Take Joy!: Paint Chip Swap, part I

Words to Consider

"And the Bastard grant us, in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding." -- Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious-makes you so sick at heart-that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Savio
"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles." —Eugene Victor Debs
i do it for the joy it brings / because i am a joyful girl / because the world owes me nothing / and we owe each other the world / i do it because it's the least i can do / i do it because i learned it from you / i do it just because i want to / because I want to —"Joyful Girl", Ani DiFranco
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life." - Elizabeth Goudge, author of The Joy of the Snow

May 2013

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Books, 2013

Songs of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, by Nancy Marie Brown
The Long Descent, by John Michael Greer
Heretic, by Bernard Cornwell
Vagabond, by Bernard Cornwell
The Archer's Tale, by Bernard Cornwell
The Stockholm Octavo, by Karen Engelmann
The Lord of Horses, by Diana L. Paxson
The Dragons of the Rhine, by Diana L. Paxson
The Wolf and the Raven, by Diana L. Paxson
Coastliners, by Joanne Harris
River Marked, by Patricia Briggs
Burnt Mountain, by Anne Rivers Siddons
Do Cats Hear with Their Feet?, by Jake Page
1356, by Bernard Cornwell
Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
The King of Torts, by John Grisham
Take Me Where The Good Times Are, by Robert Cormier
The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose, by Susan Wittig Albert
Knit the Season, by Kate Jacobs
Knit Two, by Kate Jacobs
The Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs
John Saturnall's Feast, by Lawrence Norfolk
A Widow for One Year, by John Irving
Knitting Rules!, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
My Garden (Book), by Jamaica Kincaid
The Wizard of Karres, by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint & Dave Freer
Evening Class, by Maeve Binchy
The Pelican Brief, by John Grisham
Libriomancer, by Jim C. Hines
The Probable Future, by Alice Hoffman
Straight Into Darkness, by Faye Kellerman
I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
The Tao of Willie, by Willie Nelson
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
Silver Borne, by Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed, by Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed, by Patricia Briggs
The Bear: History of a Fallen King, by Michel Pastoreau
Blood Bound, by Patricia Briggs
Moon Called, by Patricia Briggs
The Hob's Bargain, by Patricia Briggs
Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
New Amsterdam, by Elizabeth Bear
The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail Across North Carolina, by Danny Bernstein
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
Envious Casca, by Georgette Heyer
Cats in Art, by Janice Anderson
Settled in the Wild, by Susan Hand Shetterly
Walking It Off, by Doug Peacock
The Bartender's Tale, by Ivan Doig
The Eighty-Dollar Champion, by Elizabeth Letts
The Falcons of Montabard, by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Romanov Bride, by Robert Alexander
Mountain Born, by Jean Boone Benfield
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion
The Everlasting Cat, by Mildred Kirk
The Cats of Roxville Station, by Jean Craighead George
Oh Ye Jigs & Juleps! by Virginia Cary Hudson
Crossing Open Ground, by Barry Lopez
Silver on the Tree, by Susan Cooper
The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
Greenwitch, by Susan Cooper
The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper
Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett
Skywalker, by Bill Walker
A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring, by John Bellairs
The Figure in the Shadows, by John Bellairs
Walking the Appalachian Trail, by Larry Luxenberg

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

Paint Chip Swap, part I

These are for a swap I'm participating in: all the pages are built on paint chips (these are Behr—thank you, Home Depot), and the subject has to come from one or several of the words in the paint color names.

There will be 18 in all. I have four more finished but not scanned, and the rest are 'in progress,' as they say . . . meaning, in this case, that all the pieces are there but they aren't arranged to my liking just yet.