I heart books and stationery

I splurged a little this evening and ordered a few books from Better World Books.

I got:

• The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One


• Round Ireland with a Fridge


• Wishcraft : How to Get What You Really Want


• Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.


• Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

I know, a bit of an odd choice of books but stuff I'm all really interested in. I've read Round Ireland with a Fridge before and it's hilarious. The author of Time Was Soft There also has another book I want to read but it's not in stock at the moment! Those 5 books cost me $66 including shipping from the US. Not bad!! Can't wait til they arrive.

I've always had a bit of a thing for stationery, much like many other people I guess. This website Notemaker is an Aussie website devoted to all things stationery. It has Moleskine books, organisers, leather bound books, calenders, stickers, diaries and lots of other cool stuff.

Some of the cool things on the site that I quite like are the Patterned Sticky Tape, cool Disposable Paper Placemats, Message in a Bottle and the Behance Action Book.

I am not dead

Yeah so it's been a while since I've blogged. Over a year actually. But thats ok, the blog is still here, patiently waiting for me to update it and make it pretty :)

I've decided to add a few links to things/sites I recently found, because we all like new stuff!

• Squidoo A very interesting site. It's similar to blogging but people generally focus on one topic and provide lots of interesting info, pictures, links etc. Something I might try to do one day. An example of a cool Squidoo page is The Last Drop about a pub in Edinburgh. If you're interested in making a Squidoo Lens but not sure how this blog might help.
• Barbara Sher - An author, whose book Refuse to Choose, totally inspires me. It's all about Scanners and how they have many varied interests, which is not normal according to the majority of the world. I love this book :)
• Hey Monkey Brain - Where smart people go to argue
• Better World Books - Similar to Amazon but the international shipping is incredibly cheap -$3.95 US per book. And they help ofset carbon emissions and a do a whole lot to help promote literacy around the world.
• Half Baked - For all your half baked ideas :) A very interesting site, worth a bit of a poke around.
• I can has Cheezburger - Funny, hilarious, cute, smart. Go there if you need a giggle

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I'm currently starting a bit of a Pre-French Revolution/Marie Antoinette phase. I have a whole list of books I want to check out from the library this weekend. And this time I might actually do something with all the info I learn....like make a Squidoo page!

Over and out :)