NASA’s webpage on the eclipse Moonrise times Weather – It’s supposed to be cloudy here.
Neefer Sews, Crochets, Crafts, Swims, and Blathers about Kids and Her Stuggles with an Eating Disorder
Acorns to Oaktrees
Currently browsing posts found in February2008
Lunar Eclipse – Tonight!
Giraffe Purse
Garment Photo Pattern Photo Pattern Company: Making Vintage Bags Pattern Number: not applicable Pattern Name: Evelyn Pattern Description: A 1930s clutch purse with a strap added. Pattern Sizing: This is a small bag. If you enlarge the pattern by 165% as recommended your finished bag will be about 10.5 inches x 6 inches (27 cm [...]
Bunny
Bunny is a great bunny. She is friendly and outgoing. She loves to hop around the house and outside on her leash. If someone sits on the floor with her, she will hop around a bit, then hop into the person’s lap for some cuddling. She loves being held.
Toxic Release Inventory
Check out TRI Explorer. Input your zip code, and the EPA will give you a listing of chemical releases in that zip code. The most recent year is 2005.
Street View at Google Maps
I just discovered Street View. It’s very cool. I used to live here. My bedroom window is just behind the shrub at the back of the building on the first floor. I grew up here. You can’t see the house. It’s just at the crest of the road, by the house with the white wall [...]
Note to self
It’s a lot easier to sew the darts in the back of pants BEFORE you attach the back to the fronts.
I am the Queen of Bias Tape
A perfect join. I never buy bias tape. The quality of what I make far exceeds anything that I can buy. I’ve been making bias tape for a long time, like 20 years. I used to quilt. I suppose the secret to perfect joins is experience. But this is a floppy rayon, and I’m very [...]
Recess Woes
Recently, Chunguita has been dreading school. One night, it got so bad that she was crying in bed. It turns out that she hates recess. She doesn’t like to play the games that the other girls are playing, and she doesn’t like to play with the boys. Her anxiety had gotten so great that she [...]
Surface Design Workshop
The Walnut Creek chapter of the American Sewing Guild presents: Surface Design Workshop With Gay Gerlack and Julianne Bramson What: Stamp, Silk Screen, and Shibori Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM (Lunch – Brown Bag) Walnut Creek United Methodist Church 1543 Sunnyvale Ave. Walnut Creek Cost: $15.00 ASG Members, $20.00 Non-ASG Members [...]
Friday’s Quiz
You Are a Colon You are very orderly and fact driven. You aren’t concerned much with theories or dreams… only what’s true or untrue. You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched. You like to make lists and sort through things step by step. You aren’t subject to whim or emotions. [...]

