Wanted to save this link to an interesting paper artist.

Paper busts that have amazing flexibility

I received this email on Thursday:

Donna,

I'm not sure you know your book was sold from our People's Choice exhibit?

And it was sold to a PEM guest curator from Virginia who was here to install the Fabrege Revealed exhibit! !

AND you are tied for 1st Place in our voting !!!

As a matter of fact, I didn't know this had happened! So I went over ( Read more... )

I've sandbagged for years about getting hearing aids. I remember flunking my first hearing test back in grade school. My parents were so upset that I got a bad grade on the test that I decided I had to study harder to pass it the next time. Watching other kids, I learned that I should just nod and say I heard things when I really didn't, and then ( Read more... )

I'm addicted to taking surveys. In my down time, I take a few, and earn a little Amazon credit, iTunes credit, or cash each month. It's not a lot, admittedly, but I like getting a little free cash with my idle time ( Read more... )

Last Monday, one of my favorite dealers contacted me, telling me he had a letter he thought I'd like to buy. He explained a few of the details as to why he thought it was Mount Holyoke related, and quoted me a price. It was cheap, so I trusted him on the details and sent him a payment ( Read more... )

My officemate is a lovely man. He left a giftwrapped bar of godiva chocolate on my keyboard, and inside the wrapping paper, he wrote a poem ( Read more... )

I was surfing around on eBay and saw a photo that I liked. It was a group photo of 19th century or early 20th century missionaries, and the people's names are inked in the margin. Unfortunately, the dealer didn't transcribe the names in the auction, and the scan was too small to be able to read them directly from the image. So, I sent the guy some ( Read more... )

I was just replying to a comment on another entry, and saw that I hadn't posted anything about my volunteer gig in Ipswich since I started it. My first day was two weeks ago! Bad blogger, no cookie ( Read more... )

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