It has been some time, so why don't we do some introductions for all who are still here!

Copy and paste in the comment section below with your answers. Say hello to your fellow members! Feel free to add or remove questions as you'd like. This is just a starting
<b>Your name:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Location:</b> <b>Five things you think are awesome:</b> <b>Three major dislikes:</b> <b>Movie you are most looking forward to seeing this year:</b> <b>Book you are most looking forward to seeing this year:</b> <b>Tv Show you are most looking forward to seeing this year:</b> <b>Hobbies:</b> <b>Favorite season:</b> <b>Favorite food:</b> <b>Favorite fandom(s):</b> <b>What do you look for in a friend:</b> <b>Are you looking to add friends on Dreamwidth currently?:</b> <b>Are you going to spread word about this community?:</b> <b>The optional gif part:</b>

Who all still follows this?
And is it worth reviving?

Leave a comment.

Hello COFFEEHOUSE! Long time, no chat. How've you been?


Like many Americans, I just spent some time with family this past week. I don't often see many of them and it was one of those stereotypical 'do you remember when...' gab sessions. We sat around telling familiar stories to each other. It made me think of various holiday traditions we've incorporated over the years as our family has expanded and how we always seem to make room for the old even when we have the new.

What sort of traditions do you have over the holiday season?
Is there a special dish that only a select few make? Is there a story a certain loved one always tells? Is there a gag gift that gets passed around? Is there an activity or place of interest you always try to visit? What are you looking forward to? What are you wishing you could avoid?

Any autumn/winter holiday - Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Diwali, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Years, Boxing Day, Valentine's Day, etc. - whichever you'd like to talk about.

Let's talk make-up! Or just general morning routines. Are you a roll-out-of-bed-and-go person, or do you try on at least six different outfits every morning? Spend an hour on your hair, or head out with it still wet? Can you not walk past a make-up department without checking out the lipstick colours, or have you never been quite sure what one does with lip liner?

What does your morning look like?

How long do you spend getting ready on an average morning?
What's your preferred weekday outfit? Weekend outfit?
If you wear make-up, what do you wear on an average day?
Do you ever go all-out? What does "all-out" mean to you?
Any products you really love?

- What is the last thing you finished reading?
- What are you reading right now?
- Anything knock your socks off lately? Tell us about it.
- Pick up a random book near you (the one you just finished or the one you're reading), go to a random page and share a sentence or two.

My Saturday September 14th...

Day in the Life challenge!

This could be a fun activity to close out the rest of September. If you're not familiar with the challenge, here's the basic run down: pick a random day, and during that day (or 24-hour period, however you want to define your day), take photos of all the things you do. Interesting or not-so-interesting. There's a few ways you can do it. Take one picture every hour. Take one picture every time you do something. Or, my personal favorite, just take pictures whenever you feel like it. Then you upload them all in a post, perhaps with some captions, so we can see what it's like to live a day in your life! :D

You can check out the LJ comm ditl for some examples of what a day in the life entry looks like.

ETA: By the way, you can post your DITL as a new entry to the comm or make an entry at your own journal and cross-post. Whichever you prefer!

Let's talk..


smartphone apps!

What are your favorite apps you'd recommend to people? How about games? Are you looking for any kind of apps in particular? Share with us!

(I think we can assume people know about standard apps like Facebook and Instagram, unless you know of some non-official app that works better than the official ones!)

Come find some friends/talk tv at tv_talk!

because i'm posting this, i thought it might be a good time to have a generic pimping-post? GOT A NEW COMM YOU LOVE? want some more members somewhere? Comment below with any pimps you have and i'll update the post with them.

:D

Hi Coffee House! How are things? Anyone feel like talking books?

BOOK TALK

What books have you been reading over the summer? Anything good? Bad?

- What is the last thing you read?
- What are you currently reading?
- What are you reading next?

Do you have any recommendations or want to know if someone has read something you're contemplating?

Congatulations to zhelana & naushika for being crafty in June!

I heard it's Canada Day -- HAPPY CANADA DAY!


Happy Monday to the rest of us (or Tuesday if you're in the future).



Since July is the 7th month, let's have 7 random questions:
What's your favorite cliche?
Which poem do you known by heart?
What is the book that changed your life?
What is your all-time favorite film?
Who is your favorite villan?
Who would you like to see play you in a film about your life?
What is your favorite hour of the day?

<b>What's your favorite cliche?</b> <b>Which poem do you known by heart?</b> <b>What is the book that changed your life?</b> <b>What is your all-time favorite film?</b> <b>Who is your favorite villan?</b> <b>Who would you like to see play you in a film about your life?</b> <b>What is your favorite hour of the day?</b>



Does anyone have any theme suggestions they'd like to see us try out?

In this month's food post, let's discuss...

Seasonal Eats!

I dunno about you all, but it's now reaching temperatures of over 100F/38C every day and for me, the types of foods I like to eat this time of the year are light, easy to make, and often not hot. I'm curious what you all like to eat this time of the year too!

What's in your summer foods repertoire? Snacks, meals, frozen treats? (Or if you're in the southern hemisphere, what's in your winter foods repertoire?)

(I'll definitely be making more than one post for this activity cause I love doing arts & crafts type stuff and I've got several projects going on at the moment, this is just the first one I've finished this month. XD)

I have an Ikea Expedit bookcase and a while ago I got some slide-in drawers to hold my comic books, and I decorated them. My comic collection is slowly expanding so I got some more drawers and decorated those and added them in. Behind the cut is way too many pictures of my decorating process of the two new drawers. :D

( Wow I'm sorry for how many pictures this ended up being )

I'll probably have a lot to share this month as I LOVE arts and crafts - but I'll start off with something new to me. I used to have a collection of ceramic dolphins, and they were all stolen when my brother in law robbed my house and stole almost all our sentimental things (and absolutely nothing of value, except some xanax, the jerk). Anyway, I made this a couple weeks ago to restart my collection. It's my first attempt with clay, and I don't think it turned out too badly!