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 […]
Retail Needle Show–Today!
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
Odds and Ends
We are back at the old homestead, ready to hibernate for a few months. There’s only an inch of snow on the ground, but brrr! it’s cold here. Time for some new […]
Food for Thought
Have you read anything about recent book price wars between Amazon and Wal*Mart? Here’s a blog post from an independent book store in MO that conveys some of my own feelings. The […]
