Archive for November, 2006

30 Nov

Good source of blogging inspiration

I logged into my awstats and found the best source of blogging inspiration ever, the search terms people used to find my site. The top search terms are what one might expect.
But full disclosure is so sweet– so lets take a look at some of the other interesting things people are searching for when they [...]

29 Nov

Better living through technology

When I walk away from my sewing table, I’m never quite sure what I’m going to find when I come back. Sometimes entire projects go missing. Sometimes there’s a shirt missing a button or two laying on top of my current project.
And sometimes there’s a robot armed with my shears.
A sewing robot. Genius.
See all that [...]

29 Nov

My day so far– heck in a hand basket

The only thing between me and the path to certain destruction right now are gallon sized ziplock freezer bags. My personal stash of large ziplock bags is running dangerously low. I am terrified.
I managed to get through the next two steps of sewing, so my next step is filling the sachets with potpourri and then [...]

28 Nov

Eew– machine sewing saga begins

I’ve spent much of the day sewing, which is especially fun when Josey is doing his schoolwork because I’m more inclined to be interested in what he’s doing as opposed to what I’m doing. I’m making a plethora of little tea bag shaped satchets for a craft fair I’m scheduled to go to. So far [...]

27 Nov

Guess what I did? I finished the goldfish bag.

I did, and my darling husband took some spiffy pictures of the goldfish bag. I ended up being too impatient to sort through my craft supplies for beads so dug out the embroidery thread to do the eyes. It’s hard to determine in the pictures but the black embroidery stands out ever so slightly from [...]

26 Nov

Goldfish bag

I’m working on the Goldfish from Kumiko Sudo’s book Omiyagi. I started on it sometime last night and for some reason the fact that I have a camera totally escaped me, so while there aren’t the intimate details, I have a few somewhat in progress pictures to share.
I am doing all of the sewing by [...]

25 Nov

Blog commenting, time to clean house, time to spin (I hope)

Sometimes I think fellow bloggers want to see how badly I want to comment and this is why they continue to use blogspot even after their blog has grown bloated with images and content. With my other blog (pointysticks) faced that problem, it was born on blogger and eventually outgrew it. Last night I ended [...]

24 Nov

Home again

I’m not a huge scrapbook person. Collage and altered books: Yes. Book binding: Yes. gluing die-cut cherubs and mounting photos on pre-printed backgrounds: No. Although it’s not something I could see myself doing voluntarily to pass time, it wasn’t as unpleasant as I expected (other than it was in the wee hours of the morning, [...]

23 Nov

Arrive 2:30 dinner at 3:00

Right.
Like anyone listens to me. I’m just the one cooking the turkey, what do I know? Good thing that I’m flexible and settle for cooking the turkey early and reheating it before it hits the table.
I can’t wait to get back to my computer, my craft supplies and my kitchen. I didn’t manage to get [...]

22 Nov

Not so speedy posting this time.

My sister came in from Florida last night. Because I’m evil (and I have my childrens with me) I claimed the guest bedroom and both of the beds, Sister sleeps on the couch. Yes, this is probably another sign that I have unresolved issues stemming from sibling rivalry during my early childhood.
I bought some fat [...]