Refrigerator magnets, on the move January 17, 2013
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Kitchen & Bath, Smiley.Tags: Kitchen, Magnet, Smiley
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I’ve had this happy magnet for ages. It’s part of a whole gang of smiley (and not-so-smiley) faces that lives on my refrigerator.
The gang isn’t exclusive — these smileys do pal around with other smileys, including a different style of “cool” smiley, some of the smiley clips I’ve featured on the blog before, and — not in this photo, but in the vicinity — a smiley face for the state of Wisconsin, where we lived for a few years.
But lately, this particular gang of smileys has been commuting to work: they’re serving double-duty on my dishwasher. I use the traditional smiley when the dishes are clean, the frown when the dishes are dirty, and, once, the mischievous leer when I ran a cleanse cycle on the empty dishwasher.
Reader-submitted stencil(?) January 7, 2013
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Public art, signs, & graffiti, Reader submission, Smiley.Tags: Graffiti, Public Art, Reader submission, Smiley
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I was browsing Facebook shortly after Christmas and I spotted this plywood stencil in a friend’s photos:
This is in Portland, “Where even the trash is happy,” according to my friend Monica. I told her I had to steal it for my blog, and she was happy to let me have it!
If I’d been quicker — by which I mean, if I hadn’t been slumping around in sweatpants feeling lazy from post-holiday food indulgences — I would have jumped in the car and tried to grab this off the street. But alas, it didn’t happen.
I will, however, keep an eye out for wherever this thing got painted onto a street or a building. Surely it won’t be that hard to find? ๐
Hot pads January 3, 2013
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Kitchen & Bath, Smiley.Tags: Hot Pads, Kitchen, Smiley
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More from the Aunt Cheryl Christmas haul: this time, a set of eight hot pads in four different designs!
That’s a whole meal’s worth of hot, happy dishes I can set out on the table! ๐
Here are some close-ups:
Happy New Year! December 31, 2012
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Art, Holidays, Smiley.Tags: Art, Holidays, New Year, Smiley
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Apron December 27, 2012
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Kitchen & Bath, Smiley.Tags: Apron, Kitchen, Smiley
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And so begins the l o n g series of posts featuring ALL the smiley-related gifts I got for Christmas this year:
This apron was part of a whole slew of smiley kitchenย paraphernalia my Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Sandy sent me. I’m going to try to keep it clean — no making pasta sauces in this apron! — but I am, in fact, already wearing it in the kitchen, starting on Christmas morning when it was fresh out of the box!
BONUS: Smiley + Smiley December 25, 2012
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Holidays, Smiley.Tags: Christmas, holiday, Smiley
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Merry Christmas again, happy readers! This morning, after presents and chocolate, my wife and I sat down to breakfast (homemade “Dutch babies“) and when I took up my mug to sip my coffee, Aunt Smiley broke into sudden laughter and told me not to move. Then she grabbed the camera and snapped this photo.
“It was just too perfect,” she told me. “Even the hats are drooping on the same side!”
(And yes, I got a load of new smiley gear, so look forward to new pics later this week!)
Merryย Christmas! December 24, 2012
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Decor, Holidays, Smiley, The Great Enabler.Tags: Christmas, Decor, Holidays, Smiley, The Great Enabler
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Two years ago, for this blog’s first Christmas post, I shared my plush smiley santa ornament.
Last year, I received a new smiley Santa ornament, this one painted glass with my name on it. It was a gift from (you guessed it) my dear mother-in-law, the Great Enabler.
So this year, I’m happy to share it with you on Christmas Eve! ๐
And whatever your religion or your holiday practices, I hope you have a very, very happy season.
Santa smiley December 20, 2012
Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Art, Holidays, Smiley.Tags: Art, Holidays, Santa, Smiley
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Just in time for the end of the world, most of our holiday cards have arrived at their destinations, bringing seasonal cheer and warm wishes for our last hours on Earth….
Wait. I’m confusing Christmas with the Mayan apocalypse.
Let me start over….
Holiday cards are a team effort in the Smiley household, with my wife taking the role of addresser (she has better penmanship) while I check the addresses (I have the iPod). And then we sign each card — and, for friends and family, I sometimes doodle this little Santa smiley on the card, as well!
Happy holidays, everybody! See you all back here on Monday! (No, really — I promise….)
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