tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90226936404061298452024-03-14T00:09:50.710-04:00the little toil of loveKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-90053764066006946232014-12-29T11:47:00.003-05:002014-12-29T11:47:46.721-05:00On LessI'm an accumulator by nature.
I come from a family of collectors and accumulators: get it now because it might not be here. You like this? You should have it. It's on sale? You might never find it at this price again.
I'm an accumulator by nature.
I'm a little hungry and so I eat a bowl of cereal. I don't wait to feel full and eat another. I'm restless, so IKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-65072192065392587412012-04-02T07:00:00.000-04:002012-04-02T07:00:12.496-04:00I'm Moving
[moving cards by sweet and crafty]
I've lost my blogging rhythm and style and realized I've outgrown this space. So I'm starting over, because I needed a blank slate, rather than just changes. I thought I was done blogging altogether, but I think I'm just done here.
Come visit me in my new virtual home, won't you?
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-52689960993521691552012-03-22T12:01:00.003-04:002012-03-22T12:01:59.989-04:00Just Read(ing): The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, by Caroline Preston
[a page from the book]
Caroline Preston loves vintage ephemera. According to her bio, she spent hours in the attic of her parents' home with generations of scrapbooks as a girl and worked as an archivist as an adult. This love of ephemera and archives grew into The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, which is something like a graphic novel--it's a story told through an artful mix of Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-11168840733817617372012-03-21T12:43:00.002-04:002012-03-21T12:43:28.378-04:00Your Brain on Fiction
[by Madeline Tosh on Flickr]
Oh, hey there. I haven't had much to say lately, just other things to do. I'm not a regular blogger anymore and finally admitted it to myself. Now I'm admitting it to you. So hello again.
Here's something I couldn't help sharing: a New York Times article about the brain on fiction. This morning, Kathrin of Annekata shared this Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-15308370907281012222012-03-08T11:47:00.001-05:002012-03-08T11:47:21.298-05:00Imagination
Emerge, by Fréya Eté
My imagination has been slow lately. Ideas seem to be just on the other side of a gauzy curtain--I can see their shapes but not well enough. So I've gone searching for inspiration, and found Freya Art. These words and illustrations, paired together, are stirring those creative thoughts now. Good words and good art have a way of doing that, no?Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-9608078160284640312012-03-07T10:06:00.001-05:002012-03-08T11:47:21.307-05:00Good Words
please send good into the world print by Jessica Swift
Sometimes, I need some good words. Sometimes, they're inside me; other times, they're in a book. Every now and then, I stumble across them.
Yesterday, I was craving some good words, and found them in my google reader, two posts in a row. One was a post on Oh, Hello Friend about a marriage retreat Danni attended Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-37245428368973241372012-03-05T11:32:00.004-05:002012-03-05T11:32:57.569-05:00Weathering the Weather
Some crazy and some horrible weather ripped through the south and midwest on Friday.
One town, Henryville, is just twenty miles from where I live and was decimated. A friend of mine grew up there--her family home was south of the tornadoes, but her high school and other places she knows well are shattered.
My home church has a retreat center/summer camp just outside of townKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-39732851714033443802012-03-02T12:03:00.003-05:002012-03-02T12:04:18.696-05:00Found: Bean Forest (and happy Friday!)
I almost broke my spending freeze (on day two!) to pick up a few of these buttons from Bean Forest on Etsy. I probably will, later. For now, I'll just laugh at the humor that perfectly suits an English major. Check out the art/lit/history/music section if you love books and could use a laugh. Oh, and have a very happy Friday and weekend!
Sidenote: Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-25094629724398335082012-03-01T11:38:00.000-05:002012-03-01T11:38:22.675-05:00Freeze Two
Spring is approaching, we have unseasonably warm weather, and I am finally going outdoors with fewer than three layers. We never had a proper winter, but I still enjoy the advent of sixty-degree days.
As the weather warms and freezes become a thing of the past, though, I'm starting a new freeze. Last year, my spending freeze only lasted a month. This year, I'm taking on a Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-54406886329821185892012-02-28T10:50:00.001-05:002012-02-28T10:50:56.356-05:00Found: Lovers, by Jarek Puczel
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This oil painting by Jarek Puczel has stayed with me since I first found it on Pinterest. I love everything about it--the tones, the way the lines and faces blur into each other, and the slightly mysterious aura it seems to exude.
The artist's caption reads thus: "When we love, we think constantly about each other."
That is the Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-36034836070956832722012-02-26T19:41:00.001-05:002012-02-26T19:41:34.758-05:00Manipulation
Earlier this month, Kathrin of Annekata invited her readers to join in a fabric manipulation challenge. My craft/sewing/making skills have been largely unused since August, so I happily joined in--I needed a challenge that was doable but still challenged my creativity.
I took a half-bleached tank top that is completely unwearable but still made of pretty good fabric and cut a long Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-47274225392061352952012-02-22T11:02:00.004-05:002012-02-22T11:03:20.575-05:00Made: a photobook
The idea was simple enough: make something for Valentine's Day unlike the things I've made before. That idea then stretched a little--make something that isn't just for Valentine's Day, but something that can be special every day. That's a nice tall task. Still, Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-34215120005407988452012-02-20T13:02:00.000-05:002012-02-20T13:02:00.159-05:00I Sniff Books...
