Both audible and Amazon taking pre orders -
Camino Island: A Novel Hardcover – June 6, 2017
by John Grisham
And FYI it appears to be about half the length of his standard legal story books.
This one is ten hours on audible. Most others are 19-20 I think.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
weights then cardio
Here is a short/simple explanation.
http://christinacarlyle.com/weights-cardio-first-workout/
If you google it, many more explanations, but answer pretty consistent. Weights first. Cardio second.
A topic that was listed in many articles was avoiding injury by weights first and cardio second. Also a better/more effective weight workout if it is first.
Christina wrote (in link above)
1) Warm up
2) Weights
3) Cardio
4) Cool down
I would add
5) stretch
I do a lot of passive, yoga type stretching regularly. I do it after intentional exercise.
http://christinacarlyle.com/weights-cardio-first-workout/
If you google it, many more explanations, but answer pretty consistent. Weights first. Cardio second.
A topic that was listed in many articles was avoiding injury by weights first and cardio second. Also a better/more effective weight workout if it is first.
Christina wrote (in link above)
1) Warm up
2) Weights
3) Cardio
4) Cool down
I would add
5) stretch
I do a lot of passive, yoga type stretching regularly. I do it after intentional exercise.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Starting back fluids after stomach flu
The flu shot is for respiratory flu.
For those catching it, respiratory flu has been pretty bad this year, long lasting.
(The respiratory flu shot has nothing to do with the stomach flu).
The stomach flu has also been pretty bad this year. Long lasting. Like stomach symptoms on and off for weeks, with periods in between where stomach symptoms seem to go away, and then it comes back again. I have heard of multiple trips to the ER.
It is really unfortunate that the word flu is used for both stomach and respiratory. A lot of people, including medical people, hear the word "flu" and assume one or the other. Teach your kids to always put the word stomach or respiratory in front of the word flu for clarification.
Youngest was up all night puking
(At college)
Really terrible. Like 7 hours.
I found where I had actually written it.
This is the sort of thing your mother or grandmother has to teach, or you just don't know.
Toddlers and small children puke and then are super thirsty and then drink too much and start puking again. This originally came from a doctor. Obviously check with your doctor. And fine tune as needed.
And I am talking measured amounts,
Not sips.
Can use a plastic spoon if they are at college.
At home I use a toddler medicine measuring tube.
We wait 3-4 hours after last episode of vomiting.
If feeling a lot better, then start with 1/2 teaspoon of room temperature, either slightly flat sprite or gateraide. 1/2 teaspoon every fifteen minutes if no vomiting.
If make it one hour (four 1/2 teaspoons),
then increase to 1 teaspoon every fifteen minutes.
If make it through the next hour (four 1 teaspoons), with no vomiting,
then progress to 1 1/2 teaspoons (which is the same as a 1/2 tablespoon) every fifteen minutes.
At the end of that hour (four 1 1/2 teaspoons), if still have not vomited, and have been okay for 6-7 hours, and can progress to 1 tablespoon every 15 minutes.
At that point can move to SIPS. Unless it is a kid who cannot do sips, and then just keep increasing measured amount.
If at any point in that process, they vomit, the clock/whole process starts over waiting another 3-4 hours.
For those catching it, respiratory flu has been pretty bad this year, long lasting.
(The respiratory flu shot has nothing to do with the stomach flu).
The stomach flu has also been pretty bad this year. Long lasting. Like stomach symptoms on and off for weeks, with periods in between where stomach symptoms seem to go away, and then it comes back again. I have heard of multiple trips to the ER.
It is really unfortunate that the word flu is used for both stomach and respiratory. A lot of people, including medical people, hear the word "flu" and assume one or the other. Teach your kids to always put the word stomach or respiratory in front of the word flu for clarification.
Youngest was up all night puking
(At college)
Really terrible. Like 7 hours.
I found where I had actually written it.
This is the sort of thing your mother or grandmother has to teach, or you just don't know.
Toddlers and small children puke and then are super thirsty and then drink too much and start puking again. This originally came from a doctor. Obviously check with your doctor. And fine tune as needed.
And I am talking measured amounts,
Not sips.
Can use a plastic spoon if they are at college.
At home I use a toddler medicine measuring tube.
We wait 3-4 hours after last episode of vomiting.
If feeling a lot better, then start with 1/2 teaspoon of room temperature, either slightly flat sprite or gateraide. 1/2 teaspoon every fifteen minutes if no vomiting.
If make it one hour (four 1/2 teaspoons),
then increase to 1 teaspoon every fifteen minutes.
If make it through the next hour (four 1 teaspoons), with no vomiting,
then progress to 1 1/2 teaspoons (which is the same as a 1/2 tablespoon) every fifteen minutes.
At the end of that hour (four 1 1/2 teaspoons), if still have not vomited, and have been okay for 6-7 hours, and can progress to 1 tablespoon every 15 minutes.
At that point can move to SIPS. Unless it is a kid who cannot do sips, and then just keep increasing measured amount.
If at any point in that process, they vomit, the clock/whole process starts over waiting another 3-4 hours.
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
If you have high school students who are college bound or undergrad college students, in the science fields, this is an important connection for summer programs
https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/index.jsp
This is something college bound high schoolers need to know, so they can plan ahead for college summers.
This is a great resource.
And if I have not mentioned it previously, have your kids keep lists of all their activities, programs and contacts. When asking for letters of recommendation, give the person a bio so they can reference the student's programs and activities.
This is something college bound high schoolers need to know, so they can plan ahead for college summers.
This is a great resource.
