Dolls!

Finally, here are the photos of the dolls I made using the Wee Wonderfuls pattern. It's a lovely pattern with lots of options. The hard part is that pretty much all of it has to be hand sewn, so it takes a long, long time. Especially the clothes.

Anyhoo, first I made one for my niece's birthday. Both of the dollies have dark purple hair. My camera sucks so you can't really tell.

(please ignore the dirty table)(there were a lot of long nights involved)

And then Sophie wanted one after seeing me make one for her cousin:

She named her Sookie. I think because she overheard me talking to Aaron about the Sookie Sackhouse books I'd been reading...

Where did the time go?

January has escaped me. I went down the Facebook hole and am just now coming back up for air. No wonder why I've avoided signing up until now. Yowza.

I do have things to post - projects on which I've worked and lots of photos have been taken but, as soon as I get home, the last thing about which I think is my site...

It's a pain to hook up the camera to the computer and deal with the photos. And without photos, I'm just talking about dolls and Sophie and snow and kitties and there's no backup. I like photos, too.

Anyhoo, until I get inspired to deal with my camera, here are some links for today:

Whole Foods will now take your #5 plastic containers! This is great news because they would have had to go in a landfill until now.

This is really cool: Carnivorous Lampshade
Robot Runs on Flies it Catches.

Flies and moths are naturally attracted to light. This lamp shade has holes based on the form of the pitcher plant enabling access for the insects but no escape. Eventually they expire and fall into the microbial fuel cell underneath. This generates the electricity to power a series of LEDs located at the bottom of the shade. These are activated when the house lights are turned off.

In other news, we got about 8" of snow on Wednesday before it turned to sleet and freezing rain. I think I also didn't list the past two storms (this is merely so I can keep track) - I believe we've had about 13" between the last storm and this week.

It's really cold out there and I'm sick of it. My mind feels like it is in hibernation.

Pinch Me

(my site now seems to be back up...).

I'm overwhelmed by today's inauguration. I've never been this excited for a new president and this was a great day for our country. I've been in disbelief all day that this is actually happening. We're finally rid of Bush?! It couldn't be!

I'm happy for our country and I wish President Obama all the best.

I didn't get choked up until watching the Obamas dance to "At Last" as sung by Beyonce. Not usually a huge fan of hers, but she knocked the socks off that song and I coudn't stop from weeping. Tears of joy and hope.

Sophie said this morning: "It's Barack Obama Day!" - yes, my dear, it certainly is.

Maybe this is the inspiration I need to move my site...

So, Firefox via Google won't let me open my own website - not even to edit - because it says it is an Attack Site. Apparently something to which I've linked on my site is associated with malware attacks and Firefox won't let me get to my own site to see what the problem is.

And the attack page contains no specifics...

IE will let me login, so I'm removing all the ads and links for now. Why don't other sites have the same issues as me? If only Google would be more specific about which links are causing the problems. How am I supposed to have a website without links? I have to be responsible about all links to other sites? What if those sites are fine when I link them but then start hosting malware? I can't keep track of everything.

This seems suspect.

I've been meaning to change the structure/functionality of my site, so maybe this is the push I need.

Still, this is very, very frustrating.