0B_yuWhO_Z/?taken-by=modernsauce">THESE</a> are mine that I got last Fall at our plant swap. And they ain't doin' too bad - yay me! The best thing about hellebores (other than they can survive an almost-ice age and terrible track record) is that just when you think things are the worst - day after day of wet, grey winter death - here they come with green sprouts in the snow. See? There IS hope and we are not destined to die in a dirty snow drift only to be discovered in March. Hit your hallelujah, indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had this on my wish list for YEARS but I bought myself one for Christmas and couldn't be happier. It smells warm and woody but fresh and slightly lemony. (I swear there was lavender in there but it not sure about the new formula description...?) Perfect for Winter and Spring. Hell, burn it all year. Will not disappoint. Because it's wizard magic, obviously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of winter scents, I found this <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/195962328/perfume-oil-choose-your-scent-natural?ref=shop_home_active_1">perfume oil</a> ($8)at a local craft fair in the Fall and have been drawing sigils on myself with it every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It really smells how a dreamy bonfire smells at night when you feel like you're in a car commercial and not the morning after bonfire that smells like you burned a squirrel alive and swaddled the carcass with your cardigan. And as it fades it smells like a smokey cupcake at the end of the day. Maybe that's just my chemistry. All of her scents are warm and fresh but all lovely - I also have Lolita - so <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/195962328/perfume-oil-choose-your-scent-natural?ref=shop_home_active_1">buy in bulk</a>, y'all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>UPDATE: It looks like she's sold out of the Bonfire but check out her other scents <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/shop/silkandclay?section_id=14933853&ref=shopsection_leftnav_5">here</a>. She's probably just adding more stock. I HOPE.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was recently introduced to chocolate bitters and I think my life has been changed. Several people then mentioned the magic of celery bitters to me so obviously I need to be educated. Whiskey and chocolate bitters in the winter and now I think my Shpring will be</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> filled with celery bitters and a rainbow of other flavors! And booze, obvi. Bitters all the year round! If you got a good recipe send it my way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was sick this winter and bought a case (I was sick a lot) as a desperate substitute for chicken broth. I needed to retain fluid anyway... I think I ate one pack the regular way like we did in college BUT I discovered if you throw away the seasoning packet the noodles are so cheap that it's almost painful not to use them in another way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then I started making noodle bowls out of stock and soy and fish sauce and/or curry and coconut milk sometimes. Throw in a bunch of veggies and maybe meat and if's probably the fanciest thing my cereal bowls have seen in a while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need some more specific direction than that last sentence (I did - Asian flavors are not my comfort zone) try this <a href="http://www.chow.com/recipes/31178-slow-cooker-pork-ramen">slow cooker pork ramen</a> which was amazing or Lady and Pups has a lot of noodle ideas: <a href="http://ladyandpups.com/2014/01/04/spicy-miso-ramen-express-eng/">Spicy Miso Ramen</a> and <a href="http://ladyandpups.com/2014/12/16/the-vampire-slayer-ramen-express/">Vampire Slayer Ramen Express</a> and <a href="http://ladyandpups.com/2014/05/16/bunker-crack-slurp-eng/">Bunker Crack Slurp</a>. She also feels no shame about eating some <a href="http://ladyandpups.com/2014/11/11/the-shit-i-eat-when-by-myself-orange-ramen/">ramen with even "trashier" ingredients</a> and she's a real food blog so I think that makes it okay. Or maybe we should all stop judging food choices?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which is a great idea because I'm not done with ramen. For Spring I'm transitioning to <a href="http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/crunchy-asian-ramen-noodle-salad/">ramen salads</a> and maybe this <a href="http://soupaddict.com/2014/03/spicy-shrimp-saucy-guacamole-ramen-noodle-bowl/">spicy shrimp and guacamole ramen</a> what?! I was going to write a sentence about how America is further bastardizing this "garbage food" for the purpose of our Independence Day cookouts but NO I'm not shaming you or me for food choices anymore. In fact, I made this Paula Deen <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/broccoli-cole-slaw-recipe.html">ramen broccoli slaw</a> and will admit I enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the money you saved on food by eating ramen means you can now buy yourself something nice to wear! I'm a daily scarf wearer - it's my winter uniform and I feel cold and naked without one. I also like to sink my head inside like a turtle when I feel threatened or want to nap. In twenty years we're going to look back and think "Why the fuck did we wear a giant scarf INSIDE all day?" But for now I'm cozy and committed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I convinced my mom to crochet me a few after showing her the <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/11/knitwear-for-horny-18th-century-bird.html">Outlander pics</a> we talked about last Fall. AND SHE DID! <a href="https://instagram.com/p/y5qTF8hO7k/?taken-by=modernsauce">Here</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/p/y5p92shO7A/?taken-by=modernsauce">here</a>. I love them but it's getting a little warm for a double-wrapped infinity scarf made of love and thick acrylic. Fortunately, t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hese by <a href="http://www.scarf-shop.com/shop-1/">Scarfshop</a> piqued my interest the other day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They come in a variety of hand-dyed colors and are really affordable: $30 for a "small" size (27"x108") and $60 for the large (54"x108"). I saw a tiny scarf half the size of the "small" at J. Crew last week for $55 so might as well get a giant cape made of clouds instead! I'm part of the Scarf All Year club. I have a weird, short neck so I feel like scarves hide it. By camouflaging it in thick, bulky layers to it...? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indigo liner and coral and apricot seem like a nice compromise for a new season while still allowing some opportunity for drama. I'm going to be taking a <a href="http://www.thechattery.org/right-brain-classes/2015/3/26/how-to-contour-your-face-with-elea-blake-cosmetics">class on contouring</a> so I can look just like Kim K! Except with a potato-y turtle head. CAN you even contour a potato head or will they just hand me back my money when they see my face? I guess we'll find out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think all that should transition me nicely to April. I don't know why I can't go to a new season like a normal person without a strategy involving booze and eyeliner. But all good strategies usually begin with booze and eyeliner so... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What things are y'all looking forward to for warmer temps? I'm excited to paint my toenails once again and get back that healthy glow that constantly sweating will bring to my skin. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously, I'm not compensated for any of these recommendations nor have any relationship with these people/companies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haha just kidding this is totally a sponsored post by Big Ramen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now THAT I was kidding about.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if someone wants to get at me... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless, welcome to Ethiopia! Specifically the Southwest corner. Here's <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Ethiopia_shaded_relief_map_1999,_CIA.jpg">a map</a> cuz if you're like me (a dumb American) you don't know where that is. But we should because very nice buildings are happening there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are also known for having the best weaving in Ethiopia so right now the Dorze are batting a thousand for the design team. I'm not even on the field in regards to such complicated design activities so I'm waving my giant foam finger for them.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entire structure is surprisingly large measuring about 25-30 feet tall. Based on my calculations that's about seven square miles of leaves. The reason they are designed so tall is for more than just a great chandelier. The walls sit directly on the ground and termites eat the building from the floor up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'd think this would create massive structural problems but in fact it just causes the homes to get shorter. They start out so tall so they can shrink over decades. That's right, they build in their own aging solution. The homes get shorter and cuter over time. It's like they're the Benjamin Buttons of architecture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found out that the "face" does have an explanation that's not just related to function, however. This region of Ethiopia used to have lots of elephants so the homes pay homage to them with their grey skin and large proboscis. AND NOW I LOVE THEM EVEN MORE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can't UNsee it now either! Look at its wittle head! