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Note to self: Next bonfire festival, get adopted by a troupe of traveling jugglers and fire-eaters and celebrate like this.


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Back in November I worked on a whole bunch of hangtag designs for my hats as well as a fresh batch of business cards, and I must say they arrived very smartly. (Thank you to all who bore with me through my design existential angst.)


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Marking down on to-do list:

Make a reproduction of this APoD eclipse photo using cork moai the next time a solar eclipse rolls around.

FOR GREAT WIN, Y/N?


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Berlin, Berlin. You mad crazy thing, you.

'The "book forest" is part of a program called 'Research for Sustainable Forestry’ promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany ( Read more... )

One of our neighbors got a basset hound a few years ago, and ever since the neighborhood has been filled with a chorus of off-key baying, six times daily or more. The local dogs had been fairly quiet previously. So it would seem that basset hounds are instigators. Quite frankly it's driving us mad. The more acute the sense of pitch, the more mad. ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I now have a giant cabinet with glass-fronted drawers so I can take all sorts of things out of hiding & possibly remember to use them. Like my rubber stamps. Though I daresay that the hiding has kept the rubber from deteriorating too badly from all the steel mill air ( Read more... )

Out I go into the world last Thursday, to get more Noro yarn for the fibonacci blanket and to match it with something neutral to sew it all together with. The Wall O' Cascade 220 is examined and contrary to my plans of a creamy pale green, I go with just plain white. How vanilla-actually, not even vanilla as vanilla. Ho hum ( Read more... )

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of ( Read more... )