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figmentI decided to sign up for Thing-a-day. It starts today! I'm excited.
To post to the main Thing-a-day page I had to make a Posterous account, so that's where all of the "what I made today" posts will go. I'll probably try to link to them from here, too, so that if you want to keep up you don't have to add yet another URL to your list of blogs you read.
Yesterday I stopped at Target on my way home (in the snow, while taking the bus; that was not a great combination but it was okay) to get some of the stuff I needed. When I got home I made my cheap-o light box and then tried it out. It works great! You'll see. And I made sure my studio area was ready for me to work in - table cleared, stuff put away properly.
I found a cute warm stripey scarf-and-gloves/mittens set for $2.50 at Target so I bought it. Now I want a second one so I can turn the scarf into a hat. Of course, I'm not much of a knitter, so I'd probably be sewing the scarf into a hat - but I can do that. Or maybe I'll try to talk one of my knitting friends into teaching me how to do it "right"... although that'd be a LOT slower. At $2.50, either way it doesn't seem like much of a risk.
I feel like I succeeded because I managed to complete my errand having only purchased one $2.50 item that was not on my list, and the total Target trip was well under that magic $100 mark.
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At the same time as being excited to do this creative sprint, I feel a little weird to be focused on this when things in Egypt are so serious, so tense, so charged, so potentially history-making. I mean, there's not really anything much I can do about Egypt's situation right now (I have signed a couple of petitions, posted some links, and made a donation). But it still seems a little guilt-inspiring to be focusing on something so frivolous while life and liberty are at stake for a whole nation. (That's not going to stop me.)
To post to the main Thing-a-day page I had to make a Posterous account, so that's where all of the "what I made today" posts will go. I'll probably try to link to them from here, too, so that if you want to keep up you don't have to add yet another URL to your list of blogs you read.
Yesterday I stopped at Target on my way home (in the snow, while taking the bus; that was not a great combination but it was okay) to get some of the stuff I needed. When I got home I made my cheap-o light box and then tried it out. It works great! You'll see. And I made sure my studio area was ready for me to work in - table cleared, stuff put away properly.
I found a cute warm stripey scarf-and-gloves/mittens set for $2.50 at Target so I bought it. Now I want a second one so I can turn the scarf into a hat. Of course, I'm not much of a knitter, so I'd probably be sewing the scarf into a hat - but I can do that. Or maybe I'll try to talk one of my knitting friends into teaching me how to do it "right"... although that'd be a LOT slower. At $2.50, either way it doesn't seem like much of a risk.
I feel like I succeeded because I managed to complete my errand having only purchased one $2.50 item that was not on my list, and the total Target trip was well under that magic $100 mark.
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At the same time as being excited to do this creative sprint, I feel a little weird to be focused on this when things in Egypt are so serious, so tense, so charged, so potentially history-making. I mean, there's not really anything much I can do about Egypt's situation right now (I have signed a couple of petitions, posted some links, and made a donation). But it still seems a little guilt-inspiring to be focusing on something so frivolous while life and liberty are at stake for a whole nation. (That's not going to stop me.)
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Date: 2011-02-01 02:32 pm (UTC)Also, Yay for Thing a Day. I look forward to 28 posts of it!
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Date: 2011-02-01 04:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-01 04:49 pm (UTC)http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?PRODID=prd791864&green=19744100770
Huh. Thanks! Maybe I will pick one up the next time I'm in a Jo-Ann's. I really am NOT good at knitting but if something is genuinely "quick and easy" I'd like to give it a try!
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:11 pm (UTC)I'm not good at knitting either. as in don't know how. With the looms its easy. no counting stitches, you can sit and do it while watching the news.