versatile blogger

Thank you very much to Miss Smith for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award in a recent post. (Oh and wait, be sure to check out this post that details some crafty holiday ideas!) Really, I am a winner because you are here, reading this.

el camino, Brunswick, ME

Sometimes it's my turn to be fragile and I am today. So it seemed like an extra good idea to remember that my connections and community are broad and wide, thanks to this little thing called the Internet.

I think being versatile is a way to describe a lot of things in my life. Am I a true Renaissance woman? Probably not. But being a librarian is pretty versatile: there's a fluidity in my work on a few levels. For one, I am meeting each person with an information need in the moment. There will never be two interactions that are the same and my job is to figure out the scope of what is being asked so that I can find a source for the answer.

I am versatile in what I read. I like a good Young Adult book (Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Book Thief, My Most Excellent Year), graphic novels (The Arrival, French Milk), meaty works of literature (Cutting for Stone, Italian Shoes, The Elegance of the Hedgehog), and sometimes things that are totally fluff (here, here, and here).

I am versatile at home, but you know that already.

So here are 7 things about me, as per the instructions for this award:

1. Rats, tomato horn worms, and my basement scare me. Bats, heights, and dogs do not.

2. I am reading the new Ken Follett book right now, The Fall of Giants.

3. I have at least three unfinished knitting projects that are lying dormant right now and I have no plans to do anything with them other than occasionally finding them and feeling guilty.

4. I like sweet better than salty. But chocolate with salt is wonderful.

5. My idea of a perfect morning does not involve my family; this sounds mean, but it's the truth. I still dream of having a nanny for the mornings who would get everyone fed, ready, and nagged, and I would float down the stairs in my silken robe to administer little kisses as my family left me a quiet house in which to enjoy a cup of coffee, my breakfast, and a book.

6. The autumn is my favorite season. But I also really like winter until about the end of February.

7. I would rather knit a new pair of socks than darn them.

a little early holiday cheer

from someone who knows me well

So, now the hard part: picking a few good bloggers out there who make me smile when I see a new post waiting in my Google Reader. If you'd like to take the torch and run, great, and if not, take this as a thank you for sharing your good ideas, humor, and talents with the world (and me).

Tollipop

(she deals with scorpions with panache)

StillmanSays

(versatility to the extreme)

BeautyThatMoves

(inspired, always)

Summer Studio Tour :: 4

As part of our Home Improvement Summer Studio...I bring you: The dresser. Jonas's, to be precise. It's solidly built (read: really heavy to move) but came from a sweet library volunteer (one of the best, and that's saying a lot).

It used to be a very shiny brown.

Now: Lingering Lilac.

(I was looking for just the right shade of purpley blue that wouldn't feel to girly, and the alliteration was a total bonus.)

The hands of a favorite

who came bearing fruit.

Can you hear me? "Wait! Stop! Let me get my camera!"

a little nest found under the galvanized metal tub in our yard

::Thank you, BeautyThatMoves, for inspiring the Summer Studio Tour::

Summer Studio Tour :: 3

~a busy summer week~

~moving two boys who have shared one room

into two separate spaces, still in process~

~a birthday with lemon cake and a boy who is almost 8~

~and a knitted sleeve,

no, not a new sleeve,

not the second sleeve,

but the first sleeve

again

bigger~

~taking comfort in the words of Winston Churchill

on my knitting bag

(because if the sleeve needed re-knitting to make it fit, so will the body. sigh.)~

::Thanks to BeautyThatMoves for organizing the Summer Studio Tour! Check that link to visit her site as well as finding links to others who are participating in the Studio Tour!::

Summer Studio Tour :: 2

~Someone special had her birthday~

~June saved the best for last (I was late)~

~She needed Millie's Hotpads in the prettiest summer fabrics~

~Repurposed, felted sweater batting~

~My mods: little finger pockets on the backside~

::Thanks to BeautyThatMoves for organizing the Summer Studio Tour!::

Stop by her site to find links to others who are participating.

Summer Studio Tour :: 1

knitting a sweater sleeve

on an island in the sunshine

laughter of kite-fliers on the wind.

Thanks BeautyThatMoves for organizing the Summer Studio Tour!

Summer Studio Tour

and from the files of hands and feet...

Heather at Beauty That Moves, has offered up Summer Studio Tour: a chance to share and visit our summer studios, keep up with what we're working on, what's in process. She'll be posting her view on Fridays and I will try to do the same. The idea is to use less words, just photos. Care to join us? (You'll see I posted her nifty button on the sidebar to my blog.)

But you know summer. How things happen at a moment's notice. The utter lack of rhythm. So I am being loose about it, in the spirit of summer: I'll post a summer studio entry between Friday and Sunday. Hopefully. Or maybe on the occasional Wednesday.

And what is the studio anyway? I don't have a dedicated space in my home for my work. I have the kitchen table, the counter, the ironing board, the picnic blanket. So we'll use that loosely also.

Thanks, Heather, for this new inspiration. And Happy Summer, indeed.