The Internet: 10 percent information, 10 percent shopping. Eighty percent cat videos. We’re pretty certain that’s the precise breakdown. Someone’s probably done a study to confirm this, but we’re too busy watching Maru, Keyboard Cat and Grumpy Cat right now to find it. So you’ll just have to trust us. (Or try Googling “cat videos,” […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All doile’d up at Past 2 Present shop in Auburn
It was no ordinary cowbell. For starters, there was fringe. Plus an embellished farmer and cow. And a thick strap (for very aggressive shaking, I presume.) Turned out it was my first Scandinavian cowbell. Had you pressed Bag Lady just the day before on where to find doilies for a dollar, field-worn sickles, a Scandinavian […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Duct tape. Snakes. Expired underwear. Proceed with caution.
This week Bag Lady organized two kitchen cabinets and bought four new stove-top drip pans. As a result, I’m feeling like a complete domestic goddess. These were not just any kitchen cabinets; they were those kitchen cabinets, the ones with so much tumbling, jumbled nonsense that they had been rendered near-unusable. A sampling of what […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Antique this
Life lesson no. 37: At some point your childhood playthings become antiques. And it will happen sooner than you think. Well, you know, not ours. No way. For example, we definitely did not just stumble upon our favorite curly-haired plastic-and-fabric dolls at the new Grannie Mae Antiques & Fine Home Furnishings in Lewiston. Nope. We’re […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: All your shark-shopping needs, and theme music too
They cavort and canoodle and subsist on marshmallows and brie. And somewhere a literary agent has written in red ink and capital letters across the first page: “NEEDS MORE SHARK.” And that is pretty much how we feel about a lot of things. There’s been no better time to be on the shark bandwagon. We […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: And the bride wore bacon
Bacon theme wedding. Bag Lady devoured the story in the Huffington Post last month of a couple who won a contest for a bacon theme wedding at the San Diego County Fair. There was a bacon bouquet, a bacon boutonniere, a bacon-print aisle runner — the works. So much fun and so easy to replicate. Back […]