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I was nine years old when Star Trek first showed on TV. It was on at or past my bedtime, I think it was Thursday nights at 9 or 10:00 p.m. I do remember getting to see some episodes, maybe they were summer re-runs. It was generous of my parents to let me watch something they probably thought was grown-up Science Fiction. I think it's a true memory I have of watching "The Corbomite Maneuver" with seven year old Clint Howard and his Tranya. In '68 we moved to Taiwan and there was no Star Trek showing there. Except at a school fair where someone had obtained, who knows how, recordings and were showing them in a classroom off of a tape machine and TV monitor set up. I must have stayed for hours. We got back in 1970 so the show had been cancelled by then. Fortunately I'd begun collecting the novelizations, the first ones by James Blish which re-told all the episodes and then later stories by various authors. Some of the early ones were really bad, but I have them all. I particularly like the ones Diane Duane and Ann Crispin wrote about Spock and Vulcan/Vulcans. I was ecstatic when Next Generation came on, I'd seen every movie as they came out, but I was ready for a weekly fix. I watched every new series faithfully, even Enterprise, though I did give up on Voyager for most of the middle, and only coming back to catch the last episodes of the last season. So, I've been looking forward to the new movie, even though some have told me they thought I wouldn't like it as an older Trek fan. I'm here to say I loved it. The actors did a fabulous job with the characters and the re-boot, no quibbles here. I hope this revitalizes the franchise with a whole new generation of Trek fans, I hope the studios have the actors signed and scripts written or being written for the next one. Most of all, I hope I can take my grandchildren to a Trek convention some day.
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Testing the Ping.fm feed to my LJ - works great with Twitter, Linked-in, Blogger and Facebook, but prior test didn't show up on LJ...wonder why |
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My daughter called me a bit after 5pm tonight. "Mom, I can't believe people! I mean, they were putting themselves and others in such danger! They were even running out on to the freeway!" She was headed home on the northbound 805 in San Diego. Suddenly she noticed cars stopped on the median and the breakdown lane (possibly in the freeway too, but I can't remember exactly). It took her a moment to figure it out - they were crouching and sitting and stooping. Then she saw some paper fly by - they were stopping to pick up as much money as they could as it fluttered down the freeway. Yep. The details aren't all in yet, but apparently just a little ways ahead of her there was a pickup being chased by the police with money being flung out the windows. The police recovered $18k. The news story said "It was unknown how much money was collected by passers-by or how much money may have been thrown out in the first place." I'm proud of my daughter for driving straight home and avoiding the freeway later on her way to her evening class.
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In what is known as a "Magpie Alert" I am passing along the news that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elisem (the wonderful lady who not only provided me with the fabulous ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} botmo beads I used in this swirly silver piece) but who also makes beautiful jewelry, is having a fabulous sale. Do look, much wonderful shiny stuff is there.
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Got my displays up, didn't tag all pieces, still have a number to go. Didn't bring a 'drape' to put over my displays at night - guess I'll bring a couple sheets tomorrow. Didn't know about the draping thing as this is my first show. Oh, well. Posted some pics of my displays on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/awdawno/sets/721576144 Sold some stuff, too! Good day. Looking forward to tomorrow.
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Cross-posted on my beading blog - shorter version...some edits for clarity... I'm a bit nervous about (displaying at Potlatch, starting this Friday) - but can't wait to get it all set up and take some pictures to share. I hope I can make some sales, but even if I don't it will be a good experience and fun to be part of the convention. Anyway, my weekend and evenings are all taken up with getting things ready for Potlach. I have visited a number of great crafts fair stalls (most of them at our annual Art and Wine Festival) where the sellers have obviously put a lot of time and effort and imagination into their displays. Eventually I hope to be able to justify doing (and have the time to find the stuff) something fabulous, but for now I'm trying to keep costs as low as I can without coming off too cheap. I wanted to have some of my lanyards hanging on some kind of backing that I could put on those easels - so I bought foam display boards, covered them in fabric and then used U pins to pin the lanyards on. I have to figure out what to do for trim around the edge of the fabric covered board, it looks rather plain right now. I thought about some kind of light wood molding, but I don't have a way to miter cut the edges...still pondering what to do about that. Then I bought some small wire easel frames from the floral aisle at Michael's and some ecru colored counted cross-stitch fabric. I put the fabric inside "poster frames" - each part of the frame is a separate piece that slides over the fabric and cardboard backing until all four sides are captured tightly against the backing by the frame pieces. I embellished the black plastic poster frame with some brass stampings on the corners. I use U pins again to pin lighter objects, like eyeglass lanyards and earrings through the nice, evenly spaced holes in the cross stitch fabric, and then hang the whole thing on the small wire easel frames. I did have a few moments tonight to work on some new stuff - earrings and necklace with onyx lentils, iridescent Czech glass bicones, and silver ox floral links and silver ox floral stamping from Accessories Susan. The chain is about 20" and the floral pendant is about an inch long. The earrings dangle just over 2 inches from the earwire. 
