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new handspun. inspired by the random yarn generator : (on ravelry ) merino top dyed by play at life fiber arts : (on ravelry ) okay, almost wordless.

so since google reader is going away very soon (boo!), i have been sorting through old things. it just occurred to me that i might be losing all my starred stuff from way back that i still haven't gotten around to re-reading. pages and pages of stuff, going back to 2008. sigh.. some were just for lulz . others are articles and things i'm glad i saved. share? a lot of stuff about becoming "unstuck".. getting out of creative slumps . and havi brooks' post on asking why that i wish i remembered more often. also, why don't i have an artist statement ? (not that i show anyone my "art"...) and tons of crafty tutorials , but i guess that goes without saying. i was also reminded.. should i be using evernote? because it seems like everyone is. hmm. so i've switched over to feedly , and i'm liking it so far. nice clean interface, and it has an iphone app. works for me! and i've discovered today that my stars will be comin...

yeah, so i'm not so sure how i feel about this flickr redesign. really not a fan of all these huge images running into each other and taking over the screen. space, please! also annoying is the fact that they seem to be beta-testing it on all of us, with all the bugs i keep running into. sigh. maybe it just needs some getting used to... i've been there since 2006, so i'm not going to just up and run off to another site just yet. i did set up an account over at ipernity a few years ago, but i'm not nearly as active there. buuuuut i think i could fit a lot of stuff in a terabyte.... and the coolest thing so far (for me!) is getting my old photos back that had run over the photostream limit. my very first upload. it's been really interesting to see all these old forgotten photos, although some of them did make me a bit melancholy (see: shana, the college years). time for a bit of weeding out, i suppose.. coney island. maybe flickr will actu...

did i really not post in all of april? jeez. (photo by wonderlander on flickr) i'm hoping that the impending sunnier weather and things will help improve my mental block. sometimes you just feel sort of stuck, you know? damn stuckiness.

hi. i'm shana, and i have a problem with food. well, maybe not food, so much as going out for food. well.. here's the thing. the boyfriend and i don't spend a lot of money going out. we don't go out to shows, or movies, or for drinks, or anything all that often. (and we work totally different schedules, which makes going out a little challenging!) when we do go out, we go out to eat. and we live in providence. there are a lot of options. we have good italian, indian, mexican, middle eastern.. sit-down places, take-out, food trucks.. i've been trying to cut down on my "going out to eat" spending, so i do a lot of groupon , livingsocial and restaurant.com sort of things. (it's okay if i give you my referral, right? i don't want to be rude.) still, i'm thinking we need to cut back. sigh. and with so many tasty baked goods to be had... but yeah. it's gotta be done. so, this month i must stick to my guns...

2012 review via instagram. too bad i started in april or so... click for biggerness. 1. april, roger williams park in providence. 2. cupcakes (with easter chocolates inside). 3. daphne. 4. westminster st, providence. 5. may, lincoln woods in lincoln, ri. 6. friendly freckles. 7. massachusetts sheep & woolcraft fair. 8. july, bridge to prospect mountain in lake george, ny. 9. cannonball express. 10. just before seeing andrew bird at the met in pawtucket, ri. 11. september, sugarush cupcake. 12. winter squash at the farmers market. 13. october, my meager knitting of the year. 14. december, christmas candles. 15. flying to arizona. 16. a warmer christmas.