And if I have not mentioned it previously, have your kids keep lists of all their activities, programs and contacts. When asking for letters of recommendation, give the person a bio so they can reference the student's programs and activities.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Garlic cauliflower, green beans, chicken
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| This is a simple one we (husband and I) like. It is the only combination, so far, where we like the garlic cauliflower. We love it this way. It is so so every other way (to us). I either bake/chop chicken or chop chicken and then cook on top the stove. I barely book the veggies, only enough time and heat to get them hot. I mix all of it. I divide into 3 servings. Dinner for two of us, lunch for one of us. I do not cook anything in the plastic bag/microwave. So some of the medleys I buy are advertised that way, but I do not cook them that way. |
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Another Book List - these are the titles my group has already read over the years. 2009-2017 I think. So the books listed in the post are the "done books", we have already read, as a group. We do 11 books a year. The same books are listed two ways. First half is listed by author. Then the second half is the same books listed in alphabetical order by title. I have marked the books I have read with an * on the second list/by title.
Please keep in mind, this is a classics book group.
If you happen to think of books this group has not read,
that would be considered classics,
I would really appreciate a list in comments.
Author Order
If you happen to think of books this group has not read,
that would be considered classics,
I would really appreciate a list in comments.
Author Order
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart (1958)
Adams, Richard:
Watership Down (1972)
Anderson, Sherwood:
Winesburg Ohio (1919)
Austen, Jane:
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Watership Down (1972)
Anderson, Sherwood:
Winesburg Ohio (1919)
Austen, Jane:
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Northanger Abbey (1817)
Bradbury, Ray:
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Bronte, Charlotte:
Jane Eyre (1847)
Bronte, Emilee:
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Buck, Pearl:
The Good Earth (1931)
Burgess, Anthony:
Clockwork Orange (1962)
Camus, Albert:
The Stranger (1942)
Bradbury, Ray:
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Bronte, Charlotte:
Jane Eyre (1847)
Bronte, Emilee:
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Buck, Pearl:
The Good Earth (1931)
Burgess, Anthony:
Clockwork Orange (1962)
Camus, Albert:
The Stranger (1942)
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood (1966)
Card, Orson Scott:
Ender’s Game (1985)
Carroll, Lewis:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Through the Looking Glass (1871)
Cather, Willa:
My Antonia (1918)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:
Don Quixote (1605 and 1615)
Chopin, Kate:
The Awakening (1899)
Christie, Agatha:
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Card, Orson Scott:
Ender’s Game (1985)
Carroll, Lewis:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Through the Looking Glass (1871)
Cather, Willa:
My Antonia (1918)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:
Don Quixote (1605 and 1615)
Chopin, Kate:
The Awakening (1899)
Christie, Agatha:
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Collins, Wilkie
The Woman in White (1860)
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Conrad, Joseph:
Heart of Darkness (1902)
Heart of Darkness (1902)
Lord Jim (1899-1900)
Cormier, Robert:
The Chocolate War: A Novel (1974)
Crane, Stephen:
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Craven, Margaret:
I Heard the Owl Call my Name (1960)
Defoe, Daniel:
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Cormier, Robert:
The Chocolate War: A Novel (1974)
Crane, Stephen:
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Craven, Margaret:
I Heard the Owl Call my Name (1960)
Defoe, Daniel:
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Moll Flanders (1722)
Dickens, Charles:
Bleak House (1852-1853)
Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860-1861)
Dickens, Charles:
Bleak House (1852-1853)
Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860-1861)
Oliver Twist (1838)
Hard Times (1854)
Hard Times (1854)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor:
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)
Notes from the Underground (1864)
Doyle, Arthur Conan:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902)
Dreiser, Theodore:
An American Tragedy (1925)
Sister Carrie (1900)
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Ellison, Ralph:
Invisible Man (1952)
Faulkner, William
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender is the Night (1934)
Forster, E.M.:
A Room With a View (1908)
Howards End (1910)
A Passage to India (1924)
Frank, Anne:
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)
Golding, William:
Lord of the Flies (1954)
Hammett, Dashiell:
Maltese Falcon (1940)
Hardy, Thomas:
Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender is the Night (1934)
Forster, E.M.:
A Room With a View (1908)
Howards End (1910)
A Passage to India (1924)
Frank, Anne:
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)
Golding, William:
Lord of the Flies (1954)
Hammett, Dashiell:
Maltese Falcon (1940)
Hardy, Thomas:
Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891)
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Far from the Maddening Crowd (1874)
The Return of the Native (1878)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Heller, Joseph:
Catch-22 (1961)
Heller, Joseph:
Catch-22 (1961)
Hemingway, Ernest:
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Old Man and the Sea (1952)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Hersey, Jophn
Hiroshima (1946)
Hesse, Hermann:
Siddhartha (1922)
Hesse, Hermann:
Siddhartha (1922)
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
Hurston, Zora Neal:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Huxley, Aldous:
Brave New World (1931)
Hurston, Zora Neal:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Huxley, Aldous:
Brave New World (1931)
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Joyce, James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Kerouac, Jack:
On the Road (1957)
Kesey, Ken:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Kerouac, Jack:
On the Road (1957)
Kesey, Ken:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Kipling, Rudyard
Captains Courageous (1897)
Kim (1900-1901)
Knowles, John:
A Separate Peace (1959)
Lawrence, D.H.:
Sons and Lovers (1913)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
Knowles, John:
A Separate Peace (1959)
Lawrence, D.H.:
Sons and Lovers (1913)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
Women in Love (1920)
Le Carre, John
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)
Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Leroux , Gaston
The Phantom of the Opera (1909-1910)
Lewis, Sinclair:
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
London, Jack:
The Call of the Wild (1903)
Sea Wolf (1904)
Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Prince (1513)
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Maugham, Somerset:
Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Razor’s Edge (1944)
Maurier, Daphne Du:
Rebecca (1938)
McCullers, Carson:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
The Member of the Wedding (1946)
Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Razor’s Edge (1944)
Maurier, Daphne Du:
Rebecca (1938)
McCullers, Carson:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
The Member of the Wedding (1946)
McEwan, Ian
Atonement (2001)
Atonement (2001)
Mellville, Herman:
Moby Dick (1851)
Morrison, Toni:
Beloved (1987)
Nabokov, Vladimir:
Lolita (1955)
Obama, Barack
Moby Dick (1851)
Morrison, Toni:
Beloved (1987)
Nabokov, Vladimir:
Lolita (1955)
Obama, Barack
Dreams From My Father (1995)
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska:
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
Orwell, George:
Animal Farm (1945)
1984 (1949)
Paton, Alan:
Cry the Beloved Country (1948)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
Orwell, George:
Animal Farm (1945)
1984 (1949)
Paton, Alan:
Cry the Beloved Country (1948)
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar (1963)
Potok, Chaim
My Name is Asher Lev (1972)
Rand, Ayn
Anthem (1938)
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Salinger, J.D.:
Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Scott, Sir Wallace:
Ivanhoe (1819)
Shelley, Mary:
Frankenstein (1818)
Sinclair, Upton:
The Jungle(1906)
Solzhenitsyn:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Spark,Muriel:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Steinbeck, John:
Red Pony (1937)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
Grapes of Wrath (1939)
East of Eden (1952)
Stevenson, Robert Louis:
Treasure Island (1883)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Treasure Island (1883)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Kidnapped (1893)
Stoker, Bram
Dracula (1897)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Styron, William:
Sophie’s Choice (1979)
Swift, Jonathon:
Gullivers Travels (1735)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Styron, William:
Sophie’s Choice (1979)
Swift, Jonathon:
Gullivers Travels (1735)
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden (1854)
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Democracy in America (1835) abridged
Twain, Mark:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
Verne, Jules
Around the World in 80 Days (1873)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
Voltaire
Candide (1759)
Vonnegut, Kurt:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Vonnegut, Kurt:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Cat's Cradle (1963)
Walker, Alice:
The Color Purple (1982)
Waugh, Evelyn:
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Wells, H.G.:
Time Machine (1895)
Wharton, Edith:
Ethan Frome (1911)
The Age of Innocence (1920)
Wilde, Oscar:
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891)
Walker, Alice:
The Color Purple (1982)
Waugh, Evelyn:
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Wells, H.G.:
Time Machine (1895)
