Honor Roll

• My grandparents and I used to sing this song together all the time, and now Eleanor and I sing it while I play the ukulele. (My grandpa is gone, but we did do a duet for my grandma after we learned it.) We’re cute, but not that cute. She can’t hold a tune and I can’t play that well! That video though? The best.

• Popular Science is shutting down its comments.
  “Even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader’s perception of a story.”

• Wildlife photos. (The baby fox! The owl in the tree!)

• I think Macaulay Culkin and the Moldy Peaches guys are playing a trick on us.

• 33 of the worst (fictional) first sentences.
  “Betty had eyes that said come here, lips that said kiss me, arms and torso that said hold me all night long, but the rest of her body said, “Fillet me, cover me in cornmeal, and fry me in peanut oil”; romance wasn’t easy for a mermaid.” — Jordan Kaderli

• Holly’s thoughts on blogging, and Karen’s hustle.

• Carolyn Cassady is gone.

• YES. The most amazing paint-by-numbers mural in a nursery. So awesome!

• High/low canopy beds. Which would you choose?

• I could see using these modern linoleum tiles for the right project.

• Selfie help.

• Need the perfect terrarium plants to create, you know, the perfect terrarium? Of course you do. These things are important.

• I’m out of my gourd! (Better order more.)

Hold up, there’s more.

• I will be at Madewell in Oakbrook next Thursday night from 6-9 to celebrate their one-year anniversary. You should come! Discounts and personal styling (by me! What!?) and macaroons, oh my.

All this, and a giveaway too? Woohoo!

This week on MIL’s Facebook page, enter to win a velvet pumpkin trio from LoveFeast Shop. Good luck!