Last night while we were watching Criminal Minds and CSI (one of the few nights when we watch anything on the “Big Four”) the local CBS affiliate was doing the “Scary! Big Significant Scary Weather Event! Scary! Panic Time!” thing. So this morning it occurred to me that you can tell what the weather is [...]

Flight attendant uniforms Best Aliens in Science Fiction – I’m not sure which fictional species are my favorites. I’d have to give that some thought. Facts about the ambidextrous Atlas Obscura Blog – fascinating 26 Wild Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Fast Food – Not all that wild but I really didn’t know most [...]

False start weekend is over and this short week started out good. I bought the required spool of thread and actually worked on one of the dresses I had tried to start and I almost finished it. The sewing notions I ordered are supposed to arrive next Monday or Tuesday but I’m hoping they will [...]

In the last few days everything I’ve tried to start, I’ve discovered I didn’t have everything I needed. Friday I started sewing another dress and was quite excited about it but this pattern uses bias tape for the neckline and armholes instead of facings (I knew that; I’ve used this pattern before.) and I had [...]

We saw Dark Shadows Thursday night. I was a huge fan of the TV series when I was about 9 to 10 years old so when I first heard they were making a movie I thought, “That’s just wrong! It’s sacrilege!” But then I started seeing the advertisements and… well, you know… Tim Burton, Johnny [...]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I first saw this list of 100 Best First Lines From Novels. (via) I have been procrastinating because I intended to go through them and agree or disagree with all of them but I’ve had more interesting and productive things to do and can’t really get motivated to [...]

I love when something I have always wanted to believe turns out to be true. “…daydreamers’ minds wander because they have too much extra capacity to merely concentrate on the task at hand.” Mr. T is 60 today. Linked article includes five facts about Mr. T and a video of him singing. Weird Home Remedies [...]

Today my mother would have been 79. For several weeks I’ve been thinking about what I would say on this day but I really don’t have anything… so, just a flower. I know that, like me, Mom didn’t have just one favorite flower but she liked moss rose a lot (and so do I) and [...]

Too Much Fabric Never Hurt Anyone. — here I’m almost surprised that this glut of utter dreck wasn’t followed by reports of dinosaurs who used their noxious flatulence to propel themselves through space. — there

I dreamed about kittens last night. That’s not unusual; I dream about kittens a lot, but these were especially interesting. We just found these kittens – really fuzzy ones – playing outside and immediately said we weren’t going to keep any of them because we already have two cats. Then I noticed that one of [...]

Gimcrack Hospital – A great blog full of fascinating, bizarre medical history. Wow! New Vintage Lady – Excellent blog. Sewing and other vintage-y things. CatsInfo.com – A really nice site for cat people. If Bands Were Sandwiches – Link found in this great Link Dump. Geekologie – Hmmmm… name looks familiar but if I’ve ever [...]

This week’s episode of Eureka was fun. They did the old body swapping thing, with the swapping happening randomly and at hilariously inconvenient moments. This trope* has been around a long time. The earliest I remember is the famous Captain Kirk/Dr. Janice Lester switch in Star Trek: TOS but I’m sure that is not the [...]

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It’s Monday morning and I got nothin’, so let’s see how far I can go with nothing. Mother’s Day was nice. When your kids are all grown up all you really want for Mother’s Day is to spend a little time with them. I’ve been a sewing maniac lately. In just the last few days [...]

This will be my first Mother’s Day without my mother. The first Mother’s Day that I don’t get to pick out a pretty card to send. The first Mother’s Day that I don’t get to call and talk to her. If I could thank my mother for just three things it would be these: Reading. [...]

This dress is interesting. I don’t care for the pattern so much – dresses and tops with wide neck openings don’t work for me. Mostly I like that the fabric is a huge print and you could do something similar with a different neckline. I don’t think I would have thought of making something like [...]

I have to admit that I don’t really get the “guy cars vs. chick cars” thing. Oh, I have a general idea of the characteristics of each but when it comes to specific cars I’m often wrong (Well… according to guys, at least) but ever since I first saw this Fiat commercial (which I love, [...]

Sea and Land – A gruesome and fanciful illustrated book from 1889 Turtle house – Ugly but interesting. “The New Land” – More discoverers of America Otamatone – Awwww, look how cute it is. This is what you buy for the children of someone you really need to get even with. Most Intriguing Sci-Fi Opening [...]

As I mentioned at least once before, In the past year and a half to two years I’ve been seeing photos and blog posts about orange fashion and inevitably someone always comments that, “No one looks good in orange,” which I take to mean, “I don’t think I look good in orange and therefore I [...]

Liberty of London Hello Kitty – Click “Enlarge Image.” I’ve never been a Hello Kitty fan but that is pretty, BUT I can’t buy Liberty of London fabric. It’s not exactly that I can’t afford it. I could maybe splurge, just once, but I’m afraid it would turn out to be like potato chips: “You [...]

Not that we are unhappy now, just that happy tends to get relegated to the status of background noise to everything else competing for attention in our lives. — here …voters, we are told, want “someone like them” at the helm, and to the horror of the rest of us, they quite often get their [...]

I saw this fabric last summer while I was browsing at eQuilter.com and immediately fell in love with it. I bought enough for a shirt (obviously) but since it was almost fall I decided to put it away and wait for spring to make it. While it was sitting in my closet I started to [...]

Portable meth lab explodes in man’s pants during traffic stop I am so not surprised that this happened in Oklahoma. Fortunately for the cop involved but otherwise unfortunately, it wasn’t a real explosion explosion. Thanks (I think) Leeann.