Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: blogging

  • changes

    Yesterday, during a bout of procrastination, I found myself changing my blog theme. Here is how that went: Gets email from WordPress: “your domain ‘Transatlanticpinswap.com’ will automatically renew in 1 month.” Me: “Oh! That doesn’t even exist anymore. I need to cancel that. Goes to cancel transaction. Notices other WordPress things I’ve purchased in the…

  • My blog in 2012

    I found this New Years post the other day and thought it would be fun  to try it for this year. Here are the “rules” are for the post: Copy the first sentence(s) from the first blog post you made each month. Provide explanatory context if needed. I think I’ll skip the explanation and see…

  • In which I lay out a plan for the rest of the year

    If you have been reading this blog for the past year you know that I have been attempting to post something everyday. I’ve enjoyed this daily practice of checking in with the blog everyday. However, it’s getting difficult to find things to blog about. In order to help me stay motivated I am going to…

  • A new theme for a new year

    Today’s post might be kind of boring and techie. But I’m kind of excited. I actually bought my first WordPress premium theme. They wrote about it on the official WordPress blog yesterday and when I saw it I had to have it. It’s quite near everything I’ve been looking for in a WordPress theme. The…

  • Thanks Dianne

    My friend, Dianne from both Dianne’s Dishes and Daffodil Lane gave me a blog of distinction award! It totally made my day. So, I need to pass the honor on to three other blogs. This is very hard because I am a very picky blog reader. I don’t subscribe to a lot of blogs so…