Archives for posts with tag: media monday

The Storybook Home Journal

March 29, 10 //
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~image courtesy Al Young Studios~

With budgets tightened everywhere, I think many of us are kind of hunkering down and buying less “stuff.”  Instead, I know at least in my home, when we do buy things, they are things of worth to us.  We’re spending more time figuring out how to make things/cook things/grow things ourselves.  Even entertainment has changed here.  We don’t have cable tv anymore.  We listen to the radio a lot, get out of the house, get movies from Netflix or read instead of watching tv.

I love magazines still, but I’ve been letting most of my subscriptions end and only keeping the ones that really enrich me, my family and my home.  The Storybook Home Journal is the only magazine I’ve newly subscribed to and I absolutely LOVE it!  There are so many really cheap magazine subscriptions available today.  So, at first glance this publication may seem pricey.  But keep in mind that it is  bi-monthly, ad-free and FULL off gorgeous images!  I heard about it over at Children of Eve in this post.  Go find out what intrigued me.  Then subscribe here and visit the Storybook Home Journal’s blog here.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

-John Keats via Mary Poppins ;)

Media Monday: Three-Minute Fiction

March 8, 10 //
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~image by Zitona on Flickr~

While listening to All Things Considered on National Public Radio yesterday, I was reminded of their “Three-Minute Fiction” contest.   You send in an original piece of fiction that can be read in three minutes or less.   The judging for this round is still ongoing, but they have a few pieces highlighted on their website right now here.  Winners, runners-up and contenders from other rounds are also on the site.

Life can get so hectic.  Hopefully these tiny gems will provide a little enjoyment during a bus ride, child’s naptime or afternoon tea.  Seeing the creativity many of us have pent up, shared with a little bit of prompting is very inspiring.  I hope they keep the contest going.

I’m a magazine clipping hoarder.  Yeah, it’s bad.  Like boxes full….  Anyways!  While going through magazine clippings the other day, I found an article I had saved from years earlier that still contained relevant advice.  If we get free time time at all, the article stated, we generally save it for the end of the day.  By then, however, the energy just isn’t there to do what we really enjoy.  So, we spend those precious hours doing things that take very little effort, like watching tv.  A new approach might be to go to bed earlier so that we can get up early and start the day with something we enjoy instead.  I thought that was a good idea.  I know, I know, it’s hard starting the day period sometimes.  Starting it even earlier might not seem very appealing.  With a little practice though, getting up a bit sooner isn’t so hard.  My toddler alarm clock gets me up at around 6:30 now and I used to be a 10am kind of girl.

So, if you love to read but never have time, hopefully these ideas help.  Instead of longing for that good book collecting dust on the nightstand, try a quick three-minute fiction story on your break.  Or, maybe make reading an incentive to get up a bit earlier.  Why not start the day off with something good in case the rest ends up crazy? ;)

Media Monday: Red Thread

March 1, 10 //
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I found this animation over at Zakka Life:

Media Monday: Simone White

February 21, 10 //
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I’ve really been loving The Beep Beep song by Simone White every time it pops up on my Pandora playlist:

And because I really like this video done by Hideyuki Katsumata for Simone’s song Yakiimo

Media Monday: Funny, Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

February 8, 10 //
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Funny:

via Huffington Post

Inspirational:

via TED

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Motivational:

via ZenCrafting Ira Glass from NPR’s This American Life

Beautiful:

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Media Monday

February 1, 10 //
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Woos from Computer Arts on Vimeo.

I think this animation is pretty fantastic.  Found via a tweet from Computer Arts.

I use Dr. Bronner’s for everything from baby laundry to all-purpose cleaning.  It’s really great, all natural stuff.  This video starts with a pretty fantastic situation and then goes into what exactly makes Dr. Bronner’s “natural.”

Another funny iPad video.  I could fill a whole post with these really.  Just to warn, there is cussing, but it’s bleeped.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
I found that video and the following one both from The Huffington Post.

OK, so it’s a little weird, but intriguing in a way right?  I remember how much paper got wasted at the pharmacy where I worked.  This TP can’t be worse than the bulk junk they provided for us in the store.  You know you want a mini one to replace the paper shredder you use for junk mail.  Imagine the fun paper you could get after Christmas!  All that wrapping paper. :)