I imagine that most people favor feed readers these days and as a result don’t actually visit my blog much anymore, but nevertheless I decided to change its theme in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yes, my blog is now extremely pink, but luckily I am still girly enough that I actually like it! 
I am fortunate enough that I have not personally known anyone (I have been told that my great-aunt by marriage on my mother’s side had breast cancer, but I never knew her) who has been affected by breast cancer, but I suspect that it is only a matter of time.
Therefore, as a way to honor those who have in one way or another had to deal with this dreadful disease, here are a few links. Educate yourself, your mother, your sisters, your aunts, and your best friend today!
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I stumbled across this while I was visiting The Stitcher in the Green Bikini and just couldn’t pass it up. First, the rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
The Questions:
- What is your first name? Renee
- What is your favorite food? Indian
- What high school did you go to? Small Town Iowa High
- What is your favorite color? Blue
- Who is your celebrity crush? Hugh Laurie
- Favorite drink? Coke
- Dream vacation? England or India
- Favorite dessert? Cheesecake
- What you want to be when you grow up? Happy
- What do you love most in life? Four Cats
- One word to describe you: Independent
- Your flickr name: blondelibrarian
As usual, I couldn’t be bothered to follow the rules exactly, so here are my differences.
#2 - I had to search for Indian food to actually get a picture of food.
#3 - I had to drop “High” from my search because it didn’t come up with anything useful. I also searched for Small Town, Iowa’s real name, not “Small Town, Iowa”.
#7 - I couldn’t decide which place is more my dream… and besides the setup I chose needed 13 pictures, not 12.
#12 - I searched for blondelibrarian as two words.
1.Renee, 2.Indian (food), 3.Small Town, Iowa, 4.Blue, 5.Hugh Laurie, 6.Coke, 7.England, 8.India, 9.Cheesecake, 10.Happy, 11.Four Cats, 12.Independent, 13.blondelibrarian
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Today’s SBQ was suggested by Outi and is:
What do you do to your thread clippings? Do you just scrap them or do you use them in something else?
I used to keep a little trash can beside my stitching chair that I tossed my thread clippings in when I snipped them off. However, I got tired of the cats constantly turning over the can and scattering things everywhere so I retired it. Nowadays I just put all my clippings in a little pile next to my scissors as I am stitching and when I am finished for the evening I gather up all the clippings and throw them away.
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Thanks to Jennifer at Sweet Pea Stitches and Shelleen at Shelleen’s Musings for naming me for the Brilliant and Kreativ blog awards respectively. I think I am about the last person to be named for these awards, but I would like to mention six blogs that I would name as Brilliant and Kreativ because in one way or another, these ladies’ blogs and their stitching inspires me. (I chose six because it is a happy medium between the seven you are supposed to name for Brilliant Blogs and the five for Kreativ).
- Dawn
- Cathy
- Christine
- Outi
- Anne
- Hev
P.S. For anyone who wonders who the designers I stitch are, I tag all my posts with the designer name and usually the name of the pattern as well. Although the tags don’t show up in Google reader (I don’t know about other readers) you can always visit my blog and check out the tags. Dawn’s Round Robin is from a Stoney Creek leaflet called “Snow Happens.”
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Like Anna, I am also an herb… except I’m basil. 
You Are Basil
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You are quite popular and loved by post people.
You have a mild temperament, but your style is definitely distinctive.
You are sweet, attractive, and you often smell good.
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Hee hee… I was told just this morning (by He-Who-Must-Not-Yet-Be-Named) that I smell good too!
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The Rules:
1) You must post the rules on your post before you answer the questions.
2) You need to list one fact about yourself using each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name use your maiden name instead.
3) When you are finished with your answers, you tag one person for each letter of your name.
C is for Crazy Cat Lady. I think anyone who reads this blog knows by now that I am a crazy cat lady. If you have any doubts, read this post, and this post, and this post.
A is for Alone. As an introvert, I have always liked to be alone and prize my alone time highly. One reason I don’t have children is because the thought of never truly being alone again bothers me more than you can imagine.
R is for Reading. Reading is one of my favorite hobbies. Of course, most people think that since I am a librarian it is only logical. However, while it may be true that I am a bit of a bookworm, my love of reading really has little do with why I became a librarian.
O is for Olee. I have a cat named Olee. (Pronounced O Lee, not Ollie) Olee is as old as Mouse (going on 16) and only has three legs. Olee lives with my mom because when I went away to college I couldn’t have a cat in my dorm room. I offered to take Olee to live with me more than once after I moved out of the dorms but Mom is so attached to her that she wouldn’t let me.
L is for Librarian. Although I always thought being a librarian would be a neat job, it wasn’t until my junior year as an undergraduate that I started thinking about it as a career. I was an English major and I didn’t want to be a teacher. What else could I do? 
Y is for Yellow. As a natural blonde, you will never catch me wearing anything that is predominantly yellow. It gives my skin a sickly green tinge.
N is for Novel. I am currently taking a novel writing class and working on my first novel. In case you are wondering, it is about a librarian.
I’m not tagging anyone… well, except maybe Dawn.
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