Second Look Sunday 30 August 2015

In 1916, a man mailed a building to Utah. He needed to build a bank, but his construction materials were 126 miles away. He packaged 80,000 bricks into boxes and mailed them. They got there, but the US postal service was not amused.

For those of you have ever wondered, “how do they eat while they’re riding those long bike rides?”

21 Obscenely pretty beauty products that should be in a museum.

The police officer who leaked the footage of the surfers paradise police brutality, where the victims blood was washed away by officers, has been criminally charged for bringing it to the public’s view. Officers who did the bashing get nothing.

Letter a parent received from their daughters school today. Her Wonder Woman lunchbox features a violent super hero that does not comply with the school’s dress code.

Did you know that “inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx?

How cats became rulers of the internet…

This week I posted about about an embroidered dog portrait I made for Mum and the new blog look. I’d love your thoughts on both…

Hard time cluttering? The “IKEA bias”makes you place a disproportionately high value on stuff you partially assemble yourself, regardless of the quality of the end result.

What happens when a fashion blogger lets her Mum dress her for a week?

Modern struggles:“Phantom Vibration Syndrome” where a person perceives a vibration from their device when, in fact, it’s not doing so and may not even be in the vicinity.

And for this weeks aww…… I give you a pole dancing cat and these dogs that couldn’t possibly know how cute they are.