Carousel: Week Ending 25th December 2009

CarouselAna Beatriz Barros by Ellen von Unwerth.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! If you’re dying to escape from your relatives, shhh, come with me! I have stockpiled some distractions!

Trust the spark within and find your own path from No Impact Man.

Oh my god, everyone, let’s pool our money & make this apartment the new International Playgirl HQ. It would be like a slumber party all the time!

Rules For Retro Mars In Leo. Oh geeeeez.

What Matters Now, the free e-book!

Decade in review: 2009 = FAIL, 2000s = WIN by Rachel Hills. Smart cookie, that one.

Why do longtime partners split after getting married?

On Fast Fashion Content and The Importance of Being Earnest.

6 Questions That Can Help You to Make 2010 a Simpler and Lighter Year from the Positivity Blog.

Astro-Decor: Padma Lakshmi & A Portrait Of YOU Above Your Bed? via Mystic Medusa. So weird & interesting, the comments are particularly excellent, lots of analysis & Feng Shui stuff!

John’s solstice rebirth. I’m so excited for him!

Want to be part of Body Image Season? I do! Get involved!

I love Kosuke Tsumura’s answers at the bottom of the page.

Justin Martin is on par with that kid who refused to stand during the pledge of allegiance. Seriously, some kids are so cool.

& so we danced = RAD photos.

Reasons why New York City is the best city in the whole wide world #2,458,912: there was an impromptu snowball fight in Times Square at 1am (& no cops drew their guns, in your face Washington D.C.!).

Apartment Therapy: You Are Now Allowed to Draw On the Wall, Victorian Grandness (drool).

Um, I love gingerbread. These gingerbread houses which perch on the edge of your mug make my LIFE. I wish I was clever enough to make gingerbread gift boxes. If I was a gingerbread person I would want to live in a gingerbread igloo. Or a gingerbread mansion would be pretty cool too.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE FEW OF US STILL WILLING TO GET OUR HANDS DIRTY.

The Moment Jars = amazing.

Ommwriter. If you are a writer… Yes.

Author William Poundstone Dissects the Marketing Tricks Built Into Balthazar’s Menu is so fascinating.

Inaki Escudero read one book a week for 52 weeks. Nice idea for a new year’s resolution!

The Cutest, Funniest And Most Important Animal Stories Of 2009! Ahhhhhhhh. I like the alcoholic monkeys best.

Ahahaha.

Thoughts? I love SATC but I feel likethis might just be beating a dead horse… ?

OH MY GOD MUST SEE THIS.