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This will appear on my beading blog tomorrow some time. I tweeted this last night "I'm always wondering, while making vintage pieces, when I should stop adding stuff. It's like Granny Ogg and how to spell bananananana" I really like baroque and complex work, but I also like symmetry, simple lines...it's like having some kind of multiple design personality complex. So when I use intricately textured or ornamental componants, it's challenging for me not to just keep adding and adding more chains and dangles and detail, or alternatively, not to add any. I think last night's work (which was the finishing touch on the pendant I'd started working on weeks ago and put aside unfinished to think about) turned out as a balance between my impulses.  I'll start with the pendant - I received a set of different colored cabochons (all called 'jade' but I think they're another stone that's been dyed, so I'm calling it 'faux yellow jade') and thought I'd try using some of the brass stampings to wrap them into pendants. I chose a rather large stamping called Maltese Cross (Item S40, Accessories Susan) for the base, and another one called Filigree to Wrap Stones (Item S38, Accessories Susan).   I wrapped the filigree around the stone with the Maltese cross between the filigree and the stone to hold all three pieces together. Then I bent three arms of the cross up and then curled back over to get the setting seen above. The next thing I did was start experimenting with the chain. At first, right above the pendant, I used some Japanese glass beads with pale yellow rose decals on them, and then put the filigree beads you see above on the chain as well. I wasn't happy with the rose beads, so they went, but I liked the filigree beads. By the way, there are three tiny yellow faceted Czech glass rounds inside each of those filigree beads to give them a secret inner glint. I still found the chain a bit dull, so I added the pale yellow faceted Czech glass bicones. Then I looked at it again and wanted to embellish the pendant just a teensy bit more and added the chain loop and then the two chain dangles with the same pale yellow bicones at the ends. It was here that I decided to quit before I went embellishment mad. My shipment of silver ox filigrees came the other day, so the next vintage style pieces I do will probably use those. As I mentioned previously, I think the silver will be more appropriate for Spring and Summer, the brass just seems to say Fall and Winter to me.
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This will go up tomorrow night on my beading blog, but I thought I'd give my LJ friends a sneak peek. Didja know you can see my other beading work in progress from the LJ feed on your flist? Friend: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/dawnos Months and months ago, I started fiddling with two brass stampings from Accessories Susan - one is a dragon and one is an Art Deco Style Framework Setting Piece in brass ox and the other is a Gothic Style Dragon. I finally figured out that I wanted to make a pendant with them and an aventurine cabochon. (links to the products will be in my other blog, if you're interested)  First I folded the dragon around the stone. Then I folded the framework piece. This was the tricky part. I folded it up in half and then half of that half back down again and wedged it under the dragon folds in the back. It still wasn't completely stable, so I used E6000 glue (rather thickly) to hold all the pieces together and onto the cabochon. Next, I put a textured brass cable chain on it using jump rings. It was too plain. So I thought, why not make a toggle clasp out of another framework piece and another dragon (using one that faced the opposite direction) the dragon is attached to the chain with a jump ring - kind of like a collar and leash. Then, I decided to use two chains at the bottom to attach this part to the pendant.  Better, but still missing something. So I took some filigree chain and some large aventurine beads with filigree bead caps and added them to the other side. I like it now!  The total length of the chain is about 30 inches around, and pendant hangs 1.5 inches so it drops about 16 inches; from top to bottom. I waffled about adding some dangles, like a pearl on a thin chain, maybe a Swarovski crystal and one of the filigree balls, to it somewhere and decided against it. Would you add the dangles? Where?
