The Wisdom of Mr. Wittitterly Peleena Cruickshank

I have not talked to my good internet pal Nikolaas, AKA DigiBudi in quite a while but had a good ol' time catching up on his blog today and reading about Mr. Wittitterly Peleena Cruickshank:

How dœs one clear the surface from all the junk and stuff that piles up? Simple, look at them one by one, take one negative thing or thought, and try to understand it. Look at it! Closer!

You can read more here...

Edie is Hung Up

I've always been a HUGE Grey Gardens fan so the prospect of Edie and Madonna mashed up, well, that is like a dream come true for this little panty hose wearing, somewhat shut-in, dances by herself superfreak. Thanks to Digibudi (my Belgian doppelganger) for the heads up on this vid. To quote U2, "Two hearts, beat as one..."



PS As I get older, I become more and more comfortable with the rather creepier Edie-sides of my personality. Sure, in some respects they are weird and crazy but in others, they are refreshing and all my own...at least, that is what the crazy agorophobic, absurdly dressed, lives with her sister, cat lady shouts to herself when walking alone down the street...

Mirabelle's Sweets for Digibudi

My friend Digibudi (AKA Nikolaas) has a super cool club and I wanna join it! The Club of Universal Lovers (not to be confused with The Club of Universal Losers - I am in that one too). Digibudi loves all things tasty such as Peter Cetera, sexy cupcakes, crafting, doodling, footloosing, fairytales - you name it!

And if Digibudi ever leaves Belgium to visit Burlington, I am gonna take him out to lunch at my favorite B-town lunch spot, Mirabelle's. I just know he would appreciate their towers of sugary treats and breakfast served 'till 2pm as much as I do.

In fact, these pics are making my mouth water a wee bit right now...Mmmm...Suzanne, when is our next two hour Sex and the City lunch break?! I got a hankering for some key lime pie...


Here is an excerpt from the most amazing Digibudi's recent letter (read the entire letter here) to someone named Manuel about LOVE:

For matters of the heart, you've come to the right place, I am a spy in the house of love since many, many years now, that's why the Digital Garden was build for. It is also build on the foundations of love. Universal love and personal love, but I think those two colide.

Maybe we won't be able to know everything about this strange and peculiar emotion during our lifetime, but we can try. And that is an accomplishment in itself. We should be proud.

Each love we find represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. These worlds are a process of becoming, combinations of feelings and emotions we have to go through. Rather then to maintain that feeling, we should try and let it go. This is in my opinion the greatest and most profound form of love. To let go of possesion, to let go of the 'wanting', we are closer, much closer with the object of our affection than ever.


Personal love is a very egocentric emotion, spiritual love, or universal love is a much healthier emotion or feeling. This doesn't mean you can't fall in love with someone and be truly happy together, but this means that when you do find a person you can travel with during your lifetime, it comes with a lot of responsibilities and rules. Universal love is much more free, at least in my opinion.

Many people in a relationship aren't happy. They don't feel fullfilled, because a personal love can't be fullfilling for a very long time.. unless, unless you combine it with the universal love. I think it's much better to start with universal love and than add a personal love to your life, than the other way around. This helps building up the so needed foundation and strenght you'll need to care for eachother. It's a heavy task, and it doesn't come for free. You have to invest in it. Otherwise it dies. Like each feeling, it is born, it lives and it dies. That's nature. And we're part of that.

And, oh yeah, don't forget to dance those blues away. :)
Welcome to the Club of Universal Lovers!

Cupcakes for Nikolaas!

Ballerinas, Cupcakes and Geppetto, Oh My!

My new YouTube friend from Belgium, Digibudi has a super duper lovely blog in which he addresses all the dreamiest topics of the day: crafting, walking by the beach, dancing to footloose, watching seagulls, sexy Galliano, fairytales, tinkering in his workroom and making the perfect cupcakes (see video below).

Digibudi is also an awesome illustrator and you can see hundreds of his whimsical drawings on his blog (one is above). Plus his list of people he wants to marry is rather impressive: Anais Nin, Gene Kelly, Picasso, Roald Dahl, Egon Schiele, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith. Hello, sign me up for a marriage license with any of these fine corpses (dear Maggie is not a corpse quite yet)!

Even better, Digibudi can relate to hard-working, obsessive Geppetto:

There has always been one character in dreamland that has been an inspiration to me, this is Geppetto, the maker/father of Pinocchio. Even as a child I compared myself to this character who makes wooden dolls in his little studio. I liked his solitude and his kindness. I liked the fact that he didn't want anything else but to make things with his hands that would come alive. He had no wife, no children, only this little black and white kitten and a marvelous working place, I'd like to call Geppetto's Dreamshoppe.

It's this picture of that workplace I always carried in the back of my mind while I was growing up. And last night I looked at my desk, with all the little compartements and drawers, stacked with thread and fabrics and buttons, that I was reminded again of this wonderful character, Geppetto. Oh I want to be like him when I'm older and wiser. To make things and to bring them alive, is the most wonderful experience I can imagine.

I must email the Blue Fairy one of these days, just to let her know that there's another Geppetto looking for some of that magical stardust she always carries with her. I'll sprinkle it all over my wooden desk, and I'll be sure to spill some on my drawings and puppets too. And I'm sure that when I go to bed, and I'll wake up the next morning, everything will be magic. Even more than it is now.
And this is no lie.

And now prepare yourself for the sexiest cupcakes the world has ever known, YUMMY: