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We’ve hinted over the last couple of weeks about a top secret project, and now we can spill! SuperCute! submitted an Atlanta Indie City Guide to Indie Fixx, and the first installment was posted today! Woo! this was so much fun to put together!

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[photo by Lorigami]
Liz and I set up a blog for our local pals to post about kittens in need of loving homes! Of course, Liz gave it a delightfully puntastic name! If you’re local and have kittens or cats you want to post about, hit me up! Anyone can register, and I’ll change your permissions to Author!

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I’m not sure if I’ve bragged on my friend Robert over here. Robert is my pal who writes for How Stuff Works, where a lot of his articles are on environmental topics. Earlier this year he was writing up a piece on Gray Water Reclamation. This got me thinking about all the water that goes right down my drain that maybe isn’t potable but maybe isn’t too dirty for things like watering plants and whatnot.

[photo by Apes Abroad]
When Dave and I made that trip to Mississippi and scored all of those awesome vintage housewares, we also became the proud owners of a ton of metal buckets. We have buckets everywhere, and those buckets got me thinking. Finally, a few weeks ago I put one in the bathroom next to the tub. The next time I showered, I stuck it in there while waiting for the cold water to turn hot. By the time I got out of the shower the bucket was full, and I dumped it on our front lawn. It was so easy, and our Elephant Ears were totally grateful. Now, we have a whole potted garden out front that is living pretty much exclusively on shower water that would have just been wasted.

It’s such a tiny, easy thing to do, but it’s totally transformed the front of our home without using an extra drop of water! Hurrah!

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Oh no! I was really looking forward to seeing Tori as Donna Martin again. Would she play it as goofy Donna from the early College Years? Whisper Donna from late college and the Boring Years? Would she still be married to David, or is she haunted by David Silver Nightmares? We’ll never know now, I guess. Harumph!

Though maybe now they’ll have a space for Ian Zering? I know there were articles that said he didn’t want to do the show, but that sounds like sour grapes to me! Would Steve be a good consolation prize? I’m not sure…

And in case you didn’t click that You Tube video linked up there in the first paragraph, I’ve embedded the it here. It’s not to be missed, I promise!

This morning, Dave said we could do whatever I wanted today. Obviously, what I wanted was to hit up Value Village! In the same plaza as the Moreland Value Village, there is this awesome shop that sells vintage and antique doodads, cast off hotel furniture and other random pieces. I made Dave pull out his iPhone and take a picture of this gem. Memories!

I actually used to go to Backstreet quite a bit when I first moved here. Charlie Brown’s Cabaret was a drag show that went on in one room of this massive, 24-hour nightclub. I liked to go to the Cabaret when I needed a break from the dancefloor, which could get a bit overwhelming when the place was crowded.

Value Village was a huge success! I picked up a ton of pillowcases for Lunch Kits, a completely amazing dress that is just for me, a few skirts that are screaming for a little love, some lovely mugs and plates and 3 sweet little tin pots! The two round ones now have scallions and lettuce in them. The best find of the day, though, was this awesome, rectangular clawed pot that I used to plant some wheatgrass.

I know it’s sitting on the kitchen table here, but it’s now living on the front porch. Molly was WAY too interested in the stuff. She had started tearing it up just moments after I left the room! Folks warned me that cats love wheatgrass, but dang! She was rubbing her face on the stuff pretty much immediately! I may pick up another tray of the stuff and pot it on the floor for her.

Hurrah! S. Suzuki featured me as part of her …And I Dig It series! She features a new artist each week. I’m totally honored to be included!

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I can’t even really tell you how excited I was to hear that KRAFTWORK, the monthly craft show, is coming back at Youngblood Gallery!!! There are a few little differences with KRAFTWORK 2.0. You can read all about it over on the Indie Craft Experience blog. Yea! Youngblood and ICE are teaming up to pull off a super-awesome, new and improved Kraftwork! They’re accepting applications now for the very first one in the new space. The show is on September 4th!

Woah. My Lunch Kits got mentioned twice this week on Indie Fixx! You can check it out here and here! This has been a presstacular week! While we’re on the subject, SuperCute! just finished up a secret project for Indie Fixx! I’m not going to say too much more about it just now, but here is a little preview:

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