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Cats! On scanners!: The Cat Scan
Tomatoes, corn, and zucchini:

21 great recipes for tomatoes
8 corn & tomato recipes
Zucchini, banana and flax seed muffins
Stuffed zucchini blossoms
Zucchini, tomato and ricotta tarts
Crispy baked zucchini fries

Etsy finds of the week:

Wicked witch bookmark
Yaaay felt pennant

Handy: The Environmental Working Group’s shopper’s guide to pesticide in produce, a list of the fruits and vegetables with the most and least pesticide residue.
Failed joke of the week: The Dali Lama walks into a pizza shop…
An oldie but a goodie: The Queen Is Dead turns 25
Etsy find of the week: Pearl person brooch
Healthy snack: [...]

How to: Tie a scarf into a fancy headband.
Etsy find of the week: Bird on a Wire Resin Cuff.
Convenient: Whimventory is to wish lists what Delicious is to bookmarks.
Healthy snack: No-bake peanut butter and oat energy bites.
Practical and cute: Sticky notes with glasses (as in spectacles) on them.

You know those girls with perfect poreless-looking skin? Yeah. I’m not one of them. I’ve tried several different primers over the years but wasn’t ever impressed with any of them. I’d given up on them until I was cornered by a friendly, if overzealous, Benefit makeup artist in Chicago, who redid pretty much all my [...]

If you’re going to buy a tote bag for someone this holiday season, it should be this one.

I’m terrible with math so it’s no surprise I completely miscalculated when we’ll be getting our kitten. I was thinking it would be late September/early October but no, it’s late August. Oops. I’m going to have to kitten-proof our apartment sooner than I thought. But still: yay! I’ve already started bookmarking reasonably priced non-hideous cat [...]

I lug a lot of stuff around with me most of the time. My phone, keys, lunch, gym clothes, wallet, camera, a small cosmetics bag, sunglasses and/or an umbrella, three different shades of red lipstick, hand sanitizer, hand cream, a lens cleaning cloth, kleenex, some band-aids, a pen and notebook, mints, a brush, etc. Oh, [...]