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you better get in your elephant love now because I heard Tim Burton is going to be directing a new Dumbo so get ready for Johnny Depp to piss all over your childhood. Childhood memories of hysterical sobbing over that movie but whatever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I'm guilty of stopping in the road and taking a picture of someone's home and I'm blogging about the Dorze so maybe I shouldn't be the moral compass here. But are these little tours just catering to rich tourists or maybe it's like some version of colonial Williamsburg except not colonial but CURRENT? Or are the people that open up their homes to tourists the design bloggers of Ethiopia? Maybe they WANT to show off their houses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not saying I don't want to see them but I am aware that I saw pictures of the same two structures (three pictures up) over and over again. I'm not sure I know the correct answer to these questions and maybe I should pull out my books on vernacular architecture more than once a decade. *cough* I was almost smart in college...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless, I hope tourists are absolutely throwing money at them for every last bit of their beautiful weaving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we talked about IN 2014 I wanted to <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/10/velvet-and-rhinestones-and-easy-yet.html">organize my mess of jewelry</a> in concordance with my bedroom redo. It felt right. I'm adulting one drawer at a time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in true Virgo fashion I began a downward research spiral of all the jewelry organization systems on the market until I wanted to die and then made an impulse decision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behold the <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/10/velvet-and-rhinestones-and-easy-yet.html">Ampersand jewelry trays</a> from - wait for it - Bed Bath and Beyond! I feel so solidly Middle Class! My 401k immediately gained 3%. I don't think I've bought anything from BB&B in years but here we are, trying to avoid that one weird dude in a blue apron and all the good candy at the front near the checkout. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't want something plastic and these looked relatively classy and functional for my needs. They also needed to stack inside my Malm dresser which is another reason I bought two four-drawer dressers and not one six-drawer. Swedish space. It's the ultimate luxury.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only did I like BB&B's options best I even signed up for their text alerts to get the 20% off coupon so I could get everything on sale. I drank the Kool-Aid. Or more specifically I inhaled that poisonous parfum they pump through their vents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would get a text every few weeks and then head over and add another piece. It took awhile but I'm not made of money. I'm made of Cubic Zirconia and bracelets that turn my arm a little green!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reason I went with this line was because of my bangle collection. I have a few and if I laid them all down in their own individual compartments I'd need another Malm dresser. So they needed to stand up like the architecture of jewelry that they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to add more trays for all my earrings because although I aesthetically like looking at this mess of metal I can't actually find shit in here. Except for my Conway Twitty pin on the middle left. Best $3 purchase I ever made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have one deep tray that's half full on the bottom and is waiting for my Mema's vintage brooch collection as soon as I remember where it is... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weird thing is that I felt like I had TONS of jewelry but since it's been organized I feel like it's less than I thought. So that means I should buy MOAR JEWELRY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I had this kind of jewelry horde:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like an embarrassment of fake riches but in neat orderly boxes. What a perfect metaphor for my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all I think I spent about $80 total which was spread out over the course of a couple of months so that's not too bad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only am I an organized and sparkly adult, I'm a financially responsible one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bet Conway Twitty liked that kind of woman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After spending twenty minutes going through Conway Twitty pics and songs I suddenly remembered that my Mema - the same one with lots of costume jewelry I've momentarily replaced - also loved Conway Twitty! It must be genetic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post wrapped up in surprisingly delightful and nostalgic ways!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if you don't think <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpnL-RLJrc">Slow Hand</a> is the best sexiest song ever then I can't help you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Belated Valentine's Day with that one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone else in the country wants to be tied up right now and I'm lusting after the lyrics of old country songs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay so I DID watch Secretary twice this past weekend because James Spader is JAMES FUCKING SPADER so I'm not afraid of non-vanilla things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I just prefer things in nicely-lined, imitation-suede boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post has now gone further down the spiral so I'll stop talking before I drag Trent Reznor into this mess.</span><br />
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<br />ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-21702728805000705662015-02-12T20:51:00.000-05:002015-02-12T20:51:07.632-05:00My safeword is 'microwave.'<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy upcoming Valentime's weekend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm spending the weekend with my first love: Pizza Rolls! And possibly some terrible smut if I feel like throwing my money away and seeing 50 Shades. Carbs and kink: what else is there in life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Normally I won't get within ten yards of a heart because UGH how aesthetically boring, said the fancy design blogger with a Pizza Roll gifs one inch above. Also, I don't like to wear or surround myself with bright red. How guache. *cuts up Pizza Roll with a knife and fork*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I'm actually kinda enjoying Valentine's Day this year for some weird reason. Have the c<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/98938523040329021/">ute vegan sugar cookies gotten</a> to me? Maybe it's just because I've avoided 110% of all V'Day-related things up until this point so what's a pink heart or two? Prepare yourself because I even have a post all about pink coming up soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also weirdly excited about New Year's resolutions earlier this year...?? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Apparently I've been bodysnatched and replaced with a happy person filled with "emotions" and "love" in 2015. Hashtag basic bitch and loving it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully I'll be filled with pizza rolls and some second-hand embarrassment courtesy of a very lucky fanfiction in a few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read the best review/thinkpiece-of-shame about 50 Shades <a href="http://jezebel.com/this-is-your-brain-on-the-fifty-shades-of-grey-trilogy-1685260335">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know where to get Pizza Rolls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-19507648054824637132015-02-10T21:29:00.000-05:002015-02-10T21:29:15.666-05:00Ranch updates and $KILLET KORNBRED<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It ain't always glittery decor fun times and glamorous shopping trips here at the Ranch. It's real life. And a real life design blogger/house renovator is full of boring and tedious things in case you were confused by reading other blogs. Sometimes I am. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's an update about all the boring things I've been doing so far this winter that may result in nice things later. Or maybe just needed to get done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up: the hallway. My hallway hasn't been painted in about seven years so I figured it was time. It's also time to give it some art and a rug and generally make it look like a real space and not just a forgotten space. I think about 50% of my house is a "forgotten space" so I should probably look into that next...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After I <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/11/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-carnivorous.html">painted my bedroom</a> I wanted to connect it to the hallway in the name of continuity! And I had some paint leftover. So the hallway went from a weird dark brown to Valspar's Forest Canopy. Now it looks like my hallway just couldn't contain itself and spilled over into my bedroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first moved in and started working in my house rooms were <strike>made livable</strike> renovated really far apart so they're kinda disjointed. Looking to fix that in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hallway took way longer to paint than I had wanted because the weekend weather got unseasonably warm. Last year at this time was the Ice Hell in Atlanta and the South, remember? This year, 60 and sunny. Because of such glorious weather I decided to get a jump start on my yard projects</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm spreading the gospel of the Plant Swap/Charity and nabbed these mature Aucubas from a friend's house. They were cut down for removal purposes and half dead so I hope they survive because I think I threw my back out digging these holes. Hell, one root nub was too heavy for me to even lift so I drug it from the other end of my house to this spot. You'd think I'd learn by now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what the Madame giveth, she also taketh awayeth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After much deliberation I put four holly bushes out of their misery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually it was MY misery because I loathe these plants. They were huge - the largest about eight feet in diameter - and almost too tall to trim. Which they needed often. And every time that happened I would come away scratched and bleeding. Makes for a cranky Madame. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sprayed the exposed branches with Round-Up and in a few weeks/months a pair of strong young men will come and rip the entire stump mess from the ground with some chains and an F350. Or just me and a nice friend because we are cheaper. I love demo. New landscaping will happen this Spring so YAY! Buying my chiropractor visits in bulk!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was hesitant to cut them down because they are probably 50+ years old and that seems wrong BUT then I talked to some smart plant people and they said holly bushes are considered invasive (you can see all those miserable runners on the ground up above) and a pest. OOOHHH well in that case, buh bye. There were also SEVERAL privet "weeds" (see in top pic) and other shitty vines growing inside the bush which grew at different rates than the holly itself and required different trimming schedules so fuck all y'all, we done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were whole ecosystems inside the holly bushes apparently but being within Charlemagne's reach was not a smart real estate decision, birds. I'm doing this for your future!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In news of garden projects that I can actually handle, I took a class and made a miniature garden!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Barn Nursery (a local garden center for you non-locals) offered a fairy/miniature garden class. I have no desire to put a fairy having tea and flipping through their miniature ipad in a garden but some people built swing sets and houses and lakes and all kinds of shit. I just wanted to go because they had free moss, rocks and dirt. FREE DIRT?! This is what being a homeowner does to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides, I already had some gnomes at home (my Christmas gnomes from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/saltandginger">Salt and Ginger</a>!) that needed a home the other eleven months of the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't do a succulent planting because I have enough of those and why not try something different? So I tried things with, like, real leaves and shit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also started some cuttings from my rosemary bush last Fall and look how good these roots are doing?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I'm not communing with nature and/or mass murdering plants, I've been purging inside my house. I've been undergoing a massive closet and beauty supply purge, supplying Goodwill for the next year and generally trying to avoid the allure of thrifting and junkin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Switched to all velvet hangers (and after the purge) I have sooo much space in my closet now. Let's not talk about the sweaters...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm practically living life like a monk! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't quite eliminate ALL thrifting and did acquire a couple of these vintage Biltons ironstone dishes for under a dollar and they are amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, I can't find any more to buy on ebay and the only plates I found where about $20 a piece so thanks for nothing. This is my punishment for shopping when I shouldn't have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other kitchen "news" I got a cast iron skillet for Christmas this year! So metal. I asked for one because everyone - Mormon moms to hipsters to grandmas - seem to have one and rave about it so it seemed like the right thing to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must say it's heavier than hell and it seems to require a nightly rub down and is more moisturized than my skin so I'm not sure I made the right request from Santa. Did I? I WANT THE $KILLET KORNBRED!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$KILLET KORNBRED is the name of my neo-bluegrass Insane Clown Posse cover band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, y'all remember when we talked about a haunted pirate house in California that kept burning down called the <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-pyromaniac-ghost-pirate-has-some.html">Cliff House</a>? Well a reader happened to see the postcard I included and sent it to me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How cool is that?! Thank you, J. I have such great readers. Please buy my $KILLET KORNBRED album when it drops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may also remember that I started working on <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/10/velvet-and-rhinestones-and-easy-yet.html">organizing my jewelry last Fall</a> and I finally have a solution! We'll talk jewelry trays next week. See? I have follow-through!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The life of homeowner: full of destruction and sparkles and mild to moderate procrastination.</span>ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-10179560474551458502015-02-04T22:08:00.000-05:002015-02-05T21:05:33.533-05:00Babes with shields. (And a few hot shirtless dudes.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snowed in this winter? Bored with your miserable life? Seeing Rand Paul shushing a woman makes your face erupt into flames? Well have I got the solution for you, friends! It involves spending all your free time on the couch/heaven watching badass women do badass things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I seem to have hit a run of great shows involving women doing amazing things like The Fall, The Honourable Woman, Bletchley Circle and Happy Valley. All BBC shows with great female leads while Viola Davis is over here holding up the entirety of America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[MS sidebar: I'm not sure why every show about women has to feature the brutal imprisonment, torture and raping of women but it does so take heed and maybe spread these shows apart in viewing.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And although this show doesn't technically have a woman lead, I've become obsessed with the History Channel's Vikings. Like, I watched the entire series - two seasons - TWICE over the holidays and through January. Back to back. Like a psychopath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it would be a poor man's Game of Thrones with the production value of Sharknado and I was proved wrong. It has an actual plot, is beautiful to watch, full of good music and ancient magic AND I done learned some things. Thanks, History Channel! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As well as Alexander Skarsgard's less conventionally-attractive but exponentially more talented brother:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Lagertha (read like LAGertha not laGERtha which is how this hillbillly would have said it). She's based on a real woman and is married to Ragnar (the lead, also a historical figure) on the show. Lagertha is special because she's a shieldmaiden and will destroy you in battle. I just love the word 'shieldmaiden.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And lest I linger to long on <strike>my lesbian crush</strike> this talented ladyperson, there are plenty of other fine ladies on the show too for your enjoyment too. But shieldmaiden, y'all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So even though I've fallen down the rabbit hole of historical tv (HAHA JK I live there already) lately with my <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/11/knitwear-for-horny-18th-century-bird.html">Outlander appreciation</a>, I still think y'all would really dig this show. You can watch it on Amazon, Hulu or just <a href="http://www.history.com/shows/vikings/episodes">History.com</a> where you can watch them all for free (no cable subscription required). <i>[Update: it's apparently only the second season on History.com - sorry!]</i></span></div>
