Learn2Stamp

Learn2Stamp is a website that has a series of tutorials on a variety of rubber stamping topics. For example, under backgrounds, there is a useful article on how to make “Faux Handmade Paper”:http://www.learn2stamp.com/paper/paper01.shtml. I saw this technique demonstrated at my stamping club a while ago.

J-Walk Good News

Yesterday, the writer of J-Walk Blog announced he was discontinuing his excellent weblog. Today, he stated that the emails and posts about his decision made him reconsider. I am so glad that I took the time to send him email yesterday about how much I had enjoyed his weblog over the past few months since I found it. Now, if he would just add a comments feature.

Carved bull

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I was charmed by this carved bull at the “Royal Ontario Museum”:http://www.rom.on.ca/explore/current.php.

Carving Gallery

This Native American Swap of carved art was taken from the Native American swap of the Carving Consortium. Also check out the other items in the menu at the top of the page. I have some other soft block carving related information at my “Carving Topics”:http://www.stardel.com/homecarv.htm page.

Citrus Moon

Citrus Moon has free tiles, backgrounds and other graphics. Unlike most of these collections, this site permits “commerical use of these patterns”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/about.html without payment and allows use of patterns if they have been colored or resized. The site also contains “tips”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/tips.html about how to make your own tiles.

Odd search items

I finally decided to figure out how to download my server logs, and then wrote a small Perl program to help filter out some of the dross. Then I engaged in the time-honored tradition of looking at the referral search terms. I am sure that the person who was looking for bareback riding video was very disappointed. The person who was looking for “sunset sheltie cave creek” was obviously in search of something very specific. However, I am truly baffled by the person who was looking for an orange flannel shirt. Why would anyone look here for an orange flannel shirt? Why would anyone want an orange flannel shirt?