Asymmetry is still fashionable, right? See, I've got this one-sleeved baby sweater that I've been planning to give to my friend with an adorable matching hat for her daughter's christening this weekend. Why one-sleeved? Well.... to begin with, the sleeves intimidated me. I have another baby sweater in the house that still has no sleeves, I ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't had any entries lately. My life has been mainly work, vegging at the computer, and family stuff. I'm finding I really suck at keeping up with friends unless they post online. The lj entries I've thought of recently have all been variations of being annoyed at my parents (seriously, shouldn't this end when I move out? Aren't they ( Read more... )

Pens and pencils constantly disappear from the holders on the front desk which doesn't seem too surprising, since we're a public library and the public has a tendancy to wander off with things. For the past month, I have been sharpening pencils to stockpile in a drawer and pull out a few when the holders are empty, which they seem to be at a ( Read more... )

Ok so I've been enjoying this coutdown of the Top 100 Children's Novels froma poll taken on a School Library Journal blog by Fuse #8. I love books and I of course especially love books for Children and Young Adults so now that someone has kindly turned this into meme form, I'm a-doing it. Bolding what I've read. Guess I'll italicize what I'm ( Read more... )

ARGH!  Ok, folks lesson time:  AFFECT= when an action explicitly causes a change on something else.  "The power outage affected our building, but had no affect across the street."  EFFECT= (n) a consequence; (v with action) to cause something to take effect.  "The outage was the effect of a need to study a potential problem.  It was originally due ( Read more... )

"I think the whole Light and Dark thing in the Dark Is Rising books goes back to my being a child during the war. We thought in terms of 'good guys' and 'bad guys.' We were so soaked in that we didn't have to be taught to feel that way. It was a kind of prejudice, really, and after the dropping of the atomic bombs by the Americans, I realized that ( Read more... )

Seriously, I'm up too late and thinking too much. But this time, I'm going to try something new: not deleting the post when I'm done, and not putting it under private. Crazy, huh?

( Cut for your protection )

Thanks to everyone who checked out my post yesterday! I've decided to go for the literal titles, since I have a hard time making the rhyme ones at least pretend to make sense! I'm putting the finished product under the cut. medievalshadow, I'm using your suggestion as an example, thanks!

( Here's hoping this is just as much fun for my teens! )

Help! I have this UnValentine party tomorrow and of course I get a brilliant idea TODAY--a fun UnValentine quiz! I'm going to take romatnic movies and love songs and play with the words and have the kids figure out what the titles are. However, I don't know if I'm making these too hard! That's why I need YOU out there in LJ land to help out! (I ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday knyteowl and walsfeo