Archive for October, 2009
Stitching for Literacy Update
From the Accents, Inc. 2009 Bookmark Challenge collection. 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 start matching libraries that want to receive bookmarks with [...]
Reading Roundup
In the mad scramble to get here and settle in, I haven’t had a whole lot of time to read. Instead of sharing a not-completely-formed-and-likely-to-change opinion of my BIP (book in progress), I think I’ll ask and answer a question readers often ask of one another. What book made you a reader? Yes, I’m asking [...]
Home Sweet Lodge
We’re here at the lodge. Just the two of us now. Ahhhhh. We’re about fifty miles from Seward… …as the Dall porpoise swims, only about fifteen miles as the raven flies, over mountains and icefield. Dall porpoises might be my favorite sea animal out here. They look like little orcas, and they approach and follow [...]
The Cat’s Whiskers
Janie Hubble, owner of The Cat’s Whiskers Design Studio in Perth, Western Australia, is the latest needlearts designer to come on board with a bookmark design for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program. Her Batty About Books bookmark is part of a group of Halloween-themed accessories which will be available as a class [...]
