The Grene http://emily.posterous.com Why not make a better world? posterous.com Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:05:00 -0700 MAKE-LEARN-GIVE: Fourth Week of October http://emily.posterous.com/make-learn-give-fourth-week-of-october http://emily.posterous.com/make-learn-give-fourth-week-of-october

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I MADE a lace shawl based on one I saw on TV:
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I LEARNED to play the Hobbity theme from Lord of the Rings on the tin whistle, which is way more interesting than playing scales. (This was the twelfth take:)
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I GAVE my beloved Ravenclaw scarf to a younger woman.  It will now have a long life keeping someone else warm and nerdy.  In memoriam:
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Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:34:09 -0700 MAKE-LEARN-GIVE: First week of October http://emily.posterous.com/make-learn-give-first-week-of-october http://emily.posterous.com/make-learn-give-first-week-of-october

This week I MADE a little baby blanket out of leftover wool:

I LEARNED that hovercraft are actually in commercial use!  I had previously thought they were the domain of hobbyists, Scrapheap Challenge, and evil geniuses who live in swamps, but you can take a 130-passenger hovercraft between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight
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I GAVE Helen the cake tins I hadn't used in the past year, which has shifted the storage problem from my house to hers.
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