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...do you?
Finding this made me laugh out loud. This page might be its origin. I have one reservation, though: why are there flowers and no books in the background?Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-65541423827131892302012-02-17T09:31:00.004-05:002012-02-17T09:32:11.944-05:00Happy Friday
Aren't you glad it's Friday? What are your weekend plans? I want some mellow time at home and I'm going to try my very best to clean. I'll probably read and watch movies with my husband instead, but hey--at least I had good housekeeping intentions, right?
It's not too late to enter the My Memories giveaway--I'll select a winner at noon today and be back to post around Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-34050869723949103892012-02-14T22:05:00.002-05:002012-02-14T22:05:42.518-05:00On Love
"To love--that is to say, to love someone 'for what he is'--always means to find oneself with a 'ridiculous object'...But it also means to continue to see in this object the 'something more'...To love is to perceive this gap or discrepancy, and not so much be able to laugh at it as to have an irresistible urge to laugh at it. The miracle of love is a funny miracle."
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-35095556196154353392012-02-10T14:02:00.000-05:002012-02-15T14:03:33.543-05:00Happy Friday (and my first giveaway)!
A week or so ago, I got an email from Picnik that said they're closing in April. Picnik has been my go-to site for playing with photos and attempting to edit my images since I found the site in high school, so I was fairly disappointed. How would I then play with my photos, make collages, and add text or effects?
Then I got an email from My Memories, which I'd heard about Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-208860153649484682012-02-09T10:18:00.004-05:002012-02-09T10:19:11.296-05:00Three Things
#1
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My aunt gave me the most beautiful journal for Christmas, and I've only filled one page. I feel as if most of the words that come to me aren't worthy of its pages, then end up not writing at all. Then I came across this pin today, and decided the beautiful journal will be filled with daily gratitudes and maybe a few Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-7338734532364820212012-02-07T08:21:00.001-05:002012-02-07T08:21:10.360-05:00Courage
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These words get to me every time I read them. In my sophomore year of high school, To Kill a Mockingbird was our summer reading for English. I loved the book from the start, but the way my teacher talked about it transformed the story even further, and I fell head over heels with every moment bound in the Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-80785836910553496752012-02-06T13:58:00.000-05:002012-02-06T13:58:24.434-05:00Until Then
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My husband is in the middle of busy season and has long days at work for at least another month or two, and rarely knows when he'll get done until early afternoon. These words seem right for any parting from a loved one, whether it lasts for hours, days, weeks, longer, or even an indeterminate amount of time.
Saying "see you later" or Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-80582756302647190772012-02-03T11:51:00.004-05:002012-02-03T11:51:55.758-05:00Happy Friday!
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I have a new book to read, some work to do, and surprisingly nice weather this weekend.
What are you up to?Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-6119107946525807602012-02-02T11:18:00.002-05:002012-02-02T11:18:38.910-05:00Just Read: The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
{image from the book trailer, which you should definitely watch here}
I promise, this is the last you'll hear my gush about this book...for today, at least.
If I said that it's rare for a book to entrance me like this, I'd be lying. Yet at the same time, The Night Circus caught my imagination in a different way than usual. The book was equal parts thrilling and emotionallyKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-19728394400645595042012-02-01T14:06:00.003-05:002012-02-01T14:06:53.978-05:00Reading The Night Circus
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ohmygoshthisbookissogoodi'mnotevenusingcapsorspaces...
...which actually takes me longer to type because I hit the spacebar and shift key so very naturally that I don't even notice.
But seriously, this book is brilliant. I'm even ignoring the comma splices everywhere and the one mistaken homonym I encountered awhile ago.
Also, I Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-58166514635480001952012-01-27T14:57:00.002-05:002012-01-27T14:57:39.644-05:00The Shedd
{Fan Photo from the Shedd Aquarium Facebook page because my camera battery died beforehand}
On our way back from Wisconsin in December, my mom, sister, and I spent the night in Chicago, trying to catch up the on family/girl-time that we missed while my sister was busy getting an education. We went to the Shedd Aquarium for the first time since I was a little girlKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-79098567415401066782012-01-26T09:38:00.002-05:002012-01-26T09:38:39.306-05:00The First Quick Trip
Lake Michigan
Back in December, the week before Christmas, my mom and I drove up to Wisconsin to get my little sister and bring her home. Every trip to Milwaukee is full of childhood nostalgia for me. I look at things differently now, though. I see the road on the way to my grandparents' house for the
beauty in the countryside as well as for the joy of a visit. &Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022693640406129845.post-35587172398022824092012-01-25T11:57:00.002-05:002012-01-25T11:57:16.998-05:00Three Things
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I am rather obsessed with Downton Abbey. It's so good! Best part? PBS has the episodes available online right away. I'm also rather in love with the music...and the characters, and the suspense, and the time period (1912-1918, so far), and the wardrobe, and everything. It's so emotional to watch, and the Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653265136506116537noreply@blogger.com1