Sadielou here, stopping by to give you a day-by-day update on the chatter that's been flying around the Tower this week. 70ish pages in 7ish paragraphs!
Last Sunday we were mostly talking about: IKEA sofabeds, Katestamps' recovery update blog and lots and lots of progress updates and FO pictures. -Knit-Chick- showed us some cool pics of her experiment with Kool Aid dyeing (post 13420) and also a pic of an awesome yarn skein bun (post 13431). Sunday also brought the end of the Love Myself First competition as it was indeed Valentines Day, so our talented Silverwing26 showed us a lovely montage of all the turned in projects later in the week (post 13677 and below on the blog).
Beyby returned on Monday after a bit of an absence - welcome home! - and dixiehellcat showed us some of the projects she's found that relate to labs and science geek projects which could be very useful for Ravenclaw Wierd Science assignments (post 13505). Minsue showed us a useful pattern for 'trilobite' and a trilobite hat too (post 13541). JacquiG introduced the subject of 'knooking' (post 13490) which was totally new to me and made me scurry off to look it up. theflyinggoat posted videos of the brilliant Harry Potter 30-second bunnies (post 13552) and also showed us her handspun for her OWL (post 13593). InsanKnitty announced that she was looking for a Quidditch Assistant captain as she'd be starting a new job soon, so congrats insanKnitty! MariainCT brought up a very popular conversation topic when she asked for advice from the House Mommas about how to know when her little girl was ready for Kindergarten. Lots of Mommas replied with very valuable opinions, and lots of other Ravenclaws contributed from their own experience too. This conversation began on page 544 if you want to look through it.
Tuesday brought the fantastic news that Yakira and her Larry made it back into their own house after all their time at the hospital. Conversations on sofabeds and kindergarten continued over Tuesday, and Mommyknitz informed us that her project had been featured on the designer's pattern front page - yay! (post 13630) Discussions also evolved onto talking about introverted and extroverted personalities, and Myers-Briggs style tests (linked in rambunctiousky's post 13633). -Knit-Chick- was worried/stoked about having a video conference with scientists that live and work in the Arctic. Lots of Ravenclaws went on to talk about their favourite types of tea and where to get them from, roughly about page 547ish. Akasha111182 and Sadielou won the Love Yourself First prizes from a random draw made by Silverwing26. GusGus asked for advice about what to wear for an interview for her first ever job (a peer councillor position) and got lots of lovely replies (post 13705). Linen yarn was discussed, and it was heartily recommended by Ravenclaws that it really softens up and drapes fantastically once it's been washed (13738 for minsue's pics).
Particularly geeky percentages conversations followed on from the Myers-Briggs test chat on page 551 onwards on Wednesday. QallieQ came to visit the Tower from the Slytherin Dungeon and was welcomed with open arms. By Wednesday Claws could work out how many points they'd earned for Ravenclaw in January as all the assignments had been graded and posted. Lots more progress reports and awesome assignments handed in. Beyby reported that her OWL knitting might have been thrown out :Gasp! Shock! Horror!: by a well-meaning mother. DevonC travelled home and asked Claws to guess how many trains she had to take to get there... the answer was 7! Heathen won a DevonC Original Ravenclaw Necklace (TM). See post 13833 for details of said 7 trains. BrineyDeep announced that unofficial points are up on the blog and at the time of writing we're just about 200 points behind the Snakies, and the Gryffs are just behind us so it's going to be close! There were some grumbles about the smaller number of people getting bonus points than in previous terms, but it was also pointed out that the volume of assignments has increased dramatically and therefore so has the quality of projects and so the bar has been raised for handins. JacquiG posted lots of complicated maths chat about prime numbers (post 13847) and SFCorgi has offered her flickr pics of her dogs if anyone wants to use them to gain bonus points for the cutenesses (post 13882). DevonC posted a helpful list of 'things that might get bonus points for her class, and probably for others too (post 13903). InsanKnitty posted that minsue will be the Asst. Quidditch Captain for Ravenclaw. Those going to 'Stitches' discussed the merits of going (see SFCorgi's advice post 13952 for those considering yarn-related trips). Kethrim won a Star of Isis for her Potions assignment.
