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Well, of course the coffee flavour had to go. By rocket no less.
Bunneh
- I have a bunny at home that'll read your message aloud to me - type something, then click the bunny!Relly's Talking Bunny requires the Flash Player.
stuff I'm doing on here
- moving with some speed
Etsy goodness
- My handmade goods on etsy
Singularity '08
July 2008
July 29, 2008
July 26, 2008
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If you have ever had to thrash your way through the abhorence that is system fonts you need to watch this. Who would have thought Comic Sans would save the day?
July 25, 2008
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make words with flickr photos, good for scrappers looking for interesting titles I'd wager.
July 22, 2008
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And the first Bento on the list. I feel some shopping at the Oriental supermarket coming on.
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Blame Jessica again, she's just made some. I'm very jealous.
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Jessica is having this for lunch. I'm having Ryvita. *sobs*
July 21, 2008
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Jessica reminded me of the humble bento box. I wonder if making these would help Paul and I with our healthy eating thing? I could make lunch each day for both of us and it wouldn't have to be berluddy sandwiches again.
July 16, 2008
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Ace Attorney games have the same amount of text and language as a children's novel - so maybe computer games aren't the death of reading after all?
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Literacy and gaming "In my opinion, Phoenix Wright is funnier and cleverer than most TV made for adults"
July 14, 2008
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Jessica pointed me to these. They look SCRUMMY!
July 11, 2008
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So very true. I've been sucked in but I tell you it's fun! Where craft meets colouring in. I'm all over that.
July 07, 2008
Behind and Ahead
So, far I have only written 4208 words when I should be closer to 8,000 really. On the other hand I did some stuff this weekend that needed doing and I had the rare opportunity to go out, not once but twice, so I feel no shame. Also, I've done some badass planning and tomorrow I have a whole day free for writing bar a meeting at 11am.
In other news I've joined Shimelle's My Freedom class and so I think I'll be blogging about that as well. I've been really enjoying doing some scrapbooking classes focussed on self-reflection recently. I still have some of Kollete Hall's Art of Becoming More to finish but I have the prompts and I'll be happy to wait until after the Great Novel Writing Effort to do that.
Equally, I'll try and do the writing for Shimelle's class as a warm up to writing sessions but I might not scrapbook it all until August.
July 03, 2008
4208 words
I've introduced my 3 master characters (although one of them we don't know recognise who he is yet), 2 major characters and 2 minors, as well as setup 3 main strands of plot and a sideplot.
It's all so rough it's embarrassing but I'm determined to get down as many different scenes as possible to create progression. I figure dialogue can always be smartened up later on.
So, yup, 4208. Just need to write another 800 tomorrow and Paul can't hold me to tidying the bedroom. Though I almost certainly will anyway cos my mum is visiting for the weekend and we all know what mums think about messy bedrooms, right?
July 02, 2008
Writing update.
First day of writing (there are 31 days in July, so I spent yesterday writing out my big ol' characters and scenes for future reference) and I've done 1658 today - one prologue and one half of a chapter.
I should probably point out that my book is for ages 9+ so it will be shorter than an average novel but I think children's fiction is much harder to get right than adult so I hope I'm up to the challenge.
So, yes, 1658.
July 01, 2008
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notes on Dia De Los Muertos
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photos, blog and notes about the Day of the Dead
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more notes on everyone's favourite Mexican holiday featuring modeled sugar and death ...
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does what it says on the tin
50,000 words in a month
So, hello July.
I took a wee break from my blog as I was busy but now I'm back with an exciting project.
For 4 years I have planned to write a book. The trouble was no great idea for a book materialised. Now I have one, so I'm going to follow the NaNoWrMo plan and do my first draft in 30 days. Normally one does this in November but November is always full of making Christmas gifts for me.
I went to the my local library and picked up the 'no plot? no problem' kit by the author who started NaNoWrMo and it's full of fun motivational tips so hooray for that. I urge any of you to comment, twitter, email, text me to ask about how much I've written so I keep going.
I'll be posting regular updates and maybe even short excerpts of the least clunky bits so please cheer me along.
What's it about? Well, the more eagle-eyed among you here might have noticed some odd additions on my daily linkroll outside of our normal craft/art/Ace Attorney fangirl schedule ...
Here goes nothing.
