Archive for November, 2009
Stitching for Literacy Update
Another bookmark stitched by our friend, Bev in MI. 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. I feel a little guilty calling this a Stitching for Literacy Update post because [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
A bookmark stitched by our friend, Bev. 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 I had three goals. 1. Complete homework for our guru. Done. I did my [...]
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? I Am the Ice Worm, by MaryAnn Easley. Recently, my Recommended Reading list included a bunch of adventure novels from a list compiled by an Alaskan librarian. I was able to get my hands on a number of them, and this is the first of the lot. Fourteen-year-old California girl, Allison, [...]
BeNaNoWriMo Update
The BeNaNoWriMo word count goal is officially raised from 25,000 to 35,000. You see, Becca’s getting some help.While Becca’s at work all day, Ninja is home whispering clever dialogue and plot twists into the magic Wizard’s hat. When Becca puts it on to do her writing, Ninja’s ideas leak into Becca’s head and out her [...]
Thursday Sighting
Stop the uploading! We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post to report a special and rare sighting. After I wrote my 2,000 words this morning, I got up to do a lap around the room. I made my usual stops, first at the east window, then at a south window, and finally at the west [...]
NaNo How-To
Writers rave ad nauseam about the writing process and how amazing and powerful it is, how stories and characters take on lives of their own. I admit I get sick of hearing about it. But, dang, I am loving what’s happening as I NaNo. The ideas and characters, the discoveries, the occasional insight, it’s all [...]
Winter Blog Blast Tour
For several years, Colleen over at the Chasing Ray blog has been organizing twice-a-year author blog tours. Every day for a week, five or six authors are interviewed on five or six kidlit blogs. Yesterday was the beginning of the 2009 Winter Blog Blast Tour. Having a winter blast. I look forward to these every [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
This bookmark uses one of the finishing methods we’ll learn in the Bookmarks 101: Simple, Smart, and Swanky Finishes class beginning today at The Stitchers’ Village. 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 [...]
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Nothing I want to name here, unfortunately, since it is my policy to speak only of books I like in such a public venue. If anyone wants to pay to me review books, well, then I’ll be open and honest, but until then I’ll keep my negative opinions to myself, believing [...]
Building on Embroidery
Who needs AutoCAD when you’ve got PatternMaker Pro? We’re getting closer.
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