Wharton, Edith:
Ethan Frome (1911)
The Age of Innocence (1920)
Wilde, Oscar:
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891)
Wilder, Thorton:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Wolfe, Thomas:
Look Homeward Angel (1929)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Wolfe, Thomas:
Look Homeward Angel (1929)
Wolfe, Virginia
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Wright, Richard:
Native Son (1940)
Wright, Richard:
Native Son (1940)
SAME BOOKS IN TITLE ORDER
*1984 (1949) by George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
*The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll
*All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
*Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
*Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
Anthem (1938) by Ayn Rand
*Around the World in 80 Days (1873) by Jules Verne
Arrowsmith (1925) by Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith (1925) by Sinclair Lewis
As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
*Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
*The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
*The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
*Bleak House (1852-1853) by Charles Dickens
*Brave New World (1931) by Aldous Huxley
*Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
*Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thorton Wilder
*The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
*Bleak House (1852-1853) by Charles Dickens
*Brave New World (1931) by Aldous Huxley
*Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
*Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thorton Wilder
*The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
Captains Courageous (1897) by Rudyard Kipling
*Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
*Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
*The Chocolate War: A Novel (1974) by Robert Cormier
Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
*A Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
*The Chocolate War: A Novel (1974) by Robert Cormier
Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
*A Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain
*Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*Cry the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
*Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*Cry the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
Democracy in America (1835) abridged by Alexis de Tocqueville
*The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
*Don Quixote (1605 and 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
*Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
*Dreams From My Father (1995) by Barack Obama
*East of Eden (952) by John Steinbeck
*Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
*Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
*A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
*East of Eden (952) by John Steinbeck
*Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
*Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
*A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
*Far from the Maddening Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
*For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
*Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
*The Good Earth (1931) Pearl Buck
*Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
*Great Expectations (1860-1861) by Charles Dickens
*The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathon Swift
*For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
*Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
*The Good Earth (1931) Pearl Buck
*Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
*Great Expectations (1860-1861) by Charles Dickens
*The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathon Swift
Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens
*The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
*Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad
*The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
*Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad
Hiroshima (1946) by John Hersey
*The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
*The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
*The House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster
Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo
I Heard the Owl Call my Name (1960) by Margaret Craven
I Heard the Owl Call my Name (1960) by Margaret Craven
*In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote
Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Wallace Scott
*Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte
Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Wallace Scott
*Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle(1906) by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle(1906) by Upton Sinclair
*Kidnapped (1893) by Robert Louis Stevenson
*Kim (1900-1901) by Rudyard Kipling
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) by D H Lawrence
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) James Fenimore Cooper
*Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Look Homeward Angel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe
*Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Look Homeward Angel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe
Lord Jim (1899-1900) by Joseph Conrad
*Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis
*Maltese Falcon (1940) by Dashiell Hammett
*The Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers
*Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis
*Maltese Falcon (1940) by Dashiell Hammett
*The Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers
The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
*Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Mellville
*Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Mellville
*Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe
*Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
*My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather
*Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
*My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather
My Name is Asher Lev (1972) by Chaim Potok
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
*Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen
Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoeavsky
Of Human Bondage (1915) by Somerset Maugham
*Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
*Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway
*Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
*One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
*One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
*One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
*A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
The Phantom of the Opera (1909-1910) by Gaston Leroux
*The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891) by Oscar Wilde
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
*Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
*Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
The Prince (1513) by Machiavelli
*Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain
*The Razor’s Edge (1944) by Somerset Maugham
*Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
*Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
*Red Pony (1937) by John Steinbeck
*Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain
*The Razor’s Edge (1944) by Somerset Maugham
*Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
*Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
*Red Pony (1937) by John Steinbeck
The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy
*Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
*A Room With a View (1908) by E.M. Forster
*The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Sea Wolf (1904) by Jack London
*Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
*A Separate Peace (1959) by John Knowles
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
*Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
*A Room With a View (1908) by E.M. Forster
*The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Sea Wolf (1904) by Jack London
*Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
*A Separate Peace (1959) by John Knowles
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
*Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence
*Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
*Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence
*Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Luis Stevenson
*The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
*The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
*Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
*Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
*Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neal Hurston
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Luis Stevenson
*The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
*The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
*Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
*Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
*Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neal Hurston
*Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
*This Side of Paradise (1920) by F Scott Firzgerald
*Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) by John le Carre
*To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
*To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
*Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Lewis Stevenson
*Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Lewis Stevenson
*The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
*Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
*Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams
*Winesburg Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
*The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins
Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
*Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emilee Bronte
*Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emilee Bronte
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Book List
If you are looking for lists of book ideas for middle school/high school/older,
a good idea is to google "100 books everyone should have read".
