Archive for the 'Miscellaneous miscellany' Category

Tote giveaway contest at SewGracious

July 3, 2008

To get a chance to win a lovely tote, go here. This talented desinger has been my sewing friend through the Delphiforums.com “Heirloom Sewing and Smocking” forum for several years now. (We’ve yet to meet in real life — one day, when my kids are older, I hope to get to some sewing conferences [...]

Hogwarts in summer

July 1, 2008

My sister Lili, who’s doing an MA in book conservation at West Dean College in England right now, has some beautiful photos up on her blog (Click here.)

Indignant Nerdy Finicky Juvenile

June 29, 2008

They have been taking this test over here and here so I thought I’d give it a whirl. I’ve heard you can get different results on these things depending on the day (or time of month?) you take the quiz, but at least today I’m a fairly uncommon type:
“INFJ - “Author”. Strong drive [...]

This day in pictures

June 20, 2008

Isaac is back from camp. We missed him more than he missed us. I guess it wasn’t very nice to tell him that I missed him most when I needed a new roll of paper towels brought up from the basement — but we also told him how many times, when we were gathering [...]

Mind meanderings

May 21, 2008

After locking my keys in my car a couple of times several years ago, I developed the habit of always checking that my keys are in my hand or my purse before closing the locked car door, and I’m a bit obsessive about it; sometimes I’ll check twice or even three times to be sure. [...]

Gardening the easy way

May 2, 2008

Click here and then click anywhere on the screen.
Here’s Mabel’s:

And here’s mine:

James Lileks, ‘86 vintage

April 23, 2008

His acting is corny, but his writing is great:

Just when you think the Internet couldn’t get any better,

April 21, 2008

you find a gallery of meatcakes. This is why I can’t quit you, Internet.

An elegant meatloaf cake with mashed potato frosting and cranberry/mint leaf garnish. (Click the link above for lots more pictures like this one.)

Meatloaf cupcakes

The cut

April 9, 2008

Before. Blow-dryed sleek and tidy like it never was in normal life.

It usually looked more like this, or messier. She’s looking forward to it being much easier to care for.

Hamming for the camera.

More hamming.
And now . . .

After!

Again with the hamming. The beautiful hamming.

She loves her new look. (I thought the little [...]

A few different ways to donate your hair

April 6, 2008

I’ve been getting a few hits on my blog of people searching for “Locks of Love,” so I Googled that to see how many pages of results people would have had to go through to find my blog. I’m not in the first 10 pages and I quit looking after that, but in the [...]