On Thursday Boppingbeth told us about her daughter's first race at her Nordic Ski Club (post 13983) and Gazebogal asked if anyone had a copy of 'Berk, Laura E., Development through the Lifespan'. Peeves was pipped at the post for the 14000th post, as we talk too quickly for him! Sea-Jelly popped in to tell us that she loved our Library of the week, and then inkslinger1121 asked for advice on how to deal with an over-involved mother (post 14041) and once again the Claws came through with lots of lovely advice and kind words. Gazebogal made a difference politically on page 562, and Heathen plotted how to get rid of her coworkers on the next page. Scarlettb stopped by to offer advice on the subject, after all, she is one of the mistresses of the Dungeon! xoxoMargot got sick of auditions but used Rav and Knitting to de-stress. MGY reported in about the horrible plane crash near her and all those affected were added to the candle-lighting list here on the blog. CMel asked for advice about how to fix some loose stitches, and mostly was told to wet-block it out. She also informed the Tower about the current plagiarism lawsuit JKR is facing regarding her books, see post 14182 for details. GusGus updated us on how her interview went (post 14212) and Ielith's Ember popped in very briefly despite her person being very busy and overwhelmed!
Friday found DevonC suggesting a mini-WEBs trip and planning has begun... djmeurer asked about the RS of feather-and-fan and found that it should be mostly little knit 'V's. AlexisT posted a huge Quidditch Commentary in the Quidditch thread featuring tons of players so if you haven't already, go check it out (1437 in the Quidditch thread). Wildlilly found out about the madness that is WEBs and Foxy offered to Foxysit the insanKiddies for insanKnitty. On page 573 we started a game of food pairings, where you take the last thing the person before you suggested and pair it with something else, so on and so forth. Great fun, but do not read if you're hungry! DevonC loves the Gaiman-read audiobook of Neverwhere she's got at the moment thanks to the recommendation of her Ravenclaw peers. MGY posted an awesome Uniform Montage in the Quidditch Thread (post 1464 in there). Friday's Nat.Geog. Photo of the day was a relative of our dear Foxy (post 14427). Eightlegeddj told us that she makes a gorgeous spiced cranberry jam, perfect for pb & j sandwiches, and also shared some details of her v. complicated family situation (post 14457) which led to a discussion on confusing families, and for Mommy2Benny to share a gorgeous pic of her little nephew Lucas Forrest (post 14466) and Wildlilly to show us her handsome nephews Mason and Sammy (post 14487). Greenegirl told us about how her husband is on to her sneaky ways of trying to convert him to the 'world of cotton and pointy sticks' (post 14497).
On Saturday SFCorgi got a Star of Isis for her Potions assignment (post 14531) and theflyinggoat linked us to 'Fisk' which I lovelovelove (post 14533). MGY told us about the Austin Beard Championship which she had to go to. The world of Flat Harrys was revealed to us by abetterjulie (post 14553) which led onto some picture evidence of Flat Stanleys and things over the next few pages. Fricknfrack calmed CMel when she was stressed (post 14584) and minsue showed that she always knew where her towel was (post 14589). DevonC appealed for pics of horrible intarsia gone wrong due to being too tight, and MGY appealed for advice on her crochet basket which seems to be too loose. In post 14613 AshleyTree showed us all how to whisper in the tower and -Knit-Chick- showed us how to shout in post 14632, meanwhile Gazebogal poisoned Eightlegeddj with kelp (post 14577). Oliveknits has had a bad week so has been added to the candle-light list and -Knit-Chick- names her Gillyweed 'George' (page 587). The most recent update on Katestamps told us that she was KNITTING! Go Kate! DixieHellCat showed us pics of her Mdm Defarge scarf made with secret coded knitting (post 14715) and SFCorgi posted pics of an Angora bunny with all its fluff on it (post 14719).
DISCLAIMER: Please bear in mind while reading that my days begin about 8 hours earlier than most of yours so if I say something happened on a Wednesday and you remember writing about it on a Tuesday, you know what I mean. Also, I haven't included every project handed in, birthday or appeal for candle-lighting that happened for the sake of brevity. I haven't linked posts because that would take forever and probably break Blogger, but have listed post or page numbers where I deem it appropriate.