All kinds of lists will pop up,
Like this one
http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge
That is a great place to get ideas of well written books.
(I had read 39 of them.)
There are variations like 100 American books or 100 classic books.
Lots of different lists.
Middle sent the above link and the list below to a mother who was looking for ideas for a sixth grader who has a high reading level. There are younger books toward the beginning of this list and it also has a very wide variety. It is in no particular order.
Brambly Hedge Series – Jill Barklem
The Borrowers Series – Mary Norton
The Little House Series – Varies Authors
Original Box Car Children Series – Warner
Island of the Blue Dophins – O’Dell
Misty of Chincoteague Series – Marguerite Henry
Mandie Series – Lois Gladys Leppard
The Three Investigators Series – Robert Arthur
A Walk in Wolf Wood – Mary Stewart
Redwall Series – Jacques
Hatchet Series – Gary Paulsen
Arthurian Series – Mary Stewart
Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling
Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
Narnia Series – C. S. Lewis
Ender Series – Orson Scott
Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov
2001 Space Odyssey Series – Arthur Clark
Dune Series – Frank Herbert
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series – Dounglas Adams
* https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-hitchhikers-guide-series-book-1:
The Midnighter Series – Scott Westerfeld
The Secret Hour – Westerfeld
Touching Darkness – Westerfeld
Blue Noon – Westerfeld
The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
Artemis Fowl Series – Eoin Colfer
Exodus – Julie Bertagna
The Pack – Tom Pow
Captives – Tom Pow
Host – Stephenie Meyer
Chasing the Falconers (On the Run) Series – Gordon Korman
Bunker 10 – J. A. Henderson
Life As We Knew It Series – Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Giver Series – Lois Lowry
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Hawksong (The Kiesha’ra) Series – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dreamland – Sarah Dessen
The Shadow of the Bear (A Fairy Tale Retold) Series – Regina Doman
Not connected to these exact characters but also in the
retold fairytales and a very good book: The Midnight
Dancers
Wicked Lovely Series – Melissa Marr
Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Peter and the Starcatchers Series – Ridley Pearson & Dave Barry
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
Maximum Ride Series – James Patterson
Eragon Series – Christopher Paolini
Heir Apparent – Vivian Vande Velde
The Hunger Games Series – Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Portofino – Frank Schaeffer
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Tforde
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Peace Life a River – Leif Enger
Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Izzy, Willy Nilly – Cynthia Voigt
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Specials and Midnighters and Uglies Trilogies – Scott Westerfeld
A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder – Richard Peck
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town and Keeper of the Night – Kimberly Willis Holt
Chronicles of the Deryni – Katherine Kurtz
Wings Series – Pike
Dragon Rider – Funke
Percy Jackson Series – Riordan
Howl’s Moving Castle – Jones
Fire Within Series – D’Lacey
Inkheart Series – Funke
Book Thief – Zusak
Fablehaven Series – Mull
Outsiders – Hinton
Eye of the Dragon – Stephen King (not typical King book)
The Graveyard Book – Gaiman
Hardy Boys Series – Dixon
Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls
Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson
Holes – Sacher
Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest Gaines
Call It Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman
Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt
The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton
Jacob, Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson
Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George
Keesha’s House – Helen Frost
My Brother Sam Is Dead – James Lincoln Collier
Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
Scorpions – Walter Dean Myers
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Number the Stars – Lowry
Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
Silmarillion – Tolkien
Culture Series – Iain Banks
Time Machine – Wells
Call of the Wild – London
Treasure Island – Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
Maze Runner Series– Ball
Thief Lord – Funke
Series of Unfortunate Events Series – Hadler
The Important of Being Ernest – Wilde
Divergent Series – Roth
Jurassic Park – Crichton
Star Wars Series (Canon and ‘Legends’) – Multiple Authors
Truesight Series – David
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Series – Riggs
Author’s Who Are Great and have lots of books:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jerry Spinelli
Louisa May Allcott
Dickens
Patrick F McManus
Bill Bryson
John Steinbeck
Hemingway
Jane Austen (female characters but my older brother read in college/loved them)
Lois Duncan
James Herriot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Isaac Asimov
Leo Tolstoy
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
Judy Blume
*Read everything in the school’s autobiography section
a good idea is to google "100 books everyone should have read".
All kinds of lists will pop up,
Like this one
http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge
That is a great place to get ideas of well written books.
(I had read 39 of them.)
There are variations like 100 American books or 100 classic books.
Lots of different lists.
Middle sent the above link and the list below to a mother who was looking for ideas for a sixth grader who has a high reading level. There are younger books toward the beginning of this list and it also has a very wide variety. It is in no particular order.
