100th post
April 24th, 2008
Here it is the 100th post. It’s a nice tradition in this crafty blog world to have some sort of contest or giveaway on occasions like these. And even though I’m crap at responding to comments, they really do push me to do more and better things. This sewing book is a great example . A year ago I would have thought up this idea, but probably never got around to making it, and then proceed to mope around because I never do the things I say I will. No more! And it’s all because of you. So the sewing book pictured above is yours (sans supplies) if you win. Just leave a comment on this post–a joke, a recipe, a book recommendation, the name of your dog, whatever–and Monday I will pick a winner (by random). If you’ve never left a comment before, go ahead and do so. Click on the comments and write your email in the space provided (no one can see it but me) and if you don’t have a website just leave that space blank. There are more pictures of the book on my flickr site if you’d like to see.
Because I’m almost up to 1000 comments (it’s at 984 right now) there will be a secret prize for the 1000th commenter! Good luck! And I’ll see you on Monday.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Count me in!… It’s so cool. I’ve got recipes on the mind so I’m goin’ with this one to share (spring rolls– Yum.):
http://morganmoore.typepad.com/one_more_moore/2007/03/i_heart_spring_.html
April 24th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Ohhhh! Exciting! My dog’s name is Albert. My book recommendation is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safren Foer.
Congrats on your 100th post!
April 24th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Ooh, it’s lovely!
I made butter today, using this incredibly easy method: http://www.allotment.org.uk/allotment_foods/Making_Butter_at_Home.php
Not exactly a recipe, but sooooo good!
April 24th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Yay! I ‘ve been coveting this since I saw you post it a while back. I just have NO sewing skills. I’m trying!
My dog’s name is Tucker. :O) He’s an 8 year old Golden Retriever. The best boy, ever.
Latest favorite books are the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
OH!! so great. I love this work book!! (Hoping my name is drawn) How about some Whole-grain pumpkin bread http://sometimesjuliasews.blogspot.com/2007/11/sometimes-i-bake.html
It’s my favorite. yummm
April 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Congrats to you!!
April 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
hello, names Stefanie, live in Wisconsin. have a little girl named Leila who sits on my lap while I read great blogs like yours. Happy 100th post!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I just love the supply case you made, and love it when people use old crafty books! Your blog is lovely, congrats!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Happy 100th and 1000th! (even though I’m sure I’m a little bit early on the second one.)
:)
April 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
What do you do with a piece of cheese that’s a year old?
Sing it happy birthday.
Sorry I don’t have a dog.
But if I did he’d be called Goose.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
You do know I could be a right pain in the arse and leave another, say, 8 comments, that should pretty much guarantee the secret prize?
April 24th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
One
April 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
two
ok only joking
April 24th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Ha, not really. Yes I will stop. Sorry to use your blog for my own mirth. This is how a girl alone at home has fun at night.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
BOO!
by my addition we’re now up to 999
so I’ll leave it to the next lucky lady.
Or gentleman.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Since you’re into nursery rhymes (elsie marley), how about a short nursery rhyme?
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle
Right up to his middle,
And never went there again.
That one sort of reminds me of the elsie marley one a little. I dunno. Maybe because it’s about a person? : )
April 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
you are soooo clever!! love this design…and congrats on 100!! may there be many more xxx
April 24th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
My dog’s name is Sailor. He’s a bit thick, but we love him.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Congrats on the 100th post!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I love your blog!! My dogs are King Tut and Little Dog (we named him “Little” because I was supposed to give him away and not get attached - that was over a year and a half ago). I just made fabulous buttermilk biscuits: four cups flower, 2 tsp salt, 4 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, 4 TBSP sugar, 10 TBSP butter (I use smart balance) cut in, and 1 and 1/2 cup buttermilk mixed in lightly. Bake at 450 for 10 minutes (or less if your oven is as hot as mine).
April 24th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Wow, great sewing! Such nice people in the blog world.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
happy 100th blog post.. congratulations on your sewing adventures.. i have to say that it is wonderfully creative types like yourself that inspire me to create things too.. keep up the great blog & creations..
April 24th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Congrats!! your sewing books are amazing!!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Well, I’ve been thinking for at least 10 minutes for a joke to put down but apparently I don’t know any. My lovely dog, Nikita died last year and I’m not ready for another one. Can’t remember the last book I read, probably because I spend too much time reading blogs. So how about a quick recipe for my favorite guac?
1 mushed up avocado
1 de-seeded chopped tomato
A squirt or two of lime juice
Mix and put avocado pit in bowl to increase length of freshness.
Spread on a sandwich or use as a dip.
Enjoy! Happy 100th!
April 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Man, I love your work. I’m always excited to see what you have been up to when I see your thumbnails on flickr. Keep doing what your doing girl, it really fab!
