Archive for November, 2007
NaNo-NoGo
Remember the 50,000-word novel I was writing this month? It seems I’ve thrown in the towel. Granted, I’ve still got 2 weeks and could do something super-human in that time, but my heart and attention are on needlework at the moment, so I don’t see it happening. Quitting isn’t something I do often. In fact, […]
Working
I was up at 5:30 this morning, and it’s 9:30 now. Except for a shower, a walk to the mailbox, an exercise video, and an occasional bite of food, I’ve been working on one of my TNNA classes: stitching, finishing, taking notes, making lists. I really should take a picture of my disaster…er, work area, […]
Children’s Book Week
Children’s Book Week is here! We’ve got 3 more days to complete our bookmarks for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2007 Bookmark Challenge.
Make time this week to grab a kid and a book and Read-it, Read-it. Or call a kid and talk about books. Or give a kid a book.
Visit your […]Creativity
Today I am proofing and packaging my latest assignment in the EGA ICC I’m taking, The Art of Teaching Embroidery. The subject is Creativity, and it was a fun section. Have you ever explored the creative process objectively? I don’t think I have. Creativity seems natural to me, an innate ability of humans. It’s interesting […]
Kiki Magazine
I recently discovered a new tween girl magazine, Kiki. I called a bunch of bookstores in Anchorage and Palmer yesterday, hoping to find a copy that Mike could pick up, but no one had it. They all know about it now, though. I want to write for this magazine! But I need to get a […]
The Next Let There Be Night Stitchling
I had an idea for our next Let There Be Night Stitchling. (The black-and-white Stitchlings.) I have a short list of possibilities, but this was a brand new idea. A white tiger. I love big cats.
And then I did some research on white tigers. They rarely occur in the wild, which comes as no surprise, […]Bookmark Challenge Update
Sue from Nordic Needle sent news about their Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2007 Bookmark Challenge collection. To date, they’ve received over 100 bookmarks from 15 different states (MN, KY, WI, IA, NV, CA, TX, AZ, MA, MO, MI, OR, PA, UT and SC) and three foreign countries (UK, New Zealand, and Bermuda).
How great […]November Kid-Lit Doings
If you’re not already stealing time from your regularly scheduled activities like eating, showering, and sleeping to scratch out a 50,000-word novel in November with the other 90,000+ NaNoWriMos, then perhaps you’d like to check out these other reading/writing events.
We’re entering Week 4 of Blogging for a Cure. Children’s book illustrators who have created snowflakes […]Tag, You’re It: 8 Random Things
Wheat tagged me with the “8 Random Things” meme. I did this last spring when I was tagged on my critique group blog, so I’m going to have to dig deep so as not to repeat myself.
The rules of the meme are, more or less:
1. Blame it on someone (I blamed it on Wheat above)
2. […]The Needlework Nutshell: Bookmark Baubles
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This month’s […]
