I’m not very church-minded as anyone who knows me will attest to, so why is it that 2 of the weblogs I read…um…faithfully…are religious in a sort of reality-check way? I don’t even like TALKING about religion (or politics), not even with good, close friends. It makes me uncomfortable and gives me the heebie-jeebies. It’s not that it’s not interesting, or that I don’t know enough about it, it’s just not my thing. Maybe it comes from growing up with a mother who had books lying around about reincarnation and astrology and the strange gigantic earth drawings on the Nazca...

Giant to-do list tonight which involves mostly housework, kids and website updating. So, here’s (finally) a scan of page 3. It’s facing page 2 which is why it’s in the same color scheme. I was feeling guilty today because I’m spending so much on collage supplies but when I got home my tax return check was waiting in the mailbox! Guilt-free again! hahaha!! Although it’s mostly going to go to pay for paving stones for the driveway and paths, it ought to be able to cover a couple of leeeeeeedle purchases with my craft buddy. ahem. I’ve been staying up...

aaagh!! Both my projects are calling me, and I’m not getting further on either one of them. I’m supposed to be working on the newsletter/website for the AWC update happening on Monday, and haven’t even finished it. I still have to upload all the pages for the webwoman to double-check and I’m nowhere near finished. Keep sneaking away to rendevous with my…um…collage book. Must—fulfill—obligations—first. I’m reading several other LJ’s and saw that so many of you are taking Swedish classes, and didn’t realize you were all so “new” to Sweden. I feel like that is very far behind me at...

I zoomed around like a maniac bee today, buzzing here and there and everywhere. Had a great time in Malmö at the Festival Lunch. There was a huge group of us, including 5 ladies from the Copenhagen club who joined us. 🙂 We found a table in the shade and took turns getting food. Then walked around a bit, and ended up at a café for coffee and fika a bit later. Fun! I bought my brother’s Christmas present, so feeling very smug. After lunch, I went to the craft stores, and visited the rubber stamp place that galestorm had...

I was so motivated last night I did all of page number 2! 🙂 Thanks for all the kind words about page 1. I stayed home from work today to go play at the festival with the AWC and hit the craft shops to buy a couple of necessaries (plus some new paints) and if it works out, meet galestorm later. Even got to sleep in an extra hour, as Anders took the kids to dagis. Yay, sleep! I need something to organize all my crafty bits, too. Which makes me laugh as I just stripped and repainted an entire...

What the hell is the matter with people?!

Be gentle with me. 🙂 First art project in YEARS. I’m not too happy with the scanner, the piece isn’t nearly this dark, even after playing with it in Photoshop. The background fabric is a green silk shot with red metallic threads. I’m not too happy with the upper right corner, but the rest of it turned out how I envisioned it. The text is a quote from Ruskin and reads: “Remember, that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.”

When I was in high school, I wrote an essay for my English writing class that was itself an argument for removing the letter M from the English language. I wrote the whole thing (2 pages) without using it once. Imagine my happiness today when I found a website dedicated to such writings. They have a name! Lipogram, meaning “wanting a letter.” I love Language Hat. It leads me so many interesting places. 🙂

Someone sent this to me, knowing I love this kind of stuff, and I’ve decided to use it in next month’s AWC newsletter. If anyone tracks down the actual author, I’d be very grateful. 🙂 I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, tough and through; Well done! And how you wish perhaps To learn of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead; it’s said like bed, not bead For goodness sake don’t call it “deed”. Watch out...

Things I’ve learned from reading Smithsonian magazine today: Every year the U.S. Federal government holds a Federal Duck Stamp contest for painters The Tour de France turned 100 this year Mummified pharaohs in ancient Egypt protected their toes with thimbles of gold Robert E. Lee had tiny feet that he loved his children to tickle (not sure I wanted to know this) Standing water in containers as small as a child’s beach bucket or plastic car is enough to provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes I have no desire, whatsoever, to ever visit Korea Got some helpful advice from thesidhe...