Happiness and hope
Things like this give me hope for the world:
Thanks to Joanna, on whose blog I found it. :-)
Things like this give me hope for the world:
Thanks to Joanna, on whose blog I found it. :-)
After lots of work in the past month and then many late nights in the past week to get the site ready, today (July 1, 2009) saw the official site launch of Geek Girls Rock, a blogzine “by geek girls for geek girls” that some friends and I are developing. The site is live, but…
I spent some time outside yesterday reading, and happily lots of birds realized I wasn’t a threat and so flitted around the feeders and coasted on the wind just above my head. I saw doves, cardinals, titmice, finches, gulls, robins, and a young osprey. At one point a pair of titmice were busy at one…
*happy sigh.* Not only have I found Twilight-themed pixels at the lovely Candy Coated Pixels, and started making my own thanks to her inspiration, but yesterday I found a layout for Geek Bliss that just might actually frakking work. Shocking, I know. I’ve had to do lots of mods to it, and I’m still working…
Yesterday I got on a roll: I made a Paris-themed digital collage for the ARTchix blog challenge, using graphics from The Graphics Fairy and Faerie Enchantment: Then my guy offered me scans of his family’s brewery’s vintage beer labels, so I had to play with those too (with added graphics found on free clip art…
I’d found the company Pylones last year via Paris Breakfasts. I just fell in love with little Piu Piu, the chirping, paper clip-holding wee bird, and had to have one. Carol bought hers in a Pylones store in Paris, but happily the company’s products are available here via the web. My very own Piu Piu…
An amazingly beautiful quote I found today: “I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it.” –Thich Nhat Hahn