Poppy King's Lipstick Queen Lipstick

This is the packaging for Lipstick Queen. It's very romantic, fun and colorful. I ordered them sight unseen, as I was too lazy to go to Barney's downtown (all of four miles away), and got the Sinner lipstick in "Pink" and the Saint sheer lipstick in "Pink", as well as "Medieval" lip tint. I love all three! The cases close nicely and feel kind of rubbery even though I think they're metal. So nice!

A Neighborhood Jewel

Oh my God.
This is GORGEOUS. I love living in this neighborhood. Living in an ex-military complex that is run by the federal gov't is JUST LIKE living at Disneyland, I'll bet. Soooo pretty. This curb is better than animal-shaped topiary.

Pocky Bookmarks

These are my Pocky bookmarks, which I made by cutting the image with special crafting scissors and punching a hole at the top of the bookmark for a ribbon.

Crack and Bleach

My neighbor was washing her blinds on the asphalt while exposing her ass crack.
But everyone's ass crack is almost always showing these days, so what does it matter?
Maybe I should be more concerned about the neon-pink dish soap (organic? I think not) and straight-up Safeway brand bleach she's pouring all over them... and letting run into the storm drains. We live less than a thousand feet from the Pacific Ocean, so close that there's a little illustration of a crab painted on the drains in this area.
I kind of hope she's pregnant and she decides to go down to the beach today...

Water Mosaic

Went for a walk and saw this cool thing in the neighborhood the other day. From a distance it looked like water pouring from the vessel, especially the way the light was glimmering off the "water". Upon closer inspection, we saw that it was tile...

Georgia Was Here

For 4th of July DD and I went to his company picnic, which was on a ranch in Marin County. There was a lake, grapevines, a herd of cattle, a friendly miniature donkey, chinchillas and, as if that weren't enough, this beautiful skull! When we left San Francisco that day, it was cold and foggy, and when we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge it magically became hot and sunny. Of course, this is not actually magic, but a phenomena of landscape and hills and wind and whatnot. All I know is that I live in the coldest part of SF (cold = affordable) and 10 minutes away it's hot. This led me to consider moving 18 miles from work, to San Rafael. (I currently live walking distance from work.) I grew up in the desert, and while I have no desire to live in a climate that extreme again, I do object to wearing my coat in July, as I do here. As DD pointed out the other day, we have six dresser drawers and one is devoted entirely to knits - knit caps, scarves, and mittens.

So, it remains to be seen what will happen, but we are now trying to move! The great thing is that prices have come down a lot all over San Francisco, even the desirable sunny parts, and DD and I are still employed, so we're checking it out.