A Blog Conundrum
Now that the heyday of personal blogs is long past, why have blogs gotten so much more attractive? So much beauty, so few readers. [Sigh]
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Author: Mary Warner
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Olio – January 8, 2016 – The Sleep Edition
Olio: a miscellaneous collection of things Today has been a gray, sleepy day, which reminds me …. I came across 2 articles online recently related to sleep, thus this special Sleep Edition of Olio. First up, from Medium, “The Sleep Routines of Successful People.” This article provides a brief list of the number of hours certain successful – read: famous successful – people get per night. You’ll recognize most, if not all, of them when you…
inspiration thought fodder
Wear the Sweater
When the Robin Williams movie “Dead Poets Society” came out in 1989, the phrase “Carpe diem” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8FOZvcPVM] became all the rage. It means, “Seize the day,” as in none of us is getting out of this world alive – we don’t know when our time is going to be up – it may well be as early as the next instant or tomorrow – and we’d better enjoy it while we can. I often see…
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Olio – December 29, 2015
Olio: a miscellaneous collection of things Do you ever run across so many fascinating items online that they back up before you get a chance to share them? I’m suffering that condition now but I’m going to control myself and share only 6 of them. Want to Create Things That Matter? Be Lazy. [99u] – While I agree with the basic premise of this article – that creating things of value, deep things, you have…
art design
Taking a Stab at Coptic Stitch … Again
Here’s my latest creation, a handmade blank journal with a Coptic stitch binding. After taking a class from artist Heidi Jeub to learn how to make these a couple years ago, I made a whole bunch in order to cement the process in my mind. And then I didn’t make any. Until this one. I remembered the procedures for making the signatures and the cover, but that Coptic binding was a tricky one. I managed…