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ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-24408830367877967942015-01-27T23:00:00.001-05:002015-01-27T23:37:48.344-05:00Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's butter face.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You guys really got to the heart of my <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2015/01/hobbies-and-hallways.html">New Year's post</a> a few weeks ago: proper moisturization (taint or otherwise). My face has been struggling this year and it probably has something to do with getting older or that I'm mutating X-Men style into a new race of desert people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I layer that with <a href="http://www.sleepyhollowherbfarm.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=sleepyhollowherbfarm&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SCGFM">Goldenseal Moisturizing Cream</a> from Sleepy Hollow Herb Farm (another local company). I LOVE the Goldenseal moisturizer and recommend it to everyone, local or not. They grow their own Goldenseal which is some kind of magic herb and it's great for all kinds of skin issues - eczema to bug bites. It's really calming and soothing to my angry face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shikai-Borage-Therapy-Facial-Moisturizer/dp/B000MVRY88/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1422294933&sr=8-10&keywords=shikai+borage">Shikai Borage Dry Skin Therapy</a> on a whim a few years ago when I was having MAJOR skin problems and it was amazing. Angry face became incredibly happy face. Apparently borage oil is the shit but now I can only find this stuff online. I expect it to be discontinued soon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At night I usually follow all that with some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shea-Terra-Organics-Certified-Organic/dp/B001TXB4G6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1422329389&sr=8-3&keywords=tamanu+oil">tamanu oil</a> which I know I've talked about before and still use and love. I usually layer multiple moisturizers even in the summer so the fact that I do this shouldn't reflect on the quality of these products. I have not-great skin that requires a lot of attention - more than I'm willing to give, honestly - so I'm not a one-product gal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But even this layers-of-flavor-strategic-moisturizing didn't work this year. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the day it looks like I have a mild sunburn the way my face is flaking off. I had to take matters into my own hands and go to the ModSauce Ranch Laboratories. Shea butter is heaven on my body so why not my face, right?! So I melted a couple of ounces of raw shea butter with an ounce of a mixture of Josie Maran Argan Oil and tamanu oil then whipped all that into a cream. Everybody just has that stuff laying around in their medicine cabinet, right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I was bragging about my luxurious new face cream when my Twitter friend and beauty guru Genie of <a href="https://twitter.com/EBArchDesign">@EBArchDesign</a> yelled at me about putting shea butter on my face because it can cause breakouts. Well, double damn! I thought I had solved the world's problems!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't tell her but I still use it sometimes and haven't had any breakouts. But I did promise to graduate to more "adult" products. Use shea butter at your own risk, apparently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately I DID find some</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.sephora.com/moisture-surge-extended-thirst-relief-P209117" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinique Moisture Surge</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, $39,</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the back of my bathroom closet and have been loving it the past week or so. Past me was very smart to buy it then I guess I got dumb in the summer and forgot about it. Goes on like a gel so if you need moisture but hate the greasy, sticky feel then this is your jam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genie did recommend some things to me including <a href="http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/indeed-laboratories-hydraluron-moisture-serum/ID=prod6234601-product">Hydraluron</a>, $20, which is the purest form of hyaluronic acid so there's that. I've been looking for a serum to wear under my moisturizer so this will probably be my next purchase. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She also recommended <a href="http://www.kiehls.com/Midnight-Recovery-Concentrate/819,default,pd.html">Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate</a> ($46), <a href="http://www.sephora.com/advanced-night-repair-synchronized-recovery-complex-ii-P379994">Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair</a> ($92 and I think a cult favorite) as well as this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/La-Roche-Posay-Cicaplast-Epidermal-Accelerator/dp/B0011DGH0C">La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Accelerator Pro Recovery</a> ($18). She said it was developed for burn victims so I'm guessing it should be good enough for my chapped face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Ms. Anonymouse commented on that post about her love of Josie Maran's Argan Infinity Cream Oil, $28, which sounds heavenly. The <i>creamy oil</i> part intrigues me. What kind of magic science is that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jamie, another sweet commenter suggested a moisturizer with urea in it like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Udderly-Smooth-Extra-Cream-Replenishing/dp/B00D86VL1U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422324449&sr=8-1&keywords=udderly+smooth+urea&pebp=1422324634393&peasin=B00D86VL1U">Udderly Smooth</a>, $15. Urea is like the store brand name of urine but don't freak out. I KNOW I remember supermodels back in the 90's - probably on Oprah - talking about how the get up in the morning, pee on a wash cloth and then press it to their faces for their beautiful complexions. If Linda Evangelista can have a pee face then gawddammit we can too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think Udderly Smooth is made for the body but they say it can go on your face fine. Don't get snooty, pee face. I kinda like the idea of having ONE jar of something and being able to use it from head to toe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use a mixture of stuff on my body depending on what smell I want but it usually involves a butter. I make my own mix of shea butter and available oils (do you sense a trend?) based on <a href="http://www.afterplumcake.com/2013/01/quick-n-dirty-diy-body-butter.html">this basic ratio</a>. I recently came across <a href="https://hensandhoney.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/how-to-make-luxurious-body-butter-with-just-three-ingredients/">this recipe</a> using coconut oil and coconut butter and it also sounds divine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the way coconut oil smells/feels but don't like its moisturizing qualities alone. I actually use it to remove my makeup and it feels so luxurious. But mixed with cocoa butter? I needed to research. So I bought some good, old-fashioned <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JGIXNA/ref=s9_simh_gw_p194_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=1Q2VPMHVG2HBHMAQTFHX&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=1970559082&pf_rd_i=desktop">Palmer's Cocoa Butter</a>, $7, because I don't think I've ever used cocoa butter before...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly, I'm rather enjoying it. It does have mineral oil in it which I heard is bad for skin but cocoa butter smells incredible so I don't care. I used a small tub in two weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not exactly sure the difference between shea butter and cocoa butter - the internet says shea is more healing for cuts, bites, infections, etc. but cocoa butter just smells sadamn good... Your call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your body skin can't find relief with shea butter, cocoa butter and/or urea then you might want to consult a professional. I have yet to find a body moisturizer that works as good as these that is non-greasy and absorbs immediately so you are warned. Do not try to put leggings on in a hurry after an application. For a more light weight moisture I sometimes use <a href="http://www.kiehls.com/Creme-de-Corps/259,default,pd.html?start=5&cgid=body-moisturizers">Kiehl's Creme de Corps</a> body lotion in the summer that has an SPF but I get lazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget the best, <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2013/12/straight-from-modsauce-secret.html">non-greasy salt scrub</a> I make too since we're all DIYing all the skin things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't really use a specific hand cream because I only remember to use some right before I'm going to do a very important, highly precise task like playing Operation or trying to open a bunch of tight jar lids and my greasy hands might as well be stumps for how useful they are. However, the other day my fingernail snagged on something and when I went to undo it I realized it wasn't my nail but THE SKIN NEXT TO MY NAIL AAAAHHHHHH. I'm like a farm animal. BUT NO MORE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think that's all of the moisturization tips from myself and my helpful team of beauty gurus - thank you, ladies! My goal is to have some part of me be slightly greasy from December through March. Except my face but we're working on that. *greasy fingers crossed*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Update! The loverly <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreaWolper">@AndreaWolper</a> recommended REN's Vita Mineral Daily Supplement Moisturizing Cream and Josie Maran's Argan Daily Moisturizer SPF 47. Thanks and noted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a slim - we're talkin' Spanx on Spanx on Spanx slim - chance I'm going to get to redo my office at work. I'm trying not to get too excited about forces beyond my control. If I can't get my day space redone then maybe it's time to get my home office looking legit. Not that I really use it but I'll FEEL more productive and that's all that really matters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Either way, there will be some useless paperclips put into a stylish home sometime soon, gawddammit. I must corral the office supplies. Sweet, sweet, useless office supplies...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While looking around for fun office ideas I stumbled across this little desk/nook/bill-paying station and think it's pretty much perfection. Like Wes Anderson's accountant works here. The lighting, the reclaimed wood that's not from a pallet, the mix of art and materials, the industrial tape dispenser, the faux (?) marble top... it's all perfect. