Okay – I’m being lazy? – or just wanting something different to rest my mind having completed an article about clematis for a journal and lots of posts in preparation for going on holiday and… – so have been looking at the Internet and some recommended sites just to see something of what’s out there.. so much!
So here are some sites I’ve looked at for Ladies and others.
Nailsomething.tumblr.com
For those of you who like the new nail art and I confess I think it’s fun and have started having my nails painted different colours (3 one shade and 2 another for instance) or using the new varnishes – currently they are shellacked as per my birthday present from my daughter. A lovely sparkle over a deep plum. And then I had them painted deep witchy green with a sparkle. So I looked on this site for inspiration and fun. Have you ever thought of having your nails painted as Simpson Characters? Or as part of a painting – Picasso for instance? Well, see what other clever people have done. I confess I tried some dots and they weren’t good but practice I guess..
On a more serious note a great book site for women –
Forbookssake.net. ‘For and by independent women’ , is its strap line and lots of good ideas for what to read and conversations with authors and of course you all know ‘GoodReads’ which has some good groups to join with book challenges and so on. I challenged myself to read 125 books last year, and made it!
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/ like Amazon suggests what you should read next but without the money element. So I put in Nora Roberts the series about the detective and it offered me Catherine Coulter; Heather Graham; Lara Adrian; Nalini Singh; Shelly Laurenston; Stephanie Laurens; Tami Hoag (who I do also love); Sherrilyn Kenyon; Amanda Quick; and Christine Feehan. None of which apart from Tami Hoag had I heard of, so I shall search these authors out in the future.
Then there’s SoulPancake.com, a site with a mix of art, culture, philosophy and so on; and some conversations that you may or may not think are good or even useful – with some really bad spelling. Why do people think that just because you are commenting on a website, you can spell anyway you want? Don’t they ever check what they say? I confess I do get the odd mistake from time to time – but at least I try…
On a general note – for everyone – probably especially my husband who LOVES QI (I have some great QI facts to share in due course) there is mentalfloss.com. There’s even a magazine you can purchase with them. Lots of lists and so on…
Then there’s Engrish.com with Misspelled wording and poorly written grammar,
This is a site that takes photos from all over the world of things like signs or product packaging that are riddled with spelling and grammatical mistakes, or just convey an entirely different message due to translation errors and extreme unfamiliarity with the English language. There are lots of different categories for the spelling errors and I just had to check out Stationery. The number of stores that just can’t spell this! But it was about stationery and the funny things written on it by – mostly – Japanese manufacturers. I always say just remember the little saying:
E for envelope and a for car and why will you then have a problem? But don’t get me going on the apostrophe!
A nice site is http://webtrends.about.com/. They will even teach you how to make an Internet meme – you can waste a lot of time on that!
I also waste time on Zulily. Now here is a shopping site par excellence. You can get all sorts especially cute stuff for kids from small designers and occasionally well known designer end of lines, at a tremendous discount. Not much for men and some stuff for the household but seriously shopping addictive – warm up that credit card!
http://shutupandtakemymoney.com/ is another shopping site, but this is full of useless but addictive items eg mugs with pictures that come and go with hot or cold water – and something possibly more useful – a car desk that you can use when on the road for business…
And finally, in my list here, there’s www.theuselessweb.com. This will take you to a new site every time you click on it, some will be fun, some will be quirky, some will be …..
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