Brambly Hedge Series – Jill Barklem
The Borrowers Series – Mary Norton
The Little House Series – Varies Authors
Original Box Car Children Series – Warner
Island of the Blue Dophins – O’Dell
Misty of Chincoteague Series – Marguerite Henry
Mandie Series – Lois Gladys Leppard
The Three Investigators Series – Robert Arthur
A Walk in Wolf Wood – Mary Stewart
Redwall Series – Jacques
Hatchet Series – Gary Paulsen
Arthurian Series – Mary Stewart
Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling
Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
Narnia Series – C. S. Lewis
Ender Series – Orson Scott
Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov
2001 Space Odyssey Series – Arthur Clark
Dune Series – Frank Herbert
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series – Dounglas Adams
* https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-hitchhikers-guide-series-book-1:
The Midnighter Series – Scott Westerfeld
The Secret Hour – Westerfeld
Touching Darkness – Westerfeld
Blue Noon – Westerfeld
The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
Artemis Fowl Series – Eoin Colfer
Exodus – Julie Bertagna
The Pack – Tom Pow
Captives – Tom Pow
Host – Stephenie Meyer
Chasing the Falconers (On the Run) Series – Gordon Korman
Bunker 10 – J. A. Henderson
Life As We Knew It Series – Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Giver Series – Lois Lowry
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Hawksong (The Kiesha’ra) Series – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dreamland – Sarah Dessen
The Shadow of the Bear (A Fairy Tale Retold) Series – Regina Doman
Not connected to these exact characters but also in the
retold fairytales and a very good book: The Midnight
Dancers
Wicked Lovely Series – Melissa Marr
Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Peter and the Starcatchers Series – Ridley Pearson & Dave Barry
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
Maximum Ride Series – James Patterson
Eragon Series – Christopher Paolini
Heir Apparent – Vivian Vande Velde
The Hunger Games Series – Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Portofino – Frank Schaeffer
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Tforde
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Peace Life a River – Leif Enger
Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Izzy, Willy Nilly – Cynthia Voigt
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Specials and Midnighters and Uglies Trilogies – Scott Westerfeld
A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder – Richard Peck
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town and Keeper of the Night – Kimberly Willis Holt
Chronicles of the Deryni – Katherine Kurtz
Wings Series – Pike
Dragon Rider – Funke
Percy Jackson Series – Riordan
Howl’s Moving Castle – Jones
Fire Within Series – D’Lacey
Inkheart Series – Funke
Book Thief – Zusak
Fablehaven Series – Mull
Outsiders – Hinton
Eye of the Dragon – Stephen King (not typical King book)
The Graveyard Book – Gaiman
Hardy Boys Series – Dixon
Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls
Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson
Holes – Sacher
Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest Gaines
Call It Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman
Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt
The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton
Jacob, Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson
Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George
Keesha’s House – Helen Frost
My Brother Sam Is Dead – James Lincoln Collier
Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
Scorpions – Walter Dean Myers
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Number the Stars – Lowry
Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
Silmarillion – Tolkien
Culture Series – Iain Banks
Time Machine – Wells
Call of the Wild – London
Treasure Island – Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
Maze Runner Series– Ball
Thief Lord – Funke
Series of Unfortunate Events Series – Hadler
The Important of Being Ernest – Wilde
Divergent Series – Roth
Jurassic Park – Crichton
Star Wars Series (Canon and ‘Legends’) – Multiple Authors
Truesight Series – David
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Series – Riggs
Author’s Who Are Great and have lots of books:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jerry Spinelli
Louisa May Allcott
Dickens
Patrick F McManus
Bill Bryson
John Steinbeck
Hemingway
Jane Austen (female characters but my older brother read in college/loved them)
Lois Duncan
James Herriot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Isaac Asimov
Leo Tolstoy
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
Judy Blume
*Read everything in the school’s autobiography section
Friday, February 10, 2017
Tracy Craft Night
http://www.shutterbean.com/2017/ladies-craft-night-valentines-party/?
Really great idea. Kids of any age tend to love this type of thing.
I attached the link because her pictures are gorgeous.
We had guys (26 and 27) making a gingerbread house at Thanksgiving with no arm twisting.
Middle was very happy doing headbands over Christmas break.
Most of youngest's friends love to draw and paint and do crafts.
So, from preschoolers to adults, very fun things to do.
We play a lot of games and cards when we have extra people, but arts/crafts are very good idea too.
So is cooking (not baking, COOKING). Many a boy has been my cooking assistant.
Really great idea. Kids of any age tend to love this type of thing.
I attached the link because her pictures are gorgeous.
We had guys (26 and 27) making a gingerbread house at Thanksgiving with no arm twisting.
Middle was very happy doing headbands over Christmas break.
Most of youngest's friends love to draw and paint and do crafts.
So, from preschoolers to adults, very fun things to do.
We play a lot of games and cards when we have extra people, but arts/crafts are very good idea too.
So is cooking (not baking, COOKING). Many a boy has been my cooking assistant.
Thursday, February 09, 2017
Storing doll and toddler patterns
My mother has a lot of doll clothes patterns. They are used over and over again.
My close friend who gave my mom all the fabric, suggested my mom interface all her pattern pieces. And she did.
Using 911FF (featherweight) Pellon interfacing (the iron on a medium dry setting and a press cloth) my mom reinforced all the tissue pattern pieces.
She uses an old sheet (cut up) as a press cloth for pattern pieces. (Normally we use muslin.) She has "top" marked on it so any sticky residue is on one side of the press cloth. When they get too sticky, she starts over with a new cloth. GREAT use for an old sheet.
