Today is AMOK, the Annual Melee of Kindness. Go forth and perform random acts of kindness. Even if all you do today is avoid being mean, you will make the…
Jane's Folly Posts
Writing Progress I’ve set aside my Librarian Craft project to focus on my second draft of a fantasy novel called “Other People’s Magic”. It was a tangled mess, as I…
Getting Inspiration From Kids (or what to do when you have cabin fever) We were homebound for a week during the winter break. Cabin fever was setting in. When…
Steampunk at the Library First, a definition. Steampunk is not only a fiction genre, it is a fashion trend, a type of crafting and a maker movement. It is hard to…
Blackout Poetry attempt After seeing examples of Austin Kleon’s work, I decided to make an attempt at blackout poetry. It looks pretty simple, you start with a newspaper article and then…
Take Your Child to the Library Day Actually, most children’s librarians would elongate that to “Please take your child to the library every week or at least once a month…
Paper Crafts that work for Library classes When I need to pull together a crafts class for the library at the last minute with little money, I usually do paper crafts.…
Organizing a Creative Space There’s nothing like a domestic disaster to make you reorganize your stuff. We had a water heater fail and flood our basement, where my sewing supplies…
Making a Quote Print As a librarian, I am sometimes overwhelmed by discarded books, books that no one wants, that no one has looked at in more than five years.…
Organizing your crafts for the perpetually disorganized January, the fresh start, the new year, the time of getting your… stuff together. Because of a leak in our basement, I have…
