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I’ve been asked to design the cloth badge for SS09 (Scottish Senior Section Camp). This is what I have come up with so far (the actual badge will be about an inch by an inch and a half). None of the others on the committee have said yes to it but I really like it.
I also wondered about a fancy thistle design or something working in the Girlguiding Centenary colours since we’ll just have launched it before event but the Highland Cow won me over.
More and more I am reading Teen books (mostly thanks to being a High School Librarian). The latest lot to take me was the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. So you can expect crafty goodness related to that coming soon – including t-shirts.
I’ve been reading on a bit of a Vampire theme recently including ‘Sucks to be me: The all-true confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)’ by Kimberly Pauley (a nice twist on the Vampire story and in diary form) and of course the classic Dracula by Bram Stoker (an interesting read with the various documents and sources gradually pulling the story together) .
I also read ‘The Historian’ by Elizabeth Kostova. Written in a similar way to Stoker’s classic I was hoping for a good read. Alas not as good as I hoped. In it’s favor it has a nice link to Stoker plus plenty of mythology on Count Dracula. It has a rather slow build (c.600 pages) so you feel it must be going somehwere exciting. It was but the ending is so fast and over so quick I felt I’d been cheated. If Vlad really was so easy to deal with it makes you wonder why it took them hundreds of years to get rid of him.
It was been noticed that more and more Dumbledore was filing up my blog so we (Clair and I) have given him his very own so he can try and convert everyone to his way of thinking.
Catch the latest happenings of the King at Dumbledore’s Adventures