Mom 2.0 and Roberto

I may be mom 2.0, starting a Facebook fan page for Lucy, but I do monitor her blog and email accounts (she's only 9!). Today, imagine my delight to find that Lucy had a marriage proposal waiting for her in her spam box, from Roberto. Marrying her off now would save so many headaches later! And Roberto has a way with words:

Reply back if interested in my proposal
of a marital life abroad with me in Paris,
in your actual life, only

Roberto (France)

I have no idea how Roberto came to be emailing Lucy - but you should check out his blog (especially all you single ladies) - it's kind of amazing. Here is one of my favorite parts:

If you're really ready to live your life
with me, i should advise you to take a stagecoach
in direction to Paris, in the case you live in the same
continent, cause planes are expensive.

(what? a stagecoach?)

Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom to see Roberto's pictures -- you won't be sorry. But be forewarned:

Replies started with infantile negativism &
inconsistent clownish mockery will be zapped
& automatically filtered as well (this is a warning
for immature & aimless time killers).

look at these pretty pictures

The intersection of the art and science of everyday objects. Beautiful.

more lovely

It is not every day that the author of one of your favorite books offers to call you and sing you a lullaby...but if they do, you should take them up on it. Here's the story. On Wednesday, Amy Krouse Rosenthal (see my related posts here and here) used her Facebook status to offer up a lullaby-by-phone. We messaged back and forth, I gave her my number, and last night at around 10:45 she called me. We chit-chatted briefly, and then she offered me a choice of 2 songs -- "Love is a Song that You Sing in Your Heart" or "Shalom." I chose the former, and settled back for the lullaby (feeling only slightly awkward -- I did offer Amy the chance NOT to sing, but she insisted that a promise is a promise). So Amy sang. And lovely was beckoned.....

please visit...

...Lucy's new blog (so far, it's a little less racy than the old one).

i want to make these

from photojojo, by way of designsponge. isn't this a clever way to display photos? (and by the way, my photo jars might have as many gays in them as the photo jars in this picture....)

creative envy

This is exactly the kind of project that gives me creative envy....quirky, mixed-media, used to tell a compelling story. While I do have a creative side (and a craft table!), I definitely don't consider myself to be artistic in a paint-y or draw-y way, and my overly active left-brain (and my half-assed-ness) often gets in my way.