Darren Rowse

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Ed Bassmaster

Ed Bassmaster

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Mama's Got Cool Hippie Threads

Even though I'm still not a 'real' hippie and I never will be, for various reasons - now I'm closer to the genu-ine article! LOL! I've finally made a purchase at my very most favorite online clothing shop! I bought a skirt from Soul-Flower.com!

I absolutely love it! I really wanted to buy a tshirt and a purse and a backpack and some stickers and a tapestry, too. But hey, I'm not made of money! I've definitely got the other items in my wish list. And you wouldn't even guess what! They've added two new skirts just since I bought this one that I really, really like! Well, one of them is knee length, though. And I don't think I'm ready for a knee-length skirt. You never know, in a few months I might be.

I've hit another plateau in my weight-loss journey, but, I've hit several through the course of the year, so I'm not letting it freak me out. I know that, eventually, I will get past it.


One of the main reasons I hadn't bought anything from Soul-Flower yet was that I didn't fit into any of their cool hippie threads.

Well, when I very first found them, they did have a plus-size section. It didn't have a whole lot in it, but, at the time I didn't have the money to spend. Then when I did have some extra dough, they had taken that section away. I guess they just didn't get enough business to keep it up. Which is funny, because, there are so many 'fat hippie' jokes. Or 'fat vegetarian' jokes. Hmm...

Oh well, now I not only fit in their clothes (YEA!!!) but, my awesome new patchwork skirt is actually way too big for me. Too funny! So if the next size down fits me, according to them I'm already a 12-14 - I like the sound of that!

Women's clothing is so funny that way, though - I am a whole size different between Lee's and Levi's right now. And let's just say that Lee's are my favorite jeans right now! So there - Levi's are in the doghouse - LOL!

Ok, I need to stop blabbing and let you see the durn video already, but, in the video I promised to tell you the name of the skirt - it is the Cali Q Patch Cargo Skirt.

P.S. And a little birdy told me that they're working on the new Soul-Flower catalog, too! I can't wait to see it!

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Tilt Shift Maker

I stumbled across this really cool thing today and I don't want to lose track of it so I'm posting it here:



It's called Tilt Shift Maker and it makes tilt shift photography out of your submitted photos, which is super great, because, apparently - doing it yourself is hard to understand - and even harder to do!

And dude. Does their logo match my site but great, or what??

Here's a great example of a tilt shift photo:

Image by t.shigesa via Flickr

I wanted to post about this after I'd done one of my own photos in their software, but, I was picking the wrong kind of photos and it wasn't working very well. So I'm going to keep playing with it, because, I think it's really cool. It would be awesome if I could find a great picture of our high school marching band to tilt shift!

Oh! The site on which I learned about this had a tilt shift VIDEO of a monster truck rally - it was really cool! If I run across it again, I'll definitely post it. (You know how it is when you wander around on the web, from here to there to there....)

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Peace and Love ROCKS!

Check out this awesome video that my mom sent me via email this morning. It totally ROCKS!!

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