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We remember, one holiday season when we were about 9 years old, we got the awesomest Ninja Turtle action figure from our grandmother. It wasn’t so much awesome because our granmother had finally found an appropriate, non-knitted gift – in truth, the Leonardo with super chopping action figure was our request, made to our father [...]

A few days back we informed you, dear readers, of some of the best briefcases to sport in these times of increased workplace mobility. Unfortunately, after sporting our much-adored bacon briefcase for a few days we noticed that people were rather taken aback by the strict business look of our bag.
Then it hit us, like [...]

Those all-seeing pop culture humorists over at NextRound.net draw our attention to an underused accessory in the canon of screen fashion: the eye patch. Though their listicle includes some vital entries (Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain, Kurt Russell in Escape From New York, Rob Lowe in Austin Powers 2, among others), some golden celebrity eye [...]

Sometime before scrapbooking hit it big, crocheting was the folsky art project of choice for thousands of Americans. The crochet community relies on authorities like Crochet Magazine and the blog Crochet Me (tagline: “Fueling the crochet revolution”) for the hottest yarns, patterns and rising stars. Many prolific needle jockeys don’t stop at winter [...]