wash, dry, fold

Denis Olivier, photographer. Via E-Sushi.

This clock will wake you up each morning (or night, which ever time you wish to wake up in) with bird calls.

The clock offers nine different bird songs: From the Robin, for the light sleeper, to the Rooster, to the stubborn ones.

When you think you’ve heard enough, you can order other sound cards for the clock. Like Yard birds, Field and Meadow birds and even frogs!

Link to product page. Via Technabob

My grandma Ester used to crochet for me. Everytime she came to visit, she would bring tons of white ornaments she made for me and say I should keep them for my Nedunia - my dowry.

When I got married, I never gave them to James’ family.

This quiz checks what your dowry will be, by answering the question that’s always on your mind:

How many goats are you worth.

photo taken by Kris247

Via Zoomdoggle

A short animated film (9 min 40 sec) by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.

Winner of the Palme d’Or in the short film category at Cannes in 1999.

Ruby, a pig, questions what links her to the other inhabitants of the city.

via drawn!

BibliOdyssey posted some beautiful botanical drawings by George Edwards, after Mark Catesby.

why did Edwards copy the drawings? Were the originals lost? I don’t know.

I think they’re cute and funny, but than everything makes me laugh these days.

via wrongdistance

Tony Dusko writes in his website:

My name is Mr. Dusko. i am a teacher who creates cool animated films for kids. I think they make learning fun!

after seing the cute video he made about owls, i am sure he is right:

via drawn!

more photos of nudibranchs by david doubilet in notcot

link to wikipedia entry

Mouse Reading Newspaper, originally uploaded by peacay.

bespectacled mouse illustration by Beatrix Potter (1890).
apparently she loved drawing mice reading newspapers.
via Bibliodyssey

there’s something i’ve been meaning to tell you.

i have a cat. her name is anna frank, but nobody calls her that, everybody calls her tuly.

she was named anna frank because at first, when she decided to adopt us, we still had two dogs (that’s for another post) and she used to live in a box behind the blinds. every time our dogs would come sniff the area, i would close the blinds and tell them there’s no one there. eventually we all lived happily together.

here she is in my red envirosax shopping bag: