Comments on: Maybe This Time: Library Journal

By: KerryK

KerryK — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:22:27 +0000

I’m late to the comments as I am playing catch-up. Jenny, as soon as you said simple and dachshund, the balloon ones came to mind. I don’t know if people still do it but in my younger days at fairs etc. someone would make all different types of animals with balloons, clean lines and with dachs being so recognizable shouldn’t be a problem.
As for art I adore it, paintings, sculpture, pottery – you name it I love it. The thing is for years I thought that I had zero talent, then one day a beading book passed through my hands, bells and whistles, this I can do. AND I WAS RIGHT! I realize there is a huge battle between art and crafts, but my feeling is that putting colors that work together is part of the artist eye, not to mention coming up with designs. It fills my need to create. I also got into interior design which works my creative juices.

By: George

George — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:11:20 +0000

Toni, you could definitely count me among the many who would cry hallelujah to find such a wonderfully valuable resource as your website. Strong everyday (contemporary! YAY!) role models for young women to emulate are grossly underrepresented in today’s media, and you’d better believe I would be recommending it far and wide (and since Australia is quite literally the end of the earth, and pretty damn wide to boot, that’s a guarantee).

As Kerry Greenwood puts it, “Not that one woman can, but that every woman can.”

The real tragedy is that most of the seemingly brainless sex-kittens who are put forward as role models these days are almost certainly intelligent, capable women who have been indoctrinated into believing that the only way they can get ahead is by exploiting their bodies, as opposed to other assets… *sigh*

By: stephanie

stephanie — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:10:46 +0000

i’m just scrolling through the comments while watching the kidlets run around the yard with sharp pointy sticks so my focus isn’t entirely on what’s been said and now I have a vision of trompe l’oeil doggie butts disappearing into imaginary bathroom doggie doors. it’s an interesting visual.

as for ravelry and argh inspired crafts i’ve worked two of the knitted curly scarves and while they are beautiful they really gnarled my fingers and because they are knitted vertically they can only get but so long so I’m moving on to another pattern. Many thanks for pointing out where the curly scarf/ boas were in ravelry and hopefully i’ll have pics to post soon in the cherry group on ravelry

By: toni

toni — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:36:48 +0000

Thank you, Jenny & Micki–it’s really encouraging to hear it might have a wider appeal than my hazy addled brain had originally thought. I do love the idea, and in a beautiful magazine-style layout, I think it could have wide appeal. (Well, I see what I’ll be doing in my spare time now!)

By: Micki

Micki — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:07:46 +0000

Obviously, to off-set the one-track minds who want pure, “unadulterated” romance, I’m going to have to shout: I LIKE ME SOME GENRE-BENDING IN MY BOOKS. (-: OK, I’m done shouting until I get the book.

@ Toni: I think the dailywoman is a fabulous idea. It’d be a boon for social studies teachers, too, and other educators. I hope you’ll get it off the ground!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:05:54 +0000

I love the Daily Woman one.

By: Micki

Micki — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:59:36 +0000

Nooooo! Love the luggage, but let’s ADD it to the skill set, not re-invent the person (-:.

By: toni

toni — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:28:23 +0000

The one I registered last night (er, 3ish this morning?) is thedailywoman.com

What I want to do is a site which honors women who are amazing–not just famous women (we know those), but women who are doing break-through work in their fields, or who are championing something important, or who have made a difference in the lives of people around them. Strong women, smart women, women from all walks of life.

I realized as I was watching my grand-daughter–who is 2 1/2 now–that all she really has being touted in the media are reality TV stars and actresses and twist-tie thin models. Even athletes get the over-sexed treatment in order to try to appeal to the male sports audience. I want to change that–at least a little corner of the world.

The goal would be to make it a gorgeous site, and to have the ability for people to submit articles for it. (In other words, I couldn’t possibly do that many interviews.) And I’d want it to be a place where women could talk about the obstacles they face in their lives/careers/families–be a place for women reaching out to women.

There may already be something like that out there–but I wanted this to be a daily thing–a new featured woman every day.

Except, you know, the whole “Uh, Toni, you kinda have two other careers going here” thing. (In other words, I need help.)

The other site was themisfitchronicles.com — and I started to put up a site (a photoblog/blog template) and got sidetracked by the book (which really grabbed me by the throat this last month). So the template is about half-way done and, duh, looks like drap.. That was going to be more or less a celebration of always being the weird one, and how that really turned out to be a benefit, years later.

But I like the daily woman one, better.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:01:51 +0000

Exactly.
So give: What are the names of the websites?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:01:27 +0000

Oh, some of the reviewers on Amazon are already annoyed about that. If you’re reading for romance, there’s not enough there. It’s okay. I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:33 +0000

No, we would be mad if we didn’t make things. It siphons off the crazy.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:08 +0000

trompe l’ oeil
The problem is, it has to be super simple to evoke the restroom graphic connection. I did a darling silhouette of a dachshund that was completely unusable because it wasn’t simple enough. Have to do the dachshund equivalent of a round ball for a head. That simple.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:58:24 +0000

I thought it’d look great with a winter coat. Of course, I’m often wrong.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:56:34 +0000

Whoa. I’m a slacker.
Unless you count all that waitressing I did in college. And my short stint as a switchboard operator. And there was that awful time I sold craft supplies. Or the time I worked in a bookstore (VERY valuable that was, like a boot camp in publishing). And I worked at JoAnn Fabrics for awhile.
Maybe I’m ahead of the game.

By: toni

toni — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:48:49 +0000

I keep dreaming up website ideas (completely unrelated to writing) and registering the domain names. And then I have no time to create the site.

After this book is done, I am buying a new easel and paints and getting back to my oils. It’s been years, and I am sure I am utter craptastic at it, now, but every time I walk into a gallery, I stand there, choked up, tears in my eyes, because I could be creating. No one need ever see them. I just need to do it.

By: Ami

Ami — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:22:18 +0000

I found my first Crusie at the local library (Faking It) about six years ago and what I liked about it was that it had a bit of romance, a bit of mystery, and off-beat characters. I went back and checked out everything else with your name on it. Why would LJ think I’d be disappointed with a new book that is a bit of romance, a bit of mystery, off-beat characters, AND ghosts?

By: McB

McB — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:53:18 +0000

Bwhahahaha!!!!

By: Betty Fokker

Betty Fokker — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:48:59 +0000

Gesundheit.

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:37:55 +0000

Three for three….even if one is a bit left handed.

Still looking forward to reading this one. (on order)

By: Merry

Merry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:31:18 +0000

Um… in a cheerful, kind, non-violent way, that is.