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right down to the trash can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Funnily enough I HAVE a trash can very similar! The can itself is brass but maybe it needs some spray paint...? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I dunno, 'live and let live' has always been my philosophy regarding trash receptacles</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure my final space wherever it is won't look anywhere near as cool as this but it's okay. I have that ironic trophy and that's all that really matters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This space is home of owners of <a href="http://www.schoolhouseelectric.com/">Schoolhouse Electric</a> in Portland. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/greathomesanddestinations/nothing-fancy.html?ref=garden&_r=1#">whole house is great</a> but don't mind me, I'll just be right here making sculptures out of useless paperclips and industrial tape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're feeling extra sweet this week - gave away the last piece of pizza, made awkward small talk with a nice stranger - it's because of the stars. Today the moon moves into Aquarius for the next two months and this is supposed to be a time for humanitarian acts, so says New Age people. The cosmos WANTS you to put a few extra bucks into the Starbucks tip jar. Even when they aren't looking, George Costanza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In conjunction (astrology humor!) with this cosmological occurrence, this seems like a good time to introduce you to the story of the most stylish humanitarian on this side of the galaxy: <a href="http://www.peacockpavilions.com/">Peacock Pavilions</a> and its owner/designer/mom Maryam Montague. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it ain't all <a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/interiors/maryam-montague-home-my-marrakesh">Elle Decor spreads</a> and <a href="http://www.lonny.com/magazine/May+2012/RsZCV3lZK7D/1">Lonny</a> covers, Maryam travels Africa and the world fighting for human rights and democracy. She has a standing date with Amal Clooney to talk about running nations and fashion. I made up the last sentence but I bet it's true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love the little bits of pattern with the pillows. (This is similar to <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/11/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-carnivorous.html">my pillow</a>!). I think what I like about this whole space so much is the mix of clean neutrals as a backdrop for lots of bright pattern. You get the best of both worlds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think (?) Maryam is the inventor of the black wedding blanket and if that was the only thing she did in life that would be enough. But also human rights 'n stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Beni Ourain is still solid in my book despite the controversy lately over its apparent trendiness. I don't think you can really call something trendy that has existed centuries before we were even born, can you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd never seen one that with this color of gold before - such a nice variation. Could work in bleak midwinter or if you're feeling more jazzy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's like a cross between a hamsa and a peacock! Because PEACOCK! You're too much, M. I'm not being an ass, I'm just excited because I didn't see the peacock until about one minute before writing this and I love a secret pun in silver.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maryam, bored with her life doing nothing, has also founded </span><a href="http://www.mmontague.com/do-good-project-soar/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project Soar</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - an organization for underprivileged girls and women near Peacock Pavilions. A portion of all proceeds from the shop benefit the program so buy as many protective peacock hands as you want (+1 for me). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fun fact: if you stay at the pavilion you get to ride on a peacock in a great race throughout the vast olive grove. Just kidding, if you stay you can volunteer for Project Soar which is pretty cool. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm on board for dedicating my 2015 and beyond to women, yes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My grandmother has a stray peacock that has started coming to her door to visit everyday this winter. She lives in Texas if that helps explain it...? Regardless, she named him Fred so if I want to race a peacock I'll try the family bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make sure to check out Maryam's blog, <a href="http://www.mmontague.com/my-marrakesh/">My Marrakesh</a>, and follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/mmontagueliving">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mmontague.living?skip_nax_wizard=true&ref_type=bookmark">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/mmontagueliving/">Pinterest</a>. Or you can do more than read this here blog post and buy her book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marrakesh-Design-Maryam-Montague/dp/1579654010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421813348&sr=8-1&keywords=marrakesh+by+design&pebp=1421813348719&peasin=1579654010">Marrakesh by Design</a>, or even donate directly to <a href="http://www.projectsoarmarrakesh.org/">Project Soar</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do cats meow in Arabic? Like, they 'meow' in good old American, 'miao' in Italian, 'mrow' in comics... These are things I think about when I travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have yet to see a picture of a peacock AT Peacock Pavilons but maybe they have to keep them separate from the cats... Probably smart. I don't think Fred and Charlemagne would be friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the fact that people think this blog is snarky (Is it? I was going for delightful self-loathing.), I generally try to find the good in all things. I'm a regular Lil Miss Sunshine Butt. I burned the rice? Mmmhh smokey grains! Lost my keys? A good reminder to slow down. Hangnail so ornery it goes to my elbow? The blood lets me know I'm alive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And although I've been blessed with an abundant posterior, even this Sunshine Butt isn't big enough for this month. I'm kicking ass with my "<a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2015/01/hobbies-and-hallways.html">New Year's Resolutions</a>" but I think we can all agree that this month is cold, wet, dark and generally fucking miserable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot what the sun looks like. You'd think my big Sunshine Butt would hold large reserves of Vitamin D but you'd be wrong. I'm so listless I just perambulate around like a drunk slug. Do slugs perambulate around? I think they do in January.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigh... It's bleak out there y'all. But I'm trying to see that bleak is beautiful. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've collected all of the greyest, coldest, harshest things that have been elevated to beautiful so we can get through this month of misery. We'll make dirty snow an art form, yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we can all say we're miserable for the sake of art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or the sake of an online mood board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am OBSESSED with this space and picture. It's bleakness gives me strength.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can do all things through bleak who strengthens me. That and full skirts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finding myself celebrating the bleakitude of some fine traditional details and architecture this month.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">La Coulee Verte, Paris <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/33777065929507736/">here</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The few times I've been fortunate enough to go to Europe has been in January which is the worst month to go anywhere other than the Equator. But I'm IN EUROPE which was pretty fucking amazing for a hillbilly. So I think now I associate January with frigid self-guided architectural walking tours where I don't speak the language and get lost a lot but have wonderful experiences anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember last year I <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/01/that-time-i-went-to-germany-and-didnt.html">went to Germany</a> and it was bleak and frigid and I still did amazing things there, right?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See, it ain't all bad! Just pretend you're in Europe and not instead building up the courage to get outside and start your car in the mornings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's best to blend in to your surroundings. European camouflage. I'm pretty sure I practically scream "HI I'M AMERICAN AND LIKE PIZZA ROLLS" wherever I go because I'm the whitiest, roundiest and blondiest Applebee's-looking waitress that continent has ever seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, I try to wear cool sneakers but I think it's just in my pheromones. I smell like cheap gas and a glaring lack culture.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">La Chateau de La Celle via <a href="http://theartoftheroom.com/2014/10/le-chateau-de-la-celle-an-equestrian-hunting-lodge/">Art of the Room</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe if I TRY to be more bleak I'll blend in better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll aim for sad Applebee's waitress next time I travel. Aren't they all?