Welcome to Thursday Favorite Things Party Happy Thursday dear friends. I hope your week has been good so far. I hurt my back last Friday as I attempted to get up off the ground (I was weeding a flower bed) and felt it go. It is better, but taking its time healing. I can walk, but sitting and then getting up still hurts. I have not been able to go to my Zumba classes and that has me bummed but I am sure it will be ready by next Monday. With Easter approaching, I picked some cool posts that might be of interest for your Easter. I hope you have a great rest of your week and an awesome weekend. Many of...
Open ended toys foster play, creativity, and imagination. Here is a list of the best creative toys for kids to promote pretend play. Updated March 2022 When it comes to toys, less is more. Open ended toys are ones that foster creative play in a myriad of way. These encourage imaginative play as your child grows and finds NEW ways to use the SAME toy. (Now that’s a win, win in my mind!) All of the toys we have included on this list were selected because they encourage imaginative play. From building sets, to fun costumes and loose parts, the possibilities are endless when it comes to imaginary play and your child’s imagination. Requires NO Guidance Open-ended toys are great...
Animal Protection in the Fashion IndustryWhen we talk about ethical fashion, not only should we consider the people who make our clothes, but also the non-human animals who are impacted by the fashion industry – whether they are farmed, killed, or endangered by clothing production. If you’re new to these considerations, let’s go through some of the issues facing animals in the fashion industry.Non-human animals (as opposed to humans, because we’re animals too!), share this planet with us, but sometimes we can forget that, and consider this just ‘our’ planet. Too, when we talk about ethics in fashion, sometimes our thoughts are – while critical to creating a fairer fashion industry – human-centric. Total ethics fashion prioritizes the wellbeing of all animals,...
bin-bin: the sound of having lots of sex of dubitable quality * The sex I had before going to Japan was British, and it didn’t involve many words. Of course language paved the way, in both long- and short-term senses, and I suppose the deed was punctuated by certain phrases, but my memory of it is of bodies speaking in the place of mouths, a silent communing of skins. There are two ways of reading this wordlessness, which pull in opposite directions: speaking drew attention to what was going on and brought up feelings of embarrassment, so it was therefore avoided; and speaking mediated the experience, made it a less sensual one. The silence never seemed to me like a...
The good ole' BSL Office got a little revamp last week...and it's one of those full circle moments! Back in college, I interned at Nate Berkus Associates. One of the head designers there had a pin board of inspiration images that she was constantly changing. It was honestly one of my favorite things I took away from that internship (among a lot of things) and after I saw that, I knew that someday I would have a pin board of my own. Fast forward, and we now have THREE huge pin boards in the BSL Office! I built these right when we moved into the office because I needed something real big to distract from how weird the wall was....
