pretend sleeping
it's a good game for catching up on blogs. I edited my bloglines down to just 50 blogs and it is so liberating. totally manageable. I can actually read them. it's lovely. I highly recommend it. but only if w.w. makes the cut of course. maybe 51.
A captivating gang of 24 huggable, lovable creatures to sew—from classics like Margot, a topsy-turvy doll, and the button-jointed teddy bear Bjorn Bjornson, to irresistible Evelyn, a wool felt inchworm decked out in mod glasses and a kerchief, and Koji, a fiercely cute spiked softie monster. There’s something for everyone here—from kids to grown-ups and from beginning sewers to advanced dollmakers. Published by STC Craft, August, 2010.
I’m suddenly taken with the urge to make many tiny quilts.
Hooray for pretend sleeping!
Absolutely ADORABLE!
All of those dolls and quilts are gorgeous, who wouldn’t want to pretend sleep?
I trimmed my list from over 400 to 135. And of those 135 I have grouped them in must reads and free time reads. You will be happy to know you are in my must read file *smile*
Have a great day!
Ahahaha – I cut down from 549 to 535 this week, and I’m wondering how else I can reduce. My problem is all of the people I know that update very infrequently, but I want to stay subscribed (like family members). There have to be at least 20 there. All the others…hm, I really have no excuse for that.
With so many gorgeous “props” for inspiration, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of time for some online shopping too before she’s *awake*
♥
I need to figure out that game for my girls! 🙂 Good for you for getting it down to 50, that’s great.
I agree with the cutting down of blogs… I decided this year I would rather have a few blogs that I read and interact more regularly rather a bunch I just skim over. In fact, I spoke about this very thing in my last post yesterday (by the way, you made the cut!)
So cute! Awesome game. I should try that with my own kiddo…
what a pretty lovely pic!
How darling is that?! My daughter and I are getting ready to make a doll from one of your patterns today. Fabric in the dryer, she is sooo excited!
You make the best dolls EVER! Mine (from your pattern) turned out very cute but I still think yours are the best. I can’t believe how many blogs your readers read. Does that make any sense? I have a limited list and I love visiting yours.
I used to play that game with my son all the time. We didn’t have those sweet dolls and mini-quilts, though…makes me want to take a nap, too.
Not to worry. If I edited my Google Reader down to five feeds, you’d still make the cut 🙂
That is a very good game.
I am down to 99 feeds. How could I possibly go to 50?? It does make sense, though. hmmmmm….
I’m totally inspired. I’ve been trying to teach myself to crochet (unsuccessfully) think mini quilts might be more my thing…bet all our teddy bears would agree.
I have over 300 feeds and I feel SO overwhelmed. I think I will take your approach. Get it down to what I can (and do) read. There are always my favorites (you of course!) that I read whenever they have something new. There are others that I don’t read on a regular basis and I wonder why I am even subscribed to them. Those will be the first to go.
Oh and your girl(s)? Adorable. I can’t believe how big Phoebe is getting. Seems like yesterday she was just a new baby.
YIPES! I have 207 at the moment. I finally categorized them so I can read about a certain genre as I please and it’s no longer a hodge podge of randomness. That helps somewhat . . . should definitely pare down more though.
thanks stefanie! I’ll try to keep things must readable 😉
I’m going to post my paring down tips in a comment below
hi kim, I’m going to post my paring down tips in a comment below.
and I know! she’s huge!! crazy.
I should mention a few of the things I used to help me cut down on the blogs…
– if I follow someone on flickr, I cut their blog. I had lots of overlap and was seeing the same stuff. this way I see the pics and can click over to the blog if I’m curious what’s up.
– I cut out a LOT of design blogs. the apartment therapy/shopping/design type of blogs. those were doing me in. they post so many times a day and it’s so much visual stimulation that it’s overwhelming. and actually there’s lots of overlap. I kept 5-10 of my favorites
– I clicked through to see if everyone was still at it. there were a lot of dead blogs, moved blogs.
– I also cut a chunk of super obvious blogs. ones that I’ll remember to check in on without bloglines telling me too. blogs that it’s fun to read a month’s of posts at once and catch up on.
– I was sure to leave in crafty blogs that are good at linking to stuff. I have confidence in them that I’ll see everything cool and not miss out.
– I renamed the blogs that are called ‘my weblog’ or ‘my journal’. pretty obvious but I’d never done it so I didn’t know what they were and wouldn’t click through.
categories is good! mine are all the same category. probably why I can get them down to 50!
aw, thanks annie 🙂
I recently went through my blogs as well with the intention of trimming but instead of reducing the number, it increased the number I follow! There are just so many creative women out there!
Those dolls are adorable!
I often say if I spent the time I spend on the computer at my sewing machine…..
i was thinking my list was long….but some of those other girls up there…wow! I do love some though…hard to cut back, so hard.
I recently pared from over 200 to 112 blogs… but it feels like 3000 sometimes.
There are people I know in real life (friends, family members) whose blogs I almost feel obligated to read, but they rarely post (most of them) so it doesn’t seem like a “chore” to keep them on. And of course I enjoy reading their posts and seeing their photos.
But I have so many categories of blogs I like to read that it’s hard to cut too many people – crafts, cooking/food/fitness, organization, kids/family/education, design, military life (mostly real life friends there)…
Maybe I’ll re-evaluate again.
Wish the flickr tip would work for me but I never check contacts’ flickr updates (well, almost never) so I’d miss a lot of good stuff!
Wow- well done. I’ve found it so hard to prune my list I just avoid going into bloglines altogether, to avoid that “oh my lord there’s so much I need to read” feeling (I just click through from my blog instead, to whoever I feel like I want to catch up with).
Oh Dear …50 ??? I don’t think I could but I do need to do some “light pruning”
I so need to do this. Of course WW would be one on my list.
Everyone looks so cozy in that photo. I’m jealous!
i totally need to do that.
Are you kidding Hillary? You are on EVERYONE’s Bloglines/Reader list. But what a great idea about paring down. My subscriptions are getting really unmanageable. Such a simple idea but I would have never thought of it on my own…thanks!
Thanks for the inspiration! I sat down and cut my blog roll from about 130 to 54 last night. What freedom! I’m looking forward to concentrating on the posts of bloggers who really inspire me and having the time to comment again. And yes, I did keep Wee Wonderfuls and not just because you told me to. 😉
Wow…this string of comments is fascinating. I had no idea people followed so many blogs. I read maybe 10 blogs semi-regularly (counting yours, ever since I saw the word “shit” in a post…I’m totally putting you in my blog roll). Most of those are friends. I guess that explains how people can have the readership they do. Anyway, the little doll quilts are out of control. So cute.
That’s so cute! My blog list is probably around 20 if I’m honest – those are my always go-to-first ones… but I probably have around another 40 that I always think damn I should visit this more whenever I pop over! It’s surprising how much time blogging takes up!
This may be a very obvious question, but are all of the dolls shown made from the Kit, Chloe and Louise patterns?
hi amanda,
no, those are kit, chloe, louise dolls. the pattern for those specific dolls aren’t in the shop.
I can’t bear to do that. Sometimes, it takes me a while to catch up, but I can’t cancel my Google Reader subscriptions.
I too am having the urge to make mini quilts… my list isn’t too big yet… but you’re always on it!