Ten Things I Love Sunday: St. Louis Edition

The LED-lit rainbow staircase at the Moonrise Hotel:



The hippo-viewing tank at the St. Louis Zoo:





The space shuttle toilet at the St. Louis Science Center:



And, of course, the space ice cream in the gift shop:



The collection of corndog-themed art at the City Museum:








The mozzarella sticks at Blueberry Hill:




And their game-board tables for playing Scrabble as you enjoy your mozzarella sticks:



The St. Louis Walk of Fame:



Pin-Up Bowl:



The Pizza at Pi:

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St. Louis, where Dan and I will be most of next week celebrating our anniversary:



Deal-a-Day Scrapbook Product Sites:






Bookmarks that hold your place and not just your page:

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Googly eyes on EVERYTHING



Colorful cookies that look like scrapbook embellishments:



Geek Soap:




Families of chickens crafted from hard-boiled eggs:



Chrysler Building spaghetti (for Katie):



Jewelry that will make your friends want to amputate your body parts:



This Photo:

Fun with Plagiarism

I saw these cards on a scrapbook blog this morning, and inspiration hit. See the layered flower embellishments in the middle of the card on the left? And the adorable doodled border on the bottom one?



I shamelessly stole them to make Dan this card for our one-year wedding anniversary:




A little layering, a little stamping, some rub-on letters, and a doodle. I'm so thankful for plagiarism! (Or, "scraplifting", for those who follow papercrafting culture.)

Product Crush: The Xyron Creatopia

One of the things I miss the most about working at a scrapbook store is not finding out about great new products ahead of time. But now that I'm getting back into scrappin', I'm starting to catch up again on what's going on in the industry, and I've started drooling over all sorts of stuff I should NOT be buying. My scrapbook product crush of the week? The Xyron Creatopia. It's apparently been out for months, but like I said, I'm a little behind. This thing looks crazy amazing. Time to start saving my pennies!

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(Mostly links instead of pictures today in the interest of time. This paper I'm writing for tomorrow is slowly sucking my will to live.)

Pi Day (But not Daylight Savings Time)

The Nephew, who turns one today, and whose parents have no idea I'm posting pictures of him on the Internet:



Just Between You And Me: objects of co-dependency by Keetra Dean Dixon

The Paperclipping Roundtable Podcast for Scrapbookers

Slideshows of Cupcakes (shared by Dan in Google Reader)

Design Your Own Chiquita Banana Sticker

Fuck Yeah Venn Diagrams

The Bacon Cheese Turtle (shared by Erin in Google Reader) - Great for Low-Carb Dieters! Terrible for pretty much everyone else.

"Splashy Kitchen Backsplashes" at Apartment Therapy

Super Mario Bros. + Queen (watching in full-screen recommended):

Gingerbread Ground Zero

You saw the gingerbread house Katie and I made this past Christmas.

What you (and Katie) didn't see was the devastation left after I tore the rest of the thing apart in order to store its pieces in a giant zip-lock bag.

Fish (and) Food

I really hate seafood, but I really love the idea of cutting into a hunk of blackened steak with some fish cutlery:



On the whole, Tracey and I both love good flatware design. In college, we separately picked out the same set from Bed, Bath, and Beyond without knowing the other one liked it. She was the only one of the two of us to ever actually buy the set, and as soon as I can get her to leave it to me in her will, I'm going to have her killed.

Other awesome cutlery designs can be seen here.

Monday Night Cat Blogging

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Oscar Nite!



Hamburger Cupcakes:



Clocks made of junk mail:



Classic Sesame Street's Geometry of Circles:



Teeny tiny macaroons:



Literal videos:




Stolen six-packs:



Specialty flash drives:




Snarky protesters:



And tables for two for when there's nowhere to sit:

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Ack! No posts since February? I suppose I should have said something about how these last couple of weeks before finals might keep me from blogging.

To tide you over until I regain my life, check out Katie's post on the gingerbread house we "made" on Christmas Day, and buy yourself some jewelry made from recycled gun parts.

Wish me luck with paper-writing and exam-grading!