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Blog Day 2010

So BlogDay is here (yeah!) and I’m sharing my five blogs

So here are the five I want to share:

The first is a guilty pleasure it’s Wil Wheaton’s blog. I can tell you now Clair will be laughing at this choice – at lot. For those of you unaware – Wil Wheaton played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation a programme (and character) I was more than a little obsessed with back in my teenage years (Clair was also keen on it don’t let her fool you). Now both Wil and I have moved on a lot in the intervening years but his personal blog is really fun and enjoyable to read. Plus he’s a total geek so it addresses my love of all things geeky – including Big Bang Theory which he recently appeared on and similar.

My next two choices are more crafty-

In the column of things I love to read about but can’t imagine doing myself I give you New Dress A Day it is exactly what it says in the name – for a $1 a day Marissa has challenged herself to make herself a item of clothing everyday from an old piece of clothing. Now not only can I not imagine having 365 clothing ideas but i also can’t imagine having the time to do the sewing.

In the things I can imagine doing myself or sharing with you guys I love Crafty Crow it’s a site that gathers ideas from other sites and posts them in one place so there are loads of interesting blogs it links to which are fun to read and the ideas are often brilliant or really pretty.

Choice number four is a work one. As a school librarian I have to promote reading and sometimes I struggle to come up with how to promote a topic (topics never seem to be in short supply) but trying to make my display look a bit different is a challenge so School Library Displays is a constant source of ideas on how to display things.

Finally choice five is our own Clair’s Kids, Crafts and Chaos which I read often but comment on rarely. Clair’s posts are great and she’s a witty writer but she also has three great kids -one is my God daughter so no bias from me  Anyway I love to see what’s going on and what they’ve been up to the posts usually make me at least smile if not laugh out loud.

Finally choice five is our own Clair’s Kids, Crafts and Chaos which I read often but comment on rarely. Clair’s posts are great and she’s a witty writer but she also has three great kids -one is my God daughter so no bias from me  Anyway I love to see what’s going on and what they’ve been up to the posts usually make me at least smile if not laugh out loud.

Kateri Tekahkwitha

There was exciting news recently that Kateri Tekahkwitha could be on the verge of becoming a Saint. See here for news report

In the meantime I treated my namesake, Goddaughter and self to a felt version of her from Saintly Silver on etsy. Genius!

Project Idea

Now I love myths and legends, especially mythic creatures. I think this might be my new favourite.

It’s a Grave Guardian Beast (Zhenmu Shou) from China (480-221BC) and is made of wood with polychrome pigments and lacquer horns.

As you’d expect with any archaeological item such as this they don’t really know what they were for. They have found a number of these antlered figures with long tongues in tombs of this time. Best guess is that since they are found at the head of the coffin they might be to protect the dead from evil. Apparently they can also come with a double head.

I was also very fond of this fat dog from Mexico.

As seen at the Art Institute of Chicago

I spy with my little eye…

…a Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo! We saw them at Milwaukee zoo. I love these. I think they may be my new favourite animal.

They come from the rain forests in New Guinea and they are marsupials.

Arty inspiration

As seen at the Art Institute of Chicago

Ray Yoshida – Who Where what?  It’s carefully cut up comic pages. Genius.

I also saw this and presuamably thought I’d be able to read the signature on my return (I couldn’t) it’s a weaving of a Chinese newspaper and The New York Times.

There was also a bunch of really neat furniture including this corrugated cardboard chair by Frank Gehry.

Wisconsin Crafting 2

Wisconsin is the dairy state and the love of cheese and cows is impressive. We saw this giant mouse outside Joe’s Cheese House.

Also located outside Joe’s Cheese House was a cow made from recycled materials

Then just over the border into the UP we saw this Easter themed version! I wish I could go at Christmas I’m hoping they dress it up as Santa.

The truth…

Christmas Crafting

The Christmas crafts will soon be revealed. It’s been a busy few months but I finished the last Christmas crafts last night – so will have epic posting after then. In the meantime check out Mortimer and Wheeler’s Christmas adventures on their blog!

Royal Tour

Birthday Fun

Well I turned 21 again on the 9th. Dumbledore was their helping me along. Tom made a great Polar bear cake (I think it’s the first time Tom’s ever given me a birthday cake let alone baked one!).  It was a recipe from the Christmas ASDA magazine. Clair was their to witness and has added a bit to her blog.