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April 4th, 2009

Making a Blog into a Book – “Slurping” a Blog

Blurb.com has special software, Blurb Booksmart, that you can download for free. This software gives you page templates for your book. It also has a “slurping” feature. It can go to your blog and download all your posts into the book template. [...]

March 24th, 2009

My Japanese Craft Books II – Sewing Handbags

ISBN4-7762-0122-4

My collection of Japanese Craft Books is now taking up a whole shelf on one of my bookcases.  (And I am waiting for the arrival of two more I bought just this week.)  I have so many of the books that I have arranged them into categories.  I have sewing/clothing, sewing/accessories, patchwork, wet felting, [...]

January 31st, 2009

Stuffed – New Stampington & Co. Magazine

Stuffed magazine published by Stampington and Co., pieces on front cover by Susan Mitchel (Sweet Pea of It’s a Whimsical Life)

 

I just bought an issue of the new Stuffed magazine published by Stampington & Co. The publisher also publishes a variety of beautiful magazines [...]

January 22nd, 2009

My Japanese Craft Books I – Reconstructing Clothing

ISBN # 978-4-7966-5419-7

I just received another wonderful Japanese craft book in the mail. The aesthetic sensibility of these books in general is so appealing — clean and beautiful with lovely color schemes. The writing in the books is in Japanese, but there are clear how-to diagrams making the [...]

December 5th, 2008

Making Bread – "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" Book

 Deli rye loaf

One day at Barnes and Noble I found this book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.  I thought the idea was exciting and purchased a copy. 

We have used the recipes from the book several times [...]

July 7th, 2008

Homeschooling and Reading Together

Daughter (age 5) and mom reading favorite “vampire” book together.

Like many parents, we read to our daughter from the time she was a baby.  She always loved books.  As a  one-year-old, she would toddle over to her low bookshelf, pick out a favorite book, and bring it to me [...]

April 6th, 2008

GuruLib — Online Book and Games Cataloging

GuruLib example of book shelf large thumbnail view

GuruLib is a free site where you can catalog your books.  There are some other similar online sites such as LibraryThing and Shelfari, but there were two features that made me decide to go with GuruLib.  Unlike the other book cataloging sites I found, GuruLib has an HTML [...]