Vintage Mint

Cry, cry, cry. Domino mag {and the website!} will be no more! My little world is crumbling down! Blueprint, Cottage Living,  House & Garden, and now Domino…

R.I.P.

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Sorry, no updates this morning…celebrating Inauguration Day…

{Art by Scott Hansen}

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Interesting factoid: tonight the moon will be the biggest it’s been all year. The tides will be higher. Cosmic episodes like this will probably result in more babies being born tonight than “usual”, or overly jittery dogs, or just more weirdos on street corners. I kid. But still interesting…

{First read, here.}
{Photo via No Standing Still}

Cute T-shirt for the snarky-politically-forward friend, or the can’t-get-enough political news junkie husband in your life…

{Only $22; from Print Liberation}

{First seen here}

Don’t forget to vote today, fellow Americans! {With all the news forecasting astronomical voting lines, Husband + I decided it would be best to beat the crowds, so we voted early and turned in our ballots last Thursday. Phew!}

Tips on how to avoid election day disaster{s}, here.

{Print by Cody Hudson; $200}

{First seen here.}

There’s no other Halloween candy I detest more than candy corn. I admit, their cute little triangle-shape and cheery tri-color bands make them kind of irresistible, but they are deceiving! They taste neither like candy or corn. This is the one candy {along with Tootsie Rolls} that I will never dole out to trick-or-treaters, I might as well be handing out orange painted pebbles. To quote Lewis Black, “All the candy corn that was ever made, was made in 1914. They never had to make it again; we never eat enough of it. Literally, after Halloween the candy corn company send out their minions and they go from garbage can to garbage can and collect the corn and throw it back in the bag…and it appears next year.”

{However, they are adorably tolerable in glass apothecary jars…}

{Photo from melissan}

This election looms so large that voting has become a viable commodity. Looks like Gap is no different, you can buy their “Vote for” shirts here. And yes, that’s Bill Maher. And yes, he wants to Vote for BBQ (?!).

{Images + videos via Gap}

Ah, this article made me laugh out loud, “10 Ways to Avoid Hipster Baby Names.” I’m afraid the list of baby names I secretly hoard in my brain fall victim to rule #4:

Avoid the names of high-falutin’ writers.
This is kind of a thin line. We’d say Auden, Austen, Flannery, Harper,
Tennessee, and Tennyson are dripping in hipsterdom; Edith, Eudora,
and Ellison, still okay.

{W.H. Auden; Tennessee Williams; Flannery O’Connor}

{Found via HuffPo}
{images via here, here, + here}

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Hard times call for smarter shopping, or lack thereof {Husband won’t believe I just said that}. Some {surprisingly easy} tips for controlling Fall/Winter fashion-spending overload {which I am a complete victim of} from Jacinta O’Halloran on Divine Caroline:

1}. Work your accessories
2}. Wear last year’s jeans
3}. Shop Vintage
4}. Work with what you have
5}. Make do with your makeup

Simple enough.

{Image via Reykjavic Looks & the Sartorialist}