• Bead Banners •

It's dark out. I got completely distracted & started a brand new craft ... that I absolutely LOVE & did for 6½ hours straight before I finished it & looked at the time. I haven't had a brand new (to me) craft that I liked since 18-19 years ago when I discovered my knitting machine that I bought right after we moved to Texas & set up in our apartment in Addison. Anyway, I spent 2 hours creating the pattern. Since it's not even squares, it renders all my normal patterns useless. I had to make a clear background template (that I've saved

& will re-use each time) in PSP & then I created the bell pattern. Once that was completed, I started beading. It was a little slow at 1st since I had never done this before, but after the 3rd row I was flying along. This is one cool craft! I'm going to have to set a timer next time though ... I get completely lost in it otherwise. ANYway ... that was FUN! :) Yesterday I had egg salad for breakfast, watched a movie while I cross stitched (I started that firefighter kit shown below. Now here's a question? I usually create my own patterns like the bell over here, so why did I buy a cross stitch KIT? I have no idea. Kind of odd when I think about it, but eh, it's a nice kit! I was also looking at beaded banner kits ... they're nice, easy, come with everything, & pretty cheap. I'll buy one of those, too ... someday. Today I made my own

though & I'm proud of it. BUT ... since I bought another bead pack today instead of a kit, I guess I'll be making my own pattern next time, too. I needed the bead pack this time around because I completely ran myself out of a few colors & I stock up on as many black, white, red, & blue beads as I can get my hands on. Those are my primary 4 colors for projects since I plan on creating a lot of EMS & fire patterns in the future. After cross stitching yesterday on this nice firefighter cross stitch kit, I went to work on eBay for a while, checked facebook, & then hand knitted through another movie. I finished the body of the sweater I'm working on & am now working on the ribbing on the bottom. Almost done! Then it was peanut butter on toast for lunch, pattern collecting on Pinterest, & then Pete came home from work which wrapped up the evening with the usual evening routine (Chicago Fire Wednesday night!) & bed. This morning when I woke up I changed AnyTime to the year view, dealt with Kyle & an issue with the school (not Kyle's fault at ALL) while the FD got toned out to a med call in OUR district thank you very much, & then the beading started. I finally got around to paying the bills for this paycheck & ordered more beads (as my facebook friends are aware), & if it weren't for Kyle cooking for us & feeding me this evening I would have starved. LOL! I got so wrapped up in the bead banner that I hadn't even eaten since yesterday. Didn't care, was having too much fun to stop until it was finished. Glad it was a SMALL pattern! Next week's pattern, IF I do another random pattern (as opposed to an EMS or fire pattern), will probably be the same width, but longer in length. I'll decide next Thursday morning which bead banner I'm going to make next. Fat Bottomed Girls just came on the radio. BLAST! Love this song!! I think the walls are vibrating now. Groundhog day Saturday.

Cars.com names most memorable TV cars (2007):

On this day in 2007, Cars.com names its top 10 most memorable TV cars; a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am named KITT from the show "Knight Rider" tops the list.

Pontiac, a division of General Motors (GM), began making fast, sporty muscle cars in the 1960s, including the GTO, which launched in 1964, the Firebird, introduced in 1967 and the Trans Am, which debuted in 1969. The Trans Am got its first big dose of Hollywood stardom when it was featured in the 1977 Burt Reynolds movie "Smokey and the Bandit." Continued fame for the car followed with the TV show "Knight Rider," which originally aired from 1982 to 1986 and starred David Hasselhoff as a man named Michael Knight who traveled around America fighting crime with his indestructible automotive sidekick KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a talking, two-door coupe equipped with artificial intelligence.

Pontiac discontinued the Trans Am in 2002. On April 27, 2009, a financially troubled GM announced it would phase out the entire Pontiac brand by 2010.

The second-place vehicle on the Cars.com list was the the General Lee, a souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger featured on "The Dukes of Hazzard." The show, which originally aired from 1979 to 1985, centered around two good-old-boy cousins, Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), who lived in the rural South and were on a continual quest to elude their nemeses, the crooked county commissioner "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (James Best). "The Dukes of Hazzard" was known for its car chases and stunts and the General Lee, which had an orange paint job, a horn that played the first 12 notes of the song "Dixie," a Confederate flag across its roof and the numbers "01" on its welded-shut doors, became a star of the show. Due to all the fast driving, jumps and crashes, it was common for several different General Lees to be used during the filming of each episode. Chrysler introduced the Dodge Charger for the model year 1966 and the car remained in production through 1987. After a hiatus of nearly two decades, Chrysler relaunched the Charger in 2006.

