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.

Year: 2012

  • Flickr Time Machine

    It’s the Flickr Time Machine! This time we are going back to 2009. And it isn’t July 13th. It is July 14th. But check this out!! I STILL haven’t used this film. I don’t know why. I am afraid of it. I am afraid I will mess it up. SIGH. I think this photo marks…

  • That so did not work for me

    The “washing my face with honey” experiment is kaput. After two days of it my skin freaked. out. I think I might have had an allergic reaction, actually. Which is interesting and makes me wonder if I should even be EATING it.  I should know better by now. Claims made by people on the intertubes…

  • Goddesses

    Last night a friend got out her Goddesses Knowledge Cards and we did an on-the-fly (not really knowing what we are doing) reading. We decided the first card we chose would be the past, the second card is the present, and the third card is the future. This is what I chose: Past – Hathor.…

  • I washed my face with honey this morning.

      Yep. I did. I am always on the lookout for healthy, DIY beauty alternatives. I hadn’t heard of this type of use for honey until a couple of days ago when a friend on Facebook said she was using honey as a face wash. Apparently it has all sorts of beneficial properties. So why…

  • Mt. Hood

    Yesterday Raf and I took a drive up the mountain. Our destination was Lost Lake but we never made it. We ended up on the gravel roads deep in the Mt. Hood National Forest. It was beautiful. However we didn’t fill our gas tank before we left and I was having visions of us running…