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A Girl As Mad As Birds (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a design especially for my American friends - I wish you the joy of the holiday, and I hope that you have a lovely day, surrounded by peace, plenty, family and friends. I hope you like the design. If you would like a copy, please leave a comment below with your email address, as this is a little too big to display as a jpeg. If you do stitch this chart, I'd love to see a picture - and there...
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Some landscapes (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Today I went to the Small Publishers Fair , an annual event which I based posts on last year and the year before . Among today's purchases was a Chris Drury book, Algonquin , on sale at Peter Foolen's stall. Peter publishes prints and books by some of this site's favourite landscape artists - Hamish Fulton, Thomas A. Clark, Roger Ackling. He has his own blog - recent posts feature Richard Long's huge...
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A Girl As Mad As Birds (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
With the passing of 'The Last Tommy', Harry Patch, our human connection to the devastation that was the First World War is finally severed. The generation that fought end endured through the Second World War is diminishing in number too. However, the need to remember the sacrifices people made - and are still making - doesn't diminish. War is still with us. One day, hopefully, peace will prevail, but...
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the concert (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Some of you may remember this rather complex memory aid that I created to help me memorize the Act I Finale of Barbiere. The math dork in me loved the process of breaking down the music and text into a pattern and assigning numbers and letters, like a complex algebra problem. I carried the “cheat sheet” around with me through hours of staging rehearsal, and by opening night it was solidly...
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General Financial (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By Jeff Cartridge The rising channel can be traded very successfully on the long side entering the trade as the stock breaks out to the upside. This is not how you would normally trade this pattern though as the text books will tell you to trade it when it breaks down. The pattern forms when the two boundary lines that contain the price movement are almost parallel. The top and bottom line both slope...
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i4U (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Lowe's Hardware store has already released their 8 page Black Friday 2009 Ad online. The pages are still covered by some text pattern saying that the prices are only valid starting Black Friday through 11/30/09. You can see the full Lowe's Ad here. BFAd...
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A Girl As Mad As Birds (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I have to admit, I'm a little conflicted about the 5th of November. Are we commemorating a religious fundamentalist terrorist or are we celebrating the triumph of democracy over those who would seek to destroy it? Or is it perhaps an even older pagan celebration - Samhain - which has been re-purposed like Easter was? Whatever your take on it, I hope you like the design. If you would like a copy, please...
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Hankering for Yarn (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I’m very excited about a new design that I have been working on for ages. I’ve been experimenting with some neat new jewelry making techniques for spool knitting. I love Celtic Interlaces, and have designed a Celtic Interlace necklace. I’ve been working on it for a year or so, on and off. Finally, I have finished doing all the photo editing and writing and pattern formulating and...
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A Girl As Mad As Birds (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I've been playing with my charting software again :o) It certainly makes me appreciate even more the work that goes into designing charts, and thankful for those who do it! If you would like your own copy of the witch, just right click below to save the chart. This pattern is offered for personal, non-commercial use only. Items made from this pattern may be sold on a small scale basis such as on Etsy...
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Design Shack Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Textpattern is an interesting alternative to WordPress that is free and open source with a strong emphasis on producing valid XHTML. This tutorial walks you through initial setup and the creation of a simple portfolio site. View Post
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Trader Gav (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
To me, the Cable buying during last session did not change the trend. Instead, I thought there might another opportunity for SHORTs? This is a text book pattern. Nothing fancy, let’s see how it works out. If the the breakout of the pattern realized, I am revising the downside target to around 1.6-ish, still in [...]
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AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
E Food Additives 1.1.0 Category: Lifestyle Price: $1.99 -> $0.99 ( iTunes ) Description: E Food Additives will help you find out what you always wanted to know about the controversial and dreaded food additives. Most food additives are considered safe but some are known to be bad for your health, causing side effects, allergic reactions, even to be carcinogenic and toxic. E Food Additives will...
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A Girl As Mad As Birds (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I found a version of Jane Greenoff's Cross Stitch Pattern Creator for a quid in a charity shop, and I've been playing around with it. The software is showing its age - ten years old is positively antidiluvian in computer years - and it doesn't do some of the things I'm used to from programs like Photoshop but ... it's fun! I've managed to convert a little piece of clip art into the design you can see...
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Can You See the Sunset from the Southside? (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Welcome to the "new" Can You See the Sunset? Things might not look a whole lot different, but that's the point. I just switched the site over from Textpattern to Wordpress to take advantage of WP's more robust features. The fact that the search works WAY better than it ...
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josweb.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Here’s my first attempt at creating a skull text effect for Photoshop. The file includes four skull patterns in varying sizes and a psd file. Have fun! Please remember that if you would like to use the effect commercially, be good enough to give a donation. Thank you!
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