Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Quilting

Rather than start yet another blog (what do I have to say about quilting, anyhow?), I'll just put a nugget of info here. At Saturday's quilt meeting, the speaker shared that we should look at the number of dots on the selvage when buying fabric. The more dots there are, the better the fabric's dye. It will be more colorfast and will hold its color longer. She looks for fabrics that have 14+ dots!!! (Compare with JoAnns . . . ) This fabric tends to be more lethal to make in terms of the dyes, but it will hold the color longer.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Watching Morgan at Autocross

It was fun to go out to DCTC's fantastic track in Rosemount and watch Morgan last Saturday. He was having so much fun in his "new" Miata. His number is 714. He tapes it onto his car with blue masking tape for each racing event. Looks like a blast, but too expensive a hobby for me.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Inklings

Getting rid of scraps of paper from my desk today . . .

Still want to read & learn more about the Inklings. For now, here's the scrap I'm ditching:

C.S. Lewis 1898-1963
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892-1973

Roald Dahl (?) 1916-1990 - was he one of them?

Common threads in their lives?

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Book Clubs

I just changed over my non-used blog "SOLC Book Club" to "Eileen Frances Pahl Somers" so I can start collecting stories and photos to share. This was the one and only blog entry for SOLC:

In 2006, Jodi Prip started a Ladies' Book Club at Spirit of Life Church in New Prague. We have had so much fun and fellowship (and a few heated discussions) over the past few years. As we continue to read more titles and expand our group, we sometimes forget a past title or author. This blog will be our one handy place to gather book thoughts. Feel free to comment! We welcome the interaction.

I just never did anything with it and I don't think the others were interested. I have a list of past titles on my regular reading blog. Onward and upward!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Conferences

It's only 4:45 and I'd really, really like to be done now. This is an interesting experiment. Doesn't work for me, but maybe I'm just too stubborn. Glad I talked to one mom who loves this style . . . Just over two hours left and I'm going stir-crazy.