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الجمعة، 23 نوفمبر 2012

Stripped Bare for Christmas Action - More Quilted Tree Decs Tutorial by Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog

I just love quilted ornaments? Don't you? If you do you'll be pleased to know that Ros Coffey has a tutorial on her RosMadeMe Blog blog showing you how to make some adorable quilted ornaments.

Stripped Bare for Christmas Action - More Quilted Tree Decs Tutorial

Copyright © 2012 - All Rights Reserved - Written by Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog.

Here's what Ros had to say about her tutorial: Back in July we made a cushion to celebrate the Fourth of July, so using the same technique we are going to create some more great quilted decorations to fill your tree. Yet again we are going to raid the pastry cutter tin to find great shapes to use on the tree, you can use hearts, stockings, hearts, mittens, hearts, parcels and did I mention hearts? This is another great way of using up scrap strips to create effective tree decs, so let's hit your Christmas stash of fabrics and get started.

Ros's Bio:I live by the sea, in Essex, in Leigh-on-sea. I have been making things since I was a child, earliest memories were embroidering squares of binca matting, making felt egg cups and ripping back my knitting when my sister had picked up a dropped stitch... yep, it really did have to be all my own work! I am a dreadful hoarder, with stashes of wool and fabric hidden around my house, together with the projects that I have not yet finished. I am currently making cushions, quilted, appliqued, stencilled... actually just anything that I will enjoy crafting.

Copyright © 2010 - 2012 - All Rights Reserved - Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog .

Please visit her RosMadeMe blog at http://rosmademe.blogspot.com .

الأربعاء، 21 نوفمبر 2012

Nov 21: Server glitch

Our wiki's server was down but came back the same day. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Exciting news about Mars pending...

As NPR reports, NASA has "exciting" news that it is withholding pending confirmation:

They have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. On the one hand, they'd like to tell everybody what they found, but on the other, they have to wait because they want to make sure their results are not just some fluke or error in their instrument...

SAM is a kind of miniature chemistry lab. Put a sample of Martian soil or rock or even air inside SAM, and it will tell you what the sample is made of.

Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking...

Grotzinger says it will take several weeks before he and his team are ready to talk about their latest finding.

Personally, I'm hoping they will announce they've discovered who is drawing the happy faces on Mars.

This picture of a crater resembling a "happy face" was acquired by the Context Camera (CTX) on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on January 28, 2008. The unnamed crater is about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across. It is located among the Nereidum Montes, north of the Argyre basin, near 45.1°S, 55.0°W. North is toward the right and sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper right.

Another happy face was observed on Mars as early as 1976.

Image (credit NASA/JPL/MSSS) cropped slightly from the original at The Planetary Society.

And with that happy face, my holiday blogcation starts. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

A message to the male readers of TYWKIWDBI

Get your prostate checked. Today I'm celebrating the 10th anniversary of undergoing a radical prostatectomy for prostatic carcinoma. I was aware of prostate ca because two family members died from it, and I had spent several months living with my father in a trailer in the Rio Grande Valley while he died from the the consequences of bony metastases. So I began monitoring my PSA when I was in my 50s, and when it suddenly bumped up, I went under the knife. The path specimen showed local invasion through the capsule of the gland and extension into some perineural sheaths, so if I had delayed years or perhaps just months more, I would have had to palliate unresectable disease.

If you are a male reading this, especially if you have early male pattern balding like the dude at the right, or a positive family history, don't neglect the simple tests that are available. They are not that onerous.

I am oversimplifying the recommendation because of my personal experience, but iin point of fact both the biology and the clinical course of prostate carcinoma are complex. There are valid arguments both for and against screening for prostate cancer, so read about it and talk with your physician. But don't ignore the possibility.

Get it done.

Reposted with modification and additions from 2010. The top photo is DaVinci's St. John the Baptist. Photo of the Duke of Cambridge by REX, via The Telegraph. Bottom photo source credit lost.

Make A Vintage Style Star From A Cereal Box Tutorial By Cathy Jackson of Hazelruthes

I just love all sorts of glittery Christmas ornaments. If you do, too then you're going to love Cathy Jackson's tutorial on her Hazelruthe's blog showing you how to make a star ornament out of a cereal box.

Make A Vintage Style Star From A Cereal Box Tutorial

Copyright © 2011 - Written By Cathy Jackson of Hazelruthe's Blog

Here's what Cathy had to say about her tutorial: TSee what you can do with a cereal box...... You can make a pretty vintage looking Christmas star! I've seen several paper stars around Blogland and decided I needed to try it myself and thought I would share what I did.

Please respect Cathy's TERMS OF USE: You may use my tutorials for your own personal use to produce a project or use the technique but my tutorials may not be copied, reprinted, emailed, or transmitted in any form without my permission. You may, however, link back to the respective tutorials page of my Hazelruthes blog.

Copyright © 2011 - All Rights Reserved - Cathy Jackson of Hazelruthe's Blog. Please visit Cathy's Hazelruthe's blog at http://www.hazelruthes.blogspot.com/ and her Primitive Goodes Etsy shoppe at http://www.etsy.com/shop/primitivegoodes .

Stuff The Bunting by Christmas Tree Tutorial by Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog

Do you like to decorate for the holidays? Are you looking for a great decoration? If you do and you are then you'll be pleased to know that Ros Coffey has a tutorial on her RosMadeMe Blog blog showing you how to make a bunting Christmas tree decoration.

Here's what Ros had to say about her tutorial: Our local fabric shop... the wonderful Belle Fabrics (who still do not have a website... grrr!) had a version of this tree in the window, so with their permission I used it as a starting point for my tree. I thought you might like this tree which means we can use lots of the techniques from the last couple of years, from how to make bunting, to the Christmas stars we are going to use on top of it.

Ros's Bio:I live by the sea, in Essex, in Leigh-on-sea. I have been making things since I was a child, earliest memories were embroidering squares of binca matting, making felt egg cups and ripping back my knitting when my sister had picked up a dropped stitch... yep, it really did have to be all my own work! I am a dreadful hoarder, with stashes of wool and fabric hidden around my house, together with the projects that I have not yet finished. I am currently making cushions, quilted, appliqued, stencilled... actually just anything that I will enjoy crafting.

Copyright © 2010 - 2012 - All Rights Reserved - Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog .

Please visit her RosMadeMe blog at http://rosmademe.blogspot.com .

Cheap, Cheery and Chic - Christmas Tutorial 15 By Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog

Have you ever wondered how they make package bows? If you do then wonder no more as Ros Coffey has a tutorial on her RosMadeMe Blog blog showing you how to make them.

Here's what Ros had to say about her tutorial: Right, I am not going to tell you how tough life is at the moment, so let's look at some ways to save a little bit of money over the Christmas holiday, which means this week we will make gift bows, candle holders and place settings.

Ros's Bio:I live by the sea, in Essex, in Leigh-on-sea. I have been making things since I was a child, earliest memories were embroidering squares of binca matting, making felt egg cups and ripping back my knitting when my sister had picked up a dropped stitch... yep, it really did have to be all my own work! I am a dreadful hoarder, with stashes of wool and fabric hidden around my house, together with the projects that I have not yet finished. I am currently making cushions, quilted, appliqued, stencilled... actually just anything that I will enjoy crafting.

Copyright © 2010 - 2012 - All Rights Reserved - Ros Coffey of RosMadeMe Blog .

Please visit her RosMadeMe blog at http://rosmademe.blogspot.com .