If you are a garlic lover who also happens to enjoy seafood, you almost certainly adore shrimp scampi. The butter, garlic and shrimp make for a heavenly trio of rich flavors your tongue just can't get enough of. 

When you're looking for a new way to enjoy this taste sensation, this shrimp scampi dip by Closet Cooking is a great way to go. On top of the usual scampi ingredients, this masterpiece adds in cream cheese, sour cream, mozzerella and parmesean for an unfortgetably complex, savory treat your party guests won't be able to forget any time soon.

Chances are you had a rocking horse as a youngster and you probably loved it too. These days, you can always get a rocking chair, but they just aren't so fun and getting a rocking horse that can hold your weight would just be silly. Instead, just talk to designers Lanzavecchia and Wai so you can get the Rocking Bench or Seat into your home.

This fun furniture featured on Home & Hues operates like either a standard rocking horse or a seesaw if you get the two-seated model. Best of all, their chic, minimalist design actually looks fantastic so you don't have to feel like a weirdo having a giant rocking horse in your house.

Want more fun home furnishings? Don't miss these other great Homes & Hues articles:

• The Balance Bookshelf
• Recycled Tire Baskets
• Casetta, The House-Shaped Bed

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Terrarium crafts are fun to make and they look fantastic, but usually you can just leave them on a countertop or hang them on your wall. But thanks to Etsy seller ThehouseofBoo, now you can actually wear terrarium crafts wherever you go.

Even better, these great pieces of jewelry features characters and icons from Star Wars so your jewelry can be geeky and fashionable all at once. You can even be on the Dark Side or the Light with Luke, Han, Darth, Stormtroopers and more. They also sell adorable little plush toys inspired by the sci fi classic as well.

Via Fashionably Geek

If there's one thing The Beeroness knows, it's how to make heavenly food with beer -like chocolate stout cheesecake fudgesicles and chocolate beer biscotti.

As football season playoffs start to get underway, beer is an even better snack staple and if you really want to have something that screams football, it's hard to beat this fantastic-looking buffalo chicken beer cheese dip with all the flavors of buffalo wings combined with delicious beer and cheese. Of course, even if you don't know the difference between a touchdown and a hand off, this stuff still looks and sounds delightful.

There are a lot of fun 2013 end-of-year stories floating around right now, but if your interest remains solely with cute critters, then you'll want to check out Today's list of the top cute moments of the year. You can even vote for your favorite cute story.

Right now the top voted story is the tale of a Kentucky K-9 officer whose human partner died, and he rested his paw on the coffin of his fallen partner. Personally though, I'm a sucker for the orphaned horse who found comfort with a teddy bear at a local sanctuary.

We do a lot of fun artist takes based on movies and TV shows, but I know smarty pants like you Neatonauts are also big fans of books. So, for all you bibliophiles out there, here are a few artist’s takes on some great books.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Artist Jason Edmiston did this great take on cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde for a Gallery 1988 show, called Required Reading, that was put on back in 2011.

The Lord of the Flies

The dark, creepy artwork in this cover by DeviantArt user artlyric is perfect for William Golding’s tale of young boys turning totally primal after their plane crashes on an abandoned island.

Moby Dick

DeviantArt user lovedagoldens’ digital painting of Moby Dick is utterly beautiful, and his layout is simply perfect in this alternate cover for Melville’s classic whale of a tale.

The Origin of Species

Darwin’s classic treatise on evolution has never looked so fun and approachable as it does in this fantastic illustration Delicious Design League created for the Required Reading Gallery 1988 show.

Catch 22

New Years Eve is coming up on us fast and while many people will be out and about for the holiday, plenty of others will be spending the night at home (myself included). If you have pets, you'll probably want them to spend the holiday with them. 

To get your little ones ready for the celebration, Buzzfeed has a great article showing you how to make your own tiny party hats perfect for a cat or small dog (if you have a big dog, regular human party hats will probably work fine).

Happy New Year everyone!

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We've previously featured some of the great jewelry designs by artist Paul Michael, including his Han Solo and Death Star rings. If you like his style, but not big on Star Wars, here's one you might dig instead -a ring based on Wonder Woman's fantastic tiara. It's a fantastic gift for any lady who happens to be into strength and power.

The ring is made from warm rose gold and the star features five custom-cut kite-shaped rubies.

Via Fashionably Geek

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Those who aren't cuteficionado often don't realize how drastically different two levels of cute can be. After all, there is new-born-baby-smiling-for-the-first-time cute, and then there is corgi-falling-in-the-snow-in-slow-motion cute. Sure, many parents will probably believe that the baby is cuter, but if you're an expert in the adorable, then you almost certainly recognize that corgis are pretty much more precious than just about anything else on earth -especially when they act goofy in slow motion. 

In other words, Lucy here might just be the cutest thing ever.

Via Cute Overload

We recently learned about what the McDonald's in France wrongly thinks "American" food is, and now it's time to learn what McDonald's in Japan think makes up the history of American food thanks to their upcoming "American Vintage" menu.

The restaurant is taking a trip down memory lane, starting with the fifties. So what is fifties American food like? Apparently cheeseburgers with mashed potatoes and steak sauce, and honey mustard, cheddar and bacon chicken sandwiches (actually, this one sounds pretty good). The next month, the seventies will hit the scene, which seems to mean simply throwing the word "groovy" in front of pretty standard sandwiches. Last up are the eighties burgers, which are even more half-assed as they are pretty much just BBQ burgers and chicken sandwiches that the chain claims are based on pop culture.

Ehhh, not everything can be double shiny bacon.

Via FoodBeast

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Pretty much every gamer knows that the best reason to get married is because it's dangerous to go alone. That sentiment was once again repeated with Redditor Blakplague's Christmas marriage proposal to his girlfriend.

The great Zelda-inspired box was designed by Etsy seller Turbo Toaster Studios, who sells quite a few other cool gaming-inspired boxes in their shop.

No word on whether the girlfriend in question actually said yes, but we would hope so with this kind of a fantastic and nerdy proposal. I know I sure would!

Via When Geeks Wed

While you might not see cats playing Nintendo all that often, there are still at least a few of them out there who are big fans of the old school gaming system. After all, we've already seen some great Super Mario cat hats and a Mario cat tree. Now you can even let your cat teleport from one place to another using a Mario Bros warp pipe cat climber. 

Or at least, you could if you follow some of the steps seen on this Imgur album by WesWoodward.