I miss webrings. They were a great way to find new links, interesting ideas and people. Social media is an offshoot of webrings. Most of the webring software I used to know is gone. Swallowed up by marketing. The new webrings are different, lighter, and they tend to be personal.
At the end of the day, boredom is more about you than it is about the external environment. If you’re in a healthy place psychologically and there’s not much going on in your surroundings, that’s called “relaxation,” not “boredom.” You should try it sometime.
from Bustle: Boredom is the Worst Modern Emotion and Here's Why
People who claim to get bored easily have always irritated me. I think it takes someone who actually is boring to be bored easily. How lacking in imagination and intelligence they must be if they can't find something interesting to do, something interesting to learn or watch or clean up or... the list is endless.
This was part of a quiz about what type of author you would be/ are. I loved this question. Which answer would you pick?
Choose a place to pen your masterpiece.
- A busy train station where you can sip iced coffee while people-watching
- A secret garden full of wonders you’ve never seen before
- A cozy coffee shop interior while gentle rain falls outside on a cold gray day
- Your bedroom—you feel most comfortable there.
Although the train station was high on my list and its my bedroom where I usually do end up writing - a coffee shop on a grey and rainy day was my most preferred place, by far. I love a rainy day and looking out the window while working on something creative with a delicious (still at least warm) coffee is pretty much perfect in my books.
There is something about buttons. People create all kinds of interesting things with buttons. I knew there would be a lot of button flower ideas. What a great way to make yourself a colourful, simple and cheap bouquet!
Look for buttons at thrift stores. Otherwise your button buying can get expensive. At craft stores and craft aisle in department stores, you can sometimes buy a bag full of buttons. (You can't pick through them for the ones you want, but you get a lot of buttons that way).
I found a lot of colourful flowers and flower bouquets made with buttons.
Most of them seem to glue the buttons together in daisy sort of pattern. Or, they use them as the centre for a fabric flower.
I've been there, as the person writing and the person getting the condolences. From my experience it was best to be kind, keep it short and be honest rather than trying to be nice, polite or neutral.
From my experience, after my Dad died I found many people did not know how to express sympathy or condolences. It's actually not as complicated as they were making it. The best condolences were honest and simple words. One person, in particular, said just the right thing and gave me a new perspective on my own feelings. But, that's not going to happen in most cases.
The friend who had the right words was a good, longtime friend who knew a lot about myself, my life and we had been long time confidants through my divorce too. That kind of friend has a far better chance of knowing the right words.
Here are some ideas, help, and tips to get you through picking the right words to offer your support, sympathy, and encouragement.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth you are weeping
for that which has been your delight.
-Kahil Gibran
My Grandmother kept a canister full of buttons. When clothes became worn out and ready to cut down for rags, she removed the buttons and added them to her button canister. There were all sorts of colours, sizes, shapes and patterns of buttons. Some were very old. My Mother kept the buttons and the canister when my Grandmother died. Now and then we use some of my Grandmother's buttons. But, not for just anything.
Grandmother's buttons are used when we make something special. I used a few for making Christmas decorations and ornaments for the tree. I used one set of her buttons when a favourite sweater lost a button and I wanted all the buttons to match again. There were just enough, all the same type, among the buttons in the canister.
We still have a lot of buttons in the canister. There aren't a lot of things in the regular mending sort of sewing which are special enough for Grandma's buttons. These button flowers would be very nice. I think I would use a lot of the white shirt buttons as the outer petals and then pick a colourful or patterned button for the centre.
Palaeo-art is a work of art that brings the prehistoric past to life (as an illustration, this isn't mad science but it may be mad art).