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To post anything, that is.
But I’ll give you some pictures anyways.
All from Ikea… some current favorites of mine:
 In the center is the new desk for the Expedit bookcase that I want to get (the bookcase, and then the desk just makes it all that much better) when we have a new house if I have a craft room. The rest of it is just fun.
 Some fabrics and textiles that I'm liking (but won't be purchasing).  And some fabrics that I might get up the gumption to purchase, if I find the time to go over to Ikea sometime when it's not super crazy. Like not right now, because the whole back to school, college, whatever thing is going on and Ikea can be crazy then. But, you know, later. Happy Friday!
 I've been avoiding (so far, successfully) purchasing this mug at Starbucks (images totally stolen from ebay and Pottery Barn, though I didn't hotlink them so I'm not totally evil).  It makes me want to decorate entirely in semi-sheer, flowy, white fabric and look for a house like this. They have some others that I’m briefly tempted to purchase:
 Blue swirl mug  Blue stripes mug  Blue floral mug 
Except that then I’d have to decorate entirely in blue and white and live in a beach house, which is not really my thing:
 ...  ... Do you ever see very small household items that make you want to entirely redecorate?
 Pottery Barn has these candles, which I think I could easily enough do on my own, given the time. All the craft stores sell the basics of candle-making (wax, wicks, etc), and I'm quite sure you can buy terra cotta pots in minature in bulk. Not that I need any more projects to attempt....
 PB also has these doors. Remind you of anything? If you've ever been to visit me (not at my current home), you've probably seen my shutters. I love them. They're currently in hiding in our spare bedroom, because there's no place for them in our house. I always planned on finding a third part or some shutters or something... but never got around to it, or never found anything right. These doors, of course, aren't right, because they're the wrong shade of wood (mine are nearly grey), and honestly probably in too good of condition, but they made me think of my shutters.
Williams-Sonoma has this 3-Tier Oven Rack. It scares me. I don’t think I could handle preparing that much food, all at once, without something going horribly wrong. Multi-tasking in the kitchen is not a skill of mine.
 Williams-Sonoma is also selling this strainer right now. It is the spitting image of the one my parents used for years. Design hasn't changed in at least 30 years. My parents always grew tomatoes in the garden, and then at the end of the season made their own tomato sauce. Some years it was better than others, and it was always a lot of work, but I remember it very specifically as part of my childhood. I'm not sure I could do it myself, my distaste for tomatoes and all, but its possible. Of course, we also had a large chest freezer that sat in our garage where they could keep all the tomato sauce.
OK, to be clear, I have no need for these in my life. But I ran across them in the “expiring soon” category on Etsy and thought they were so cute!
in case you need them and it hasn't expired yet.”] 
It is absolutely gorgeous outside today. On my way to get coffee, I noticed how the sun was shining, the sky so blue, just a few wispy airbrushes of clouds. And the breeze, which meant I wasn’t too warm in my long-sleeves despite the 75* weather, could only be described as soft and round (unlike the hard, biting wind of winter). But I forgot that it gets better on the way back, because when I step out of that door, I’m facing directly into the sun. If it’s a really bad day, and the slow walk doesn’t calm me down and the coffee doesn’t mellow me out, the sun shining can still turn my mood around. I almost turned in a leave slip to go home for the day, it’s that nice outside, until I remembered I don’t actually own a hammock, and so the hours would, in part, be wasted. Still, if no work shows up, I may go home this afternoon sometime.
Do yourself a favor and go experience the beauty that is today’s weather, if you’re at all in the Twin Cities area. I’d love to be responsible for everyone taking the afternoon off. 
This morning, at the Western Avenue stop, a boy (ahem! excuse me, man), who I can honestly describe as pretty, got on the bus. Pretty as in Ashton Kutcher on That 70’s Show. Seriously, “prettier” than most of the women I know. Now, don’t be offended if you’re one of my women friends. I still love you and think you’re beautiful. But I don’t think you’re understanding this man’s physical appearance.
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