Book Giveaway - July 1-4 - Canada Only

Happy Canada Day! For a change, I have a book giveaway on my other blog, Callista's Ramblings. It's part of a blog party but any Ca...

The Great Camping Event - July 26 - Aug 6, 2010

I'm pleased to announce a great cross-blog event I'm holding called The Great Camping Event. On BOTH of my blogs Callista's Ramb...

Urban street art right up my alley

I like art that is clever.  On a recent trip to Powell's Books , I was highly amused by the miniature art in Slinkachu 's book Littl...

Do Nothing But Read Day - How did I not know about this???

Seriously, how did I NOT know about this? Did YOU know about this? Do Nothing But Read Day is held twice a year, June 27 and December 19. S...

My Week

scenic drive to crater lake, oregon . . . . . . . . . . the deepest lake in the u.s. proved to be a wondrous sight indeed stairs in the hist...

The Book About Tony Chestnut by Laurie Monopoli (The Learning Station)

Stars: **** Learning Station (2010) Picture Book 48 pages 3-7 years old Summary: Most North Americans know the song "Tony Chestnut....

Michelle Ramin's art auction

Portland artist Michelle Ramin just sent me an email announcing an art auction extravaganza.  Michelle is headed to San Francisco Art Insti...

Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder: Stories by Amy Friedman (Review and Opinion on Audio Books)

This week is Audiobook Week at Devourer of Books . I said I'd participate by sharing a audio book review. This has turned into more of ...

I've got mail

I received handmade cards from two of my readers this past week- one from overseas! I was so encouraged, not only by the kind words inside, ...

Embroidering my art

I needed some twill tape earlier this week, so my daughters and I took a trip to the fabric store.  As I was getting 8 yards of twill tape m...

Honest Scrap Award

I received the Honest Scrap award from Tribute Books ! As with most blog awards, no one knows who started it anymore and the rules keep chan...

Fabric tape now in shop

I'm having so much fun with this fabric tape idea .  Yesterday, I just bought a gizmo off of Craigslist that can put adhesive on the ba...

Book Blogger Hop: June 18

Well I haven't participated in the Book Blogger Hop in a while because I keep forgetting but Welcome to all visitors. This blog has bee...

making your own fabric tape

I was thrilled to discover last week a wonderful new blog called Annekata .  The first post I read was a tutorial on how to make your own fa...

Printing your own designs on fabric

Lately, I've been determined to print my own designs on fabric.  After browsing some diy blogs, I finally ran a test run yesterday on m...

Delicious Book Blog Directory

There are a few things I was supposed to work on during Bloggiesta that I wasn't able to because of camp but I've been working on th...

Got Books? Event - July 23-24

Got Books? is a new event from Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers and There's a Book . It's like Blogmania and Blogfest but for B...

Tahoe's heavenly light

The way the sun falls on Lake Tahoe is as breathtaking as the altitude.  Located a mile above sea level, Tahoe's alpine terrain lends it...

BBAW: Book Blogger Appreciation Week

It's that time of year again! Here is some information followed by some posts I'm proud of that I"m hoping will put me in the r...