From Live Beta March 25th, 2001

The following is the introduction I had written for my website on Geocities, posted March 25th, 2001.

I’m a Sagittarius, year of the Dragon kind of woman. I like being outdoors, having a great coffee in the city mall, spending too much time in bookstores, traveling around on a shoestring budget, comfortable shoes, Civilization 2, Carmageddon 2 and Caesar3, cats (predatory animals in general), writing, reading, sewing, quilting and embroidery, yellow smiley faces, being on the Internet, publishing online, Wicca, nature, tulips and wildflowers, ascii art, Raggedy Ann, taking pictures but not so much being in them, history, my family, Christmas and Halloween.

My favourite colour is deep dark red. My favourite food is chocolate ice cream with nuts and sauce. Though I have found a really great vanilla flavour called Vanilla Storm but its not always available. My favourite smells are vanilla and lemon, not together. My favourite place to travel to is British Columbia, Canada. My favourite time of day is very early in the morning. My favourite time of year is a tie between Spring and Winter. I don’t like people who are fussy nit-pickers, they usually look for ways to stab you in the back. I like people who enjoy life but aren’t agressively perky about it.

I used to write to penpals around the world and trade postcards and coins with them. I met my husband when we were both 14 and began writing as penpals. I still like to collect postcards and old Canadian coins. I enjoy learning new things about computers and the Internet, history and nature. I can’t ever see myself being one of those tidy, organized people. I live in chaos yet I know where everything is, until someone moves it. I always have projects on the go, half done or not quite started yet. No doubt that tells you a lot about the kind of person I am. But, if you’re the sort of person to sit there feeling superior we’ll never get along anyway. :)

I Don’t Know…

Haunted Canada Collection

I don’t know what I’m doing with my sites right now. So don’t ask me.

I have more domains than energy, time, passion and… brains. I’ve got most of them in suspended animation while I decide where I’m going next.

I’ve had an adventure with blogging, more than ten years of it, so it doesn’t seem surprising that something needs to change. Me, most likely, since no one else wants to do it.

So this blog and all the others are in turmoil and hiatus at the same time.

Meanwhile… did you know Canada Post has a Haunted Canada collection of stamps, coins and postcards?

Haunted Canada Collection

Halloween on Flickr

I ended up looking at Halloween stuff on Flickr this morning. I found some Halloween groups and joined a couple. Lots of photos with ideas of what to wear and how to decorate yourself for the big night. Be spooktacular!

Halloween Season
Spooky Halloween Dollhouse Miniatures
Halloween in Japan 2010
Halloween Worldwide
Halloween Wonderful 2010
Halloween in Canada
Vintage Halloween Postcards
Vintage Halloween Collectors
DIY Halloween
EHAG – Eclectic Halloween Artist Group
The Artful Pumpkin

Making Envelopes from the Best of DIY Blog

I really like this idea of making envelopes . I found it on The Best of DIY blog which had card dropped on Doodle Week. (Thanks). You could use all kinds of scrap and junk paper. Even all that junk I keep getting from Rogers and Bell trying to sell me more services I already have or don’t want.

The only downside is that I have a ton of paper I could use up this way but very few letters I can write. It’s been a long time since I was penpalling and all my Grandparents are deceased. Still, if I joined up to exchange postcards (which I would like to do) I could make my own fancy and unique arty envelopes to ship them off in. :)

PostCrossing

Postcard a Day has a link to PostCrossing .

The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you’ll receive at least one back, from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world.

Thursday is The Day

Creative Thursday

Penny Postcards – Old photos of the US. Some nice historic ones. I liked Nebraska which has an old courthouse being moved on a locomotive train.

So what is the point of any of this?

I’m finally moving on Thursday. It may be awhile before I have an Internet connection again. I should be up and running by November at the least. But, I know how plans fall through the cracks, having much experience with that these past months.