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RACHEL SLEETER

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Things and Stuff #13

This week’s theme is: Pets!!!!!!!!!!!

How is this real? Of course these people found the most adorable raccoon and rescued it and named it Pumpkin. And, instead of giving the whole family rabies, it’s doing sickeningly cute raccoon things and hanging out with it’s dog friends (also rescues) and Tweeting and Instagramming it’s days away. Of. Course. Why hasn’t Disney made this a movie yet?

(Images © @pumpkintheraccoon)

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Nothing I can say about Jess Rona Grooming will do her Instagram feed justice. Just go and watch. This one kills me.

A video posted by JessRonaGrooming (@jessronagrooming) on Jun 18, 2016 at 10:08am PDT

(Images © @jessronagrooming)

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One of the best things about big cities is hundreds of tiny little shops that crammed into corners of every street, usually run by a Bodega Cat or two.

Cats just know how to do life…relaxing, demanding, and never giving a second thought to anyone else’s needs or wants. Actually, they might be furry little jerks, but that’s your problem, not theirs. ;)

(Images from @bodegacatsofinstagram)

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Things and Stuff #12

This week’s theme is: Rocks!

 Did you ever register to take a super boring Geology 101 class at the community college in your home town during your first college summer break because you changed your major from architecture to fine art and needed to make up the credits you lost, only to find out that rocks are super cool?!? No…just me? Ok, well, that doesn’t change the fact that rocks are really cool. Just look at this!

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Crystals!!! Goldirocks.co claims to have ++ROCKS FULL OF MAGIC++ that are charged under a California moon. Don’t we all want to be charged under a California Moon??? Check out these amazing magic rocks!

(Images © Golidirocks.co)

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Vanessa Knight is a Crystal Curator, yes, that’s a thing. Able Ground, her company, is full of stunning crystals and minerals. I mean, STUNNING. Just look at all the pretties.

(Images © Able Ground)

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I can’t talk about rocks and not talk about jewelry. Obvs. I almost bought 3 things while trying to get this post pulled together.

Mokamoon

All The Tiny Pieces Shop

Toma x Alex Jewelry

Tiny Treeline Jewelry

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Things and Stuff #11

This week’s theme is: OMG Sewing!

It’s time to get excited about sewing, guys!  What was once grandma chic is now just chic chic. Let’s all go buy yarn and fabric and threads and thimbles and those cute little poofs that look like tomatoes for all our pins!

Elizabeth Pawle is a journalist turned fiber artist…and raiser of children. She does fantastic things with yarn and burlap and that is really saying something! The colors are wonderful, the mixture of textures is inspiring and the patterns, shut up! I love seeing her work pop up in my Instagram feed.

(Images © Elizabeth Pawle)

Maybe it’s because I have always dreamed of being a taxi driver, or maybe it’s because they are just insanely cool, but these city quilts, by Haptic Labs, have been pinned to my Wishlisted board forever. I can’t decide which city I want to be wrapped up in, maybe I need them all…or maybe a kite. A kite and a quilt. Ahhhh, they are so cool.

(Images © Haptic Labs)

Britt “Hutch” Hutchinson claims to be bad at the internet. She also says she’s “an average human just trying to be happy, not rich.” There is nothing average about her Tinycup Needleworks art, hand embroidery for the high lonesome. The details, the skeletons, the tiny tiny knots, holy smokes. I wish I could watch over her shoulder to see how she creates these pieces, people love that right?

(Images © Tinycup Needleworks)

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Things and Stuff #10

This week’s theme is: SCIENCE!

Who doesn’t love the magic of science? The how, when, why, where, what of it all. I am fascinated by the patterns and designs of Mother Nature and the impossible to understand-ness of Space. I stand in awe people who have science powered brains and the work they create to make the world a little bit cooler.

Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jess Louis-Rosenberg started Nervous System, a generative design studio, so they could use 3D printing and drafting technologies to create amazing pieces based on natural phenomena. The graduated from MIT and Harvard, with degrees in Biology, Design, Mathematics and Architecture. Puts my dinky BFA to shame. Their Instagram feed is breathtaking and surreal, it’s like looking at the future, but all the details are millions of years old. Mind blown. Now for the tough job of picking out what piece to buy.

(Images ©Nervous System)

Hallmark Alum, Rachel Ignotofsky, is making a name for herself in the world of science illustration. Who even knew there was a world of science illustration?! Her work is full of quirk, knowledge and surprises, exactly like herself. I was lucky enough to get to be her manager and art director during her time at Hallmark. I knew within 2 minutes of meeting her, she was destined for great things, great things like her new book, Women in Science. I already pre-ordered it for my future woman of science, pictured here in a Marie Curie onesie:

(Images ©Rachel Ignotofsky and ©Rachel Sleeter)

This post about How Things Work is 100% satisfying. I can’t look away.

(Images ©gifbin.com)

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Things and Stuff #9

This week’s theme is: The Cool Girls

Inspired by Lemonadegate…like the rest of the world, I dedicate this week’s newsletter to all you ladies who run the world.

Kim Schifino is about as cool as you can get. She is the “Kim” half of Matt & Kim, obvs, and just dances and drums and lives life to the fullest. Her enthusiasm is infectious and if you ever get a chance to see them live, GO and sweat and dance and be crazy. I dare you not to fall in love with these guys.

If you have seen Girls, you know Lena Dunham, suuuuper well, like maybe too well…all the time naked. But, did you know that she and her business partner Jenni Konner, started an amazing website, Lennyletter.com? The features are great, the interviews are amazing and it makes me want to shout feminist things and make the world better. Read this amazing article by Amanda Peet about aging, it’s really good.

Why are you not watching Broad City?!? (Side note: this show is 100% NSFW) There aren’t any sufficient excuses. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are so funny and fresh and unexpected, it’s almost not real. Except it is real! Yass Queen!!!