Archive for October, 2007
Adventures in Roman Shades: The Continuing Story
It only took 18 months, but we hung our first Roman shade over the weekend.
In the down position, it looks exactly like what it is: an almost square (regardless of how it appears in this picture) piece of fabric hanging on the wall. Nothing very special about that. As such, I think it would look […]October Reading
As part of the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2007 Bookmark Challenge, I am encouraging stitchers to model the behavior we’re trying to promote: reading for fun. I am reading for fun every day. Okay, I read for fun every day of the year, but that’s beside the point.
The books that I’ve […]Clueless in Alaska Gets a Nod
I’ll say it again: I love Google Alerts!
I just found out (thanks to Google Alerts) that Clueless in Alaska was mentioned as a social studies resource during a Bering Strait School District Inservice earlier this week. Yay! I want teachers to know about this book, but I’m lousy at pushing it. I […]The Needlework Show Puzzle Contest
My puzzle contest for The Needlework Show was kinda hard, but those who did it seemed to enjoy it, even if they couldn’t get all 12 answers. Puzzles should be fun, even when you can’t solve them. And it should even be fun to think the puzzle-maker’s clues are dumb or just plain […]
January TNNA NeedleArts Market classes
I am teaching 3 classes at the TNNA NeedleArts Market in January. One of them is a Make-It/Take-It class: I will demonstrate how to organize and run an event, and I’m designing/preparing 10 projects that shop owners can take home and use. I’ve had a number of shop owners ask me for these […]
Taking Care of Business
The Needlework Show ended yesterday, or early this morning, so today I’m filling orders. You might think that this would be one of my favorite parts of the job–sales, yay!–but I confess it’s not. Why not? Because I am terribly inefficient and it takes for-EH-ver!
It’s gotten better over the years, but I’m […]Make-It/Take-It #2
We–Arctic Needle (shop), Arctic Needleworkers (guild), and Funk & Weber Designs (me)–had our second and final Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy Bookmark Make-It/Take-It on Saturday at the Muldoon Branch library in Anchorage.Wa-hoo! We had a smaller turnout here than at the main branch last week, but everyone stayed busy. Most guild members […]
Predictable Books
I’m listening to a YA audio book that I’ve been wanting to read for a couple of years. I’m not going to share the title because the truth is, I’m not crazy about the book. It’s not a bad book, but it’s not a great book, either, in my opinion. Since it […]
Books Via Listen Alaska
Reading and stitching, stitching and reading. How do you do this when you don’t have a Mike to read aloud while you stitch? Answer: Audio books.
Public libraries in Alaska offer downloadable audio books through Listen Alaska. I choose a book to download before I go to bed at night, the computer stays […]We’re Up At The Armchair Chef!
My Halloween recipe is up today at The Armchair Chef.
There have been a LOT of pumpkin recipes in this Halloween recipe countdown. My recipe is not a pumpkin recipe. In fact, my recipe isn’t very much like any of the recipes I’ve seen so far. Shrug. Big surprise, I know.