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My apologies, that was a cheap shot at hard-working people in the food service industry and I haven't been to an Applebee's in many years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I've been to more Applebee's restaurants than castles so...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Eltz Castle in Germany <a href="http://themagicfarawayttree.tumblr.com/post/79630488877">here</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bleak castle could DEFINITELY make my January better. Next year?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this litttle shadowbox (?) so much I can't see straight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly, this goth castle is probably good in July too. It's my personal princess castle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok frankly all of these places I'd like to winter, spring, summer and fall in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's vaguely bleak but also friendly. I'm feeling better about January already!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welp, this place is going on my winter bucket list. So carving. Much fairytale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that I'm looking at all these pictures I think it's just the same Instagram filter... I bet these things were from someone's iPhone in AUGUST. I feel betrayed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Betrayed and bleak again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll add forlorn into the mix to round out the assortment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay beautifully bleak, my friends. Maybe visit an Applebee's and tip well.</span><br />
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ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-34207758182194438442015-01-12T22:07:00.001-05:002015-01-12T22:07:20.240-05:00Hobbies and hallways.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess it's time to officially bring the Sauce into the year of our Lord Gawd Beyonce two thousand and fitteen. I took a few weeks off for the holidays so naturally I used that time to party and celebrate hahaha just kidding I was sick a lot. It's my New Year's Eve tradition. Auld Lang Synus Problems. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm officially starting my new year <i>this</i> week. I'm embarrassingly late as with most things in my life: five minutes late for dinner, fifteen minutes late for work, forever late for figuring out just what the hell is kombucha. Seriously, what the fuck are y'all doing to beverages?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every New Year's post I've read included the phrase "I don't believe in New Year's resolutions BUT..." which is code for "I'm going on a secret diet of kombucha and warm pickles to make me hate my Christmas self less." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confession: this was probably me at some point but fuck it, I'm actually feeling some resolutions this year. Let's RESOLVE some shit. I want some straight up 1995 Cosmo magazine New Year's resolution making. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call it the Normcore of personal development. A simpler, more basic approach to life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm getting old and don't have time to wait until May like a punk-ass. I'm ready right now I don't care what month it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What am I resolving to do, you ask? I'm cheating because I'm doing things that are in no way quantifiable and therefore I can't fail. It's the resolution loophole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I'm throwing away my eternal (and impressively color-coded) to-do list and living mindfully in the moment: I'm gonna take care of myself like it's my hobby! See? What the fuck does that pretentious bullshit even mean? No one really knows and that's why I can't fail! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've subscribed to the concept of 'the only things certain in life are death and taxes' and everything else I'm doing with the purpose of adding value to my life. Go to work, feed my cat, try not to die today - what else do I have to do? Technically, not a gotdamn thing since all my bills are paid on autodraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In that case, I'm gonna do whatever I feel like doing in the moment that's adds value to my life without guilt - maybe it's properly moisturizing my skin in places that have probably never been properly moisturized before, maybe it's repainting my hallway which I've talked about doing for seven years, maybe it's taking my vitamins semi-regularly, maybe it's drawing cartoons, maybe it's trying to get my splits back, maybe it's binge watching The Vikings for eight hours. Whatever I'm gonna do I'm doing it because I feel like it's what I really need in the moment and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sometimes you need eight uninterrupted hours of bearded Northmen all up in your moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I live a gorgeously privileged life where these things are possible I'm gonna roll with it. I've worked really hard to even be able to HAVE a hallway to paint and I don't even make it pretty. I'm living life wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And guess what? I haven't failed yet! My house is clean enough, I've watched all the tv a girl can dream of, my hallway is already halfway painted AND I've gotten so many more things accomplished without that crutch of a to-do list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, shit has a way of resolving itself when you quit forcing yourself to resolve it. Does that sound ableist? Do you want to punch me? I don't know. But I DO know that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my taint has never been so silky smooth and moisturized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IT HAS BEGUN. My body has been consumed by the spirit of glitter and excess and I am TRANSFORMED. And bloated. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe it's the eggnog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Slim Wreath got moved to above my couch to rain good tidings and small spiders on my head. And yes I keep eleventeen blankets on my couch at all times. This selection inclues one my mom crocheted for me, the plaid is from the 1996 JCP catalog and is totally back in style now and the bottom "fur" one is from the (yes) Dollar General. I meant to use it as a tree skirt but Charlemagne and I rather liked it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also been on the citrus train this holiday season. Making pomanders is a great childhood memory for me which I tried to recreate a few years ago only to realize those cloves are torture devices straight from Krampus himself! BUT I tried to put them into Clementines and sweet citrus savior in he manger it was a dream. Now my house smells divine and I've retained use of my fingers. A win/win!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know what's happening on my coffee table... a win/lose? It's like a plate of old food mixed with shiny things...? I think it's a collection of leftover ornaments that didn't make it on the tree so I just left them there. I shoulda studied more Dutch still life references.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't bought a lot of new decoration items this year but I did find these adorable little porcelain gnomes on <a href="http://instagram.com/saltandginger">Instagram</a> from a great etsy shop called <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/saltandginger">Salt and Ginger</a>. I bought them with the intent to give them as gifts but I don't think I can let them go. I mean, Chattanooga kinda has a gnome theme and also I'm selfish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I did enjoy making this giant yarn pom as a bow! Tutorial <a href="http://www.handimania.com/diy/2-incredible-ways-to-make-yarn-pom-poms.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Joyous Thursday to you all from all of us at the ModSauce Ranch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for reading me this year when I've been all grumpy and unfunny and for all your comments and support. They mean a lot and it just goes to show I have an amazing bunch of readers. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All six of you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know about y'all but I'm thoroughly enjoying my Christmas season so far. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The key was getting all my shopping done sooo early - pretty much right at the start of December AS INDICATED BY MY WINTER BUCKET LIST WAY TO GO, SAUCY! I have zero stress and have spent way less money overall since holiday shopping is usually a "one for you, two for me" event. Now I'm spending that money on charity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know why I'm addicted to socks and legwarmers this season but I am. Maybe have toasty warm lower extremities is the reason I'm so sunshiney right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That and I'm spending all my not-shopping time crafting and listening to Luther Vandross Christmas music. It's a recipe for spiritual success, I tell ya. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My preferred Christmas music is, surprisingly, gospel and Tevin Campbell's 'O Holy Night' is my favorite holiday song hands down. I might be a godless heathen but who can resist a full choir and an early 90's R&B sensation? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But even Luther Vandross' smooth velvet voice may not be enough for some people. Look, I get it. Christmas is not everyone's favorite time of year and it can be a real shit show triggerfest of misery for a lot of people. It's all about family and money and display and religion and religious display and that's everyone's perfect storm of emotional issues with some crippling financial debt sprinkled on top and you have to pretend to love it all or you are labeled a grinch. (Probably by me.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm certainly not immune to my own brand melancholy this time of year either despite my large amounts of glitter and feeling like I want to hug everything. An overly tacky light show or a nice lady in a Santa hat at Big Lots might reduce me to tears and I'm not 100% sure they're always tears of joy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever kind of melancholy or emotional trapeze work we're all doing, it's not all jolly all the time. Maybe this is why I've been enjoying the recent rise in popularity of another sunshiney Christmas face: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus">Krampus</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In old European folklore, St. Nick came and rewarded all the good kids and Krampus, his horned holiday partner, kidnapped all the bad kids took them straight to hell. I guess... I don't know where he took them but that's a pretty good guess. Maybe the South Pole?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't that sounds a lot more exciting than Elf on the Shelf? Europeans did not fuck around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every year in the beginning of December some European towns celebrate Krampusnacht where drunk dudes dress up in their most beastly attire and terrorize the streets in a big parade. Just like baby Jesus would have wanted! Maybe they were trying to get to the manger but got lost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm liking this live action kind of Christmas terror. It's the perfect combination of Halloween and Christmas. It worked for Tim Burton and it can work for us too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of Halloween, I also learned recently of the Christmas spider - do y'all know this Ukrainian story? About how spiders spun webs all over a poor woman's Christmas tree and when Santa (or the Christ child, depending on which version you read) saw the webs he turned them into silver strands. And that's why we put tinsel on our tree. True (internet) story. Spiders are actually a sign of good fortune on Christmas morning so put THAT in your eggnog and drink it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So maybe the key to an enjoyable holiday that doesn't make you question your worthless existence (if you even choose to celebrate) is to not pretend the sadness and dark places and gross spiders don't exist but instead to embrace them like Santa's other half and maybe give them a parade. For historical reasons and our own sanity. Like Civil War reenactors but for mythology. (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably shouldn't embrace a spider though.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's what I'm doing this year - having a dark Christmas. It's still glittery and shiny and fun but I'm making an effort to have more balance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(That's partly because I still have a giant tree all decorated in white and sparkle that I'm not trashing just for a completely goth holiday this year.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Just a goth Rudolph.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm highlighting plenty of skulls and horns and fur as part of my dark decorating but I think including quiet, velvety colors and morose Instagram filters will work just as nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps celebrate your tacky, pathetic tree. Then abandon it in the wild.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or don't decorate at all and stare longingly through your neighbor's window and watch their festivities and happy lives like the neighborhood creeper you are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if all that ain't your bag just enjoy some blackened jewel tones and dulcet sounds of Luther Vandross and drink egg nog spiked with Fireball until you black out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to eat this until I black out as well. I've never cooked with saffron but even if it's terrible a satin ribbon can do wonders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And snuggles next to the lighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am kinda feeling this wintery picnic idea (don't question the green grass). It's like a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+skull+still+life&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=xO-QVLLYCor6UOzzgpAF&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=dutch+still+life&imgdii=_">Dutch still life</a> brought to, um, real life. It's full of dying flowers and skulls and pewter finishes and candles but also a yummy festive feast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[MS sidebar: after I had collected all the images for this post I discovered the photographer above, Lara Jensen, was inspired by '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas">vanitas</a>' or <i>Dutch still life paintings</i> for this collection and photo shoot. Zing! I like synchronicity. It makes me feel like I'm not crazy. Or crazy in the right ways.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't remember art history that well but I think everything in a still life meant something... skull is mortality (thanks overpriced college degree for that stunning deduction!), rotting flowers meant something... timely? Citrus meant something too but I'm choosing to be blissfully ignorant here and celebrate citrus for its seasonal charm instead. #pomanders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know what else has seasonal charm? Crocheted ornaments from your memaw starched so stiff they could be used as ninja throwing stars. I love them. I'm not sure how Krampus feels about them but I think he'd approve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, I'm not sure how I got from Krampus to Luther Vandross to Dutch still life to your memaws talents but it all makes sense in my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More satin bows... For some reason these limp bows are making me exceptionally happy and/or sad this year. Or am I the only one that is <strike>projecting</strike> picking up some emotion here kinda like crying at the nice Christmas lady at Big Lots? It's a weird time of year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of your feelings about satin bows, cheers to making all our lonely, depressed, overtaxed, overfed and undervalued moments have a little color. It's our holiday prayer this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alert the social media, I HAVE CRAFTED! After last week's <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/12/into-woods.html">post on wreaths</a> I kinda committed myself so I couldn't risk the embarrassment of failure. ESPECIALLY around the holidays. Santa would have been so disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately I have a fellow wreath-minded friend - <a href="http://emily---rose.blogspot.com/">Emily Rose</a> - with a great property for foraging so a craft date was set. We both foraged our respective yards and met for toast, christmas music and greenery sharing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well lah di dah I made a circle! I just wrapped floral wire around the ends and called it a day. I did have to gently GENTLY coax/mold the thick part of the branch around to help with the shape just so it wouldn't pull that tightly on the wire. I'm assuming most evergreens would be this easy to use at this time of year. And you may need to take off some of the smaller stems on top to clean it up. Business up top, party on the bottom. Mullet wreath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're looking to make a specific size of wreath my wreath is about 13 inches in diameter so my branch base to tip was somewhere over 40 inches. I don't need anything that specific but if you do then don't forget 2(pi)Radius of desired wreath = length of branch. MATH! so handy for life's more important situations!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you didn't know, critters live in branches. Every year when I decorate my mantel with cypress I always make a few new friends in the form of some teensy tiny spiders so you're forewarned. Sometimes they're the tiny white/clear spiders which I think are kinda cute. Your call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stole one of Emily's wire wreath forms - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/FloraCraft%C2%AE-SimpleStyle-Wreath-Green-Gauge/dp/B00BTDBLE6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418265156&sr=8-1&keywords=wreath+form">super cheap and reusable</a> - you can see above and decided to do a fluffier option using more of the cypress base. