Five Things

OK, I give up. If Robin can get Michelle Dennedy to disclose things in public, I guess I should fulfil my obligations as well. Be a good netizen and all that. But I’m not going to tag anyone, partially to be contrary, partially because people deserve time off from their blogs over the winter break, [...]

Post results

The light shone on that dark corner of the internet (see my Framed! post, as well as Tim’s Framing Lauren linked post) and it brought results. If you haven’t read my posting, go ahead; there’s too much information to usefully summarize here and the comments are good too.
After reading all the comments that came [...]

Framed!

This is a story of some of the dark corners of the internet, with a puzzle at the end and a request for advice…
Our story starts a few weeks ago. I had installed Statcounter on the blog postings to keep an eye on who visits my blog and why, with more information than you get [...]

Useful Things for Babies

The next part of an occasional series on what we found to be useful with a baby. I’ve noticed a few people coming to this site with searches on baby stuff, so here’s some more!
Standard lists for what you need for a baby always seem a little too prescriptive to me; “thou shalt have 6 [...]

Crochet Patterns

I was chatting with Eve about crochet patterns that are worth making, and found out she didn’t know about Priscilla’s crochet. Priscilla’s website was off the air for what seemed like ages (maybe a year?) but is now back again; it has lots of crochet patterns for afghans and bookmarks and potholders and that sort [...]

Leap of Faith

The book club I belong to decided to read Queen Noor’s “Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life”, her autobiography, and this is a summary of our review. Part of the reason we chose this book was in the hopes that it would be a more accessible way of learning more about that part [...]