If you are visiting this page, you probably want to know something about either the author of this blog or the blog itself.
What can I say? I am blonde and I am a librarian, hence the witty name. I am in my early thirties and after living abroad for over four years, I returned to the good old U.S. of A in September of 2006. I like to read, I have cats, I wear sensible shoes, and I cross stitch. My sensible shoes are Birkenstocks, I cross stitch while listening to heavy metal, and one of my favorite book genres is erotica… not exactly stereotypical, eh?
As for this blog, well… first some history:
I maintained two blogs, a cross stitch one and a “main” one, for about 2½ years. I originally separated them because I had two distinct audiences and the one audience (that for my “main” blog) wasn’t always interested in my crafty pursuits that I found myself blogging about on an increasingly regular basis.
Therefore, in response to my audience’s wishes, I separated the crafty content and began a second blog. Because I was still maintaining my “main” blog, I decided that my cross stitching blog would only contain posts that were directly related to cross stitching. I figured that any readers that I had that were interested in both blogs could just visit both of them.
At that point in time, I had plenty of time to maintain both blogs and did so quite successfully for quite a while.
However, as my personal situation grew more complicated, my main blog grew rather neglected. The voice of the American expatriate that had been guiding my “main” blog faded and when I officially repatriated, I knew that my expatriate audience had all but disappeared.
Consequently, I felt for many months that the voice of my “main” blog had become aimless and wondered if it was time to abandon it. However, I also came to realize that I really had no desire to stop blogging; I just needed to find my voice again.
Therefore, I decided to recombine the two blogs into a single one with one URL. However, my “new” blog has a slightly different structure than you may be accustomed to, so in order to fully enjoy all of my writings from now on remember I only have one URL… essentially one blog, but it has two main categories that represent my two blogs. The two categories are “Stitched with Love and Cat Hair” and “Beyond the Shelves” and each of these two main categories has its own RSS feed and is further subdivided.
I am also hoping to reinvigorate my blog and find my voice again by writing more freely. Nevertheless, I am still not sure how ready I am for the publication of some topics that I hope to write about, so from now on, some posts will be password protected. If a post is password protected, please do not ask for the password. If it is a post I want to share I will unprotect it when I feel ready.
From here you can also access my 101 Things, 1001 Days List, read my comment policy, or contact me.
And finally, if you haven’t had a chance to look through the archives or read my list of 100 useless things about me, do so! Most anything else you might want to know about me can be found there!
Last updated: 20 August 2008