…gets shoved directly into a display window. It’s all just marker on muslin, but it was kind of awesome watching them tackle it. They actually…
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Student: “It’s not possible!” Me: “You know it’s possible. You just watched me sew it.” Student: “But you sewed it with witchcraft!” I am still chuckling…
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This blog started out as “SewHappy” in 1998! Wowza! In internet years, I’m fossil fuel. I wanted to celebrate 15 years of helping you waste time (and possibly being educational) with a new theme, designed, like Pinterest, to help you waste more time as effortlessly as possible. It’s starting to feel a little more like home in here. :)
Leave a CommentI am moving the site from one host to another. I’ve done this many times before, but this time it’s not going so seamlessly. Please…
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I had some excellent teachers when I was younger. The ones that were the most brilliant exemplified the sort of razor-thin line between creativity in the classroom and outright psychotic sadism. (My favorite was a bio teacher who came in to a dissection lab dressed as your classic maître d’, white gloves, linen towel on the arm and everything, carrying a silver tray, neatly lined with lettuce, and the objects of our academic investigations – cow eyeballs, each one with a toothpick neatly inserted into its optic nerve. It was brilliant object lesson in our cultural views on food. Half the class looked like they were going to vom.) I don’t teach biology, so I don’t get to play the gross-out card. Sadness is. But I do teach design, which has some other possibilities… ;)
6 CommentsMy beautiful girl-cat passed on just after 5am on December 9, 2012. She was 18 1/2 years old. Some day, I might tell you more about that. But that day will be when I can remember it for the beauty of her last hours and tell you about some of the funny things she used to do (instead of tearing up and going all soppy over it). It will be when I’m feeling centered enough to face the possibility of feedback from Those With Firm Opinions(tm) and The Well Meaning(tm). Right now, I’m focussed on the obvious: I have been a crazy cat lady for literally half my life. I am out of cats. That makes me … just crazy? I’m thinking I might need a slightly updated self-definition.
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This makes me giggle. I finally got the old iMac all apart (a fight) and reassembled sans guts (another fight). Soon it will have some form of plant light in it. But in case anyone was wondering just how far Apple has progressed in the last decade and change….
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Actually, most things are easier than making shirts. Shirts are seriously annoying creatures. However, the point of this little demo is that every sewing room needs good lighting, and good lighting is something you can make with far less skill than you need for most of sew-land. Curious yet?
5 CommentsSo I had a minute this evening (rare), and I’ve been testing upgrades on my local dial-a-nuke code playground and then applying them to this…
Leave a CommentI didn’t mean to. I really, really didn’t. I have nothing against Girl Scouts (now that I’m out of grade school). I think it’s kind of adorable when they actually go door-to-door selling their little cookies – way better than sending a parent in to the office/theater/classroom with a sign-up sheet. And when I could still eat their fiendishly addictive little delights, I did, often with wild abandon….
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