"Junction box made up like a trippy doll's house on Whitecross Street, EC1 pic.twitter.com/dLjeAORR3U" Let everyone adopt+paint a junction box?— Polly Toynbee (@pollytoynbee) May 30, 2015 This would be a legitimately cool dollhouse, btw. If Barry McGee or some...
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May 2015 Archives
May 30, 2015
Dollhouse Painted To Look Like London Junction Box Painted To Look Like Dollhouse
May 26, 2015
ADO Dollhouse Furniture By Ko Verzuu
We need this right now. This ADO dollhouse sitting room set was designed by Ko Verzuu sometime around 1926-32. I saw it on aapc, but now it's gone. I'm leaving this photo and a link to an old Gemeentemuseum...
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Hot Topic Buying ThinkGeek
How was your weekend? Mine was OK! I was going to start blogging again, and then I saw that ThinkGeek is being acquired by Hot Topic for $122 million, and now I have to go re-evaluate all my previous ThinkGeek-...
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May 20, 2015
OG San DIego Volvo Wagon Has Giant Sunflower, No Reserve
If only the giant handpainted sunflower were on the other side, this 1986 Volvo 240 DL Wagon would be the perfect carpool dropoffmobile. But since our car has been sideswiped twice in the last four months in that exact...
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Bring Your Daughter To Work Night
A picture truly is worth a thousand words pic.twitter.com/6tVYoWG85I— Golden St. Warriors (@warriors) May 20, 2015 Golden State Warrior/MVP Steph Curry brought his daughter to the post-playoff game press conference last night, We finally found Steph Curry's flaw: parenting. Did...
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May 18, 2015
Zombie FAO Schwarz To Shamble From Fifth Avenue To Times Square
FAO Schwarz, the toy brand that wouldn't die, will close its Fifth Avenue store this summer, and it's not coming back. Tourist mobs should be able to find it again next year somewhere near Times Square, possibly in a vast...
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May 15, 2015
Sing, Son.
joy. father. pic.twitter.com/OYTPL1YEjx— deray mckesson (@deray) May 8, 2015 That's Cleveland dad Dave Love singing to his son. [@DaveLoveUCD via @deray]...
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I See Dad People
The New Yorker reports from the playground:SARA: Hey, look who just walked in. ANNA: Where? SARA: Over there, by Nanny Alley. ANNA: Oh boy. SARA: Stay-at-home Hottie McBjörn. ANNA: Daddy's home. SARA: Daddy's home, all right.Playground Purgatory [newyorker]...
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May 13, 2015
Curling Parents
In Denmark, "helicopter parents" are called "curling parents", which I think is a) a better expression b) hilarious. — Malthe Sigurdsson (@malthe) May 10, 2015 The tricky part is that curling parents often wear the same outfits as their...
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May 12, 2015
Do You Need To Go, Poo? T-Shirt
Malarko Editions has made these three-color screen printed kids t-shirts with a walking poo on them in "super limited edition." Because if there's one thing you don't want to see walking toward you on the street, it's a poo....
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What To Expect When You're Not Expecting
Dad, Chloe, happy flight attendant, via globalnews.ca There's too much to love about the story of the kid born on the Air Canada flight from Calgary to Tokyo to be upset about it for long. Let's start with the...
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May 11, 2015
Elon Musk Wants You To Birth HIS Baby, Dammit
A quote from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,:"That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either...
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May 10, 2015
Build Any Mobile Lactation Suite And The World Better Beat A Path To Your Door
The idea for Mamava portable breastpumping cabins came from a 2006 New York Times story about how hard it is for non-white-collar moms to find time to pump breast milk at work.Years of design, testing, and bootstrapping startup ups...
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May 7, 2015
Area Bae Gets Area Kid To Paint Hermes Bag For Area Mom
I don't know exactly how the forces operating in my life conspired to keep me unaware of this situation that went down last fall. But they did. And now I must inform you that you only have 2.5 days...
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May 5, 2015
Because I Could Not Search Blogs For Death
Writer Gabriel Roth was reading Alfie books to his 3yo daughter when he got sandbagged by Death, which made a surprise appearance in the story:Children have to find out about death at some point. It's a cognitive milestone, like...
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May 3, 2015
Grinning Soldier Manages Not To Shoot Adorable Baltimore Child
One of Amanda Moore's photos of National Guard troops in the Penn North neighborhood of Baltimore went viral Friday. It shows a soldier leaning against a wall of fresh riot shields, smiling as a toddler kneels down to play...
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May 2, 2015
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance
Here is a mom who's trying to run away from brands, but I think she's really trying to run away from herself:I couldn't resist buying her a cheap nylon set of Wonder Woman PJs, cape and all. Then I bought...
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