More and more I am seeing (on websites for dressmakers) pictures of paintings or illustrations from famous fashion magazines from 100 or so years ago. And when I try to save a picture for my research its copyrighted! I know that the person who owns the website is not 100+ years old, and the artwork was not painted or illustrated by them. Do they have the right to restrict my access to the material that I know is not legally owned by them?

Discuss.

Every year on (i think) the hottest Sunday of the year our church has "Round Up Sunday". Everyone dresses like cowboys and we have a big picnic games and generally have a wonderful time. Well I dont want to dress as a cowboy. So i need help finding an outfit to recreate for this special sunday.

So here are the rules:

1. Must be within the timeframe of the American westward expansion. (steampunk is accepted)

2. Must be Nice. (no guns or blood, it is church ya know)

3. Must be something I can make in 2 months.

4. Must provide a link to a picture


THE PRIZE:

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Little_Peppers


Entries must be emailed to katherine@tarvalon.net

I will announce a winner next sunday.

Good luck

OK OK McCalls, Simplicity, Butterick and Burda.
When making a pattern please measure the pieces to make sure that one is not longer than the other!

I am making a vest and I put the side front and the front together what happens??HUM?

THE SIDE FRONT IS 2 INCHES LONGER THAN THE FRONT!

Are you kidding me>?

19. The Traitor King  by Todd Mitchell

3 stars

20. The Princess and the Bear by Mette Ivie Harrison

4 stars

I read the 1st book last year The Princess and the Hound. Both excellent books.

21. The Glass Maker's Daughter by  V. Briceland

4 1/2 stars

Good book I want to read another!

17. Fablehaven  by Brandon Mull
18. Fablehaven Rise of the Evening Star


Both books were great kinda Harry Potter but without alot of magic.

14. Snobbery With Violence by Marion Chesney

3 stars

I read this a couple of years ago and loved it, this time I went slower and I still like it but I am not as enamored.

15. Dragon's Egg by Sarah L. Thomson

4 stars

This is a wonderful book, I think its a stand alone but if it becomes a a multi book thingy I wont mind a bit.

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

10 1/2 stars

This book was just that awesome! I want everyone to read it. There were twists and turns in the plot I never saw coming and wonderful writing. I might buy it when I do my once a year stint.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

5 stars

It was a little hard to follow sometimes but I figured it out when I read it a bit more slowly.

The Runaway Princess by Kate Combs

Princess saves the dragon, witch and bandits from the (dumb) Princes. Alot of good laughs.

3 stars

I dont remember which ones you are so post here and you will get a special person treat.

Books of Umber Happenstance Found by P. W. Catanese

3 1/2 stars

This is a good book and I see it shaping up to a good series. The first villian was dispatched very well and there is still a mystery. I look forward to  the 2nd book.

The Graveyard Book  byNeil Gaiman, illustrations by Dave McKean

3 (regular) stars

I liked this book because I used to wonder in graveyards when our Chior went  to sing at local churches. I love the fact that he grows up in a graveyard and he gets the "Freedom of the Graveyard" that allows him to haunt and dreamwalk and fade. I wish that this book had been an adult novel because this book should have had a more indepth look at life in the graveyard. But he skims over these interesting parts for the plot to move forward, if he had taken his time and maybe made a trilogy it would have been a better book.

House of Many  Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

(Also the author if Howl's Moving Castle)

Excellent book!  5 golden stars!

Charmain is sent to look after her Wisard Uncle's house. She is also helping out in the King and Princess in the Royal Library.  Howl stops by with his wife and son and they save the day!

I highly reccomend this book it is wonderful,  when I finished it  I read it again.

Apparently the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.


x  1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 
+  3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
*   4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
x   5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
x   6 The Bible 
     7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
     8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
*   9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
+   11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
     12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 
     13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
X   14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
X    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
      16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
       17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
       18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
       19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
x     20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
x     21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
*     22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
      23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 
      24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
      25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
      26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
      27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
 x    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
x     29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
x    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
      31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 
      32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
x     33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
x     34 Emma - Jane Austen
+     35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
+     36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
       37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
       38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
        39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
x     40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
x      41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
       42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
*      43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
       45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
x     46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
        47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
 ?    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
x       49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 
        50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
       51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
      52 Dune - Frank Herbert
x     53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
x     54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
       55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
       56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
x     57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 
       58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
      59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
       60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
      61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
       62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
       63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
       64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
*     65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
        66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
      67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
x     68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
       69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
      70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
       71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
       72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
x     73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
      74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
       75 Ulysses - James Joyce
       76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
       77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
      78 Germinal - Emile Zola
      79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
      80 Possession - AS Byatt
x    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
      82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
      83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
     84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
      85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
     86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
x    87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 
      88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
      89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
      90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
      91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
     92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
      93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
     94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 
      95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
     96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
      97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
x    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
*      99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
x     100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo  <------AND NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

My Aunt and Uncle are flying to Vegas today to attend the World Archery Tournament!!!!  My Uncle got 3rd last year! I hope he gets 1st!



GO UNCLE GIL!

I am starting a little late I know....and I warn you I read LOTS of junk.

1. The Magic Thief    Sarah Prineas

Yes I know its YA but alot of good books are in the YA section so.......

This was an awesome book! It had a simpleplot but it was well paced and interesting I hope for more!

The first ten (10) people, aka the first 10 of my friends to respond to this post will get something made by me. It will be about or tailored to those ten lucky "victims."

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a graphic. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. I may write you a letter. I may make you a set of icons. I may take pictures and send them to you. Or I'll make you a music mix. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you!