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used about three long branches which were really easy to wire into the form. I added some more nandina, some holly, a bit of cedar and pine and a few sprigs of dried crape myrtle buds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok it was actually a more round shape to start with but I when I closed the front door after hanging it the plastic hook broke and it tumbled to the ground... Whoopsy. Fortunately I think if I give it a haircut on the right side it'll be fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also added these post-Christmas 2013 clearance sale antlers for even more hipster credibility. I feel so 2013 relevant! I think I also might add in some fresh rosemary the next time I'm outside in the daylight. Perhaps even an LED faux candle?! I'm gettin' outrageous over here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one is about 36 inches wide and I don't think it took her more than an hour just tucking branches into the grapevine. Super easy. Again, I bet once you've figured out your system the wreaths will go pretty fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So even including the extra wonk on these wreaths and the cuticle stabs from the holly overall I was super stoked about the project. I would absolutely make them again next year and maybe even do more this year. I can't stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, it's essentially free, smells good and it's quite possibly the most Christmasy thing you can do other than prove to Santa in sensual detail how naughty you've been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the shower bruises are fading, the drunk peaches are gone and I finally froze the rest of the Thanksgiving leftovers </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so I guess we're fully committed to the celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Capitalism, right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just kidding I fucking love Christmas and already have all my presents bought! Sadly my tree and house aren't even decorated yet because I've been busy this week prepping for a presentation tomorrow. I'm going to teach a group of local 6th grade girls about design principles! First I had to teach myself what the principles of design are so this should go great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I've learned those young, impressionable minds I can get back to the true reason of the season: CRAFTING! I'm already knocking out my <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/11/squirrels-scarves-and-squandered-time.html">winter bucket list</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My major crafting goal this holiday season is to make a wreath. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like this future selfie I took of my beautiful future self and gorgeous wreath I future made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or maybe a swag if I realize I suck at making circles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I'm going to aim high first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or aim for SLEEPING DEER AND MUSHROOMS SO ADORABLE. I feel like I would err on the side of zombie Santa Claus over deer but we're just gathering ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is cute and simple - I think I could fake boxwood for privet? I have lots of those. I don't have a cute black door but I'm working on it for Spring. Christmas 2015 here we come!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I think I want to go even more natural and foraged straight from the best craft store: the forest. That way if it looks like shit I'll just say it was on purpose because I'm going for that hipster vibe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This looks super cute and relatively easy. But why do I feel I'll be crying and trying to make a noose out of floral wire soon? </span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This looks like sage and lavender and leather which is amazing and the new name of my desert perfume store and saddlery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also like this look of just throwing together a wreath in an abandoned warehouse. There's probably a used syringe just waiting for you in there. Merry Christmas you have a dangerous bloodborne pathogen but isn't the bow nice?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I most definitely do not have the skills for these but I bet one of you do and you should do it and show me how.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I want to do something like this - it's wonky and random and looks like it came through the washing machine already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put a limp bow on anything and it's immediately hip. Wire edge ribbon is so fifteen years ago. You know who likes wire ribbon? The same people who keep doing these live action musicals on NBC I mean damn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So limp, wonky and foraged is definitely the hot way to go. In wreaths and in personalities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to a friend's foresty property this weekend to gather all the limpest and hippest greenery I can find and tame into a round shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if it fails I can always just tie some rosemary together and call it a day.</span><br />
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ModernSaucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08993930835985764220noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188195156470808711.post-91435608849659586352014-11-25T21:45:00.002-05:002014-11-25T21:45:34.983-05:00This makes me exceedingly happy.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As promised, I'm giving us an image dump of Outlander knits after yesterday's <a href="http://modernsauce.blogspot.com/2014/11/squirrels-scarves-and-squandered-time.html">bucket list</a>. I feel warmer just compiling these images. And I hope y'all have seen the show because it's rull good and I've been waiting about 20 years for it. That is not an exaggeration I started reading these books in the 90s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unexpected star of the show is of course the </span><strike style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sex</strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> knitwear. Now, I don't foresee me learning to crochet or knit this winter - it's a bucket list not a fantasy list - but I DO foresee me wearing lots of infinity scarves JUST like 18th century Scots did in a totes historically accurate fashion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, did they even have infinity scarves? I don't really know or care.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, damn. And WITH wrist warmers? It's too much. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrist warmers and a cape must only be worn astride a horse. It's Scottish law. Or Anthropologie's new catalog. Either way they can have all my money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you thought you were over the plaid this year... tsk, tsk... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I strongly recommend fellow enthusiasts check out the <a href="http://www.terrydresbach.com/">blog of the costume designer</a>, Terry Dresbach, for behind-the-scenes info and process details. The <a href="http://www.terrydresbach.com/forums/view/popular/">accompanying forums</a> are really good for more in depth information and fun discussions on things like feminism in the series and how the show got started (Terry is wife to Ron Moore - the show's producer of Battlestar Galactica fame).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But back to important things: LAYERING AND KNITWEAR.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel like this actress, Caitriona Balfe, is actually an elegant swan wearing delicate doll sweaters around her dainty avian wrists. Somehow I get the feeling I'd look like a fat quail in sweatbands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe THAT'S my winter look. Quail normcore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadly google did not have a corresponding picture to put with this b</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ut I did find a sassy shrug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UNTIL YOU SEE MY QUAIL NORMCORE OUTFIT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally I'm not the only one who went gaga over the clothes and knits because a quick search will pop up tons of articles which is the reason why this became its own post. I couldn't stop! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the real winner here is etsy where you can get patterns to do yourself or take the lazy way out like a normal person and buy other people's hard work. Find the chunky cowl/infinity scarf <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/206029137/ready-to-ship-hand-knit-outlander?ref=sr_gallery_6&ga_search_query=outlander+knit&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery">here</a>, the arm warmers <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/211274673/outlander-cabled-wristers?ref=sr_gallery_16&ga_search_query=outlander+arm+warmer&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery">here</a>, the cute collared capelet <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/210808534/outlander-inspired-capelet-hand-knit?ref=sr_gallery_11&ga_search_query=outlander+knit&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery">here</a>, the shrug <a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/209530165/outlander-inspired-claires-brown-shrug?ref=sr_gallery_10&ga_search_query=outlander+knit&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery">here</a> and a million other variations and sellers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or you could always update it a little like this jazzy lady:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Vogue Sept 2014 <a href="http://duchessdior.tumblr.com/post/96484630174/vogue-paris-september-2014">here</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the Outlander-meets-Studio 54 vibe. Let's all take a moment and imagine Fat Quail in Sad Disco for a second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So glorious...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if knitwear isn't enough to make you happy there's always this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I'm feeling chilled can I borrow your infinity scarf?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Damn girl your woolen shrug got me jacked let's do this."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Show returns in April. How many <strike>orgasms</strike> knits can you fill your life with between now and then?</span></div>
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