Thank you for your kind indulgence. Regular posting and once-a-week link dumps will return on Monday.<\/p>\n
Halloween Craft Roundup<\/a> – Several cute projects; I particularly like the crocheted spiderweb corbels.<\/p>\n The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows<\/a> – Suggestions for words which describe hard-to-explain feelings like vellichor<\/i> (“the strange wistfulness of used bookstores”) and rubatosis<\/i> (“the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat”).<\/p>\n Plush Narwhal Tutorial<\/a> – Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, because they are so awesome. Now that I have that song stuck in your head, go look at the pod of plush narwhals because they are really cute.<\/p>\n Free Antique Illustrations<\/a> – The British Library has released over a million images from its collection online for free. (Bonus link: BoingBoing<\/a> mentions the project and includes a glorious assemblage of covers from vintage “adventure” magazines. I think my favorite bit is that the “weasel attack” victim looks startlingly like David Bowie.)<\/p>\n Sticky Page Markers<\/a> – Sets of stickers for marking book pages that let you create scenes of Godzilla attacking Tokyo, aliens in a Martian landscape, and Nessie undulating in and out of the water.<\/p>\n Skeleton Cupcakes<\/a> – I’m leery of complex edible cupcake toppers, but these skeletons made from yogurt-covered pretzels and marshmallows look reasonably straightforward. The related bag of bones<\/a> snacks are even easier.<\/p>\n Victorian Trading Company<\/a> – Their Halloween section has lots of good-looking Halloween home decor items. (Hat tip to Kathy)<\/i><\/p>\n Magical Unicorn Champagne Horn<\/a> – Plastic drinking “horn” and base.<\/p>\n 8 Horrifying Moments From Classic Kids Cartoons<\/a> – The people who complain about inappropriate content in today’s cartoons never lived through the 30s.<\/p>\n JIMBOBART<\/a> – Etsy shop with the tagline, “Drawer of things on things” which specializes in weirdly whimsical dishware featuring wolves who guard your snacks<\/a> and mice who perform for cakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thank you for your kind indulgence. Regular posting and once-a-week link dumps will return on Monday. Halloween Craft Roundup – Several cute projects; I particularly like the crocheted spiderweb corbels. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – Suggestions for words which describe hard-to-explain feelings like vellichor (“the strange wistfulness of used bookstores”) and rubatosis (“the unsettling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25768,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions\/25768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}