I’ve been waiting for Naomi’s return for a while now, and I’m glad she did! She just reopened The Time is Now and also her new shop, Antlered Kitsune that sells illustrations and papercuts done for her thesis, which is centered around the folklore characters kitsunes and the stag.

She’s also celebrating with a special offer for those who are interested in getting themselves her lovely items: free international shipping for the first three peeps who contact her via Etsy. Not only that, those who contact her will be entered into a raffle to win her papercut art cards!

It’s almost that time of the year again – the time when I get extreme wanderlust. I’m not sure if it’s the combination of throngs of people packing their bags for the very long weekend ahead (a big national holiday is here this week), or that I keep hearing people going off to some exotic destination (and if you’ll listen really carefully, you could hear me at the background begging for them to take me along.)

Either way, I wish more people could bring back sketchbooks filled with tales of their travels, like the what Emilie Boudet did for her trip to India.

Like this little nugget of wisdom about tea (I know quite a bit of tea-drinkers out there!) and a lot more other stuff that can be found on the Learn Something Everyday website. If nothing else, the facts you learn would make a great conversation starter. I’ll show you an example:

“Isn’t that your 10th cup of tea Amy?”
“Why, yes it is. What’s wrong with that?”
“Oh nothing really. You’re just 120 cups shy from meeting your great grand aunt.”
“But my great grand aunt is dead!”
“Exactly.”