Last Sunday we were mostly talking about: IKEA sofabeds, Katestamps' recovery update blog and lots and lots of progress updates and FO pictures. -Knit-Chick- showed us some cool pics of her experiment with Kool Aid dyeing (post 13420) and also a pic of an awesome yarn skein bun (post 13431). Sunday also brought the end of the Love Myself First competition as it was indeed Valentines Day, so our talented Silverwing26 showed us a lovely montage of all the turned in projects later in the week (post 13677 and below on the blog).
Beyby returned on Monday after a bit of an absence - welcome home! - and dixiehellcat showed us some of the projects she's found that relate to labs and science geek projects which could be very useful for Ravenclaw Wierd Science assignments (post 13505). Minsue showed us a useful pattern for 'trilobite' and a trilobite hat too (post 13541). JacquiG introduced the subject of 'knooking' (post 13490) which was totally new to me and made me scurry off to look it up. theflyinggoat posted videos of the brilliant Harry Potter 30-second bunnies (post 13552) and also showed us her handspun for her OWL (post 13593). InsanKnitty announced that she was looking for a Quidditch Assistant captain as she'd be starting a new job soon, so congrats insanKnitty! MariainCT brought up a very popular conversation topic when she asked for advice from the House Mommas about how to know when her little girl was ready for Kindergarten. Lots of Mommas replied with very valuable opinions, and lots of other Ravenclaws contributed from their own experience too. This conversation began on page 544 if you want to look through it.
Tuesday brought the fantastic news that Yakira and her Larry made it back into their own house after all their time at the hospital. Conversations on sofabeds and kindergarten continued over Tuesday, and Mommyknitz informed us that her project had been featured on the designer's pattern front page - yay! (post 13630) Discussions also evolved onto talking about introverted and extroverted personalities, and Myers-Briggs style tests (linked in rambunctiousky's post 13633). -Knit-Chick- was worried/stoked about having a video conference with scientists that live and work in the Arctic. Lots of Ravenclaws went on to talk about their favourite types of tea and where to get them from, roughly about page 547ish. Akasha111182 and Sadielou won the Love Yourself First prizes from a random draw made by Silverwing26. GusGus asked for advice about what to wear for an interview for her first ever job (a peer councillor position) and got lots of lovely replies (post 13705). Linen yarn was discussed, and it was heartily recommended by Ravenclaws that it really softens up and drapes fantastically once it's been washed (13738 for minsue's pics).
Particularly geeky percentages conversations followed on from the Myers-Briggs test chat on page 551 onwards on Wednesday. QallieQ came to visit the Tower from the Slytherin Dungeon and was welcomed with open arms. By Wednesday Claws could work out how many points they'd earned for Ravenclaw in January as all the assignments had been graded and posted. Lots more progress reports and awesome assignments handed in. Beyby reported that her OWL knitting might have been thrown out :Gasp! Shock! Horror!: by a well-meaning mother. DevonC travelled home and asked Claws to guess how many trains she had to take to get there... the answer was 7! Heathen won a DevonC Original Ravenclaw Necklace (TM). See post 13833 for details of said 7 trains. BrineyDeep announced that unofficial points are up on the blog and at the time of writing we're just about 200 points behind the Snakies, and the Gryffs are just behind us so it's going to be close! There were some grumbles about the smaller number of people getting bonus points than in previous terms, but it was also pointed out that the volume of assignments has increased dramatically and therefore so has the quality of projects and so the bar has been raised for handins. JacquiG posted lots of complicated maths chat about prime numbers (post 13847) and SFCorgi has offered her flickr pics of her dogs if anyone wants to use them to gain bonus points for the cutenesses (post 13882). DevonC posted a helpful list of 'things that might get bonus points for her class, and probably for others too (post 13903). InsanKnitty posted that minsue will be the Asst. Quidditch Captain for Ravenclaw. Those going to 'Stitches' discussed the merits of going (see SFCorgi's advice post 13952 for those considering yarn-related trips). Kethrim won a Star of Isis for her Potions assignment.
