September 10, 2009

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My trip to Whetstone park this past Thursday. I was always there as a kid, and I never realized most of it was there.

This is (I believe) the Olentangy River.




There are paths running around the park, and they have different little gardens along side the forests. They also have little fields.



I really must have a thing for the sky, as it dominates most of my pictures.
These were taken on the other side of the park, towards the High School. There are athletic fields, and I laid down by the baseball (softball?) diamond to get some sun.




This one I took through my sunglasses. These glasses make almost anything look more magical.






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OK everyone, I have posted pictures of my recent trip to Chicago on my Flickr site, so please check them out. Megan, Steve and I had a great time, though we also proved how out of shape we are. Megan and I stopped at a candle store just inside Indiana, and part of the store is a giant candle! (Think the Longaberger Basket Building in Newark, though not quite so massive) We also saw some wind farms along the way - it's nice to know that these things are really going up. We made it up to Steve's in about 9 hours since we made many stops. Saturday, after breakfast at IHOP (I so want one here at home!) we went out to the Morton Arboretum, which sadly puts Daws to shame. They have a Japaneese garden, like Daws, but they also have a Chineese and a Korean garden as well, among many others. We tried going through the Hedge maze at the end of our walk, but were too worn out to care much about it, we went a quarter of the way in before turning back. So other than that we ate, went out for a drink with Steve's friend Andy, and we watched "Rock and Rolla" and the first two seasons of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." A very nice weekend trip if I do say so myself. Check out the pictures!

Beautiful Sky

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August 21st

High and E. North Broadway.




15th and High



Sewing!

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Alright, so I've been getting a little crafty lately, thanks threadbanger.com. I did my first real project tonight. I have a sleep mask that helps when it is sunny out or when I have a headache.
It is pretty old and was cheap to begin with, so I decided to make a new one. Here is how I did it.

So, here is my sad stretched out mask. :(



I begin by tracing it out on to some news paper to create a pattern.




Then, I trace it on to my fabric. I am using a t-shirt scrap from when I was experimenting a few days ago. That will be one side, and an old sweater sleeve will be the other side.




So here are my two pieces traced and cut out. I left myself a lot of working room.




I had some satin-like fabric from a project I never got around to. This will be for the strap that holds the mask on my head. I measured around my head, and added two inches - this is where my first mark will be.



My second mark will be three inches up so that I can sew both edges together.



Little Man insisted on helping. Well, really he is just needy.



Sorry about the blurry picture. This is the strap finished. I thought some royal blue would look good against the black. I need to work on my straight lines. :)



OK, so here are my three basic parts: the outside, the strap and my old mask that I will use to stuff the middle. I am ready to put it together.



I've pinned the outside. In order to avoid as much hand sewing as possible (as I am worse at that than I am at straight lines) I stuffed the strap into the outsides. I made sure to keep it straight and away from where I am going to sew, other than where it needs to be attached.



So, I've finished sewing, and I've left some of it open so I can turn it right side out and stuff.



I cut the excess straps off...



...turned it right side out and then stuffed the old mask in.



Voila! Not too bad for my first project ever. I still need a lot of practice, but this piece will be functional until I can manage a better one.

So, hopefully I can get to more projects in the future, and get some better equipment (like a table...that would be nice). Let me know if you try this, and if you have any tips or suggestions for me!

Thompson Library

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Here is the lobby from the 2nd floor, up in the Serials department.
This is the new reading room on the 11th floor. They are still getting it ready, but it looks very nice.

Out the south window of the reading room.

The towers and the Shoe. Great views from this room.

The oval, looking out towards High street.

Oh yes, it is 11 stories up indeed.

The fancy looking elevator doors.

Look at all of those books! This is from the lobby, and those are Serials, Reference and Foreign Language.

The beautiful sky light in the lobby.








OK, well this last one was taken out of my window when the evening sky was especially vivid. It was a beautiful night, and my phone camera could not do it justice...maybe I can play around with photoshop a bit.

The other pictures, again with my sad phone camera, are from a stall in the basement women's rooms on campus. It was interesting to watch it grow over the school year, and last week someone tried to wash it all off - in vain.

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Alright, I am having trouble with this site. I find it difficult to navigate, and my dashboard disappears on certain sites, so I am unable to follow those blogs. Does anyone know of a better blogging site? If not I will probably stick it out here. I will have some more pictures soon, probably when I am done with school work on Friday (tomorrow).

I love the rain, but I cannot wait until it is sunny and warm again.

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