Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there. I’ve been uploading some of the photographs I have scattered all over my hard drive, most of them of Katie. Somehow, I outdid my Flickr upload limit for…
Testing Live+Press
Lots of warnings, but I want to see if it’ll do *anything* Edit: Well, it did post to my blog, but absolutely nothing showed up in my LJ. I don’t suppose any of you dear people have ever made this…
Weird
My paid LJ account is about to expire, and I’m not feeling any anxiety about it. There are far more important things to pay for. Yeah, I’ll miss the extra icons and the simple URL, but I’ve been trying to…
Stitching Bloggers’ Question of the Week: Fabric Organization?
I’ve been waiting eagerly for this week’s SBQ. I don’t know why, I just have. They sometimes remind me of stash I don’t think about often enough. Do you have an organizational system for your fabric? If so, what is…
I need an empty nest icon
No, nothing shocking has happened. But Katie did start school today, and I feel as if she’s done needing me. It didn’t hit me nearly this hard last year, for whatever reason. It seems more “real” now. She’s just so…
Geography is colorful – and a whole lot more
National Geograhic is leading the My Wonderful World campaign. There are suggestions for parents, kids, teens, and educators. I wanna be a teen. I want to get a passport and a nifty little GPS unit and go geocaching and explore…
SBQ: Over- or hand-dyed flosses
The Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week is: For those of you who use hand or over-dyed floss, how do you store it? I use the same plastic bobbins that I use for most of my fibers. I haven’t had…
In Transition
Katie is going to high school in a few weeks, as a tenth grader. The school is much larger than the one she attended last fall—approximately the same population as my own alma mater when I was there. I, at…
Quote of the Day
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well, and if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. George Orwell
Flowers Fighting Fibromyalgia!
Originally uploaded by ChatOmbre. This is one flower of the lovely bouquet in my living room right now. Sam knows how much I value fresh flowers, so he usually brings them to me every week or two. Katie knows that…