On Thursday Boppingbeth told us about her daughter's first race at her Nordic Ski Club (post 13983) and Gazebogal asked if anyone had a copy of 'Berk, Laura E., Development through the Lifespan'. Peeves was pipped at the post for the 14000th post, as we talk too quickly for him! Sea-Jelly popped in to tell us that she loved our Library of the week, and then inkslinger1121 asked for advice on how to deal with an over-involved mother (post 14041) and once again the Claws came through with lots of lovely advice and kind words. Gazebogal made a difference politically on page 562, and Heathen plotted how to get rid of her coworkers on the next page. Scarlettb stopped by to offer advice on the subject, after all, she is one of the mistresses of the Dungeon! xoxoMargot got sick of auditions but used Rav and Knitting to de-stress. MGY reported in about the horrible plane crash near her and all those affected were added to the candle-lighting list here on the blog. CMel asked for advice about how to fix some loose stitches, and mostly was told to wet-block it out. She also informed the Tower about the current plagiarism lawsuit JKR is facing regarding her books, see post 14182 for details. GusGus updated us on how her interview went (post 14212) and Ielith's Ember popped in very briefly despite her person being very busy and overwhelmed!
Friday found DevonC suggesting a mini-WEBs trip and planning has begun... djmeurer asked about the RS of feather-and-fan and found that it should be mostly little knit 'V's. AlexisT posted a huge Quidditch Commentary in the Quidditch thread featuring tons of players so if you haven't already, go check it out (1437 in the Quidditch thread). Wildlilly found out about the madness that is WEBs and Foxy offered to Foxysit the insanKiddies for insanKnitty. On page 573 we started a game of food pairings, where you take the last thing the person before you suggested and pair it with something else, so on and so forth. Great fun, but do not read if you're hungry! DevonC loves the Gaiman-read audiobook of Neverwhere she's got at the moment thanks to the recommendation of her Ravenclaw peers. MGY posted an awesome Uniform Montage in the Quidditch Thread (post 1464 in there). Friday's Nat.Geog. Photo of the day was a relative of our dear Foxy (post 14427). Eightlegeddj told us that she makes a gorgeous spiced cranberry jam, perfect for pb & j sandwiches, and also shared some details of her v. complicated family situation (post 14457) which led to a discussion on confusing families, and for Mommy2Benny to share a gorgeous pic of her little nephew Lucas Forrest (post 14466) and Wildlilly to show us her handsome nephews Mason and Sammy (post 14487). Greenegirl told us about how her husband is on to her sneaky ways of trying to convert him to the 'world of cotton and pointy sticks' (post 14497).
On Saturday SFCorgi got a Star of Isis for her Potions assignment (post 14531) and theflyinggoat linked us to 'Fisk' which I lovelovelove (post 14533). MGY told us about the Austin Beard Championship which she had to go to. The world of Flat Harrys was revealed to us by abetterjulie (post 14553) which led onto some picture evidence of Flat Stanleys and things over the next few pages. Fricknfrack calmed CMel when she was stressed (post 14584) and minsue showed that she always knew where her towel was (post 14589). DevonC appealed for pics of horrible intarsia gone wrong due to being too tight, and MGY appealed for advice on her crochet basket which seems to be too loose. In post 14613 AshleyTree showed us all how to whisper in the tower and -Knit-Chick- showed us how to shout in post 14632, meanwhile Gazebogal poisoned Eightlegeddj with kelp (post 14577). Oliveknits has had a bad week so has been added to the candle-light list and -Knit-Chick- names her Gillyweed 'George' (page 587). The most recent update on Katestamps told us that she was KNITTING! Go Kate! DixieHellCat showed us pics of her Mdm Defarge scarf made with secret coded knitting (post 14715) and SFCorgi posted pics of an Angora bunny with all its fluff on it (post 14719).
DISCLAIMER: Please bear in mind while reading that my days begin about 8 hours earlier than most of yours so if I say something happened on a Wednesday and you remember writing about it on a Tuesday, you know what I mean. Also, I haven't included every project handed in, birthday or appeal for candle-lighting that happened for the sake of brevity. I haven't linked posts because that would take forever and probably break Blogger, but have listed post or page numbers where I deem it appropriate.
what an amazing overview! great job Miss Prefect!
ReplyDeleteWhew! Nice job:)
ReplyDeleteThis herculean effort is just that. Thank you for the time and care you took to do this!
ReplyDeleteYou forgot one: SadieLou is an awesome Prefect and deserves kudos and hero-worship. :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic!!! Hero worship indeed.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that you put a {TM} on my necklaces - too funny!