April 24th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I’m reading “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv and it is GREAT :)
April 24th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I am officially obsessed with ticking stripe. So that case speaks to me.
And, if you can believe it, my son is named after not one, but two dogs we have loved.
Congrats on blog milestones!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Well, I don’t need your cute sewing book, as my supplies are all in their homes already, but I wanted to leave a comment anyway because I never have and I love your blog!
If I had a dog, I’d name it Slow Loris (this is an animal, not an insult!), and a good book I just finished is The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (he’s the guy that everyone quotes ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’ but that quote is not in this book).
April 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Congratulations on your 100th post. I love reading everyone’s craft blogs - there are some very talented people out there such as yourself. I am currently into sewing soft toys and have a fetish for buying Japanese craft books from eBay. We don’t have pets because my husband and I are very irresponsible on that front - ask our dead plants!
April 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Your sewing book rocks! Your plush toys are so neat and I wish you luck in all your endeavors. I’m glad you got some recognition! :)
April 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
That’s gorgeous, Meg. And congrats on all the mentions on various sites lately! I’ve been seeing you everywhere…
April 24th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Well you are a most amazing creative woman, and I’m so glad to have your blog to look at every day. Here’s to many more years of crafting, inspiration and productivity. Happy 100!
April 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
oooh, I love it! Good job! And I love your blog too… and this is my first time commenting on it…
April 24th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I just got a copy of Cookie magazine and have throughly enjoyed it and then I saw you mentioned you were featured in it! wow! What an honor for you!
No dogs, but we have 5 cats: BC, Archie, Lucy, Charlie and Red.
We also have 3 girls: Evelyn, Gretchen and Sylvia and baby #4 coming soon!
Congrats on your blog, I’ve been a lurker for far too long!
April 24th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
I’m new to your blog, but I appreciate it a lot. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your achievements ;)
April 25th, 2008 at 12:12 am
testing, one… two… three…
congrats on your 100th post. it’s fun to see your great creations and see what you’re doing. and i love that you’re the only blogger that isn’t afraid to use the work shit in your posts.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:13 am
um, *word*, not work. must sleep now.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Oh yes please! Lovely blog… read it all the time but I can’t remember (to my shame) if I have commented before- sorry if I haven’t and i will promise to do better in the future!
April 25th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Love the sewing book and congrats on your posts. I dreamt about owning a dog last night, a little puppie called Talouse - it was a long haired sausage dog. I hope I dream about it again.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami — A GreAT BOOK. Seriously. If you have time, read it.
Congrats to you for your 100th post!
April 25th, 2008 at 8:52 am
If you like fantasty, I just finished whipping through the 2nd book in The Golden Compass series. Can’t wait to start the 3rd one. You are welcome to borrow them, if interested.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Congratulations on your 100th post.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:40 am
What a nice gift you’re offering. Your blog is always interesting and I’ll keep my fingers crossed for this chance.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I am new to you blog as well and I love the inspiration to keep on trucking with the crafty side of my life (much to the dismay of that unfolded laundry). Here’s a little joke we like to tell in these parts:
Knock,knock.
Who’s there?
Justin.
Justin who?
Justin time for a contest!
Happy 100th!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I love a drawing !!!
April 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Big bucks, no whammies!
April 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
What do you call a line of barbies?
A barbeque
April 25th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Elsie Marley never whines.
Her stuffed moostachios are truly fine–
Crazy Elsie Marley.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:59 am
happy 100!
the project looks great (fingers crossed)
April 26th, 2008 at 2:42 am
yay!
Congrats on the 100th post - and a thousand comments? wow.
I’m seriously impressed with the tool book - I can see that you’ve changed some things and really got into the process of making them - such a good idea!
I have a feeling I may be delurking - surely I’ve left a comment here before? Anyways, I’ve been reading for ages - love the blog!
Something that always makes me laugh is a friend of mine who had a goldfish when she was little. When asked what she wanted to call it, she said “Tony”.
Such a grown up, man’s name for a wee goldfish. Love it.
Anyways, that’s all..
Leah xxx
April 26th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I just read this book - it is great: http://seemownay.blogsome.com/2008/04/23/the-time-travelers-wife-audrey-niffenegger/
and watched this movie (into the wild http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/)- sad but great, too.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Hey, where did my comment go?
OK: the book recommendation: the time traveler’s wife
http://seemownay.blogsome.com/2008/04/23/the-time-travelers-wife-audrey-niffenegger/
the movie recommendation: into the wild
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/
April 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Woo hoo–the give away tradition is a great one in this crafty world and I hope to make it to my 100th post too! I think it is perfect that your gift is a version of the post that led me to your blog the first time. (And I adore the fabric that reminds me of old pillows and mattresses!)
Congratulations on your blog making it to such a milestone.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Congratulations! I look forward to continue reading your blog :-)
April 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
SO cool! Congrats on your 100th post - I’ll have mine soon too… maybe another month or so, and I’ve got to come up with something to give away! I love the idea of a sewing supply kit - not the purse-type! Cute!
