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Beauty surrounds me

10 Mar

Today looked like such a beautiful day that I brought my camera with me while walking Backup Dog. One of these will eventually be the photo of the day, I’m just not sure which one yet – I can’t choose! Votes welcome.

What I saw while walking

1. 21, 2. 20, 3. 19, 4. 18, 5. 17, 6. 16, 7. 15, 8. 14, 9. 13, 10. 12, 11. 11, 12. 10, 13. 09, 14. 08, 15. 07, 16. 06, 17. 05, 18. 04, 19. 03, 20. 02, 21. 01

I think it’s really funny that it loaded them all backwards. Also, #01 and #02 are really snuck in from yesterday – I couldn’t resist!

 

Girl in Rose

09 Mar

Girl in Rose

Project: Girl in Rose

Technique: Stained bisque in color, then antiqued in bisque

For Sale: Please see my order page.

Notes: Made for my grandmother years and years ago. A couple of detail pictures after the cut…

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QOTW – 2010/03/08

08 Mar

And the Question of the Week… isn’t. I’ve been doing the QOTW for… six years now? Seven? And participation has been dropping slowly – more quickly since I no longer have an email list with which to remind people about this (don’t get me started on how using an RSS feed like Google Reader can remind you about blog posts every time they happen). So, although I dearly love the three people who have been answering, I think it’s time for this little meme to pass on.

Rest assured that I still have many questions, and perhaps some of them will show up on the blog in other ways.

 

Linkdump

07 Mar

Possibly not in order, but continuing a frightening story I posted a week or two ago -

School district admits installing covert webcam activation software on student laptops, denies wrongdoing
FBI investigating Lower Merion School District over laptop spying (plus a commemorative tee)
Vice-principal denies using laptop to spy on student

Big Brother is out there, and he is watching.

This, as a wall accent? I’m still screaming.

Ten rules for writing fiction.

Do dogs freak out over the Law & Order theme music? Discuss!

Heimo’s Arctic Refuge (part one of five).

In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior, cutting off 19 million acres of prime boreal wilderness from the mitts of fur trappers, oil tycoons, and would-be lodge owners alike. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins in the refuge—of them, only one still stays there year-round living off the land. His name is Heimo Korth, and he is basically the Omega Man of America’s Final Frontier.

This made me smile, because Aunt Gay and Uncle Joe had this poster in their bathroom for yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars.

Pretending to be Christian so that your kids can have play dates. I’m just not sure how I feel about this. I get wanting your kids to be included, but… that’s just weird. What a weird community in which to live!

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Tiltshift Saturday: Marjorie’s desk

06 Mar

Marjorie's desk, tiltshifted

You can tilt-shift your own using TiltShift Maker.

 
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Friday Photo: Oh, the cuteness!

05 Mar

Oh, the cuteness!

The rest of my 2010 photos can be viewed here.

 
 

A shiver in my bones, just thinking… about the weather

05 Mar

I was telling Marie yesterday about one of my favorite voices, Natalie Merchant. I had to think about which song to put up here – and it was a tough decision – because I love many of the 10,000 Maniacs songs and also Merchant’s solo work. She is very much a thinking person’s song-writer, and has a voice so ethereal I would listen to her sing the phone book. I went with this one because it was the first Maniacs song I heard, and I first heard it when I moved away from Florida and lived in Reston, VA for a year. The sky really was cold and gray, and I really did want to sink down into that four poster. OMG, Marie, I should make you a mix tape! How totally high school!

 
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Zombies

04 Mar

Zombies

Fiber: 100% Falkland Wool

Yardage/Weight: 260 yards/8 oz

From: From the Spunky Eclectic fiber club

 

Wait, where did my February go?

04 Mar

I swear it was just here on my desk; maybe I put some papers on top of it. If I find it I will let you know!

In February I tried to make an effort to walk the dog more, and sometimes that even happened. But mostly thwarted by my inability to make myself leave the house at less than 40 degrees, I was glad that Jenn brought Chloe over a lot and the puppies could romp instead. I learned how to do basketweave icing on a cake (it’s not perfect, but perfect is the enemy of finished! Also it was tasty!). I also learned how to make Lobster Ravioli and even with as easy as it was using the won-ton wrappers, I think I want to step it up a notch by learning how to make pasta. What’s wrong with me?! I hate cooking! Speaking of hate, I also had that horrible dentist appointment. And felted a sweater. GO TEAM A;DLJFA;DFJA;DJF!!!. Ending February on a good note, though, on the last day of the month Tim and I went to visit my mom.

Whoa – I guess since I have a couple of large projects on the needles right now, I thought I hadn’t finished much knitting in February. NOT TRUE. In this quicker month I actually beat out January by having one, two, three, four, five, six, seven finished objects. I blame bad weather and exciting Olympic TV watching.

Our plaza started to look closed as Joanne’s and Publix began to be demolished, but in the words of Dante Hicks, “I assure you we are open!”. I did a lot of dyeing in February (yay, sock club yarn!). And we also had a very successful Uptown Art Hop! And some days the sweetness in the shop just kills me.

And that was February.

 
 

Visiting Mom

03 Mar

Sunday we had a lovely trip down to Edgewater to visit my mom, whose sister and brother-in-law were in town. It was a lot of fun, hanging out with the family; I don’t know Aunt Mary and Uncle Charlie very well but can see that if I lived in Baltimore I would want to hang with them a lot. We hung out, went over a few of my grandmother’s things, went to JB’s (duh, of course), came back, and hung out some more. It was a most excellent way to spend a bonus day off!