Mom is Away…
Mom is scheming for a way to get out of the house for most of the day because Dad brewed up a Porter last night and the smell in the house reminds her of the bottom of a silo that was filled a bit too wet - fermenting and moldy grain. It’s too cold outside to open up and air out so she’s really complaining about that smell.
She is also busy setting up her new all-inclusive blog. She is hoping she’ll be able to post later today or tomorrow with the new web address. She hates to change location, but if the blog is going to contain stuff other than knitting on a semi-regular basis she didn’t think a web address that specifically containes “knitting” in it was appropriate. She did ask me to post the following this morning…
The final birthday month contest starts today. This one will require your thinking caps and your creativity!
I’ll be setting up new categories at the new blog. I don’t want to be old and stale and boring and just use “Knitting,” “Spinning,” “Movies,” “Music” etc. I want semi-abstract (pithy would be great), as short as possible and still get the point across category names for the top level. Below are the ones I’m having the most difficulty with along with a brief description of what sort of posts will be contained in the category…
- About Me (it will just contain stories of everyday life and stuff that gives you a better view of who I am)
- Dyeing (experiements, tips and techniques on dyeing fiber in all forms)
- Collage/Mixed Media/Visual Art(?) (it will contain my collages, my printmaking stuff, art journals, card making, etc. I’m undecided as to whether to have a seperate photography section since that isn’t usually mixed media…)
- Photography (emphasis of these post will be on photographs, I’m not positive I’ll have a section dedicated to this, but it never hurts to be prepared)
- Groups Activities (KALs, things like Project Spectrum, Self-Portrait Tuesday, and CQThursday, Secret Pals etc.)
- Cooking/Baking (share recipes and speak of cookbooks, I quite likely may also speak of cutting fat and cholesterol from recipes from time to time, chances are most things will be vegetarian)
- Traditions (I’m learning more and more about my Swedish heritage right now, but suspect it will also occassionally contain German and possibly a few others cultures at some point, I’ll also speak on just traditions from growing up in Minnesota in this section as well)
- Movies (it will have reviews of movies I’ve seen as well as an occassional list of movies I’d like to see)
- Music (I’ll review new music I’ve acquired from time to time and occassionally review concerts I’ve attended)
- Plays/Theater (we have season tickets to a local theater company and we occassionaly see a bigger production and I’d like to share reviews of the plays we have seen)
- Contests (announcements for comment contests and the like as well as my entries in blog contests as well)
- Freebies (contain free knitting patterns as well as free tutorials on art techniques etc.)
To give you an idea of what I’m kind of looking for, here some of the ideas I’m planning on using for some of the other categories…
- Knotty (Knitting)
- Twisted (Spinning)
- Warped (Weaving - yes, there may be some posts on this in the not too distant future)
- Between the Covers (Books)
- Bound (Bookbinding)
- Boob Tube (Television)
How is this a contest? Give me your best ideas for category names and you are welcome to suggest different ones for those already given. Anyone who gives me a category name (or more) that I choose to use will go into another random number drawing. I’ll choose up to five winners for one of my patterns again! Previous winners are eligible for a second pattern too! We’ll keep this one open until the end of the month, okay? I’ll do the drawing next Monday, May 1st!
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