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Peaceful Things
We, the WG and I, had a peaceful Easter or Resurrection Sunday as you prefer. No big family events, no huge meal to prepare, no eggs, not too much choccy, just peaceful. Because the WG had been working over sixty hours this last week, and didn't get here until after midnight Saturday night, we skipped the sunrise services this year ( Read more... ) -
Spring Comes to the Desert
It's funny to be writing about these photos I took yesterday, while it drizzles outside, and the wind is picking up. Weather Channel is threatening us with all manner of alerts from high wind, to low snow to measurable wetness. Don't misunderstand me, I love this weather, I just find it amusing after all the yellowy, greeny goodness of yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Goodies, Lotsa Goodies
Most of you amazingly crafty friends are probably already members of crochetme or knitting daily, but just in case you are not, I just got several really nice free ebooks that I am happy to share: 5 knitted vest patterns (and this means waistcoats not undergarments); 5 crochet lace patterns; 6 knitted bag patterns or 7 crochet amigurumi patterns ( Read more... ) -
Pretty Pictures, the Second
I promised pictures of some of my completed crochet projects and here they are, behind the cut.
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Half Price Snippage
I may have mentioned from time to time that I work for a small publisher here in Southern California. When I initially began this journal it was to log the trials and tribs of a start up business in the iron gated gardens of publishing. Somehow (perhaps to the great relief of many) it drifted away to cats and crochet and WGs and gardens.
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It's Read An E Book Week!
Did you know that e books (electronic reproductions of books) have been around for forty years? How does one celebrate such a monumental fact? By buying an ebook, of course. And this week, thousands of publishers and independent authors are offering their books 25 to 100% off. I am offering four of my eight books for free, and two are 25% off ( Read more... ) -
No Obligation
Well, I didn't meet all my GrapeMo goals. I got through seven and a half of ten chapters. However, I did reach the word count goal of sixty thousand (60127 to be exact). It was a challenge taking a contemporary story and moving it back eighty years, but there were aspects of it I really enjoyed. Other things...well, not so much. I didn't like ( Read more... ) -
Here Be Some Beany Goodness
I was going to post about something else today; some of the sadness going on around us...people who've gone, losses, a sweet cat who crossed the Bridge this morning...and then I thought everyone knows there are sad things in life. I don't need to point it out. I'm going to talk about something else.
One of our authors, Jim Burkett, is not only a ( Read more... ) -
Win-(I+N)+(O+W)+!=Wow!
Got a pressie in the post yesterday. I should have taken a picture, but I was so excited to receive it, and send it on, that I unpacked it, admired it and repacked it to send on my to my niece. But you can see it here.
The picture doesn't do the necklace and charms justice. They're lovely. My niece is going to be thrilled.
Of course, the ( Read more... )
