Moleskine’s new website is up (thanks to NotCot for posting the link) and there is a lot of good stuff up there.  It is still in beta, and running a bit slow on my Mac.  Anyway, this is the first semester that I’ve used their notebooks for classes and my planner and, quite frankly, its [...]

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I work for a peer reviwed journal, gnovis, that has been fighting an uphill battle back from the ambivalence of the past generation of CCT’ers.  That was not a very good sentence, it actually would not make it through our peer review process.  Anyway, I got to put my crafty skills to use making a [...]

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Tatanka Stew and Fry Bread in Tilt-Shift
I’ve been admiring tilt-shift photography for a long time.  Perhaps this is because I love smaller versions of very large things (when mini-Milano cookies came out it was a big, no pun intended, event in my life).  Anyway, it is pretty tough.  You’ve got to move lenses and shift [...]

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This weekend I did a quick embroidery project.  The pattern came from Sublime Stitching (this is in the Forest Friends set).  It is small, which was nice because I could get it done in about 45 minutes while waiting for Jon before we headed out for our Friday night plans.
I’ve had these hankies since the [...]

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Secretly I am pretty excited about the upcoming movie Coraline.  It is from the same people who worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas, another fantastic animated movie, and is based on Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel.  Plus, they’re doing some really good promotion work.  Other than the fantasy flowers on the web, they’ve done those weird [...]

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An embroidered book from Sarah.  I think she sent this about a year and a half ago.
I am so thrilled to announce that two of my most crafty friends have started blogs!  Sarah, over at BuryMeWithMyNeedles, plans to focus mostly on fiber arts.  She has very patiently tried to teach me to crochet about a [...]

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Friday, my first day of real winter vacation (and in some ways my last day– much reading for my thesis and next semester already calls), I spent sewing.  There was a very small present for a friend in Canada (not that one, the other one), a few letters, and a recipe card.  I’m tempted to [...]

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I dont want to show too much right now…  This is just a little hint at what my holiday cards are going to look like this year.

I think these will go out on Wednesday… I hope.

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This weekend was just what I needed– a lot of time with friends, good food, and long afternoon naps.  Jon and I put up our Christmas decorations.  We don’t have lots, and no tree this year, but I will take almost any excuse to hang sparkly, bright, shiny things up in our apartment.  I hate [...]

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Hooray!  I new all these mornings spent on NotCot would lead me to the most perfect (and different) calander.  I spotted this one, from KrissColorStripes‘ Etsy shop via NotCot this morning.  Like the poster at NotCot, I like that each month has its own color pallate.  I’ve been toying around with doing a variation on [...]

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