Day 2 - Paper Flower hairpins

Today is paper flower day.  So I made a pair of hairpins.  I will probably wear them to work tomorrow.

As an extra, Dad and I put up a coat hook board.  The hooks are not totally straight, but hey, it works.  and we made it too.  :)

Day one of Thing-a-Day Feburary...

This is something I made last night really fast at about 9:30 after I got home from work.  It is not like my usual artwork which is generally more colorful, but I like it, and think it is really more sucessful than the first one, which I spent more time on.  It has three hearts cut out from a dictionary page, sewn on a scrap piece of yellow fabric which I frayed the edges of a little bit.  I got this box of blank Strathmore cards at Goodwill for a really good price.  I have a feeling they are going to be my quick backup plan for this thing a day if I get strapped for time.  ;)

(Not the best thing I ever made, but still it was fun.  I like the quote)

“Love is a temporary madness.

It erupts like an earthquake and
then subsides. And when it subsides
you have to make a decision. You
have to work out whether your roots
have become so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should
ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not
excitement, it is not the promulgation
of promises of eternal passion. That
is just being “in love” which any of us
can convince ourselves we are. Love
itself is what is left over when
being in love has burned away and
this is both an art and a fortunate
accident. Your mother and I had it,
we had roots that grew towards
each other underground, and when
all the pretty blossoms had fallen
from our branches we found that we
were one tree and not two.”

-St Augustine
(From the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin)



     I have decided that I am going to do the "Thing-a-Day" thing in Febuary, but I think that I am going to post here instead of on their website.  What you do is create something once a day, spending about 1/2 hr. on each thing.  So I am going to try it.  I will probably go over on the time limit, though.  I am pretty slow with things most days.  Here is my pre-Feb.-too-excited-to-wait post.  I have it all planned out.  Mon. is my Poetry day-Limericks and Haiku alternating, Tuesday is my postcard day, Wednesday is my paper flower day, Thursday is my drawing/ painting day, Friday is my jewelry day, and Saturday is my UFO Day (Unfinished object day) so that I can get four at least of my unfinished objects I have lying around the house done, anyway. Sunday is my easy day, where I am going to try and make an easy salad out of one of my four ingredient cookbooks.

So here goes nothing.

Wish me luck.



Merry Christmas, everybody!

I thought I would write a quick post, although I doubt anyone will read it. It is almost Christmas (Is it next week, already?) And I hope that everyone has a safe and blessed holiday. It is not snowing here now, but it has been pretty cold. (Look at the right side of the page for my new meez for the season!)
Merry Christmas, everyone! :) -C

My i-Google page

This is my igoogle page. It was kind of hard to download the screen shot, though. I had to put an extra little program on my computer. There is probably another way to do it, I just couldn't figure it out. I guess it is underlining everything because it has made it part of a link to my i-google screen shot. :) So, I learned out how to download screen shots. I like the Fortune cookie app. and the cat just for fun. It is handy to have everything here on one page to look at, such as the news, and weather.
For the library, - I had looked at the Dublin's library start page, and thought that it would be nice to have a list of useful websites on our libraries start page. I think some patrons would find it useful. All-in-all, a fun assignment!

Applications

We have been using Google calendar and Google Doc's for the Young Adult section for a while now(about a year?). It has really been useful because we are not all working at the same time, and I can update a document and someone else can look at it or add something if needed. They changed the calendar section a little, and I am not sure if I just haven't figured it out yet, or if it is just not as good as it used to be, but I will keep trying to work with it.
My pledge for this next year is to try and design a good homepage for myself. I have been wanting to explore this aspect of web 2.0, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I have also been wanting to work with my photoshop program a little more, and that might give me a chance to play around with it and help make my page better.

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