Marin over at The Rickety Blog is hosting a giveaway of a few absolutely useless but thoroughly entertaining items from the website All Modern.
To encourage the fact that she decided not to foist some scratchy, knitted wool socks on us all in some misguided attempt to appear generous and stylishly abundant, I’m providing a shout-out and a link so that you can cruise on over, read her (very entertaining) blog and even register to win a . . . uhm . . . self-warming dog food bowl?
Because Fido is in need of some high-style livin’!
Link to Marin: Contest! Win a Fabulous Prize!
Really, once you get to know her, it all starts to make sense.
She’s the queen of the footnotes, by the way. I’ve never seen a blog so completely reliant on footnotes for enriching, sweetening and otherwise rescuing what at times borders on suspiciously middling content. And as much as I hate to publicly admit it (her head will swell three sizes too big), her cheery, scattershot writing style has influenced my own life (if not website) for the better.
There, I said it. I’ll probably want to take it back.
When I first started reading her site, I thought, “Oh god, a knitting blog!” — but it’s a knitting blog that’s witty, clever, sometimes vulgar and most often totally self-deprecating in the most personally humiliating and yet hilarious ways.
What other knitting blog could go into such great detail over a personal feud with the local post office? Or a declared war on Stupid Sparkly Vampires? Or the soul-crushing, mind-numbing tedium of life at the office?
But Marin even ups the ante with her sports geekdom, glitter fandom, uber Best-Aunt-Ever act, and she can trash talk with the best of them, too (besides which, she handles accessories advice with complete aplomb — always gold-star worthy in my book).
So go visit her site, enter her giveaway and make her feel like the truly valued member of our “I’m So Glad I Only Know You Via The Internet!” club that she so spectacularly is.
A battery-powered, leopard-print dog food bowl might just be in your future (and I think there may even be a magazine rack tucked in there somewhere).
You’re welcome.
