Shimmer & Tulle

Ellen from Shimmer & Tulle visited ALL 1105 blogs paticipating in this year’s One World One Heart magic carpet ride! Unfreakingbelievable!

She has picked her 8 favourite blogs out of them all and posted them on her blog.

Click on her banner below to check out her top picks. (Psst… I’m on her list! YAYYY!)



By the way, my OWOH giveaway is still on! Only a few hours left though. So quickly leave a comment here to enter the giveaway. It’s open to everyone with a blog. Good luck and happy blog hopping!

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Not your typical love poem

Love is in the sleepy smiles that greet me in morning.



Love is sharing a laugh when brunch arrives with roquette adorning!



Love is dreaming of our future together –



while others wonder, will it be forever?



Love is smooching and cuddling your beau.



And love is in every stitch, row after row.



XOXO Happy Valentines Day!

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One World One Heart Discoveries

Whooosh!

I’ve been having so much fun on on my One World One Heart magic carpet ride!

Blogs of all sorts and from all around the world. There are sculptors, writers, mixed media artists, sewers, and of course, knitters and crocheters as well. Plus, I get a chance to win something from each of these great blogs! You should see some of these prizes – stunning jewellery, handknitted shawls, custom made sculptors and so much more.

One of the blogs I enjoyed visiting is Argot. She writes about knitting, crocheting, crafting, sewing, cooking, gardening, cats… Hang on. That sounds a lot like me! No wonder I enjoyed her blog so much. We have a lot in common.

Just like what I said yesterday about reading blogs, great pictures are my number one attraction. Just look at some of her stunning photos:








And she doesn’t ramble on and on and she also shares tutorials and recipes and patterns and and and… You should really check her blog out!

Go on. Shoo! But come back and tell me what you think of Miss Donna of Argot. Have fun!

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To read or not to read

I’ve been doing a little experiment. I have not read my RSS feeds for a week. The reason is to free up time to be creative. To give my brain space to think. I normally spend my morning going through my RSS over my cuppa tea and breaky. Some days it takes me a couple of hours to go through it all! My morning then becomes a blur from information overload. Not a good way to start the day.

But I started to miss reading it. I missed not knowing what my favourite bloggers were up to. I missed looking at all the pretty pictures and all the creative projects people get up to. Most of all, I missed feeling like I was part of this community. Is that silly?

[Reminds me of a great article I read on Make + Meaning. The article is called Choose your own adventure and it's about how you participate in the craft community. Worth a read and I dare say, worth subscribing to.]


Photo from Mashable

I launched my Google Reader this afternoon and I had over 600 items to read! Bugger! It’s a good thing that Google Reader has “Sort by Magic”. Really. Magic. I’m not kidding. Well, not pull-a-rabbit-out-of-the-hat magic. But the popular feeds that people like get shuffled to the top. Like magic.

I’ve been using it for a few months and it works a treat when I’m short of time but need a quick update. I don’t miss out on the good stuff. To return the favour of those who helped sort by magic, I click on the “like” icon too whenever I feel a post deserves it.


Silly me in 2006

Buddhism got it right when it taught us to find the middle path. My experiment proved that I cannot remove reading RSS from my life and it was stupid of me to think that I could. But I do need to evaluate who and what I read.

Then the question is what makes a blog subscribe-worthy? Here is my list:

1. It has to entertain me visually. Great pictures are a big attraction.
2. It mustn’t be too wordy. Some people have huge brain farts and I don’t really want a stinky mind.
3. Don’t post too often. Once a day is plenty.
4. I would like to be able to learn something new every now and then.
5. If it makes me laugh or go WOW, then I’m subscribing.

So what makes you subscribe to a blog?

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Purrfectly organising my WIPs

Since Olly claimed my WIP* box as his a few weeks ago, he has settled right in and shows no sign of moving out. You will find his furry little chin hanging over the top of the box almost every single hour of every single day. He made it purrfectly clear to me that I had to find a new box for my knitting projects. This is Olly’s box now.



While wondering through Kmart in search of a replacement, I chanced upon this. Look closely at the white tag on the box…



Eureka! I’ve got my new knitting WIP box! I parted with my $10 far too quickly and excitedly for the under-enthusiastic cashier. But what does he know? He isn’t a knitter.



This box is purrfect! It’s large enough to hold the big soft toys that I like to make, a full-size notepad, my knitting needles, crochet hooks and all the other notions. It has a lid so my furry family members can’t easily get into it. Plus, it’s simple, minimalist design means that I can put the WIP box in the living room without it looking out of place.



I love it when it all comes together like this.

And I must also add that Ifa thinks her new bed is purrfect too! *smacks my forehead* Should have seen that coming, shouldn’t I? LOL



Thank god there’s only two of them running this household!

Well, I better go fluff up their pillows now. Toodle-oo!

*WIP = Work in Progress

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