March222013

(Source: amandaonwriting, via teachingliteracy)
10AM

fuckyeahweddingideas:

DIY Handwritten Plates

(via RuffledBlog)


For this project, you will need:
-Porcelaine paint fine tip marker (can be found at most craft stores)
-painters’ tape
-white charger plate
-wedding vows or first dance song lyrics

Instructions:
1. Lay a strip of painters tape near the top of your charger plate to make a straight line for penning your vows.

2. Press firmly on the tape to make sure it’s securely in place.

3. With your porcelain paint marker begin to pen the first line of vows onto your charger plate. If you make a mistake you can wipe with a damp cloth or scrape off with your fingernail. Just be sure to do it right away!

4. Move the tape down the plate to keep your lines straight and continue penning your vows until you reach the bottom of your plate.

5. To ensure your charger plate is dishwasher safe let it sit for 24 hours and then bake it according to the directions on the marker packaging.

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9AM

(Source: amandaonwriting)
March202013
“

On studying his chronic fears this man found they fell into five fairly distinct classifications:


1. Worries about disasters which, as later events proved, never happened. About 40% of my anxieties.

2. Worries about decisions I had made in the past, decisions about which I could now of course do nothing. About 30% of my anxieties.

3. Worries about possible sickness and a possible nervous breakdown, neither of which materialized. About 12% of my worries.

4. Worries about my children and my friends, worries arising from the fact I forgot these people have an ordinary amount of common sense. About 10% of my worries.

5. Worries that have a real foundation. Possibly 8% of the total.

” How Not To Worry – 1934 guide to mastering life (via explore-blog)

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9AM
aseaofquotes: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

aseaofquotes:

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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9AM

guendanabani:

Vader’s Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown

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March192013
bookfessions: Source: thezookeeperisveryfondofrum

bookfessions:

Source: thezookeeperisveryfondofrum
March112013

indefenseofart:

I’m a big fan of minimalism and these alternate book cover designs by mike young for Shakespeare’s plays by have completely captured my heart. 

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9AM

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9AM
amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 11 March Happy Birthday, Douglas Adams, born 11 March 1952, died 11 May 2001 Top 10 Douglas Adams Quotes In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it’s less good than what I do, there’s no point in reading it, if it’s better than what I do it makes me depressed. If it’s like something I’m intending to write I have to twist myself into knots trying to avoid it and if it’s like something I have written I feel ripped off. Simpler to read something else. I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry. We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Adams was an English writer who is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series which sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime. It also became a television series, was adapted into several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and a feature film. by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 11 March

Happy Birthday, Douglas Adams, born 11 March 1952, died 11 May 2001

Top 10 Douglas Adams Quotes

  1. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
  2. Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
  3. I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it’s less good than what I do, there’s no point in reading it, if it’s better than what I do it makes me depressed. If it’s like something I’m intending to write I have to twist myself into knots trying to avoid it and if it’s like something I have written I feel ripped off. Simpler to read something else.
  4. I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
  5. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.
  6. We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
  7. It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  8. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
  9. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
  10. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Adams was an English writer who is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series which sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime. It also became a television series, was adapted into several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and a feature film.

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write