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Behind the scenes update

kelly — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:42:07 +0000

A little birdie () told me that not everyone knows how to leave a comment on this here blog (Hi Grandma!). So, I’ve written up some instructions for you in case you’re having troubles. You can find it in the menu at the top under about > comments, or you can just follow this link.

Hope that clears things up a bit!

Crossover Post

kelly — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:59:36 +0000

OK, usually I post education stuff elsewhere (namely Tumblr), but I just had to share this article that I discovered via Twitter (yes, I’m all over social media these days):

What If We Treated Doctors The Way We Treat Teachers?

(Try to ignore the fact that it’s on the Huffington Post – it’s just an op-ed piece.)

Highly enjoyable, at least to me, and made some good points.

Winners

kelly — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:05:20 +0000

We had some bad weather this weekend, but only lost some tree branches.

Oh, you didn’t care about that? You want to know who won the giveaway?

Thanks to everyone who entered! I had draw the winners, so his comment didn’t count (not that it would have anyway). He drew #6 and #2.

So, congratulations to Amy, winner of the stack of batiks, who said:

I just love the batiks! Test quilting sounds like a fun way to subsidize a quilting obsession – I mean hobby.

And, congratulations to Adrienne, winner of the quilt, who said

fun quilt! i’ve never tried batiks but would like to!

I’ve sent you both emails!

Regular posting will resume shortly….

Three Thousand!

kelly — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:00:35 +0000

This marks my 3,000th blog post! Here is a screenshot to prove it:

That draft? That's this post. And those private ones? Those are ones I removed in the interest of keeping my job when I decided to put a link to this blog on Facebook. Not that I would ever say anything mean or negative about my job. Or anything else. Really. I am the paragon of cheer.

So to celebrate, I’m having a giveaway. (Some people have giveaways at 100, I apparently have them at 2,300 and 3,000.)

Well, that's a pretty butterfly. It looks kind of familiar....

I made this up last July – I tested the pattern for Robert Kaufman Fabrics, who provided everything I needed to complete it.

I like the pattern, but I am not a huge fan of batiks.

For the most part, it turned out lovely. There was one rather large error, but if I don’t point it out, maybe you won’t see it?

No mistakes here....

It's called "Butterfly Radiance" and you can order the pattern on the Robert Kaufman website.

However, seeing as how it doesn’t match any of our decor and I’m not too fond of the batiks, I’m giving it away! I’m also giving away a stack of batiks that are left over from this project. So, there will be two lucky winners (assuming that I get at least two comments)!

Here are the "scraps" for giveaway - many of them are quite large.

The top and bottom ones are particularly large pieces, and the white one and the one on top of it are pretty small.

Does this help sell the beauty of these batiks? (It's really hard to do when I'm not a fan, but I'm trying!)

So… leave me a comment here and I’ll randomly pick winners Friday, July 16th.

Comments are now closed. I will post the winners on Monday. Thanks for visiting!

Joy of joys

kelly — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:57 +0000

I might be the only person who cares, but if you’re on the site (and not in the RSS reader of your choosing) and you look over there to the left, you might notice that there is no longer an “uncategorized” category. Or, rather, there are no longer any uncategorized posts. That took a lot of work! Things may not be perfect, but there are no longer any posts without categories, posts with more than one categories, or otherwise mis-labeled posts. (For drama, let me state clearly that there are currently 2,829 posts on this blog. That is a friggin’ lot of posts! 171 posts left until 3,000 – checked with a calculator before saying that. I’ll do something big then.)

Tags, on the other hand, need some work. That is a much bigger job, though.

(Did you notice in the site redesign that the categories changed? 5 points to the first person who correctly identifies the theme. If you can’t figure out what’s what, mouse over them and a description should pop up.)

Should I have posted today?

kelly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:13:20 +0000

Probably, but I really don’t have anything to say. Not yesterday, either. Plus, I’ve been going through the archives (yes, again – it is very tedious and sometimes I want to just scrap it all), which makes me feel like I’ve spent way too much time on my blog, even if I haven’t posted ...keep reading

An Open Letter to the Internet

kelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:21:23 +0000

Hello, dear. You know I love you, right? I love almost everything about you, and miss you terribly when you’re away, or when the forces of nature try to keep us apart.

I just have one teeny, tiny little request of you. Could you please… not acquire any new content for a day or two? I need a bit of time to catch up on all of the blogs, Flickr groups, forums, etc. that I love so much. It is pretty hard to do that already, and then when new stuff keeps coming in, the number of unread items in my Google Reader increases instead of decreases.

Pretty please? Then we can go back to holding hands and telling each other our life stories and dreaming about the future….

Oops

kelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:40 +0000

A commenter yesterday (I’ve just discovered her blog, and she’s just discovered mine) told me that I haven’t updated my 100 Things lists in a long time. I have now remedied that. I know most of you won’t be interested (and the changes are relatively minor), but maybe one day someone new will come around here. I also added in my link to that 25 Things Facebook Meme that I did a few months ago.

I’m working on a post based on an idea she suggested, but it won’t come until later today.

Apologies

kelly — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:57:44 +0000

If y’all were having difficulties loading the site yesterday. I have no idea what was wrong, and things are a little messy here as a result of my trying to fix the problem. Things should be fixed by next week, though I still don’t know what the problem is (and it’s not doing it ...keep reading

A little swankier (and some house cleaning)

kelly — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:30:38 +0000

If you’ve been using a news reader of some sort (like Google Reader or… whatever else there is out there for RSS and Atom feeds) to read my blog, you might want to update it to the new feed address. I started using FeedReader at the beginning of the year, and really like the options I have and the stats I can get from it.

For you non-news-readers, perhaps you’ve noticed a few minor changes around here. I’ve updated the sidebar, cleaning it up a bit. (The only thing I wasn’t able to do was move that sitemeter image, despite my best efforts.) Archives instead of a calendar, removing the allconsuming stuff, etc. And, I’ve started a meme. As in, I created one. It’s called The Thankful Meme, and you can see a link to it over on the sidebar there –> right underneath “recipes.” Why don’t you join me?

I’m also going to try my best to work harder on cleaning up the archives some more, though that’s never fun. My goal is to get to the place where I wouldn’t have a heart attack and die if a family member said, “So I was reading on your blog….” Also, I’d like to put a link to it on my Facebook profile, but I can’t do that just yet. There’s a pretty big difference between a relatively anonymous private journal and a public personna attached to a blog. Plus, people from high school scare me.