Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Chipster Update

Things that have been happening in Chipster world lately.

Reading: Being on Goodreads turns reading into a sort of competitive social activity. However, I may be the only one amongst my friends actually playing... I'm ashamed to say so, but I think I always read books with other people in mind - my friends, random people on public transport etc.

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I have lovely friends who buy me things.

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These raccoon earrings from my friend Kaari. She was worried that they might not be my style! Laughable, because they are perfect.
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Dr Who necklace from my cousin Miranda! With little Weeping Angels, the scariest of the Dr Who villains. I love wearing my geekiness around my neck.

And of course, the camera with which these pictures were taken, from the lovely Brigitta who has just left me for Satan's suburbia, i.e. Canberra =(
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I bought a liquid chalk pen from Smiggle! It makes every surface a chalkboard surface, it's so much fun.
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I cleaned my room, and now there are a bunch of cute little vignettes around my room.
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Chalk-decorated jars. I have a lot of jars and not much to put in them. I stuck a polar bear on one of them, I like bears.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS

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There's something wonderfully nostalgic about vintage Christmas advertisements. Especially Coke ads, which some might argue defined our modern visualisation of Christmas - the jolly Santa Claus, the red and white, the perfect little nuclear family. I know that there are people who absolutely hate the holiday season - particularly the commercialism, but that's my favourite part! I love Christmas shopping and the decorating and food. I love walking into a mall in early November and seeing all the Christmas lights up already.
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This book, Family Gathering, is one of my favourite Christmas reads. It was some random book I picked up at a Library sale years and years ago, but it never fails to cheer me up with sweet little short stories and poems.
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And Rookie has an awesome little playlist of Christmas tunes that I am a little bit in love with.
< http://rookiemag.com/2011/12/holiday-playlist/ >



They left out one of my faves though, minus the date rape allusions (okay fine, I find that part a little bit entertaining).