Archive for December, 2008
First Book Donation
Part of the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program is fund raising for literacy programs. A minimum of 10% of profits from Needle and Thread patterns are donated to literacy non-profits. Funk & Weber Designs made a donation to First Book this week. Until the end of the year (that would be tomorrow), Random [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program promotion goal for the week and fess up on last week’s goal. Eek! I’m a bit behind my time, to say the least. Pretend today is Monday, okay? Last week my goal was to work [...]
Carpe Diem
What’s on my mp3 player? Carpe Diem, by Autumn Cornwell. I am not the most-informed of bloggers. (cough-understatement-cough) With one foot in the needlework camp, one in the kidlit camp, a hand in the miscellaneous craft camp, the other on the line between the Alaska home-and-garden and outdoor adventure camps, it’s no wonder things seem [...]
A Woman Tenderfoot
One of the books I received for Christmas is A Woman Tenderfoot, by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson (copyright 1900). Here’s the copy on the back of the book: Writer and outdoorswoman, feminist and devoted wife, pioneer and adventurer, these things and more describe Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. In this charming and unusual book (first published in 1900), [...]
Holiday Music Gift
I asked my nephews and niece for a holiday gift this year: I wanted a song, sung by the three of them, preferably in harmony. This is what I got. I offer it to you, with their permission. Here are The Stones. (Really, I’m not making that up.) Happy Holidays!
Holiday Song Killer
Be-oo-tiful day here! We got a couple of inches of new snow overnight, so we awoke to freshly flocked trees. A few clouds clung to the mountains to make the long slow sunrise pink and interesting, but the rest of the sky was clear. Very Christmas-y. We’re going to juxtapose this cheery goody-two-shoes scenery with [...]
Holiday Mosaic-Part 4
We had a glue crisis for a while–meaning we didn’t have any–so the project was delayed for about a week. You think twice before “running out for glue” when the glue is 100 miles away. I believed my holiday project was destined to be a summer project, and began to think about sewing shades (still [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program promotion goal for the week and fess up on last week’s goal. Last week my goal was to contact Laura at The Handwork Studio. Well, technically, I guess I failed, but it feels less like [...]
The Goose Girl
What’s on my mp3 player? The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale. How much am I enjoying this book? It’s well below freezing outside, and I’m looking for reasons to be out and about so I can listen to the story. I walk more slowly to and from the mailbox in spite of numbing wind, just [...]
Sunrise…Sunset
It gets light outside between 10 and 10:30 and is darkish by 4:00, but the mountains to the south block most of the direct sunlight this time of year. Sunrise: 1:43 p.m. Sunset: 2:14 p.m. We’re playing kind of fast and loose with the terms “rise” and “set.” It’s more like sun-entrance-stage-right and sun-exit-stage-left, with [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
