New Fave!

I stumbled across this website a while ago when I was actually searching for an image of a heart. Ever since I have been going back to this site and perusing the merch, because I positively love it. The website is Shana Logic,(formerly Pixiegirl Shop) and they sell indie jewelry and other items. Owned and maintained by one person, Shana Victor, this website is clean, user-friendly, and fabulous. The merchandise is designed by a lot of individual artists, therefore everything is totally unique. And it is all fun. I have a wishlist a mile long for the merch on this site. When you buy from Shana Logic, you are supporting artists from around the world and bypassing that pesky little thing we like to call the NEA. While I am fairly “new” to the site, it has actually been live for at least five years, in one form or another. Clearly, Shana knows what she is doing. Major props to her for doing her thing. I’ve got to say, she’s done it right. She’s got a product that speaks for itself, and she hasn’t allowed her website to grow so cluttered that it detracts from the merch. Among my favorites are the raindrop earrings, the sparkle berry earrings, and the Good Luck necklace. Check out her website, she is constantly adding new stuff. And by the way….my birthday is April 21st!

Safe for now

I’ve been out of the blog loop for a few days due to an insane statistics test. *Sigh* That is over and done with now. Lets get back to business. Starting with Tuesday. Hillary Clinton pulled out a win in three of the four states that voted on March 4th. Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island all believe that Hillary R. Clinton should be the next President of the United States, or at least the Democrats in those states do. Barack Obama took Vermont, as most everyone predicted. And after these four states voted, John McCain now has all the votes he needs to be the Republican nominee. But the Democratic nomination is still up for grabs! It’s all very exciting. It’s very American Idol-esque. See, this is why I don’t understand why some people don’t get into politics. “Last week, the judges weren’t too thrilled with Hillary’s performance, but American voted! And she is safe-for this week.” Dun, dun, dun (scary music). Maybe we just need to get Ryan Seacrest or someone like that to announce the results of the polls. Maybe not, maybe this has to be more “serious” than that. But I still get into it, and after seeing the outcome of Tuesday’s primaries, I felt like it was American Idol. Which isn’t even something I watch very often. I am not so big into the reality television shows. Although there is a new show that just premiered last night, called High School Reunion, on TVLand. I didn’t watch it, but I did record it. I thought it might be interesting. Although it will probably turn out to be another one of those shows where they put a bunch of people in a house and make them live together until two people hook up, two people get into a major fight, and then the entire group turns on one person and tries to get them kicked out. That’s basically the plot of most reality shows, isn’t it? Politics is way more exciting to me, at least they have to maintain a mask of civility. Their sniping is more intellectual snobbery than hair-pulling and eye-gouging. Is that what it takes to interest the general public? In other news, Patrick Swayze (the Dirty Dancing actor, among other things, but whom I will always remember as “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 55. Pancreatic cancer is a very unforgiving disease, by the time symptoms appear it is often that there is little can be done. It has a 5% 5-year survival rate. In a statement released by Swayze’s reps, they say that he is remaining positive and responding well to treatment. The actor and his family are in my thoughts and prayers!