Thursday, July 23, 2009

I need a better title for this blog.

In other news, I finally won myself a bar of soap, courtesy of craftygurll!

(I say finally because I love homemade soap and, of all the giveaways I've entered, it's been the prize I've coveted the most.)



This is not actually the bar of soap I won - which was a honey and shea bar - but the Salt and Pepper Bar Soap that she sells in her Etsy shop, which also looks quite awesome. Go check it out!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Wikipedia is amazing

I'm not sure how, but Wikipedia has led me from reading about public-sponsored graveyards to brushing up on the details of the infield fly rule.

And I used to think there was no point to that site!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Progress

I've been running for about 3 weeks now, since I've been back home. Running has always been cyclical for me - I'll start, do it for a couple weeks, then stop. I'm hoping I'll stick with it this time - I've taken to doing it first thing in my day, which makes it much easier to avoid the random excuses that have popped up in my head when I've failed before.

I've got a 3-mile circuit through the parks in town, and today was a milestone - the first time I ran the whole circuit straight through. Three miles isn't exciting for seasoned runners, but for somebody who couldn't run a mile in high school, this is pretty sweet. I'm thinking of doing a 5K in the fall, so it's also nice to know that I can make it through the distance!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Free stuff

One compelling reason to start a blog was to give props to the people who have created/hosted awesome things that I have won through internet giveaways that I've entered*.

Admittedly, the effectiveness of said props would be much greater if this were a blog that people read, but perhaps that will happen in the future, at which point people may stumble upon this post and check out these awesome artists.

Win the First: Simple Elegance Earrings from Bisou Bisou Beads




Claire of Bisou Bisou Beads gave these earrings away as a way to advertise them as a new addition to her shop. She gave me my choice of pearl color and I opted for the green (a color I've become quite fond of lately - must be the residual effect of the Wellesley class of 2009 on me). I just received them today, and they are indeed as awesome as pictured.

Claire's blog can be found here, and her jewelry can be viewed and purchased at her Etsy site.

Win the Second: Rock and River earrings from KneeDeepOriginals




The EtsyVeg team host a giveaway every week, and a couple of weeks ago they featured these earrings from KneeDeepOriginals. Rebecca, who owns the shop, uses lots of natural items in her works, and it leads to some beautiful and original designs (like these earrings!)

You can check out her shop here, and find not only more of her jewelry, but also notecards and original paintings.

* It's a bit of an addiction. I could say I'm working on it, but that would be a lie.

The Beginning of a New Blog

This isn't my first blog (my LiveJournal sits somewhere in cyberspace, rarely attended to), but I think starting one at Blogger is not a bad idea. The boring reasons, in no particular order:

1 - I started a family blog on Blogger, so now it's one-stop blogging for me.
2 - People whose opinions I am interested in frequently use Blogger, and this makes it easier for me to stalk keep tags on them.
3 - Google, I suspect, will slowly start to organize every aspect of my life, so why not help the process along?

I've never been particularly good about blogging, but perhaps this will go better!