January 2012
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My 'Meet Spoonflower' interview! →
Once a week, the spoonflower blog queen has been interviewing employees and posting them so that everyone can know how truly dorky we are. This week was my turn.
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
December 2011
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A Year In Books
According to Goodreads, I read 120 unique books in 2011. Really, the number is actually probably slightly higher than that, as I definitely reread some of the books I’d read early on in the year, and I only started using goodreads in early march, so anything before then didn’t get recorded. Though some of them were multiple volumes “graphic novels,” so maybe it all evens...
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Someone bought my fabric design!
Minor excitement! Someone has actually purchased a couple of test swatches of my Avatar: The Last Airbender fabric designs through spoonflower! Wheee! I never thought anyone but me would actually do anything with those.
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The cover of this book is pink neon fuzz. No Lie.
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of those reviews that is impossible to start. The book was intense, and well written, and wonderfully creative. But what could I possibly say that wouldn’t give everything away? This books almost *needs* to be experienced going into it blind. It is written entirely in first person narrative, and the style is...
Watchneil-gaiman:
I wrote the words for this song. The Jane Austen Argument wrote the music and sing it.
My copy of this cd single arrived in the mail earlier this week. Yay! Something neil gaiman has written/touched/signed! I’m such a creeper fangirl, haha.
Also, the music pretty good. I like their piano work, and I can’t wait for them to put out a full length studio recorded cd,...
November 2011
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RIP Anne McCaffrey, Dragon-writer of Pern
May there be fire lizards wherever you are.
I haven’t been posting much of late, mostly because work is CRAZY right now. And because I’ve been going on a Patricia C Wrede binge and re-living my childhood. I don’t like writing reviews of books I’ve been rereading since I was about 12 because I’m hardly unbiased about them.
Now I may have to change that to a...
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Oh the Genius of Girl Genius...
Girl Genius, Vol. 1: Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank by Phil Foglio (Volumes 1-11) My rating: 5 of 5 stars Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil Foglio My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well well, where to begin? Begin here. If you’ve never been introduced to the multiple Hugo Award-winning online web comic/graphic novel of Girl Genius then your life has been emptier than you knew. And...
October 2011
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Comparative Connie Willis: A look at Three Novels
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis My rating: 5 of 5 stars All Clear by Connie Willis My rating: 2 of 5 stars Doomsday Book by Connie Willis My rating: 4 of 5 stars So I have a very mixed reaction to Connie Willis. I was first introduced to her writings about a year ago with “To Say Nothing of the Dog.” I was amazed. It quickly became, and still is, one of my favorite...
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September 2011
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Spoonflower on the runway at NY Fashion week! →
A link to burda style’s post on seeing spoonflower fabric used by designer Malan Breton in his spring collection for NY’s fashion week!
Zomg. My company is so cool.
more images: http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=121017524&EditorialProduct=Entertainment
The blue/grey print was printed by spoonflower.
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August 2011
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The Way of Epic High Fantasy...
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Normally, I’d tell you that if a book needs 1258 pages to tell a story, then that author has seriously overestimated the worth of his words. He needs a reality check, and an editor that will stand up to him. Any plot more than 400 pages long that can’t be broken down into a couple of volumes needs some serious work with...
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Free Swatch Success!
Thanks for all who supported Spoonflower’s free swatch day! We sold over 7,300 swatches and raised over $2,500 for Heifer International! Great job guys! This is nearly twice as many swatches as we sold a year ago.
I also won the office pool for guessing how many swatches would be sold. I guessed 7,241 and was the closest without going over. Yay random choice!
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Spoonflower Free Swatch Day! →
Once a year spoonflower has a day where you can get a swatch (8”x8”) of any design on any fabric you like — FOR FREE! No charge for shipping either! I suggest you try out our new cotton silk blend. Its ridiculously soft, shiny, beautiful, and easier to sew than most silks.
They also give you the option to donate the 5$ you would have paid for the swatch to heifer international,...
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July 2011
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In case you were wondering, we won! →
For anyone who braved facebook to vote for my company, thank you! We were one of the top five in American Express’s Small Business Big Break contest!
This means we’ll get a variety of prizes, including nationwide recognition and the resources to develop a facebook application. Its pretty exciting.
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Just a really pretty video →
Not in my usual categories of “pies, dresses or books,” but I’m also really into dance. I haven’t done it as anything more than a hobby since I was about 16 years old, but its still a major influence in my life. This short video is just beautiful, and I wanted to share it.
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