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!  I just heard about this on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" - it was one of the 'bluff the listener' quiz choices, which the listener, from my husband's home town, actually got it right, guessing between Peeps versions of the classics, beginning with The Odyssey, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, or Death of a Saleman re-done with an extra scene added "...in an attempt to make Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman accesable to audiences raised on television police procedurals..." If you want this and click the above link to purchase, I get a few pennies, which would be much appreciated! (x-posted to my other blog)
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I will be there - in the dealer's room! Yep, got the word today that there was a table available for me. I hadn't thought I'd get in, so now I'm a bit unprepared. So much to do and so little time to get it done! The best thing about this convention is that I won't have to stay in the hotel or travel far to attend - it's less than 5 miles from my home. Potlatch info: http://www.potlatch-sf.org/ Hope you can come! Now keeping fingers crossed I can get into BayCon and World Fantasy!
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I think I am finally tired enough to get to sleep - hubby and I watched our TiVo backlog of "My Name is Earl" to ring in the New Year, he got to bed around 1 am, but I was still too awake. So I made a new necklace, posted about it (did you know you can subscribe to my beading blog feed right here on LJ?) and now I'm finally ready for bed. Just wanted to say Happy New Year to my LJ friends first.
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Cross posted from my beading blog I bought this bracelet at BayCon from Spirit of Iron and I really like the pattern. I'd like to give it a try myself, but I don't know what the pattern is called and can't look up a design tutorial.  If you know the name, please let me know what it is in the comments.
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Twitter, live CBS coverage, NPR, LJ, Absolute Write, Making Light...probably need a few more. Hope you got out to vote!
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Inspired, again, by a post on matociquala 's LJ My maiden name: My married name: For my former married name, they said only 1 person in the US had that combination of first and last name. Dawn, by their stats, is the 206th most popular name. Personally, I feel Something Must be Done About That. If I had the money, I'd start a media campaign to convince people of the wonderfulness of that name. Dawn - the word evokes the beauty of a new day, a new start, a new idea. See, it's fraught with potential! Name your next child Dawn and set them up for a lifetime of unlimited potential!
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In shameless imitation of matociquala , a favorite author of mine, whose LJ I follow on my friends page, I present a weird chat I had with a friend of mine last night:Dawno: my rollerbag gets me some looks and the occasional comment Dawno: it's pink Dawno: and the bag can be zipped out and carried like a tote Dawno's friend (anonymized to protect the innocent): At least you don't confuse it with anyone else's at the airport. Dawno: so it has this punk Mary Kay thing going Dawno's friend : Mary Kay should investigate the punk fringe. Dawnon: lordie no Dawno: I get this mental image of Tammy Faye with a Mohawk and piercings... Dawno: did you read Opus back when it was in the papers? Dawno: Remember the Mary Kay ladies? Dawno's friend : Yes. Dawno's friend : I do. Dawno: that's what I'm seeing, but punk, in my mind Dawno's friend : rofl Dawno: it's apocolyptic Dawno: a missing chapter of Revelations about the Pink Horse... Dawno: war, death, famine, plague and not enough moisturizer In our defense - well mostly mine, it was very late and I'd been up about 20 hrs by then...
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x-posted from my beading blog (which you can put on your f'list via this lj rss feed should you be so inclined...) Wow! I won the Beadfly Fall Design contest! Thank you to the Beadfly folks. I've enjoyed being a member of this new site and its forum. I blogged about the winning design here, too. Now if I could only find the time to really concentrate on getting my stuff in the public eye and sell some of it! I have a new domain but haven't figured out how to get it on the hosting site account (which is set up under my husband's name with the hosting co.) nor how to build a storefront website. The hosting is really a simple matter of calling the customer service line and working through it, but finding the time...*sigh*
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Listening to Gov. Palin made me flashback to Romper Room. She would get into this cutsie "I'm going to tell you a *true* story" voice and it so put me off. Not that I wasn't already put off by a lot of what she stands for, but really, that intonation was infuriating. I am not a 5 year old. Only thing I can say in her favor was she was marginally more coherent than in recent interviews I've seen. I gave up doing any beading tonght to watch the debate and join the AW Chat room as the 'hostess' of our ad hoc debate chat, which was fun.
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