Cupcakes and cookies

Ming Thompson, a Harvard grad student with a sweet tooth, created this rad website with cupcake and cookie recipes. The recipes are all super creative, with ingredients like Guinness beer, figs, and lots of sour cream. Double thumbs up!

Cheese wedding cakes

For you cheese enthusiasts out there: How amazing are these stinky cheese wedding cakes?! I wish I had known about these when we tied the knot!

The kitten who couldn't jump

This is totally random, but I'm sleepy and punchy so I'm going to post it. So, here, ladies and gentlemen, is the kitten who couldn't jump.

P.S. I really love that she still tries! There's a life lesson in there. :)

(Via Unruly Things)

Home inspiration: Trapeze!

My friend Sophie (of the amazing children's brand Oeuf) has a wooden trapeze in her Brooklyn living room. She used to go to trapeze school in California, and now she has taught her kids a bunch of tricks. "They do knee hangs and swing quite high," she says. "They think I look like a big whale, but I do it to amuse them. We thought they'd use it for five minutes and never again, but it's completely part of their daily life. We call them monkeys."

(Photo from Milk Magazine)

Rainbow

This morning, I've been writing up a post about our weekend, but as a new mom, everything takes 100x longer than expected. So, in the meantime, I thought you might like this rainbow windshield. :)

(By Dutch artist Helmut Smits, via DesignLoveFest)

Missing phone?

Whoa, this is genius! You know when you lose your phone, and you have to ask a friend to call it for you? Well, if no one's around to help, you can go to this clever website, enter your number, and it will call your phone for you. Ha, I just tried it; it really works!

(Via Swissmiss)

Glow-in-the-dark poster

This letterpress poster is made with glow-in-the-dark ink! Genius.

(Via Swissmiss)

Deep dish cookies

Ooooh, yes please.

(Thanks, Kathryn)

Star projector

Picture this: Your crush invites you over for dinner, and, when you arrive, you're greeted with a glass of wine, Sigur Ros on the iPod, and this star projector. How amazing would that be?

I'd love it for quiet married nights at home, too. Would be a fun way to eat burritos and watch Curb your Enthusiasm, haha.

My parents

A few weeks ago, I linked to this hilarious ad for Canadian whisky...

Shortly afterward, my mom sent me this photo of my parents in college in Virginia. They had been dating for a year. It's basically the same photo! (Did everyone sit like that in 1972?) It's so funny to see your parents when they were young, before a bunch of rowdy kids came along. My dad had a thick English accent and my mom was from Alabama.

P.S. My Parents Were Awesome and Dads Are the Original Hipsters.

Brilliant speech

Ash Beckham recently spoke in Boulder about not using the word "gay" pejoratively (as in, "This homework assignment is so gay"). The video is fantastic and definitely worth watching.

(Thanks, Lucy!)

Sweden, why are you so awesome?

Oh my goodness, Swedish blogger Elisabeth Dunker took this photo of a slide in her town of Gothenburg. Just a neighborhood playground, no biggie! Would you be brave enough to slide down? Elisabeth's 11-year-old son Otto sits on a plastic bag to go faster.

P.S. My favorite thing about Sweden, and babies sleeping outside.

(Photo by Elisabeth Dunker)