Bustle and Sew

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I recently discovered a wonderfully kind blogger from the southern coast of England,  in Dorset.  Her name is Helen, and her charming and whimsical blog is named, Bustle and Sew.   Her blog offers many downloadable patterns; many of them are free.  In her latest post, she has gathered lots of ideas for improving sewing and embroidery skills  and has compiled them into a free book.  here to download as a pdf file or here to read online.
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• One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch
• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman
• Night and Day, you are the one, only you beneath the moon and under the sun.  Cole Porter
• One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.  That word is love.  Sophocles
• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.  Emily Bronte
• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.  Shakespeare
• A library is a diary of the human race.  Dawson
• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.  Willa Cather
• I will always try to do and say the kindest things in the kindest way. 
• Be willing to change the way you play the game. Elaine St. James
• The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed.  Charlotte Bronte
• I drather quilt than eat on the hungriest of days.
• Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. George Eliot
• It takes only one person or one idea to change our life forever.
• On that best portion of a good man't life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.  William Wordsworth
• The secret of patience: do something else in the meantime.
• To hear with eyes belongs to love's rare wit.
• Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. George Eliot
• You must have it inside you that yor plan is right, and that plan you must follow.  George Eliot
• Let me be a blessing to somebody....when I die let it be said, "She was such a blessing to me."
• Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.  Willa Cather
• We are always saying farewell in this world, always standing at the edge of loss attempting to retrieve some memory, some human meaning from silence, something which was precious and is gone.  Adlai Stevenson
• Pity the laden one; this wandering woe may visit you and me.  George Eliot
• What do we live for if not to make life less difficult to each other?  George Eliot
• My grief lies onward and my joy behind.  Shakespeare
• It is wicked to let people think evil of any one falsely, when it can be hindered.  George Eliot
• The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us; we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.  George Eliot   
• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.  My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.  Jane Austen
• It takes years to build a reputation.  It takes minutes to ruin it.
• Any emotion, any interest, once vividly aroused, can wholly die.  E. M. Forster
•  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.  Emily Dickinson
• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
• But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.  Thomas Jefferson
• I want death to find me planting my cabbages.  Montaigne 1533-1592
• The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of  past centuries.  Descartes
• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.  Iris Murdoch
• Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.  Emily Bronte
• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it.  It is like falling in love.  Christopher Marley
• I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my sake and for nothing else.  John Keats
• There is nothing like staying home for real comfort. Jane Austen
• No eye is on the sparrow.

Bookworms

School  Librarians, or librarians as a whole, are usually a pretty good group to hang around with.   To show you what I mean, here are some awesome blogs from some of them.   The link includes the best library blogs of the year, as awarded by the judges at the Salem Library Blog Awards.

Salem Library Blog Awards

An English Gentleman

If you don't know already, there is a mild mannered English Gentlemen just across the pond, who is very intriguing.  His name is Stephen Fry.   Maybe you know of him because you watch more movies than I do?
I stumbled upon Stephen Fry accidentally here ----Intelligence Debate----and here---The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
What a discovery!!!   Yahoo!
This Stephen Fry's Letter to his 16-year-old self - "love cold, love hot, love fresh, love stale, love scorned, love missed, love denied, love betrayed ..."
gotta order this book to read the "other letter".

Bookworm: Poems to bring a tear to your eye – or not - Independent.ie

Bookworm: Poems to bring a tear to your eye – or not - Independent.ie:

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Digital Ethnography???

This video clip is  fascinating! I looked up ethnography because I did not know the definition. It is the study and systematic recording of human cultures. So, I guess each time a person clicks on a certain website, he/she is making the tiniest digital imprint, of what interests us as human beings. If you look at the big picture, all the billions of clicks we do as a society, paints a picture of what we are all about.
Web 2.0 allows us to become involved in what we learn by collaborating and exchanging information. We are not limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for us, in an html document. Web 2.0 allows our students to become actively involved in the creative process of learning. It allows us all to listen to others, gather information and then conclude what we personally feel is right, instead of being spoon fed information. We can do this through social-networking sites, blogs, wikis and video-sharing sites.
Along with learning, the added benefit of listening and communicating with each other and trying to understand how and why another person feels the way he does, will help us feel more connected and have more empathy.