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*I am teaching myself French. Sort of. I have CDs and a workbook. The workbook makes it fun.

*I have been doing some cooking from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I made a pretty damn good cassoulet.

*I got a program that lets me put different filters on my photos to make them look all old and shit. It's called Camerabag. Some of ( Read more... )

Finally got my 31st birthday trip pictures up on flickr. There are nearly 300 of them. I separated them out by city:

Toulouse (and the Bastide towns)

Barcelona

Rome (and Capri)

I'm actually watching it. I'm waiting for England to get crushed. The tears of the English are so tasty.

ddrpolaris !

This flickr stream makes me want to start keeping my whole life on index cards, neatly filed away.

My favorite pattern company, Colette Patterns, has come out with two under cracker patterns. I shall be ordering them when I get back from holiday. I have a thing for sewing my own slips and whatnot.

Speaking of, I am going to Barcelona, Toulouse, and ( Read more... )

One of my Colette Pattern dresses has been spotlighted on the company blog. Check it out.

I read a lot of sewing blogs, mostly to get ideas of colors/ combinations to use, and different patterns people use. Through one of these blogs, I've found one of my favorite independent pattern companies, Colette Patterns. These patterns are designed for the more hourglass figure, aka the more busty and hippy among us.

As I've been making my ( Read more... )

Totally SFW. Unless someone yelling BRONTESAURUS! is offensive.

( I've been sitting on these for a while. Rambling and self-indulgent. )