Here is more information on press cloths:
https://didyoumakethat.com/2012/06/04/make-yourself-a-press-cloth/
http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/18346/guide-to-press-cloths/page/all
I have kept all my baby and toddler clothing patterns. So I have my patterns which are 20+ years old and I also have older ones. So OLD tissue paper pattern pieces.
My mom and I went through and interfaced the patterns I knew I would use now. This allows the pieces to be used over and over again. I had to mend several pieces that were missing corners.
Once the pattern pieces have been interfaced, they no longer fit in the original envelopes. We use 14" x 18" manila envelopes which I got through office depot. (If they do not carry them in the local store, they will order them with free shipping.)
I made color copies of the pattern fronts (reducing them by 50% to save ink, for the front of each envelope. I used packing tape to secure the pictures to the envelopes. This is extremely handy for patterns that will be used for many years.
These (below) are the patterns I am currently using. I only interfaced the smaller sizes (2-4).
I have duplicates of some of these patterns in size 6 that I am saving but have not yet interfaced.
I have a large stack of other patterns, in larger children's sizes, that I have left alone for now.
I also have a lot of costume patterns (in child and adult) that I am saving but not interfacing.
And I have a few adult size nursing tops/dresses/jumper patterns that I am saving but not interfacing now.
Most of my adult patterns went in recycling. I went thru them carefully. If they were classic, I saved them. If no one would ever wear that style again, not even as a costume, I recycled them.
One of my local resale shops has a sewing section. I have taken things there. But these (old patterns) were truly dreadful patterns and really just needed to go. But I did NOT put them in the garbage, I put them in paper recycling bin.
My close friend who gave my mom all the fabric, suggested my mom interface all her pattern pieces. And she did.
Using 911FF (featherweight) Pellon interfacing (the iron on a medium dry setting and a press cloth) my mom reinforced all the tissue pattern pieces.
She uses an old sheet (cut up) as a press cloth for pattern pieces. (Normally we use muslin.) She has "top" marked on it so any sticky residue is on one side of the press cloth. When they get too sticky, she starts over with a new cloth. GREAT use for an old sheet.
Here is more information on press cloths:
https://didyoumakethat.com/2012/06/04/make-yourself-a-press-cloth/
http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/18346/guide-to-press-cloths/page/all
I have kept all my baby and toddler clothing patterns. So I have my patterns which are 20+ years old and I also have older ones. So OLD tissue paper pattern pieces.
My mom and I went through and interfaced the patterns I knew I would use now. This allows the pieces to be used over and over again. I had to mend several pieces that were missing corners.
Once the pattern pieces have been interfaced, they no longer fit in the original envelopes. We use 14" x 18" manila envelopes which I got through office depot. (If they do not carry them in the local store, they will order them with free shipping.)
I made color copies of the pattern fronts (reducing them by 50% to save ink, for the front of each envelope. I used packing tape to secure the pictures to the envelopes. This is extremely handy for patterns that will be used for many years.
These (below) are the patterns I am currently using. I only interfaced the smaller sizes (2-4).
I have duplicates of some of these patterns in size 6 that I am saving but have not yet interfaced.
I have a large stack of other patterns, in larger children's sizes, that I have left alone for now.
I also have a lot of costume patterns (in child and adult) that I am saving but not interfacing.
And I have a few adult size nursing tops/dresses/jumper patterns that I am saving but not interfacing now.
Most of my adult patterns went in recycling. I went thru them carefully. If they were classic, I saved them. If no one would ever wear that style again, not even as a costume, I recycled them.
One of my local resale shops has a sewing section. I have taken things there. But these (old patterns) were truly dreadful patterns and really just needed to go. But I did NOT put them in the garbage, I put them in paper recycling bin.
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Computer Room Clean Out
So I started on the wall cabinets by taking everything out of them. This involved my husband because these are tall cabinets.
We started with a step stool. When we thought to get a taller ladder out of the garage, I was able to do more by myself.
This (below) is the left side. It was easier to contemplate, so I did it first. It now holds paper, envelopes, cards and notebooks. I gave a lot of school supplies (book covers and notebooks and paper) to a family with four kids for them to use in school.
As you can see, I did not whittle myself down to nothing. If one of us needs to do a project, we still have supplies. All the paper is now out of my sewing closet.
I am not buying any more of these supplies to stock. And I have told all the kids - dig thru my stuff first before you buy anything.
These (below) are containers from Walmart. Exactly the right size to hold computer games (which all three of the kids wanted to save) and children's CD's. It might be that no one ever touches these again, but they all wanted them saved. Four bins held everything perfectly and my husband readjusted the shelf so they fit perfectly. Top shelf in the right cupboard, so they are out of the way.
This (below) is what the right cupboard now holds. Yes, one totally empty shelf. The short shelf with the horizontal binders is all related to building our current house. The bottom shelf holds empty binders, file folders, and pouches.
I suspect this whole pile (below) is garbage. It is all old stuff which might be related to old computers. Oldest is not happy, but will go thru it with me over Face-time. We have agreed to go thru things this way rather than me sending picture after picture. And when he grumbles, I say - be glad I am cleaning out and organizing (so you do not have to face so much when we are dead). As I finish cupboards, I send the kids pictures so they know where things are.
Youngest already went thru this pile (below). Yes, there were several things she wanted. Middle still needs to go thru it.
The stack on the bench is the over sized paper that did not fit in the cupboards. For now, it is staying on the bench.
My part of the computer room is now mostly done (below). I have the pile to sort with middle and the pile to sort with oldest. And under the counter, near the door are several file boxes for my husband to sort/purge/shred. And there are a lot of files in his office upstairs that need sorted/purged/shredded and the keepers moved to this room.
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Toddler dresses
I made a lot of clothes for our modern American Girl dolls last month.
I still have a few things cut out and ready to sew, will do sometime when I am looking for a quick project.
This month, I have been making toddler dresses.
This (18-24 mos I think) is the first one I did,. The pattern is McCalls 5791.
I used a (Simplicity 8197) pattern to make dresses for my niece long ago. Over twenty years ago. (I probably made some for middle too. But she does not remember them.) My niece loved them and I made a lot of them. At that time I probably did facings. Now I know to fully line the bodices. (My mother and I do not do facings. Instead we line the whole bodice. Easier to sew, easier to launder, easier to wear.)
I am not very fast making these, yet. I have not yet fully figured out the order to sew things to enclose all the seams and make things easy. At some point in every dress, I sigh and have to rip out and resew something.
These first two are in a size 4. I have multiples of the same pattern. So I can make it in a size 2, 4, 6.
All the doll clothes sewing has been good warm up for garment sewing. It has probably been 20+ years since I did garment sewing and I am rusty. Plus now I do things a different way. I line bodices, I use a serger, I add trim and lace. The original dresses I made for my niece, were very, very plain.
I am making these simply because I want to. I am mostly starting with fabric we already have.
I still have a few things cut out and ready to sew, will do sometime when I am looking for a quick project.
This month, I have been making toddler dresses.
This (18-24 mos I think) is the first one I did,. The pattern is McCalls 5791.
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| The dotted fabric is left from pillow cases I made for middle's class. The pink is fabric from the doll stash that my mother dishliked. So a good use for fabric that never would have been made into doll clothes. I had the jumbo black rickrack in my bins. It really ties the whole things together. The bodice is lined with white muslin. There is a zipper in the back. |
I used a (Simplicity 8197) pattern to make dresses for my niece long ago. Over twenty years ago. (I probably made some for middle too. But she does not remember them.) My niece loved them and I made a lot of them. At that time I probably did facings. Now I know to fully line the bodices. (My mother and I do not do facings. Instead we line the whole bodice. Easier to sew, easier to launder, easier to wear.)
I am not very fast making these, yet. I have not yet fully figured out the order to sew things to enclose all the seams and make things easy. At some point in every dress, I sigh and have to rip out and resew something.
These first two are in a size 4. I have multiples of the same pattern. So I can make it in a size 2, 4, 6.
All the doll clothes sewing has been good warm up for garment sewing. It has probably been 20+ years since I did garment sewing and I am rusty. Plus now I do things a different way. I line bodices, I use a serger, I add trim and lace. The original dresses I made for my niece, were very, very plain.
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| The top/red fabric is from the doll stash. Fabric that came from my friend. The strawberry fabric is leftovers from a dress my mother made for youngest. I bought the red lining fabric and the jumbo rickrack. |
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| Extremely happy to use two strawberry buttons from one of my button boxes. (I have thousands of buttons.) I made the loops instead of button holes because the pattern is made to have the bodice fabric meet in the back, not overlap. (I think the pattern calls for hooks and eyes.) I wanted to use buttons and I think the fabric loops are very sturdy and cute. |
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| You have to get very close to see it. I sew rickrack three times. Down the center and then the outsides to hold the tips in place. (If I had not showed you, probably never would have noticed.) This will allow the rickrack to launder and wear very nicely. |
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| The fabric is leftovers from another dress my mother made for youngest. My mom has made 8-10 dresses for her, I think. I found the pink rickrack, pink piping, and white eyelet in the stash of doll stuff at my mother's. |
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| Very good use for two buttons from my boxes. Another set of loops. |
I am making these simply because I want to. I am mostly starting with fabric we already have.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Amazon prime and Netflix and roku as gift
Recap - This started because a close friend got Netflix as a Christmas gift from her sons several years ago.
Before Netflix she had garage saled movies on VHS and watched for years. She likes something to keep her company at night while she does handwork, she lives alone.
That is what gave me the idea. However I did it in a way that did not cost anything extra.
We moved a Roku, we already had, to my mother's and then set it up to give her access to our accounts. So she has Netflix and amazon prime thru the Roku.
And she also has PBS thru the Roku which she uses a lot. PBS posts current shows for a short time. So it is only certain shows for a limited time, it is not every show, and it is not the same as just tuning into pbs on TV.
There are a few other things on the Roku too like the history channel I think.
Now - I keep adding/putting things on the watch lists for all of these systems. And then I send her a note.
So I get notice from PBS or Netflix or amazon prime about something that is now available. For the shows she would like, I take a screen shot of the notice, so she can see what it looks like, and email it to her with a note that I added it to the watch list.
Every once in a while she has trouble finding something and I take pictures with my phone of what the tv screen looks like (we have two more Rokus at our house) and send them to her as a step by step tutorial. I do the pictures so she can find it again later (rather than me running over and doing it, she learns). This does not happen often, but when it does, it is always about finding additional seasons on amazon prime. (Netflix has all the seasons one right after the other. So Netflix is actually easier for her to use than amazon. But there have been a lot of things on amazon prime she has really liked that were not on Netflix)
So she can immerse herself in something, which is now an old concept to us, but totally new to her.
For example she watched Downton Abby and the related behind the scenes specials (one on costumes and one on manners and I think two on castles) and then she read two books on the making of the show. And then she watched the whole series again.
She has a DVD recorder on her tv cable box. So she is able to watch what she wants, when she wants, all the way around her systems.
Oldest has his own amazon prime account. The rest of us are on mine. I do not know how many of us can be on at the same time. So far it has not been a problem.
We are all on one Netflix account that allows four tv's no matter where they are located (we are in three different states now) at the same time. We are all on the same account because it is cheaper to do four on one, than multiple separate accounts. Six of us do fine sharing four accesses.
