I haven't been stitching much. My March Bride's Tree SAL ornament, a flower basket, has the basket done but no flowers yet. It'd look like a brown lump if I showed it to you, so I won't.
Last night was stamp camp. We made four projects, rather than cards this time: a tissue box for pocket-packs of tissues, a candy bar gift package, a tote bag for cards (my favorite, very cute), and a package for holding little sticky notes. Hopefully pictures of them with be up on my demonstrator's website soon, and I can provide you with a link.
Last night was all about scoring and folding paper and less about stamping. Unfortunately, I left my paper scorer/cutter at camp and had to hand cut the cards I made today. They're Easter cards. I'll post a picture later, after the intended recipients have a chance to receive them first.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Impatience
This morning as I drove to work, I was given "the bird" for not running a late yellow light through a messy and dangerous intersection. Just after I noticed the gesture, I also noticed the lights of the police car behind the offending person. Then tonight I nearly was rear-ended as I tried to parallel park in front of my house, despite having my turning signal and brake lights on.
Both of today's incidences reminded me of something that happened a couple of weeks ago. That morning I woke up to the unmistakable sound of a car bumper crunching. This sound happens all too frequently near my house, as I live on a major commuter street into downtown DC.
The story that morning was the same as it usually is. A commuter driving down a side street, attempting to get across the inbound traffic lane, forgot to check the outbound lane for traffic. (The other variation on this is that the driver on the cross street thinks that the main drag of traffic also has a stop sign, which it doesn't. Shortly after the accident I'm describing, the city finally installed signs reminding drivers of this fact.)
In this case, the damage was limited to the cars of the two drivers who collided. In the past, I've seen wrought-iron fences and trees taken out. There's one corner a couple of blocks down, with a traffic light mind you, where the fence has been hit several times. The worst case of property damage that I've seen was the house that had it's front corner knocked askew. I've not witnessed anybody being gravely injured so far, but I know it could happen and worry that it will.
I reverse commute. Even with the lighter traffic load, there are places where I too become frustrated (like the dangerous intersection mentioned at the top of this post). When I see accidents like the one, it reminds me to slow down and be more careful. It's not worth the risk to me or my car to save an extra minute because I'm impatient.
Both of today's incidences reminded me of something that happened a couple of weeks ago. That morning I woke up to the unmistakable sound of a car bumper crunching. This sound happens all too frequently near my house, as I live on a major commuter street into downtown DC.
The story that morning was the same as it usually is. A commuter driving down a side street, attempting to get across the inbound traffic lane, forgot to check the outbound lane for traffic. (The other variation on this is that the driver on the cross street thinks that the main drag of traffic also has a stop sign, which it doesn't. Shortly after the accident I'm describing, the city finally installed signs reminding drivers of this fact.)
In this case, the damage was limited to the cars of the two drivers who collided. In the past, I've seen wrought-iron fences and trees taken out. There's one corner a couple of blocks down, with a traffic light mind you, where the fence has been hit several times. The worst case of property damage that I've seen was the house that had it's front corner knocked askew. I've not witnessed anybody being gravely injured so far, but I know it could happen and worry that it will.
I reverse commute. Even with the lighter traffic load, there are places where I too become frustrated (like the dangerous intersection mentioned at the top of this post). When I see accidents like the one, it reminds me to slow down and be more careful. It's not worth the risk to me or my car to save an extra minute because I'm impatient.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Six Word Meme
I found this on Poppy's Blog. The challenge is to describe yourself in 6 words. Here are mine.
Gregarious Washingtonian Librarian Stitches Logical Fun.
Your turn now.
Gregarious Washingtonian Librarian Stitches Logical Fun.
Your turn now.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Book List
Stitch Bitch posted this on her blog. I just had to jump on the bandwagon. It’s about books, afterall. I did better than I thought I would, but if you take out Rowling and Tolkien, I’m not doing so well. What an odd list. I wonder who came up with it. Sadly, there aren't any books on the list that I really want to read that I haven't already read. I'm more likely to rent the movie versions.
I added the * star condition, because I think it’s important to know what was required reading. I limited to pre-college schooling, because in college you do have some choice as to what classes you take, which is how I ended up reading Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado three different times.
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Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. * Star the ones you were forced to read in your schooling before college. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.)
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) *
4. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) *
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell) *
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible * (some)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) *
81. Not Wanted On the Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) *
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) *
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In the Skin of a Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
I added the * star condition, because I think it’s important to know what was required reading. I limited to pre-college schooling, because in college you do have some choice as to what classes you take, which is how I ended up reading Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado three different times.
~~~~~
Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. * Star the ones you were forced to read in your schooling before college. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.)
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) *
4. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) *
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell) *
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible * (some)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) *
81. Not Wanted On the Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) *
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) *
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In the Skin of a Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Card making
Last night, I made a bunch of cards. Most of them are for the monthly swap in which I'm participating. The theme this month is "why did I buy this?" I used a scrapbooking kit I received last year as a bonus as well as a stamp set that I hadn't used yet. The first picture is a sample of the cards I'm submitting in the swap. This card is 4.25" x 5.5".
The second photo is a variation on the theme. This set was made using the leftover scraps from the swap cards. This card is 3" x 6 ".
The third card is yet another variation, since I had everything out. This will be the mother's day card for my Mom. I also made a card for my mother-in-law. This card is 3" x 6 ".
Off now to work on my taxes. Bleah.
The second photo is a variation on the theme. This set was made using the leftover scraps from the swap cards. This card is 3" x 6 ".
The third card is yet another variation, since I had everything out. This will be the mother's day card for my Mom. I also made a card for my mother-in-law. This card is 3" x 6 ".
Off now to work on my taxes. Bleah.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Another February Finish
I finished this earlier in the week, but it's been a hectic week for me, so I haven't had a chance to post it until now. I've been wanting to stitch this for a while now, but I didn't know when I was going to get to it. I thought about doing it as the heart, the rose, the bird, or the House for the Bride's Tree SAL, but it didn't feel right for any of them. Since I finished my February ornament for the SAL early in the month, I decided to do this next.
Washington, DC, freebie
Hearts of America Learning Series by Thea Dueck of The Victoria Sampler
Stitched on off-white evenweave with the recommended flosses
I've since moved on to my March flower basket, a pattern I've stitched before for Mrs. Brave Astronaut. I liked it a lot and had almost enough leftover floss in the kit that I figured I'd go ahead and do it again rather than trying to find a new pattern.
One of these days, I need to go back to stitching larger projects, but for now, I'm enjoying working on the small ones.
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