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April 23rd, 2005

11:55 pm: My wonderful husband helped me to make a spindle! Here it is full of easter egg dyed wool :) star light, star bright... )

March 25th, 2005

10:27 am: Pictures!
It's been a while since I updated so I thought I should post some pics.Clicky for pic-y )

February 26th, 2005

01:14 am:

List of the top 110 banned books (of all time). Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmu
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau

#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais Also in the original French.
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Err... why is this on this list?
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes



February 7th, 2005

11:29 pm: Beginner wheel help needed
I am a very new beginner to spinning and I'm looking to purchase a wheel. I've only attempted to spin once for about 10 min. Of course I wasnt very good but I'm already hooked. I've been researching different wheels and I think I like the Baynes Upright wheel with double treadle http://www.pacificwoolandfiber.com/Baynes%20Wheels.htm. Does anyone here have a baynes or have experience with one? I'd like to know how you like it and if you would recommend it for a beginner. All the info I read about it says its good for beginners because of the simple way you change the bobbins. Any tips I should know in picking a wheel? Thanks for your help!

January 18th, 2005

01:00 am: Desperate for spinning lessons
Hi all! I'm from Central CT and having the hardest time finding someone to teach me spinning. I've done searches on the web, called sheep farms, and contacted local yarn shops and have had very little luck finding someone within an hour's drive of me. I'm thinking maybe I just might get a starter wheel like Babe's and teach myself. I even tried emailing spinning guilds in CT but every email I find doesnt work, they always bounce back. Anyone have any advice or know anyone that would be willing to teach in the central CT area? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Current Mood: excited

December 26th, 2004

07:29 pm: My husband & I went up to NH to see his family over the holiday. I brought some yarn to keep me busy on the 3 hr ride up. Well, an hour into the trip I had a hat for my 4 yr old neice. It was a hit! She loved it. She pranced around the house all day in it. I was a happy aunt :)
Read more... )

November 22nd, 2004

01:50 am: Finally getting around to posting some more pics. I made a new wool hat with a big ole purple flower (pattern here: http://www.moonarts.com/blog/free_patterns/pages/chunky-crochet-print.htm and the flower is the rosette pattern from the lion brand website http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/lionbrand/index.fcgi?page=http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/)and I made a couple ponchos. The green one is one I made up myself and the pink one is the posh poncho here: http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/patterns/poshponcho.php. The pink hat I made from this pattern: http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com/supersimplehat.html. I love that pattern, it comes out so soft and warm! I leave out rows 9 & 10 and I do rows 11 & 12 with an M hook to make it fit a bit snugger. take a look see )

November 18th, 2004

01:17 am: NYC!!!
Went to NYC with Mom today to see the Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall. All I can say about the show is: Wow! Wow! Wow! Sooo great!!! Had time to walk around the city a bit and snap some cool pics. At the very end of the day we saw some big to-do over at Rockefeller Center and went to check it out. Kramer from Seinfeld was there to promote Seinfeld coming out on DVD. He was only 15' away! Very exciting for Mom & I. Hope y'all enjoy the pics :) http://photobucket.com/albums/v453/imeesh_24/

October 22nd, 2004

02:06 am: Brand new me!
Just changed the settings on my journal....checking it out

September 15th, 2004

12:09 pm: Sexy poncho
I made a poncho for my best friend's birthday. I only have the one pic....wish I took more, but it was about a 1000 degrees in her kitchen that day! Read more... )

11:41 am: Directions for Woodcutters hat
I sat down and wrote up the directions for the woodcutters hat. The only thing that isnt too specific is how I did the brim. I've never been a really good pattern creator, I like following a pattern whenever possible. But trust me, the brim wasnt difficult. It did take a little trial and error but it was fun and didnt take much time at all. I think it took about 6 hours all together....that might even be stretching it. Ok, without further ado.....Read more... )

September 14th, 2004

02:07 am: Camo woodcutters hat
My hubby was good enough to model the hat I made for him today. He had asked for a hat with a brim and also a flap that came down over his ears and neck and this is the result: Woodcutters Hat )
I made the basic betty version hat from here: http://www.yarncat.com/snowboarder_skullies.html And took inspiration from the brim on this hat: http://www.yarncat.com/newsboy_cappic.html And improvised the fold down flap. I'm pretty proud of it!

August 16th, 2004

02:19 am: 2 new felted bags
In my excitement to felt these I forgot to take pictures of the "before". felted goodness )




They're both done in hdc. I think I might felt them some more. They look more felted in person than in these pics for some reason. I dyed the wool by hand....here's a link to the pics of the wool http://www.livejournal.com/users/imeesh_24/1348.html#cutid1. The purple & geen bag looks sorta camo, eh? Totally by accident.

August 12th, 2004

12:10 pm: Kool Aid Man!!!
I'm all giddy! I just dyed my first batch of Kool Aid wool. Here's the pics )

August 11th, 2004

01:35 am: First pic post!
I FINALLY figured out how to post pics here and use the lj cut... So without further ado, here's my stuff! )

01:29 am: Ok here goes
Trying out lj cut Here ). Ok, lets check if this worked.

June 11th, 2004

11:33 pm: Hiya
Boring day, blah blah

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