Archive for November, 2009
BeNaNo Bread
Last year, it was a thinking totem. This year… …it’s BeNaNo bread. Okey-doke, I’m game. Here’s to BeNaNoWriMo! See why I need Becca NaNoing? Without her, things would be a lot less interesting around here, and I’d be hungry. I had another exciting breakthrough in my NaNo novel today. Well, exciting is relative, I suppose, [...]
NaNo Update
Well, as of this moment, I’m two days behind in my word count. Gak! It’s not an insurmountable deficit, but I hate playing catch-up, especially as we enter the dark forest of the second and third weeks. Things usually slow down in here as we wander and get lost, so making up words could be [...]
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 November 16 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 [...]
Alternate Audio
Instead of listening to an audio book or to Mike reading while I stitch, this week we’re listening to Mike’s Australia audio journal. Ten years ago, we spent six months touring the continent, circumnavigating the mainland and Tasmania. Listening to Mike’s record of it is wonderfully fun. I’m surprised by how much I recall and [...]
Retail Needle Show–Today!
At 2 PM Eastern time, the first online retail Needle Show will open. Organizers of The Needlework Show, the online wholesale trade show that Everyone can view, are testing the waters for an online retail show. Anyone can make purchases at the retail show. If you have a local needlework shop (LNS), I urge you [...]
NaNoWriMo
I hit 5,000 words today. I’m not yet on a story trajectory, but rather scrambling around in search of plot and character pieces that fit together somehow. It’s rather like dumping pieces from two dozen jigsaw puzzles on the table and trying to put one together by the end of the month. There are no [...]
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 November 16 at The Stitchers’ Village, but instructions for this specific project will also be on the Funk & Weber website. The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my [...]
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Rules, by Cynthia Lord. The Newbery committee got this one right. Twelve-year-old Catherine’s younger brother, David, has autism. Not only does he require the bulk of their parents’ attention, but he requires a significant portion of Catherine’s as well. While Catherine loves her brother and wants to protect him from the [...]
