Ming Makes Cupcakes, and Ming makes beautifully photographed cupcakes, with recipes and photos together in easily save-able/pin-able images.

In case your Instagram feed needs more babes, here are 5 plus size models (recently signed by IMG) to follow. That should ease your troubles.


Many of you know I have a great love for burlesque & showgirls. I was a burlesque photographer for many years, and still love the art! I’m lucky to live in Seattle, where we have such amazing performers as Sydni Deveraux (who also writes Veggie Powered Stripper and recently left us for NYC – good luck, girl!), Miss Indigo Blue who runs The Academy of Burlesque downtown, The Atomic Bombshells and our own La Petite Mort (read her articles here)!

Gordon Parks Backstage Showgirls

These photos from Gordon Park’s collection of showgirls backstage has me totally inspired!


Thank goodness for this! 15 things to do with your hair instead of throwing it into a bun – or as they so aptly put it – 15 Easy Hair Alternatives for “Mom Hair.”

A post in which Snoop Dogg and his fab French manicure don’t give a #$&! about your traditional gender roles.

Wow, fetish clothing from the 1920s is pretty much identical to what we consider fetish-wear today!

Lana Del Rey is working with Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys on her next album, titled Ultraviolence. She also just announced a new tour! I’m all over it. She ends the tour in Seattle (woohoo!) on May 27th.


Nothing will ever be as good as Willam’s makeup tutorial.


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Still love Lorde. Still listen to her album Pure Heroine at least three times per week. Still in love with this photo from her shoot with Tom Munro in Vogue March 2014.


From the Arctic to America, artist Leonid Tishkov has travelled the world with his illuminated crescent-shaped moon, bringing a sense of lyricism, and sometimes whimsy, to the places he lands.

ART: Leonid Tishkov Travels The World With His ‘Private Moon’

ART: Leonid Tishkov Travels The World With His ‘Private Moon’

“The moon is a shining point that brings people together from different countries, of different nationalities and cultures – and everyone who gets in its orbit does not forget it ever. it gives fairytale and poetry in our prosy and mercantile world,” Leonid writes. “The moon helps us to overcome our loneliness in the universe by uniting us around it.”


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Probably watching Netflix.