Chicago Botanical Gardens

Really beautiful, pretty large, and it's not too hard to sneak in booze. It's also free to get in, if you can avoid the $20 parking fee.

Ye Olde Renaissance Faire

The Bristol Renaissance Faire in Bristol, WI is faaaannntastic! I want to run away and live there. The buildings are all permanent so it's really realistic, and there are all sorts of people that work there and don't work there that dress up and "huzzah!" and just have a really great time being themselves in codpieces. I couldn't get enough of the babykids dressed in Renaissance gear-having the time of their lives or permanently scarred?

Beep bop boop beep...I like You.

Creepy Bunny Birthday

Puppets like to wear Threadless tees too!

Pallets!!

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
-Roald Dahl

Now I know how it feels.

Memphis you sly devil

Not quite as fabulous and sparkly as Nashville, but I loved the streetcars, barbecue, history and of course GRACELAND!!

Color, color, everywhere and a helluva lot to drink

Nashville, you are fabulous, and I can't wait until we meet again.

I have seen my future, and it looks stripy!

via Hither and Thither

Getting through the long stretches of anguish...

"just want to say to everyone like me who chose slightly more complicated paths, the roads less traveled, the ones with lots of roadblocks and long stretches of anguish, I just want to say that the most important thing is to always be moving toward your desire. Just do the things that make you smile and you’ll always end up somewhere. Even if that place is not anywhere you’d imagined you’d be at the start."-Garance Dore

For Will

The pupper whisperer becomes a puppet.

My favorite jelly is grape.

Tulip Tree

Vaudevillian

Easy, Peasy, lemon-squeezy.

Frequency of foot races has risen 4.25%.

Happy Friday!

It doesn't get much better than receiving a new stripy shirt in the mail on a Friday, thanks mom!

Vinyl from Magic Hat

So tasty and such pretty labels!