One Cool Thing - 12/26/08

Can you guess what these adorable "toadstool" appetizers are made from?

Via Hostess with the Mostess...

Merry Christmas!

More Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel loves Alaska -- and once again they've been filming all over the state for the popular "Alaska Week" which will run in the spring.

I blogged about DC's visit to my workplace this fall, but here's some more gossip about a not-so-reality show to be part of "Alaska Week."

Fallin' thru the ice

Oh my...that'll teach 'em to drive on the "unofficial" ice road!

This is the best part of the article:

"The ice road is not a road in the eyes of the Department of Transportation.

'It’s not a DOT responsibility,' Howard Thies, maintenance and operations director for the northern region of DOT, said when contacted Monday. 'We are the Department of Highways, Aviation and Public Facilities; there’s no rivers in there. It’s not our problem.' "

Take THAT, stupid reporter!

Unhappy holidays

I am so SO glad that we decided to stay home for the holidays. As much as I would have loved to see my family at Christmas, this and this is why I don't fly in late December anymore. There are a limited amount of flights out of Alaska and at any busy time of year (holidays, summer, etc.) it's a crap shoot whether the flight will be late and/or cancelled, or if you'll get a flight at all.

I feel sorry for all those people in Seattle and Portland but I've been there too -- running to customer service to get re-booked with the other 200 people from my flight or frantically dialing the 800 number and praying to get a real live person. But as far as airports go, the SeaTac is a pretty nice one to be stranded in. Lots of good food and shopping...

3 Cool Things - 12/22/08

Egg Pants -- ever see super cute things that have absolutely no use in your household but you WANT IT EVER SO MUCH? This is my current dilemna with the Egg Pants by Lizkin Design. I do not eat soft-boiled eggs but who knows, maybe I would if I had the proper pants for them. God forbid that eggs go around naked!

---

Routan Baby Maker -- um, just check it out. You'll either think it's really awesome or extremely creepy. I will not subject you to the "baby" I made using my and D's photos.

---

Elf Yourself -- it's baaaaaack!

Fleece scarf DIY

An easy but ever so cute fleece scarf project that will take you all of like 15 minutes to do.

From Curbly:

No cool things

Work and life are keeping me too busy - so no cool things this week. And for the first time in a while I got hit with a migraine, so Tuesday was a pretty bad day. I did have a little time to knit this wool hat -- I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It's my first time adding a contrasting color.

More fun scenery

Gift tags

Cute tags from Martha Stewart, via How About Orange:

Fishy gifts

A few times a year I give little handmade gifts to my coworkers. This holiday season everyone is getting fish-shaped soap that I made, along with some cute tags that I designed to go along with the general fish theme. I think you can click on the photos to see them larger...

More cold weather

Still clear, still cold and still amazingly gorgeous outside. This photo is from our bedroom window yesterday around 3:15 pm. I was sick and got to see the sunset from home.


On my way to work:


5 degrees today...better than below zero:

Clear and cold

We had lovely clear weather this past weekend, with beautiful blue skies and vivid pink sunrises. But clear skies mean lower temperatures and the hoar frost made a comeback, big time! I'm not sure I have ever seen it this thick before...

Pet Photography

Cool Pet's Eye View Digital Camera, which attaches to a collar and takes photos of your pet's activities throughout the day. It would be interesting to see what the pets do while home alone -- but I suspect that Drift's photos would just be of the door to the pantry where we keep his food or the carpet, because he sleeps all day. The cats are probably all over the place.

So the camera reminded me of this cool guy who made his OWN camera - before it was all trendy for pets to be photojournalists - and attached it to Mr. Lee, his roaming cat.

I like my cards sassy

From Offensive + Delightful: