"do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

-- theodore roosevelt 

The Do -On My Shoulders

Love Love Love this song by the duo The Do



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Maibäume

It is a tradition here in this part of Germany (Bonn in NRW) that on the night of the last day of April, young men take decorated "Maibäume" (small Birch trees) and put them in front of the houses of their sweethearts. Some attach a red heart with the name of the girl written on it to the tree. Yesterday evening I saw a few of these 'young men' carrying the trees with the help of a friend and today I saw quite a few of the decorated trees with hearts in front of houses.

Isn't that just the sweetest thing?!
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Barbie and Ken

Nicole Houff takes photos of barbie with a lot of whimsy and a little sarcasm.
You can buy prints from her Etsy shop...

Picnic Barbie

Sweet Roses

Cowboy Ken

Late Night Barbie

For Late Night Barbie she asks "Barbie, Ken, and Allan hit the town. But who's going home with who?"
Hmmm!
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Song of the Moment -Gossling "I Was Young"

I first heard Gossling when she featured in the rapper 360's song "Boys like you".
She has such a unique voice, pretty and almost childish. Now I've heard some of her own stuff and its great.
This film clip is great too, such a cute idea.
See what you think...

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Cheap Labour

I think this outline by Vivienne Westwood sums things up really well. Our world for a long time now has been run around cheap labour and exploitation to exhaustion of natural resources. This cannot go on forever simply because our natural resources are finite. A different value system were a person is not judged so much on what they have but on what they have done would help solve this huge problem. However as Bill Bryson points out in his book At Home, there are very few times in the history of humanity where price (low prices) hasn't won out. I am very afraid this is going to be one of these times again. So it is nice to see a plan to stop this. Even a short scribbled one.

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Frohe Ostern!!

Happy Easter!

Some of my attempts at dyeing hardboiled eggs. Yellow and purple cold dye from the supermarket and red wine splattered with a paint brush. The red wine dries and darkens in a beautiful way.

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