April 27th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Congrats on your 100th post. I may get there oneday.
‘Dirt Music’ by Tim Winton is a fantastic read, my dog was named Tip, I love peanut butter and honey on grain toast and I don’t always have sugar in my tea.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
The sewing book is gorgeous! I tripped in here from a comment on design sponge looking for the origami mobile swap — how happy I am to find this.
Dog’s full name is Lulu Tarnation Noh (she doesn’t listen very well).
Congratulations!
April 27th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Congratulations! I remember my hundredth … feels like just the other day … and now I’m slowly eaking towards 200 :)
Thanks for having the mobile swap … it was the most fun I’ve had in AGES. I’m constantly thinking of mobile ideas (but yeah, need to actually MAKE them … college takes up too much time) … can’t wait for the next one (maybe a sewn one?) …
April 27th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Stays in bed till half past nine……it’s good to get up in the morning when the morning lasts till noon (and you know the rest)!
April 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Hiya , I am not entering but I wanted to say your gorgeous elephant is in the top 5 over on softies central - That is so good, I knew you’d be shortlisted. I am off to vote right now !
April 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Nice!
Count me in with this: I have two chickens both named Mrs. Wozniak.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
you would like a joke?? this was sent to me by my happy (aka dad). it’s irish with colourful language with an irish accent but i think it is really funny…
Two Irishmen walk into a pet shop in Dingle, they walk over to the bird section and Gerry says to Paddy, “Dat’s dem.”
The owner comes over and asks if he can help them.
“Yeah, we’ll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere,” says Gerry.
The owner puts the budgies in a cardboard box.
Paddy and Gerry pay for the birds, leave the shop and get into Gerry’s truck to drive to the top of the Connor Pass.
At the Connor Pass, Gerry looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, “Dis looks like a grand place.”
He takes two birds out of the box, puts one on each shoulder and jumps off the cliff.
Paddy watches as the budgies fly off and Gerry falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself stone dead.
Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Paddy shakes his head and says, “Fook dat. Dis budgie jumping is too fook’n dangerous for me!”
THERE’S MORE…
Moment’s later; Seamus arrives up at ConnorPass.
He’s been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another cardboard box in one hand and a shotgun in the other.
“Hi, Paddy, watch dis,” Seamus says.
He takes a parrot from the box and lets him fly free.
He then throws himself over the edge of the cliff with the gun.
Paddy watches as half way down, Seamus takes the gun and shoots the parrot.
Seamus continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom and breaks every bone in his body.
Paddy shakes his head and says, “And I’m never trying dat parrotshooting either!”
IT IS NOT OVER YET…
Paddy is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Sean appears.
He’s also been to the pet shop and is carrying a cardboard box out of which he pulls a chicken.
Sean then takes the chicken by its legs and hurls himself off the cliff and disappears down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine.
Once more Paddy shakes his head.
“Fook dat, lads. First dere was Gerry with his budgie jumping, den Seamus parrotshooting… And now Sean and his fook’n hengliding!”
April 27th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I don’t remember exactly how I found your blog, but I like to pop in for enjoyment and inspiration. I LOVED the first sew kit and would flip to win this one. Here are the first four lines from one of my favorite poems, Robert Wrigley’s “Explanatory” : The hackberry tree, a static of twigs and branches so densely woven sparrows went flitless there, but hopped instead, stob to stob, and disappeared like names, dates, and faces in an ordinary mind.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
hi,
I just recently found your blog and am really enjoying it. I live near Madison and LOVE dig & save. :)
A good book I just finished happens to be by another near-Madisonian, Jacquelyn Mitchard…The Breakdown Lane.
Congrats on 100!
April 27th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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April 28th, 2008 at 1:28 am
such a lovely “book”
it is 1:21 late sunday nite, so i dont know if i am too late or not, but i would love a chance to own this.
such a great blog you have, i always enjoy reading and looking at your pix
thanks again
i have a cockatiel named peaches =)
April 28th, 2008 at 10:19 am
look me in the eye - amazing, hilarious book about growing up with asberger’s in a crazy family. such a good read!
i love your blog :D love, jamila the lurker
April 28th, 2008 at 11:56 am
ooh, who can resist a diy give away??
May 9th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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May 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 am
hi, wow 100 posts. that is amazing. at least for someone like me - just started my blog - and i haven’t even made it to 20 posts. there just seem soooo many other wonderful things to do. anyway i love giveaways - well who doesn’t. unfortunatelly i never remember jokes. the recipe i would want to give you is definatelly too long for here. the book recommendation would be the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi(that’s what i’m reading at the moment). very impressing. and i don’t have a dog - sorry no name. take care and good luck for the next 100 posts, erika