Currently there are 506 items tagged “victoria” on Etsy.

Here are my favourite picks:

	Item: Dolly Victoria Seller: Oyster Jewelry Price: $185.00
	Item: Love Spell scented Red Massage Bar Glycerin Soap - Victoria Secret Type Fragrance Seller: specialty soap shop Price: $6.00
	Item: Victoria original aceo Seller: bn design Price: $10.00
	Item: Victoria Seller: justjussi Price: $60.00
	Item: Posh Seller: pir8t Price: $10.00

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Tags: canada, crafts, etsy, handmade, may 24, queen victoria, victoria, victoria day

Tags: bacon-wrapped, cliver barker, hellraiser, mr. potato head, pork, potatohead

… if they are, I have the recipe - cherry squirrel kebab, featuring “tasty squirrels, marinated in cherry brandy sauce for a great evening meal with rice and a salad”.

The ultimate ethical meal: a grey squirrel

It tastes sweet, like a cross between lamb and duck. And it’s selling as fast as butchers can get it

Caroline Davies
Sunday May 11, 2008
The Observer

It’s low in fat, low in food miles and completely free range. In fact, some claim that Sciurus carolinensis - the grey squirrel - is about as ethical a dish as it is possible to serve on a dinner plate.

The grey squirrel, the American cousin of Britain’s endangered red variety, is flying off the shelves faster than hunters can shoot them, with game butchers struggling to keep up with demand. ‘We put it on the shelf and it sells. It can be a dozen squirrels a day - and they all go,’ said David Simpson, the director of Kingsley Village shopping centre in Fraddon, Cornwall, whose game counter began selling grey squirrel meat two months ago.

At Ridley’s Fish and Game shop in Corbridge, Northumberland, the owner David Ridley says he has sold 1,000 - at £3.50 a squirrel - since he tested the market at the beginning of the year. ‘I wasn’t sure at first, and wondered would people really eat it. Now I take every squirrel I can get my hands on. I’ve had days when I have managed to get 60 and they’ve all sold straight away.’

Read the full story.

Hey Nat, what’s a nice wine to compliment squirrel kebabs?

Tags: ethical meat, grey squirrel, squirrel meat, urban free range, urban hunting, urban meat

Currently there are a whopping 8042 items tagged “mom” on Etsy.

Here are my favourite picks + one “omg, creepy” and one wtf:

	Item: Mother and Dad - Little People Seller: superfay Price: $20.00
	Item: She Works For Her Dreams - a Greeting Card Seller: allisonstrine Price: $5.00
	Item: Berlin -A Maple Wood Pendant Seller: ZephyrWoods Price: $8.00
	Item: Mothers Day Star Pendant Seller: oliviamoon Price: $12.00
	Item: Weathered Tree Pendant Seller: MadisonReeceDesigns Price: $12.00
	Item: Raining Daisy Pin Seller: chicbeadsbygermaine Price: $27.00
	Item: Baby Face Tile w/Tattoo (and nose ring) Seller: SusanKniffinDavidson Price: $40.00
	Item: Smoking Mother’s Day Card Seller: BrianKennyChicago Price: $9.00

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Tags: arts and crafts, ceramic, crafts, diy, dreams, etsy, gifts, greeting card, handmade, mom, mother, mother's day, pendant, smoking mom, tattoo baby

The Notwist The Devil, You + Me Release date: June 2008 The Devil, You + Me is the forthcoming [insert music-review cliché] release from these German indie/electronic geniuses. OMG - it’s so good!! You might remember them for 2002’s Neon Golden, a release which often comes up in conversation to this day despite its vintage. This is one of my favourite bands. I wooed my husband with this band. Go and woo someone with this band, you won’t be sorry. … and they like birds. Neat, um ’cause I like birds. Hmmm… what have we got on the cover here, a red-winged blackbird, a heron, a wood duck, some type of merganser??	Download Good Lies
Download Three Woman … courtesy of Stereogum	Stereolab Chemical Chords Release date: August 2008 Kings and queens of the vintage Moog, every release from Stereolab is a release to celebrate. I’ve only heard Three Women, but I love the horns and the arrangements - it’s a fantastic start. Pitchfork has the interview. P.S. if you dig this kind of twee, do yourself a favour and check out "The Free Design". The band released seven albums from 1967 to 1972 and they will blow you away for two reasons: 1) ’cause no one makes music like that anymore; 2) connecting the dots from The Free Design to modern bands is fun, just like kites…
The Dandy Warhols Earth to The Dandy Warhols Release date: May 2008 This one kind of came out of left field for me. I didn’t think there would be another album from the Dandy’s after Odditorium or Warlords of Mars… I dunno, I guess I imagined that Courtney’s head would have imploded by now, what with the crushing weight of that giant ego. Ouch. But I love you Courtney! Really, I’m just jealous of your drama. Anyhow, the first track is promising. I’m excited and you should be too.	Download The World The People Together (Come On) … courtesy of Stereogum

Tags: 4AD, beat the world, chris dedrick, city slang, dandy warhols, electronica, indie, kites are fun, new music, stereolab, the dedricks, the free design, the notwist, twee

Tags: antiwar, awkward advances, libido, make love not war, make sexual advances not war, peaceful protest

From the beginning we’ve agreed to try to keep things as simple, economic and eco-friendly as possible. You just don’t need a ton of stuff to raise a happy, healthy baby (they say having never had a baby… LOL).

Then we saw it. The thing we didn’t anticipate. The kryptonite to our conviction. The geek-gadget that would obliterate our parental notions in less than three seconds flat…

The High Definition Digital Video Monitor:

remote digital zoom and pan? check. night vision? check. colour screen? check. rechargeable? check. handheld, portable monitor? check.

There we were, only five minutes earlier hmmming and ahhhhing over ten dollars for three funky-designed receiving blankets vs. six dollars for four plain ones, giddily walking away with our $300 “impulse” purchase and not thinking twice about it… and so the battle begins.

One point for the completely superfluous consumer goods team and zero for the weak-bladdered, tech-loving, nerdy parents to be…

Tags: babies, babies r us, baby gadgets, baby goods, baby monitor, babyberry, crackberry, gadgets, parenting, safety 1st, video monitor

Currently there are 143 items tagged “consciousness” on Etsy.

Here are six of my favourite picks:

	Item: shift happens - tiger eye pendant Seller: CreativeArtandSoul Price: $22.00
	Item: Cosmic Consciousness 1 Seller: immaculateheart Price: $85.00
	Item: Wall Lettering - happiness is a conscious choice Seller: VinylDesignAndDecor Price: $15.99
	Item: BE Conscious Pendant Seller: katiecrawley Price: $25.00
	Item: Labradorite Spiral Line Round Pendant Seller: elementsilverjewelry Price: $59.99
	Item: Birdhouse for a Bluebird/ Eco Friendly BIrd Seller: Birdtiques Price: $175.00

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Tags: albert hoffman, birdhouse, consciousness, crafts, diy, etsy, handmade, happiness, pendant

Inspired by i can has cheezburger, lolbeatlz offers a slightly different take on the whole “cutely and ungrammatically captioned” LOL movement.

Tags: beatles, beatlz, i can has cheezburger, lolcats, lolwalrus

Tags: godzilla, zilla