misosouper, a shopping blog

‘Tis the season for Mother’s Day gift guides (my gift picks will be up next week).

Rounding them up:

Real Simple makes it, well, real simple

Cool Mom Picks:  because moms know what other moms want

Great giveaways over at An Ordinary Life and Tech Savvy Mama

Someone Spoil Me has teamed up with People’s StyleWatch to offer its gift guide at 20% off

Etsy gets in the game with guides for jewelry, new mothers, classic gifts, and greetings & flowers

If I left your gift guide out, let me know in the comments!

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why this McSweeney’s bundle–featuring the hilarious, illustrated Noisy Outlaws and the thoughtful, unillustrated Future Dictionary of America–is only $9.  Plus, you get a free CD, with rarities from R.E.M., Tom Waits, David Byrne, Death Cab for Cutie, and Elliott Smith.

But hey!  Why I am complaining?  I think that’s what the Future Dictionary would call “ungrateful.”

1.  In celebration of Earth Day, Ideeli is giving away an Amazon Kindle–in 5 hours.  Start your engines, and sign up for Ideeli (and the contest) here:  http://www.ideeli.com/invite/misosouper

2.  In other giveaway news, check out vivabox’s Mother’s Day contest; I’m a judge, along with some other fantastic bloggers, like Jolie Nadine, Aly Walansky of SheKnows (among other places), and Andrea Proulx of Mommas Review.  Write an essay for your mama, and you could win a vivabox full of goodies for Mother’s Day AND your mom’s birthday.

3.  Have you entered misosouper’s awesome giveaway from Miss Indie yet?  Do it!

4.  I’ve been writing a series of guest posts for Indie Fixx, and some readers have been e-mailing me/commenting with follow-up questions about working, promoting, and surviving in the biz.  On Friday, I’ll dedicate a post to some proper answers, so if you have anything pressing you want to ask (really…anything!  I can’t guarantee that I’ll answer all the questions, but ask away), e-mail me at anna {at} misosouper.com, or leave a comment on this post.

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photo by radio rover, who shares both my aesthetic and sense of humor

This big ear ring will make it so much easier for your kids to locate your lost keys.  (What?  They’re the ones who hid them in the litter box.)

As low-tech as the robot plant was high:  a rock that has been hollowed to a vase.  Beauty in simplicity, no?