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.

Month: April 2009

  • Water Plants

    Water Plants

    I forgot to post my photograph yesterday! I was at a librarian conference all day and came home exhausted, yet full of great ideas and motivation. yay!

  • What’s going on

    Did you hear about the Turkish broadcaster? Who addressed Obama in blackface? WTF! Clearly he has no concept of the history of race relations in the U.S. THAT was a BIG no no. Amazon gets a BIG GIANT FAIL.  You can follow the mob at twitter search’s  #amazonfail search. The story got picked up by…

  • A quickie crafty monday post

    I don’t have much to show you at the moment so I thought I would tell you what I’m working on. It is a pattern from Wendy Bernard’s book Custom Knits. It’s a vest called Jewel. This is some yarn that I bought a few weeks ago with some birthday money. I’m not super fond…

  • Turnbull

    Turnbull

    We finally had a nice day last Sunday so Raf and I decided to walk around Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous this past week and I’ve been so happy about that. Unfortunately, there is snow in the forecast for Monday and Tuesday. WTF?

  • What’s Going On

    Snow in April for us. Hurray for Progress! A fun story about finding a message in a bottle from a hundred years ago. LOL. A part of me wants to say, “good for them!” This is absolutely horrific. My good thoughts are with the people of Italy. I am so pleased with Obama. He’s doing…