Book - Cross Stitch

Sweeter Than the Rose - Leisure Arts Publication (Christmas Remembered - Book 7)

(Publ 1993 - 96 pages)

This book has about 55 patterns. They include ones of flowers, butterflies, fairies, children, sayings, and samplers. All patterns are very elegant.

Trivia Book - Trivia Almanac

Trivia Almanac by Ken Jennings

(Publ – 2008)

This is a cute book of trivia. It is arranged by having questions for each day of the year. The answers are on a different page to give you time to think of what you want to guess. There are 531 pages. The questions cover all sort of subjects so anyone can find something of interest.

Writing Exercise - 12

This exercise is the same as before. Take, at least, 3 of the 5 words. Write a story.

- Lunch
- Stores
- A basket of Strawberries
- A broken glass
- Unhappy

Have Fun !

Interestng Site - Smithsonian Magazine

I found this site and thought it was full of great articles. Some of the titles offered were  -

- Stolen: How the Mona Lisa Became the World’s Most Famous Painting

- Food Like You've Never Seen Before

- Insects as a Food Source

The picture is of Shanghai dumpling soup from the Food Like You've Never Seen Before article.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/#ixzz1QrIXE8SR

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/

Writing - Research Page of Interest - Pirates

I am working out some details for a book I am trying to write. I may tie in an old pirate to my story and found this reference page. It is really educational and fun to look at. It has an impressive list of pirates in a time line with lots of links to get more information.

If this is something you have an interest in, please check out this page. The picture of Blackbeard is from this site.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List+of+pirates

An Odd Blog - Fridges

School is almost out and I will be back much more frequent.

Until then, I found this blog by accident and to me it is strangely interesting. It's a blog where people from all over the world (including all over the US) send in pictures of the inside of their fridges. I hope you give it a look and find it as oddly funny as I do.

http://www.fridgewatcher.com/

Writing - Book and Exercise

I read about some exercises you can do where you just get pictures, with no words, and write your own story from the pictures. I ordered this book for those exercises.

From National Geographic - Through the Lens

It's a small, thickish book - the width of your hand all around and about 1 1/2 inch thick. There are some wonderful pictures in here. It's very hard not to read the little blurbs with some of the pictures but try. About 1/2 the pictures don't have blurbs with them, so it's easier with those.

The main idea I came away with was - some of these pictures put me in a different country with different customs - things I would never have thought about in my own little world. Very interesting to work with.