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Sweet Suite 2014: Toys and Sweets!

September 21, 2014 Toys , , ,

It’s the first day of fall! So obviously my brain is starting to focus on the upcoming holiday season.

During the summer I went to The Big Toy Book’s Sweet Suite event in Manhattan, which is an annual party to connect bloggers (basically “mommy bloggers”) with companies and their products. This year it was part of a series of events called Blogger Bash, but I only attended Sweet Suite.

I went as press for GeekMom, since we’re working on our holiday gift guides. And there will be a lot of cool stuff for the holidays this year, ya’ll.

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GeekMom Updates

July 15, 2013 Movies and TV, Working Mom , , , , , ,

I’ve been busy over at GeekMom, and I have a few posts I’m really proud of. All of my posts are here, but in the past few weeks I did a roundup of the Best Audio Books for Family Road Trips, Disney’s 2013 Holiday Gift Preview, and HIT Entertainment’s 2013 Holiday Gift Preview. I also wrote I Took My 15-Month-Old to the Movies, analyzing whether or not H is ready for the big screen.

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Happy Early Birthday to Me!

February 6, 2011 Home, Quilting Stuff, Sewing, Shopping , , , , ,

Yesterday I went and picked up my birthday present, a few days early:

Pennington Quilt Works was having a sale on their floor model and trade-in machines, and this Bernina QE440 was in perfect shape and super cheap (for a Bernina). I went and picked it up yesterday, and I’m in love with it. Getting this machine means no Creative Estates in April and no ALA conference in June, but it’s worth it to me. It really is such a great piece of engineering, and I finally get to work on a full size machine.

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I’m Obsessed With My iPad

December 30, 2010 Home, Thoughts, Toys , , , ,

Steve Jobs got me good. I can’t get enough of this thing. I’m using an Apple photo of the iPad because I’m writing this post from mine, trying to figure out how to blog on it. And I’m in Philadelphia with a dead camera battery and limited resources, so…stock photo. If it posts, we’ll see if i actually got this to work.

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This Is the Greatest Tool Ever

June 12, 2010 Art, Crafts, Quilting Stuff, Sewing , , ,

Thanks to Sew Like A Man for posting about this, I’ve been looking for a tool that does precisely what this does: convert photos into quilt patterns.

On the heels of the big quilt exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum in London (my mother-in-law sent me some fabulous clippings about it), the museum is now offering this Patchwork Pattern Maker on its website. I’ve been trying it out, and it is fantastic. You can decide if you want it to make an easy, medium, or hard quilt pattern, decide how many colors you want it to have, and it will tell you exactly how many squares you need in how many colors. You just have to scale the size of the squares to the size of the quilt you want to make. Not too bad at all.

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