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Friday Favorites: Loading…Updated Top Ten Video/Computer Games

Without further ado: 10: Spiritfarer. I’m not much of a cozy gamer—a little too boring for me—but I loved this game because it was about dying and what makes life worth living, and supporting the people around us through that process even when they get scared of it and aren’t the nicest. Very pretty, theContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Loading…Updated Top Ten Video/Computer Games”

Ceramics Saturdays: Nasco Sayonara and Real (Well, Almost Real) Kintsugi Project

Discerning viewers may have noticed that the china featured in the ESC #49 post was different from my usual options of Churchill Blue Willow (or its saucy cousin, Calamityware) or Iittala Taika. That’s because I finally decided to be an adult and get 12 place-settings of the same pattern—instead of always having to mix andContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Nasco Sayonara and Real (Well, Almost Real) Kintsugi Project”

Tiny Homes: One in a Greenhouse and One on a Tokyo Train Line

I have a thing for tiny homes, and I think it started way back when I was a kid and persuaded my dad to build my sister and me a “cottage” in our backyard: it wasn’t just insulated, it was 2 stories with a pigeon loft in the back and a porch on the front.Continue reading “Tiny Homes: One in a Greenhouse and One on a Tokyo Train Line”