The Craft + Style blogosphere

My friend Alison works for Etsy and has begun a new blog for them, a compendium of assorted delightful oddities from around the world.

This week’s is particularly great.

The bus-cozy is one thing, but the figure sculpted from tobacco products is like a deranged Muppet.  I fucking love it.  It reminded me of this childhood gem:

Google Map of the 2008 Road Trip

It took longer than I thought (the google map; not the trip), but here it is.  Green flags are places we stayed, and pink is for random oddities.