Third place on the Cars.com list went to the mythical Mystery Machine, a multicolored van from the cartoon "Scooby-Doo." Coming in fourth was the Ferrari 308 GTS from "Magnum, P.I." Fifth on the list was the Batmobile, a modified 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car that was featured on the show "Batman." Rounding out the second half of the list were the 1975 Ford Gran Torino from "Starsky and Hutch," the 1973 Chevrolet El Camino from "My Name is Earl," the 1983 GMC G-Series from "The A-Team," the Mach 5 from the animated show "Speed Racer" and the 2005 Maserati Quattroporte seen on "Entourage."

Do your own prep work. Granted cheese & prewashed salad can be convenient - but they're also costly. Shredded carrots, for instance, may run you nearly 5X more than whole carrots by weight. (Buy a shredder & learn how to use it!)

I found a new restaurant. You've got to go with me. A new seafood place on the strop, Clam City ... I said to the chef, "How do you steam clams?" He said, "You make fun of their religion." -Johnny Carson 1972

It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there's little or no trust, there's no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Locavore:

* App Craver’s Best iOS apps for Foodies
* O’Reilly’s #1 app for Shopping Green
* One of Time's Top 10 iPhone apps
* Seen at #1 on the App Store’s Paid Lifestyle Apps list
* Seen at #64 on the App Store’s Top Paid Apps list
It’s your seasonal, local food network.
Based on your phone’s GPS location, Locavore will make searching for in-season, local food a breeze by pinpointing farms, farmers’ markets, and CSAs nearest you. Read all about them on their profile page, find that specific local item you have been looking for or just check out what’s in-season right now. Plus, you can get recipe suggestions to make with your delicious local food and then, brag about it to all your friends through Facebook & Twitter.
Note: We currently support USA and Canada (Ontario and BC only).
Features:
1 - Browse what’s in-season and soon to come
2 - Locate farms, farmers’ markets, and CSAs nearest you
3 - Learn about your food and who is producing it
4 - Get details about your local farmers’ market
5 - Find recipes for local, in-season items
6 - Post (brag) about what you ate and the farms that grew it to Facebook & Twitter
Locavore is powered by Local Dirt. www.LocalDirt.com is an online site where anyone can buy, sell, feature and find local food. Part of us is located in beautiful Madison, WI and the others are in sunny (sometimes foggy) San Francisco, CA. We are always looking for inventive ways to improve the Local Food movement; we’re listening, so leave us your feedback. If something is not working as expected, contact us before you leave a review and we are happy to help.
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Placebo buttons are buttons that actually do nothing except give the user an illusion of control.

Shoebox by 1000memories:

ShoeBox by 1000memories is the fastest way to scan your old paper photos and share them with family and friends.
As featured by Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Wired, Forbes, GOOD, and the Associated Press.
“It’s an organized nerd’s dream.” - Wired Magazine
"Shoebox one-ups your smartphone's camera by auto-detecting a photo's edges and auto-flattening the image to adjust for the camera's tilt." - GOOD Magazine
"Now I have an app that allows me to post and share all those embarrassing high school, college and post-collegiate photos from my youth." - TechCrunch
ShoeBox makes converting photo prints to digital easier by turning an iPhone into a mobile photo scanner. ShoeBox’s edge detection, color balance, and perspective correction make sure your scans are quick and turn out beautifully. Your photos are saved to your iPhone and 1000memories.com–just log in using your ShoeBox credentials.
We understand that certain photos aren’t meant to be shared with everybody. You can change the privacy level of each shoebox you create. Private shoeboxes can only be shared by invitation. Public photos will be archived by our partner The Internet Archive to make sure your photos are preserved for future generations.
Features
• Shoebox’s edge detection, color balance, and perspective correction make sure your scans turn out beautifully
• Organize your scans into collections of shoeboxes
• Fill in a photo’s backstory by tagging people, dates and location info
• Custom privacy options for every shoebox you create
• Comment and like photos
• Share photos instantly to Ancestry, Twitter or your Facebook Timeline
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T-shirts have been a popular form of self-expression for women since the 1960s. it's become the "human bumper sticker!"

T-shirt slogans for American women top 10:

1. Coffee, chocolate, men ... some things are just better rich
2. And your point is ... ?
3. My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips
4. Do I look like your therapist?
5. Sorry if I looked interested. I'm not
6. Of course I don't look busy - I do it right the 1st time
7. How can I miss you if you won't go away?
8. Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off
9. If they don't have chocolate in heaven, I ain't going
10. Does this shirt make me look fat?

Walk with a book on your head in the office.