January 26, 2008
It’s been a nice quiet, productive morning:
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I’ve worked on (& almost completed) my handouts for a few continuing education courses I’ll be teaching in a few weeks on frugal living and vermicomposting.
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Cleaned and re-organized my sewing room to accommodate a more official “office space.” I got a laptop this week and needed to set up a workspace for myself. Jeff and I have shared a desktop for the last 8 years and while I can’t believe I arrived at a time in my life where a laptop and 2 computers are necessary, I am there. It makes typing my class notes and working on other projects just plain easier. I always felt bad asking Jeff to get off the computer when He so rarely uses it. We also set up a wireless network in the house for multiple projects. (We were so geeked out by it last night that we played scrabble against each other online. I know we’re dorks.) Now, I have something that can travel with me so I can make the most of lunch breaks, etc.
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Made simple valentines to mail in the coming weeks to friends and family. I’m not much of a card maker, but I wanted to do something nice for my loved ones. I used materials I had in my stash: card stock in various textures and colors, glue, pinking shears, and some ribbon that I’ve had for years but never touched until today.
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Planned the coming week’s menu and grocery shopping list.
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Did laundry.
I did all these tasks while listening to the following soundtrack (I love reading what other folks are listening too, and figured I’d jump on the bandwagon):
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Not For Kids Only - David Grisman & Jerry Garcia
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When I Woke - Rusted Root
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American Beauty - Grateful Dead
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Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
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Further In - Greg Brown
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The Cole Porter Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald (currently playing)
I wonder if I need to update my CD collection? That’s quite a list of oldies (or almost oldies) but goodies.
January 28, 2008 at 8:09 am
Hi there
I wonder if you could give me some advice. I think a pair of pinking scissors would be a very useful thing to have and get me started a lot sooner on some of the craft projects I’d like to do. Do you have any particular recommendations or advice on what to look for? I’m left-handed, so if the handles are like standard scissors I’ll need to take that into account and find a left-handed pair as well.
Thanks.
January 28, 2008 at 9:36 am
The pair I have is made Fiskars - I do like Fiskars products as a general rule. The handle is like regular scissors so you might want to look for a left-handed pair. If you’re doing crafting with fabric be sure to buy fabric pinking shears - the kind they sell with the scrapbooking supplies don’t work on fabric very well in my opinion - they’re good for paper only. I’ve also found that good pinking shears are farily heavy - but that might not be a universal fact… Hope that helps.
January 30, 2008 at 9:28 am
Thanks for that. There are only one or two places to buy material in Dublin and I wasn’t too sure how they fare when it comes to offering accessories. Then yesterday I found some material I bought on a whim from a shop I found almost by accident before Christmas and there was a leaflet in the bag with the number for their other, much bigger shop. I phoned them and asked and they do sell pinking shears but said they’d need to order in a left-handed pair. When I found out the price will be between 50 and 100 euro I decided to hold off on ordering until I’ve gone in to them in person to see what’s on offer. I may also keep an eye on e-bay, although it seems that most of what’s up there at the moment is not only right-handed but also from people based in the UK and the shipping costs are high enough to negate the cost benefit.