Guess who’s opening for U2 on Saturday in Chicago? Snow Patrol. In anticipation–because YES, we’ll be there!–I thought I’d share my favorite Snow Patrol song with you. Have a wonderful holiday, y’all! [Post image: Snow Patrol]
How To Be An Explorer
There is a warning on the back cover of this book–How To Be An Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith. “Warning: To whoever has just picked up this book: if you find that you are unable to use your imagination, you should put this book back immediately. It is not for […]
Funky Giveaway
I confess. I couldn’t stop. I kept knitting these very addicting I-Cords (from Leigh Radford’s new book Alterknits Felt: Imaginative Projects for Knitting and Felting) and came up with about 11 bracelets and rings. Then came the felting…and adorning (with beads and wire). In the end, I had four bracelets and a few rings left […]
Pretty Amazing
Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me is being touted as a YA (young adult) novel, and I’m not sure why. I think it would be appropriate for precocious fourth and fifth graders, too. In fact, Monica Edinger at Educating Alice read it to her fourth grade class (an early edition of it, because it just […]
Living Out Loud
I found a book I want to share. A fun book. An outrageous book. It’s Keri Smith’s Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life. Don’t you just LOVE the title, by the way? I do. As the author states in her introduction (by the way, you can find her blog here), “my favorite […]