Pinterst, please give me an account

For those of you who have visited Pinterest.com, you know how addicting it can be. It is the only place I have been that makes you want to exercise every minute, eat everything in sight and build a castle all on the same page. Pretty amazing, indeed. Now the fact that I can't seem to get an account makes me feel like I am trying to get into the popular clique in a typical 90s high school movie....and, nobody wants that.

I don't know what the deal is. I mean, I can find some cool pictures online just like all those pinsters! To show just a taste of said cool pictures I can find, I decided to put a board together for this post, maybe it will bump me up in the wait list.......please?

from edfrocmt.wordpress.com

Clearly this panda dog via this blog, is a little too cute.

The Post Punk Kitchen, yum!

This wonderful recipe from my favorite vegan baking website, The Post Punk Kitchen, it most drool worthy. I think I'm going to try these out tonight!

Free building plan at ana-white.com

I just moved into a new house, and my art supplies are strewn about and I desperately need to make this. It is the perfect size, but I'm going to stain it dark, dark brown! Gotta love ana-white.com!

Musewear flipflops

So, I need new flips pretty badly. I actually had to (finally) throw away my beloved Birkenstocks during this last move. I purchased them when I lived in Italy, which was...oh, about 4.5 years ago! They had walked all over Europe with me, and a good part of the US as well. Needless to say, ew. I stumbled upon this awesome brand, Musewear, during my search. This brand is very friendly to all kinds of causes, like the environment, fair work and all that. :) They have several different lines, but this dog one is totally my favorite!  

You see, Pinterest, if you let me in your super secret club, I will post cool stuff like this all the time. I promise, you wont regret it.

Thanks for your consideration,

Celia 

Whoa! A new post and....word!

So, needless to say it's bee a WHILE since I last posted. Phew. I've been pretty busy with the non-web based media (i.e. reading a ton of books). But I have decided to break back into it, and what better than to bring back Wednesday's word?

Today, while reading one of the new books, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, I purchased yesterday at Queen Anne Books (Love that place!), I found several words I didn't know. Now, generally I feel that I'm a fairly loquacious person. However, I have been reading more than my fair share of young adult books lately, and they don't require a lot of overt literary knowledge. As fun as they may be, and boy, do I love them! One word I found particularly interesting was "incunabulum." It was a word I had never heard until I stumbled through its over abundance of vowels on the page. What did it mean, I wondered? Needless to say, I was very happy with the definition I found.

According to the web, Incunabulum is actually a plural version of incunable. It means: a printed work, usually hand written, printed before 1501. It can also refer to old art of that period. Its derivative is Latin, and oddly, the Latin word does not refer to a book...


I felt pretty silly to not know this word, given the amount of attention I give to old books and the like. I most certainly, however, have not been lucky enough to get an incunable in my hands, but it will most definitely be my next book endeavor. I am curious to know how many are out there? I can't imagine there are many books still in solid condition floating around that were printed before 1501. Can you imagine how long it would take to print books by hand, pre printing press?! It's daunting just to think about. How many of you have seen a book this old in the flesh?

Until next time,
C

image from 32rarebooks.com