Jane's Folly Posts

Creativity show

The Greatest Internet Scavenger Hunt the World has ever seen has just finished, and as I clear away the piles of paper lists, notebooks, craft supplies and random household objects, I…

Gamer's Guide to Life

Working on the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds costume for my daughter.  I made the helmet out of sheets of felt and some old plastic sunglass lenses.

Creativity show textile arts

Write Right Here I’m working on revising a rough draft of a novel.  I have a skeleton there, but there is a long, hard way to go. I look at…

writing

Just Add Legos My simple Lego party was a success!  The only thing I’d have done differently would be to have more food. The Lego company donated a box to…

Library programs

Articles

Every Hero Has a Story We kicked off the summer reading program at the library with an event called “Hero Day”.  We invited community heroes to come join us.  We…

Library programs

One tried and true marketing technique for promotion is having a mascot.  Tony the Tiger, the Philly Phanatic, Ronald McDonald, and so on.  Libraries…. put their own spin on it.…

Library programs textile arts

Library programs

Here’s a bluebird I made from the book Big Little Felt Fun by Jeanette Lim. I’m really getting into sewing with felt.  I think I’ll start making some of my own…

textile arts