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Found via batspjs, the Sewing Machine Meme from Sew, Mama, Sew!:

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( My cunning plan for Laurel to cosplay at A-Kon )

My headache came back. I think my brain is melting. Grragh ( Read more... )

I nearly inquired into the availability of a lot of 6500 zippers today in a second-chance sale at an online donation-matching service (Excess Access). What saved me from this insanity? Said zippers are in San Francisco and they're local pickup only ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the mid-point of my visit, as well as the day we see my baby sister off to a summer program at CU Boulder.

I have met my new niece and I have dubbed her Squish. After I find a spare USB hub, I will unload my camera and start a new Flickr set of vacation photos. (I had a brainfart while packing cables and left out my cell phone charger ( Read more... )

Some random mental lint that's accumulated over the past couple of days:

I made it through most of the two-hour premier of The Starter Wife last night in hopes of seeing something entertaining. I don't recommend it, although Joan Davis is wonderfully over the top and I find it hilarious that Pond's is a major underwriter. (Like Hollywood plastic ( Read more... )

This week I'm on a "use what you have" challenge to pare down my fabric stash.

So far...
- Sunday: 46x52" picnic blanket/couch quilt, used about 1 yard of denim cut from old jeans and 2 1/2 yards of an upholstery remnant;
- Monday: silverware roll for picnic basket, used about 1/2 yard of fabric from a lot of short cuts gained in swap with indigodye last ( Read more... )

Before I had actual bedroom furniture, the quilt I wanted to make to anchor the room was an incredible large-scale Mariner's Compass in Jinny Beyer fabrics I'd seen a Keepsake Quilting catalog not quite ten years ago ( Read more... )

Watching traceroutes time out is awesome. Thank you, Time-Warner-neé-Comcast!

Other than that, things are getting better:

• My cold's progressed from killer sore throat to chew toys (phlegm) and I've managed to stay awake all morning, so it looks like I'll be camping this weekend. Mom sent a few camping goodies from Campmor -- swank air mattresses, ( Read more... )