I wrote about this a short time ago
https://baby-steps-v.blogspot.com/2016/12/it-wasnt-even-xmas-present-it-was-extra.html?m=1
My mother is 76. My other friend whose sons started this is 70. But if I did not know how use all this, it would be a great gift for me, at age 55. And it was youngest who physically set up my mother's Roku and all the access. It was very easy/fast for her. (So I am good at using, but not so great at set up.)
Before Netflix she had garage saled movies on VHS and watched for years. She likes something to keep her company at night while she does handwork, she lives alone.
That is what gave me the idea. However I did it in a way that did not cost anything extra.
We moved a Roku, we already had, to my mother's and then set it up to give her access to our accounts. So she has Netflix and amazon prime thru the Roku.
And she also has PBS thru the Roku which she uses a lot. PBS posts current shows for a short time. So it is only certain shows for a limited time, it is not every show, and it is not the same as just tuning into pbs on TV.
There are a few other things on the Roku too like the history channel I think.
Now - I keep adding/putting things on the watch lists for all of these systems. And then I send her a note.
So I get notice from PBS or Netflix or amazon prime about something that is now available. For the shows she would like, I take a screen shot of the notice, so she can see what it looks like, and email it to her with a note that I added it to the watch list.
Every once in a while she has trouble finding something and I take pictures with my phone of what the tv screen looks like (we have two more Rokus at our house) and send them to her as a step by step tutorial. I do the pictures so she can find it again later (rather than me running over and doing it, she learns). This does not happen often, but when it does, it is always about finding additional seasons on amazon prime. (Netflix has all the seasons one right after the other. So Netflix is actually easier for her to use than amazon. But there have been a lot of things on amazon prime she has really liked that were not on Netflix)
So she can immerse herself in something, which is now an old concept to us, but totally new to her.
For example she watched Downton Abby and the related behind the scenes specials (one on costumes and one on manners and I think two on castles) and then she read two books on the making of the show. And then she watched the whole series again.
She has a DVD recorder on her tv cable box. So she is able to watch what she wants, when she wants, all the way around her systems.
Oldest does not have network tv at all. He uses Netflix and amazon prime and free online things. He has lived this way since he started grad school in 2012.
Oldest has his own amazon prime account. The rest of us are on mine. I do not know how many of us can be on at the same time. So far it has not been a problem.
We are all on one Netflix account that allows four tv's no matter where they are located (we are in three different states now) at the same time. We are all on the same account because it is cheaper to do four on one, than multiple separate accounts. Six of us do fine sharing four accesses.
I wrote about this a short time ago
https://baby-steps-v.blogspot.com/2016/12/it-wasnt-even-xmas-present-it-was-extra.html?m=1
My mother is 76. My other friend whose sons started this is 70. But if I did not know how use all this, it would be a great gift for me, at age 55. And it was youngest who physically set up my mother's Roku and all the access. It was very easy/fast for her. (So I am good at using, but not so great at set up.)
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Looking for a mystery book series please.
I have read and loved
Agatha Christie
Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
Margaret Truman's Capitol Crimes books.
Those were the first three that came to mind.
I do not like gore. Nor spooky.
I have read some John Grisham and Scott Turow.
I am looking to see if there are more by these two that I have missed.
I like an author with a large selection so I can settle into their style for a while.
I do audible books. But you do not have to check that before making suggestions.
If you have a sharp eye you might have noticed I started a "books read" list on my side bar for 2017. I have been listening in the car and around the house. I was surprised how quickly I now go through a book (with no one home). So I need to put together a really good list.
Agatha Christie
Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
Margaret Truman's Capitol Crimes books.
Those were the first three that came to mind.
I do not like gore. Nor spooky.
I have read some John Grisham and Scott Turow.
I am looking to see if there are more by these two that I have missed.
I like an author with a large selection so I can settle into their style for a while.
I do audible books. But you do not have to check that before making suggestions.
If you have a sharp eye you might have noticed I started a "books read" list on my side bar for 2017. I have been listening in the car and around the house. I was surprised how quickly I now go through a book (with no one home). So I need to put together a really good list.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
It is easier/cheaper to buy new knit shirts/dresses/skirts to cut up and use as fabric, than it is to buy knit fabric.
These are doll clothes.
A modern girls' T-shirt dress.
And a modern girls' pair of leggings.
They are not meant to be worn together.
I sewed and photographed them together.
These started out as size 2X mens' knit shirts.
So, lots of fabric.
I took advantage of the hems that were already in the garments.
I cut my pieces so the original hem is now the doll garment hem.
I was able to get an identical doll dress out of the striped fabric as well as a couple shirts.
I used as little of the legging fabric as possible so I can use it for other things.
Very large size knit clothes end up on clearance racks for a couple dollars quite often.
Knit fabric at the store is $12+ per yard.
Knits in clothing are often much cuter than knits on the bolt.
And there is the advantage of the already sewn hem in the garments.
Baby/toddler clothes and doll clothes can easily be made (if you sew) from Xl, XXL, XXXL mens' knit shirts. I use a stretch stitch on knit fabric.
A modern girls' T-shirt dress.
And a modern girls' pair of leggings.
They are not meant to be worn together.
I sewed and photographed them together.
These started out as size 2X mens' knit shirts.
So, lots of fabric.
I took advantage of the hems that were already in the garments.
I cut my pieces so the original hem is now the doll garment hem.
I was able to get an identical doll dress out of the striped fabric as well as a couple shirts.
I used as little of the legging fabric as possible so I can use it for other things.
Very large size knit clothes end up on clearance racks for a couple dollars quite often.
Knit fabric at the store is $12+ per yard.
Knits in clothing are often much cuter than knits on the bolt.
And there is the advantage of the already sewn hem in the garments.
Baby/toddler clothes and doll clothes can easily be made (if you sew) from Xl, XXL, XXXL mens' knit shirts. I use a stretch stitch on knit fabric.
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