NaNoWriMo 2010 begins today!
Excuse me, I have to go write a novel.
More issues
Eris, and realisations
Cold weather is very motivating when you have an almost finished and definitely gorgeous cardigan on the needles. My Eris has been waiting for me:
Between knitting morning and quiet evenings, I'm making progress and I've finished and grafted the hem. I have sleeve decisions to
Tweets for October 16th to October 31st
* Cotton candy for breakfast. Being an adult does have some benefits.
* Might have designed a knitted hat pattern worthy of official release, my first design.
* 12 days till NaNoWriMo and I don't have my plot sorted yet, not sure what crises I need, who does what, & how
NaNoWriMo 2010!
This is my seventh year doing National Novel Writing Month, I couldn't think of a November without it! The Kick Off party on Oct 24th at Fitz's on the Loop was the biggest I have ever seen, with over 70 people attending. There are write-ins
The English Language
Telegraph News: Hunt for 100 events that shaped the English language
From the Anglo-Saxon invasion of the fifth century to modern-day waves of immigration, the English language has been shaped by countless episodes in history. Now The English Project, a charity dedicated to promoting the language, is compiling
Making glass beads
Went to Third Degree Glass Factory for their Third Friday event, which was also their eighth anniversary. I made six glass beads, and we watched them put a molten glass pumpkin into a tank of water and dry ice. It lasted a few seconds before exploding, tossing pieces of glass
FO: Landguard Hat
I got an experimental skein of Peace Fleece to see if it would be soft enough to make a wrap-front cardigan. I gave up searching for the perfect hat pattern and made my own, the first project I would consider releasing as an official design.
Pattern: My own (my
Tweets for October 1st to October 15th
* There is a perfectly rational explanation for why my TV turned itself on, with sound and no picture, while I was in the basement. Right?
* Love the moment when the brain clicks, plot crystallises, and NaNoWriMo 2010 is suddenly, gloriously possible! This one's going to be good.
* I
I knew him, Horatio
I love 3-D jigsaw puzzles. Four pieces live on my shelf at work, a sapphire, a green apple, a heart, and a crescent moon. At home I have a red apple, a rose, and a four-leafed clover. This week I picked up a new one, meet Yorick the
10/10/10, 10:10am
Today is the tenth of October, 2010, at 10:10am. We will not see this for another hundred years, and we only have two more days like it this century, 11th November next year, and 12th December 2012.