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A Maid’s Story | Colt
https://coltblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/a-maids-story
A Maid’s Story. There’s only 2 months left in my #20before20 challenge! I still want to knit a sweater, visit one more state park, and record a song on my ukulele — will I have time? I finished two things last night — A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (read my thoughts here. I finally finished my quilt! I started with this pattern. I hand-quilted and hand-bound my quilt. I freewheeled a bit and did the quilting in triangle shapes, and added some embroidery on the top of the quilt. In the end, this qui...
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As Close As It Gets | Colt
https://coltblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/as-close-as-it-gets
As Close As It Gets. This post is about half-measures and redirections. I started my #20before20 with a list of 20 goals and resolutions. I’ve completed several — see my state parks and book reviews. Others… well, they haven’t been completed. In the original sense. I started a sweater over Christmas break. I fell in love with its intarsia. I finished the body and started on sleeves. You can see my Instagram. For pictures; I accidentally deleted most photos from the past year from my phone and computer.
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Rescued from the Trash Bin | Colt
https://coltblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/its-a-brave-new-world-out-there
Rescued from the Trash Bin. This was rescued from the trash can. Please excuse the creepy cover art — it was too good to pass up. Warning — contains spoilers. Book #3 on my 20before20. A Brave New World. See posts on #1,. This Side of Paradise). While I’ve read a wide swath of genre and science fiction books, I never made it to Huxley’s classic. I read tons of science fiction and fantasy books as a teenager (I remember favorites being. The Wheel of Time,. Many of them, including recent fan favorites like.
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Adventures in Multimedia | Colt
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Today I ventured out to MU’s Quad with only my iPhone. I shot a panorama, and asked three MU students what they love about MU. Pretty basic, and I still have things to learn about shooting steady video and getting good audio, but I’m pleased with how my first foray in mobile multimedia turned out! What is something you love about MU? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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20 Before 20 Kickoff | Colt
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20 Before 20 Kickoff. I turn 20 in 9 months. I hadn’t really thought about this before my friend Abbie was talking about. 30 before 30 challenge, where she attempts to do 30 things, from traveling to Guatemala to making a quilt, before her birthday. Huh, I thought. I’m about to hit a decade mark, maybe I can think of 20 things I should do. Guidelines (I have to give myself guidelines or else I stress myself out):. Taking pictures and documenting progress is necessary. So, what’s on my list? 4 Make and fi...
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Gilead | Colt
https://coltblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/gilead
As I was moving into my first apartment this week, I stopped by the public library. In the gap before classes begin, I’ve had time to do some reading. I read. By Cheryl Strayer, but I also picked up a book for my #20before20 reading. I’ve tried to read. Once before, and I flipped through a few passages during the months that it sat on our bathroom shelf at home. Good writing, I thought, but there’s no story there. I was wrong. Robinson is a Calvinist. As I was returning to a college campus, and it struck...
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A Teenager Again (And Tired of It) | Colt
https://coltblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/a-teenager-again-and-tired-of-it
A Teenager Again (And Tired of It). Catcher in the Rye,. By JD Salinger. It only took me four attempts and two months. I was bored. I was annoyed. I didn’t care. It read like my Facebook posts from high school, which is exactly how it was supposed to read. But I could conjure up little sympathy for Holden as he flunked out of another prep school and wandered around New York City. Catcher in the Rye. Considered a great work of American literature, and why did all of my friends at art camp love it? As a ki...
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#2: Reading Impenetrable Books Because the Authors Are Famous | Colt
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2: Reading Impenetrable Books Because the Authors Are Famous. Goal #2 on my 20before20 list is reading famous 20th century American fiction. I’ve always meant to read some of these books, because it’s the stuff you’re supposed to read. But really — who decided lists like this. Whenever you have 178 things on your list, you’re clearly not being very choosy. I’ve tried to read. Catcher in the Rye. Several times, before deciding that, however good they are supposed to be, I will probably never read them.