Archives for: September 2009

Fiber retreat

I went to the Valley Fiber Arts Guild and Anchorage Spinners and Weavers Guild fiber retreat this last weekend. I haven't been inspired to knit for a while - and I didn't do any knitting while I was there. But I did do some spinning, and I enjoyed that.… more »
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Cubicle War Weapons

This one's for HWSNBN... Cubicle Weapons. Because this is just cool. more »
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New Look

I finally decided to try to update the look of this blog a little. What do you think? There's not much of a change of course, just a different skin and I updated the banner a little bit. I wish I could say it was fun, but really it was just aggravatin… more »
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Wednesday Writing Sample: All Wool

...Aaaaand another wonderful sample of my handwriting today! It's another selection from the Arbuthnot, in honor of the Fiber Retreat this weekend.Written with a Kaigelu #316, which is a very pretty pen. Ink is Noodler's Polar Black, which is fre… more »
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Journaling

I've tried journaling many times over the years, but for the longest time I wasn't very successful at it. I found that to keep a successful journal, I needed a couple of things in my jounal: It had to be small enough to fit in my purse, or I'd never… more »
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Another interesting site - Postsecrets

Here's a link to wikipedia describing the PostsSecrets blog, where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of the postcard. Interesting... more »
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Interesting Historical Information - V-Mail

Here's an interesting site describing what V-Mail was; something I'd never heard of before learning about fountain pens. more »
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OMIGOD

These pictures are so disturbing! more »
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Wednesday Writing Sample: Snow Toward Evening

Here it is again, a picture of my absolutely gorgeous handwriting. Don't you feel lucky? It was written with a Pilot Plumix pen (blue ink) and a Hero 200A (brown ink). more »
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Inside Ouside Scarf finished

You can download the pattern here.I'll post pictures once they get taken, I need to block it. more »
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Cremation Jewelry

I was looking for a charm bracelet online, and stumbled upon the apparently extremely lucrative niche of cremation jewelry. Specifically pet cremation jewelry. You can also take paw prints or hoof prints or (bird) claw prints or nose prints or fingerprin… more »
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Wednesday Writing Sample: Good Advice

I thought I'd do something a little different with my blog today - use some pictures!Also, I promised I'd say something about whether I liked the new fountain pens I had purchased in this post.Let me start off by saying that I didn't pay more tha… more »
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SCARY

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Thrill the World?

Interesting.... Verrrrry interesting. It's silly. more »
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Good Speech

I understand that conservatives hate Obama, but there's really nothing objectionable about this speech. Well done. more »
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Back from vacation

I'm back from vacation and will be writing again. Sorry for not writing - it just doesn't feel like a vacation if I'm still blogging. And I don't like posting that I'm taking a vacation for the anonymous creepers out there. more »
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