http://www.rosasharn.com Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:14:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently Danny Volk, an employee from a fabulous store in Chicago called Elements found my journals in my Etsy shop, showed them to the store's buyer, and they bought 24 of my journals! It was by far my largest sale so far. And I'm just really excited about having my ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/11/29/elements-chicago/ Faves: 1. Pumpkin Spice Lattes 2. Harmonica and/or piano in rock and/or folk music 3. When people ask me about my car and I get to tell them how cool it is 4. That Barack Obama takes the time to visit his Grandma 5. Elements Chicago bought 24 of my journals! 6. http://www.slickdeals.net 7. Bobby Dazzler's pumpkins 8. ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/10/25/faves-and-unfaves-2/ At the risk of coming off as negative, I've decided to share some of my unfavorites to go along with my favorites. Hopefully they will be more comical than anything. Unfaves: 1. People who must have thought the signs say "Slow traffic keep left." Oh wait, maybe they're British. My mistake. Whatever. ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/09/08/faves-and-unfaves/ My journals are for sale in the Milkweed Mercantile online store! I'm excited to have my things for sale in stores other than my own etsy shop, and I think Alline did a great job taking pictures of my products. http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/08/20/milkweed-mercantile-store/ 1. The Kite Runner 2. The Good Earth 3. A Thousand Splendid Suns 4. My House of Memories 5. Born on a Blue Day 6. Freakonomics 7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 8. Jarhead 9. A Long Way Gone 10. What is the What 11. The Da Vinci Code http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/08/17/my-favorite-books-on-tape-in-order/ 1. Propositions’ role in the budget crisis 2. IKEA’s values 3. Michael Pollan enlightening me to the triviality of the Farm Bill successes I celebrated earlier 4. Loretta Lynn’s The Gospel Spirit 5. Tomato gleaning and gleaned tomatoes 6. Dead tree sentiments 7. Converting shapefiles into KMLs and making it work in Google Maps API 8. Book ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/08/16/more-favorites-2/ My boyfriend is the proud recipient of my most recent successful craft project. I made wheel bags (for his precious carbon bicycle wheels) from the billboard I acquired from CBS Outdoor last year, and I have to say, they turned out wonderfully! I just drew circles onto the billboard, cut ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/06/29/recycled-billboard-wheel-bags/ When we were in Brazil we fell in love with this dish we called "Bubojuh" based on all we could understand from the pronunciation the locals gave us. Once we got one of them to write down the name of the dish, we realized that its actually called "Bobó de ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/06/29/how-to-make-bubojuh/ 1. A Farm Bill with an extra $1 million in nutrition programs (and of course the fact that Congress will override Bush on anything). 2. The listing of the polar bear (except for this part. I say use the ESA to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions!) 3. Politics like these in California. 4. Politicians telling ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/05/15/more-favorites/ l have recently been inspired by certain collages (like this one and this one) and knew that since I have so many cool paper scraps it was only a matter of time until I tried creating one myself. The process involved a lot of self-doubt and subsequent cursing at myself ... http://www.rosasharn.com/2008/04/10/collage-skills/